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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.
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It was my understanding these were gonna be straight to dvd, maybe even HD or Blue Ray.. Either way i will still watch em...
Since then, MGM have confirmed that they hope to continuing SG1 as Ongoing Movies instead of a season 11. Hopefully this means the ongoing success of Stargate, and the cast.
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A final movie to finish off the series would be a great move. 2-2.5 hours of non-stop sci fi action, that finally ends with the Ori facing defeat. I mean, after this point, there's no returning to the story. It's over, all conceivable bad guys that could be a threat are dead. Even the wraith are finished as they'd be hopelessly outgunned technologically by a race far more willing to wipe them out. The second one just reminds me of a last ditch effort to revive some of the time traveling storylines from the series. Bad, bad move. It'll be at best anti-climactic at that point.
Actually, the plan is to release these movies directly to DVD, so they won't be in theaters at all.
Movie 1: The evil aliens do something and one or more of the team are put in jeopardy. The rest of the team accomplishes a harrowing rescue and then the commander says something moderately amusing just before the end credits. Movie 2: The team goes to another planet that looks suprisingly like Vancouver and then some evil aliens separate one or more of them and the others accomplish a harrowing rescue. Then the commander says something moderately amusing just before Teal'c raises his eyebrow in disbelief.
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Hey, that could work! Death goes back in time to help his younger self, and ends up playing a guitar solo at the big dance. Or maybe Death gets to see a nice little town at Christmas where Death never happened? A whole series of Time Travel done to Death shows!
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Devlin(writer of original movie) has, however, stated that he plans to write his own sequel to Stargate separately to its spin-offs, providing two versions of the continuing story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate
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The actual announcment of these films was a few months back and they're going to be TV movies for the SciFi channel. For more details browse ISN.
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And end up failing miserably like every other sci-fi tv to big screen endeavour outside of Trek TOS?
I doubt it, since it seems atm that they'll either be direct-to-DVD or TV-only. Slashdot and the linked site are woefully behind, these movies have been known about for at least a few weeks now.
The "SG1 movie" was the pilot episode (originally aired on Showtime), thrown onto a DVD.
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Samantha Carter single-handedly develops a super-weapon that destroys both the Ori and the Wraith and is unanimously declared Queen of the Universe. Wearing an outfit creatively fashioned from a thin lace hanky, she chooses only the fattest and pimpliest of slobbering SciFi fanboys to slake her insatiable lust.
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The thing is, they have a plot device (the stargate), that makes just about any other plot feasible. While the longer story arcs are interesting, I've often more enjoyed the occasional one-off episodes that have no bearing on the continuity of the series.
Instead of epic battles between good and evil with the fate of the whole galaxy in the balance, how about just a group of explorers traveling to a planet that they know nothing about. Maybe it takes an episode or two to tell the whole story, but whatever happens doesn't have to fit into some larger arc. The long-term development happens more within the characters themselves than within the plot-line of the fictional universe. I know that serial episodes with lots of twists and cliffhangers are all the rage right now, but that's not the only way to run a show.
If I want to watch a show about fancy new technologies being invented at the last minute to save the day, there are years of star trek I can go through. Stargate is much more interesting when they don't try to copy that, and instead when they show a group of people from our time and culture exploring weird things, and interacting with stuff they don't understand.
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They'd been planning to end the series at the end of Season 6. Then it got renewed. And again. And again. The final death knell was supposed to be at the end of Season 8. You don't think that time travel episode back to ancient Egypt, and the end scene with SG1 enjoying some downtime at Jack's cottage had a certain reek of "last episode"? Atlantis was envisioned as a replacement for the series, not a parallel series of events.
Then to everybody's surprise, it got renewed. But they'd already defeated the Goa'uld, and had to come up with a new enemy. Hence the Ori. The reason it got cancelled after Season 10 was because of exactly what you're saying: people got bored with the Ori, or weren't able to suspend their disbelief, or were just tired of the franchise. But there's still a few loose ends at the end of Season 10 that they need to tie up. I doubt it should make it to the silver screen, but a direct-to-TV miniseries that ties out the series would be in good taste. There are still a lot of diehard fans out there who want some closure to the storyline.
As for your not liking Atlantis, that's personal preference. I found I really started to enjoy the series about halfway through Season 2, and there've been some *really* intelligent episodes later on. Download McKay and Mrs. Miller (3x08), for example.
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I think MGM needs a big thank you from all of Stargates Fans. SciFi channel wants to end the SG1 franchise, MGM says fuck no. Let's hope DVD sales skyrocket so it'll slap SciFi in the face to pick up the franchise again.
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They're airing on sky one (uk). "The quest part 2" (ep 11) and a "line in the sand" (12) have already been shown. Atlantis has been airing in Canada.
Both series have been pretty good so far except I didn't get the very end of Sunday first time (******spoiler******: I wondered if he ascended first time I watched it).