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Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced
Presence2 noted that MGM announced that the Stargate franchise will migrate to the big screen, carrying with it the ending of the last two season's Ori plot-line. The plot summaries listed in the article don't seem like anything surprising... one even has a wacky time-line slip-up plot. Very original for scifi ;) I'll still watch it.
Oh no! Time travel and alternate realities for the second movie. How strikingly original, how ever did they come up with that? Next you'll be telling me that they will use violence and guns to achieve their goals and that the heroes will come out on top through great personal sacrifice! Man, after 10 years the writers of SG-1 seem to have completely lost the ability to tell an original and engaging story.
Just to offset that previous comment, I am actually a fan of SG-1 and quite like the current story line. I'm just really sick of time travel and alternate reality crap. It's been done to death, hell, even season 8 of SG-1 ended with that crap. It sucks, leave it be. For the love of god STOP IT.
So let me get this straight. Stargate started as a movie. Because it did quite well, the execs at whatever company had this bright idea:
"Hey, how about we make this a series?"
10 Seasons later, the execs in charge of whatever studio notice that stargate is still not doing bad. Of course, somebody has this brilliant idea:
"Gee, stargate would really suit a movie format. Why didn't anybody think of that before? Lets make a movie out of it!"
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*cry*
Movies based on a TV show based on a movie. What'll they think of next?
Video games based on movies based on a TV show based on a movie.
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