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Third Stargate TV Series Named
GateWorld has a story about the new Stargate series. "The working title of the third 'Stargate' television series is 'Stargate Universe', executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld. The show currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters. Cooper and executive producer Brad Wright will start writing the pilot after shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June. Meanwhile, new episodes of 'SG-1' and 'Atlantis' start airing April 13 in the U.S., on The SCI FI Channel. "
After the success of ST:TNG, the whole franchise got run into the ground. Arguably the later Star Trek series weren't as good, but I think they just oversaturated the market with spinoff after spinoff. Too much of a good thing and people will just get tired of it, and Stargate on television has been going on in one form or another for 10 years already. Maybe it's better to focus on just one series at a time, and end each series gracefully before it jumps the shark.
A treatment is akin to an inventor writing down an idea on a cocktail napkin. Before they even get to the pilot script, it'll have to be expanded by another nine pages or so, and if it exists as part a development deal rather than something done on spec, it'll most likely go back and forth between the exec and the studio a half dozen times before just that ten page treatment is given the OK.
The pilot script will probably go through at least that amount of haggling, and would need to be followed up with or maybe even proceeded by an entire series treatment which will probably take weeks if not months to do, before the studio would even consider shooting the pilot.
Not trying to rain on the parade or anything, I just want to put into perspective what this means, which isn't a whole lot right now. This is step one out of tens of dozens. Long way to go here.
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"Us", as in humans, today, versus in some far-flung and less relevant future. You know -- being part of the "global village", regardless of the specific nationalities. We're all related. We're all on the same rock. Human culture. Same species. Is that such an alien sentiment for people to have, especially in a science fiction show that considers travelling off the planet? National boundaries seem kind of trivial compared to that scale.
[Shrug] It seemed kind of obvious to me what he meant by "us" and "our". Or do people really think in such narrow, national terms? Who cares if the writer is apparently Canadian and much of the production is done there? They're going to have as much qualification to write science fiction that comments on the human condition as anyone else on Earth. And it's not like Hollywood usually does a *so* much better job of representing the U.S. military because the writing and production happens in the U.S.
It's *fiction* either way.
My primary theory is that SG-1 is getting canceled because of the Christian theme. SG-1 had a few poor seasons. The new bad guys and cast changes have dramatically improved the show. Yes, you will always have people who complain when you have major changes, as they won't like the direction that was chosen, but over all, SG-1 has been much better than it has been in a long time.
The problem that causes it to get canceled? They picked the wrong religion to pick on. SG-1 has always made a mockery of religion. When it was ancient egyption religion, that was fine, but when you start making the Catholics the universes supervillian, and by relation basically all Christian sects, you better watch out.
Enough wasting money already. Bring back Firefly.
(I loved the first few years of SG1, but then it got pretty random and bad, reminding me more and more of the "Forehead of the Week" clubhouse show: STtNG).
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Not to say I wouldn't get Infinity on DVD myself just to rip and remix for ridicule.
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Hey, you're not giving them very good incentive to make good videos - if they're great you'll buy them, if they're steaming crap you'll buy them.
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Actually, the Ori map pretty much to the Catholics and nobody else.
Traits of the Ori:
1) Central authority structure based on "distance" from deities.
2) Single holy book that only the noted authority can interpret.
3) Waging wars of evangelism.
You find #3 in some strains of Islam and Protestantism, but #1 and #2 are just about exclusive to Catholicism. Jews, Protestants and Muslims have very localized authorities and holy books that any idiot (moreso in Protestantism) can interpret for himself. And of course, no Jew has ever been forcibly converted.
They're pretty much just hating on the Catholics here.