Looks like Stargate is officially done

[Kirby]

From Joe Mallozzi's blog tonight:

... email I received from Brad Wright late yesterday, an email confirming the worst. Despite his best efforts and a situation so fluid it vacillated from “almost yes” to “probably not” and back to “almost yes” on any given week, final word had come down. There would be no SGU movie. Stargate, that had spanned fourteen years, 354 episodes, two DVD movies – that had helped build a network and establish itself as a studio’s most successful television franchise was coming to an end.

Can't say I'm surprised, and not quite that upset about it. I've found SGU largely disappointing.
SG-1 was great until about the 8th season, and then became merely ok once Browder joined the cast.
SGA was hit or miss, but at least I enjoyed most of the cast.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Time to reboot it.

 

[Harvey]

Mallozzi makes it sound like there was a chance of a DVD movie happening in the first place -- nothing but pure fantasy, from a financial perspective.

Maybe Emmerich and Devlin can finally make those sequels to the movie they've been talking about. Or maybe the series can just be allowed to rest for a little while.

 

[od0_ital]

So, does this mean there won't be a movie for SGA, either?

 

[Brent]

So, does this mean there won't be a movie for SGA, either?

I read a while ago that SGU being canceled was very bad news for there being an SGA movie.

At this point, I'd say don't get your hopes up.


It is all really sad news, to be honest, I wish SGU had at least one more year to properly wrap things up. I think, given enough time, SGU would have ended up ending the franchise on a high note. I saw the potential in SGU, I wish it had gotten one or two more years to be honest.

 

[Kirby]

So, does this mean there won't be a movie for SGA, either?

No SGA movie, no SG-1 movie, no SGU movie, no crossover movies.
Mallozzi went on to say that after the last SGU episode airs he'll answer a bunch of SG related questions including what SGA - Extinction was to be about.

 

[OsmiumJohnnycake]

I wish it had turned out differently. I enjoyed watching SGU. But then again I gave up on SG-1 around halfway through s9 and SGA at the end of s2. I don't have any friends in the real world who have watched any Stargate at all - even my friends who are devoted Trek fans think the whole Stargate franchise is garbage - so all I really have to go on are the opinions of people here. But I will say I have been surprised at the amount SGU is disliked. I thought it was a pretty good show (sometimes very gripping), with a decent cast, great effects, and it dealt with some of the things Voyager did but with more realism. Everyone's going to react differently, of course.

 

[clint g]

The problem with SGU was that it just felt like it was pandering to the BSG crowed. Rather than embrace what Stargate was all about they tried to turn it into something it wasn't. It also didn't help that it started off a bit boring.

 

[Skywalker]

It's dead, Jim.

Here's hoping for a decent reboot within the next decade or so.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

It's dead, Jim.

Here's hoping for a decent reboot within the next decade or so.

[KIRK]

Let it die!

[/KIRK]


I'd rather have a perfectly humpable corpse, than a slobbering zombie.

*Cough*


[O'NEILL]

Okay, bad example

[/O'NEILL]

 

[Brent]

*Emails JJ Abrams*

 

[brian577]

Personally, I say let Stargate RIP. With that said,

RIP Stargate 1994-2009
Everything else was just a nightmare.

 

[firehawk12]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2011/04/wright-sgu-continuation-other-movies-dead-for-now/

Oh well, I thank the franchise for giving me so much joy for about 10 years (forgetting about the back half of Atlantis and SGU). I wish I had my DVDs with me.

 

[Brent]

I'll say it again, they never should have cancelled SGA.

That right there ended it.

 

[AJ86]

It really didn't.

Anyway, I hope if there is a reboot it's a soft reboot like hey did with Dr Who, rather than some sort of re-imagination. It's the mythology I'm invested in, not the brand name. Perhaps there'll be an SG-1 reboot/recast with a new team when Syfy starts failing in the mainstream and they remember which franchise made their channel? Failing that, 'Stargate Command' elsewhere please...

 

[Brent]

It did, because they did not need this big shift in the premise of the show. If they wanted to be more hard core they could have done this in SGA.

Killing SGA prematurely to replace it with a harder darker SGU was the wrong move, and put the nail in the coffin.

 

[Skywalker]

Killing SGA didn't kill the franchise. Completely altering the tone of the stories when their writers weren't equipped to handle it is what killed the franchise.

If the writing had been stronger, and if the first half of Season One had actually been entertaining, SGU would have gotten at least a third season.

 

[BlobVanDam]

Sad to hear this officially, although it was pretty obvious it was coming.


And the idea of a reboot can fuck right off. Dumbest fad ever. Just let it be. It's done.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Killing SGA didn't kill the franchise. Completely altering the tone of the stories when their writers weren't equipped to handle it is what killed the franchise.

If the writing had been stronger, and if the first half of Season One had actually been entertaining, SGU would have gotten at least a third season.

Sounds about right. They tried to go after a different audience, alienated some of the SG-1/SGA audience, and didn't really know how to do it right. If you're going to drive off part of your fanbase, you'd better hope you attract enough people to make up the difference and then some. But I knew BSG, BSG was a good friend of mine, and SGU is no BSG...

I will give them credit for gambling with the franchise, though. They could've just done another light sci-fi action show with quirky characters, and instead they tried to do a serious drama. The writing just wasn't up to it and that's a shame.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

An SG-U movie would have been nice to wrap it up because (without having seen the final episodes) I think it would have more to resolve than the SG-1 or Atlantis storylines.