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New StarGate series Prime Video.

Though I wouldn't object to an SG team member from the British military calling everyone "cunts."

Seriously? There’s enough of a weird disconnect and fan outcry when Trek uses the word “fuck”. The word “cunt” as an insult is generally considered as offensive and misogynistic a term as you get. Here in the UK it’s virtually banned on television unless it’s late at night and used only in the most sparing fashion.

Let’s keep the tone close to SG1 and SGA. SGU tried desperately to be edgy and it fell completely flat on its face.
 
i would prefer stargate not have an edgy, grim, sex, gore and cursing period...
although sg1 did have a little nudity in the first episode or two, do to originally being on a movie channnel, and i am not opposed to such content in general. it just, not the vibe....

it would be funny if it were revisiting the cartoon era :P
 
With Brad Wright involved, it'll probably be PG or PG-13, as that was the kind of show he always wanted the Stargate franchise to be and was against Showtime's attempts in the early years to make SG-1 more adult, like the nudity in the pilot episode. Maybe they'll push the envelope a bit more from what they had in the TV shows, the SG-1 DVD movies for example did include profanity which SyFy wouldn't have approved of, but I don't think we're going to see the sort of things in this new Stargate which are commonplace on The Boys.

Though I wouldn't object to an SG team member from the British military calling everyone "cunts."
For all of O'Neill's witty putdowns of the Goa'uld, nothing would top the sort of insults a Cockney could come up with. Or for that matter, the average British teenager.
 
Really like they made the announcement with the leaders of fandom, shows they actually care. Hopefully won't listen to fans much, if at all. Fans don't know what they want.

The problem with modern shows is the lack of episodes to really make a connection. Sure you can do a lot with 13 episodes (see Firefly), but not when you're being compared with 350 episodes.

I think Stargate is one of those rare franchises which could be rebooted and benefit -- the whole premise of modern humanity is suddenly thrust into the wider universe with nothing more than a P90 and a witty comeback.

In my view SG1 changed somewhat when they got Prometheus. Not in a bad way, but the Stargate universe in the post Goa'uld universe is very different to that of season 1. A reboot however would would never recapture the first time, it would always be compared, and in a more brutal way than say TNG was to TOS thanks to the internet.

If you had enough you could do something different based on the rough premise -- the BSG route, but in my opinion modern TV production realities would never allow it to generate enough (20+ episodes a year for a couple of years) to outshine its earlier brethren, so I think a continuation is the best move.

I like the idea of a public program, perhaps opening with an attack on Earth, a very public defence, and then a revelation of the existence of the stargate program to the world, then going from there, would set it aside from earlier entries and allow it to be its own thing while retaining something new. You could even open that as a "10 years ago" or even "20 years ago" documentary style (when it airs it will have been about 20 years since "Air", which was the last time we *know* the gate was still secret), and thus moving onto a new generation who have dealt with the knowledge since being in school. Hell make the revelation happen in 2010 with the Aschen, and while it appeared to be successful and all went quiet, now in 2030 something else is cropping up and it's time for the next generation to handle it.
 
I like the idea of a public program, perhaps opening with an attack on Earth, a very public defence, and then a revelation of the existence of the stargate program to the world, then going from there, would set it aside from earlier entries and allow it to be its own thing while retaining something new. You could even open that as a "10 years ago" or even "20 years ago" documentary style (when it airs it will have been about 20 years since "Air", which was the last time we *know* the gate was still secret), and thus moving onto a new generation who have dealt with the knowledge since being in school. Hell make the revelation happen in 2010 with the Aschen, and while it appeared to be successful and all went quiet, now in 2030 something else is cropping up and it's time for the next generation to handle it.

Independance Day Resurgence, then?
 
In the UPN TV series "Seven Days", the Russians were trying to get the sphere had their own Crononaut, once they found out about the program and their program failed (this is mostly from memory, a tad from looking it up really fast).

So, imagine in the Stargate world the real world knew about the secret and that America had the gate and nobody else (been a long time since I saw the show, maybe another country found one and I just don't recall now!), what that would do to relations with other countries. Imagine other countries using spies to get in, assassinate, etc. In order for the whole world to knows angle to work, the series would have to avoid the constant threat of real world consequences.

In the failed "Greatest American Hero" revival pilot, "Greatest American Heroine", the aliens force Ralph to step down after he's revealed to be the hero and the whole world knows about it, forcing a new hero to be chosen.
 
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trying to think what actors could potentially come back.

RDA I think is unlikely, he's retired and hasn't acted in anything since 2013. Even if he did Jack would be past retirement age so he'd just be a civilian anyways.

Amanda Tapping still occasionally acts, but mostly focuses on directing and producing. She has said recently she'd be willing to come back though. Sam could be a General, or have taken an early retirement, she'd be in her late 50s.

Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge are still acting. Daniel would be in his early 60s, Teal'c would be.. old.
They could definitely use a General as a character and Sam would be a great option, even if she doesn't appear as often as Hammond.

The only that sucks about this for me is that I never got to finish Atlantis or even start Destiny because it was aired at odd times here in the Netherlands and is not available for free streaming here, unless I buy subscriptions on Amazon. Hopefully this means those shows will become part of the standard Amazon prime streaming package and I can finish them before this starts.
IDK how you feel about physical media, but the remastered blu-rays are of excellent quality. A big step up from the DVDs and all 3 series' are in one big set from VEI.
 
Yeah, I thought Momoa was terrible on Atlantis. He couldn't even enunciate vowels and consonants clearly -- he just mumbled his way through every scene. He's improved remarkably as an actor since then, and these days I tend to enjoy his work.

A similar case: Ryan Gosling. I first saw him as the title character in the Young Hercules spinoff series from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and I thought he was awful there. He replaced Ian Bohen, who'd played young Hercules in the pilot movie and HTLJ episodes and was a far better actor and far more convincing as a young version of Kevin Sorbo, which just threw Gosling's awfulness into sharper relief. So I was very surprised when, a decade later or so, I started hearing about him being this acclaimed breakout star. I wouldn't say I'm particularly impressed by his acting in the movie roles I've seen him in (basically just Blade Runner 2049 and Barbie), so I haven't come around on him as much as I have on Momoa, but at least he's a competent actor now, which is more than I would've said in 1999.

Clearly you are either forgetting or never saw Ryan Gosling's Emmy-caliber (robbed of nominations) work on Breaker High.
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So, imagine in the Stargate world the real world knew about the secret and that America had the gate and nobody else (been a long time since I saw the show, maybe another country found one and I just don't recall now!), what that would do to relations with other countries. Imagine other countries using spies to get in, assassinate, etc. In order for the whole world to knows angle to work, the series would have to avoid the constant threat of real world consequences.
It's an ongoing plot in the show how other nations deal with America having the monopoly on stargate travel, including the Russians attempting to run a program on at least three different occasions (which is logistically difficult since two stargates on the same planet interfere and you can't really make use of both at the same time).
 
since two stargates on the same planet interfere

It's not very scalable as a form of transport is it. Running 24 hours a day, and used say a train with a 30tph headroom and 1,000 people per train, you're talking 750k a day for a whole planet, so 375k a day in each direction.

About 10 million people a day take flights on Earth.
 
It's not very scalable as a form of transport is it. Running 24 hours a day, and used say a train with a 30tph headroom and 1,000 people per train, you're talking 750k a day for a whole planet, so 375k a day in each direction.

About 10 million people a day take flights on Earth.

I guess that's why Stargate-using civilizations still use starships too.
 
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