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.

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It's a great show with a great cast.

You must have watched a different version than I did. What the people in front of the camera were doing barely passed as acting, and the plots, dialog, and sets left much to be desired. The characters were generic, wooden, and shallow, and there was little to no reason to care about them. Technology and science underwent idiotification (No problem.. I can troubleshoot a crystal with my handy multimeter), alienating the supposed target audience, while everyone else was already alienated by the fact that it's a dorky show. No problem went unsolved and nothing particularly bad or unhappy ever happened (that I saw).

Personally, I'm happy that it's finally cancelled. It's unfortunate that it took 10 years of embarrassment for it to happen, but hopefully it will be decades more (if ever) before we're subjected to anything like that again. While I believe there's room for an exploration-themed show, I think future shows will need to do a better job of integrating plausible drama and character development. The age of simplistic, one dimensional, one hour resolution sci-fi is (hopefully) coming to an end.