My friends, the end of an era has come..

[Tom]

We are fast approaching the end of of the Stargate franchise. Not only enjoying watching Stargate but coming here and talking about it as well.

Brent, I hope you will do us the honor of making the last SGU review thread for us. That has been your baby all these years,

It has been fun, let us all toast the Stargate, the 3 shows, 1994 movie and 2 SG1 DVD movies and everything related. We will miss you and hope some day you will return to television to entertain us yet again.

Cheers!!!!!

 

[Procutus]

This is indeed sad.

Although I haven't been posting in the commentary threads since the show came back on, I've been watching each week (usually a day or two later). This show has really begun to get extremely interesting, and it's just a damn shame that it's not going to get a proper finish.

I've enjoyed all three shows over the years, and like Tom, have greatly enjoyed the commentary threads. Those were good times, and the Gate will be missed.

 

[Tom]

Pro your more of a 'Fringer' these days ..lol

 

[Captain Shaw]

I wonder how long before the SGA forum closes.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm rooting for someone with talent and vision to reboot the whole thing and put it on cable. Any cable channel but skiffy.

Stargate had a TON of great ideas. They just never figured out what to do with them. Also, Stargate introduced me to Joe Flanigan. For that alone, it was worth all my time it wasted.

 

[Admiral_Young]

To me the franchise has been dead since SGA ended. Too bad the lack of funding killed the two DTV DVD's. I was looking forward to both of them.

 

[Tom]

In someways Battlestar Galactica is to blame LOL. When BSG ended SYFY execs were desperate to find another dark scifi show. I'm not sure if the producers (or MGM execs) of Stargate offered to do a darker show or Syfy asked them to, either way They rushed, and ended SGA and put our SGU prematurly. SGU was terrible the first season but did get alot better and i would have loved it to continue.

Kinda reminds me of when Voyager ended and Paramount wanted to get out another series as soon as possible. So Enterprise was a bit rushed and was not that good in the first season.

 

[AJ86]

According to Mallozzi, Syfy never asked for a show like BSG, or even a darker version. I know Rob Cooper had said that he wanted to do something different to what he had done on Stargate, but didn't want to leave, so this presented itself as an opportunity to have his cake and eat it, so to speak.

 

[Procutus]

Pro your more of a 'Fringer' these days ..lol

It's about the only thing left, other than Who.

 

[brian577]

To me the franchise has been dead since SGA ended.

Ditto

 

[Samurai8472]

I'll miss seeing this gate

 

[Jax]

I stopped watching SGU after it got canned because whats the point really. Stargate SG-1 is number 4 on my "Favourite Shows of all time" with SGA 17th and they have given me laughs and thrills for more than a decade.

All good things have to end but Skiffy/MGM handling of the SG franchise in recent years have been nothing short of a total disaster leaving us with 3 shows that never wrapped up any of the major characters we all learned to love.

 

[Noname Given]

IMO - the good years of te SG Franchise ended after Season 6 of Star Gate SG-1. (It was GREAT when it was on Showtime; and it's first season after Sci-Fi picked it up was okay, but it went downhill fast when the cast switched to Ben Brodwer and the rest of the former FarScape cast.

IMO SG:A was crap from day one (not ONE likeable chracter in the whole starting cast and the McCay character came across like Dr. Smith from Lost In Space - all they needed to add was a kid and a wise-cracking robot.

And, while I liked aspects of SG:U; ultinately it started going down the same ridiculous cliche road with 'time travel decendents' and tehn 'replicator redeux' enimies that the 'drones' of the last few episodes have become.

Just goes to show that you CAN'T keep the same people in charge fpr 14 years. They burned out 7 years prior.

 

[Deckerd]

I only started watching it when I got the Sg-1 boxed set for chrimbo. For me it's been a flash of pizzazz, already gone.

 

[daddymouse]

I too regret SGU's passing. I hope everyone who sees its promise unloads on Skiffy.....no, I don't expect a reprieve, I just want them to know what a bonehead move they have made.

 

[Kaijima]

It's odd to stop and realize that all three Stargate series have ended with cancellation before the producers finished their final story arcs.

SG-1 got a rushed conclusion thanks to a direct to DVD movie.

Atlantis planned out its resolution in detail but it all vanished with the MGM crash.

And Universe has pretty much been unceremoniously dumped behind the chemical shed and shot.

Of course, it seems the producers of the franchise also never planned around the idea that a given season could be the final season, and really created a great stopping point, either. SG-1 did have a pair of character-finale episodes in "Mobius" and "Unending", so that's something at least.

 

[AJ86]

It's because of the way Syfy operates. The only reason BSG got a resolution at all is because the producers decided to end it when they never got a guarantee on a fifth season. Syfy couldn't a give a fuck about the fans, and seemingly their reputation either. It'll come back to bite them eventually, probably when their foray into the mainstream falls flat on it's face.

 

[brian577]

IMO SG:A was crap from day one (not ONE likeable chracter in the whole starting cast.

Not even Dr. Beckett? Your dead to me.

 

[AJ86]

McKay made Atlantis for me. And to think they never even planned to have him in it, he was a late addition/replacement. I wouldn't call it crap, but I don't think it was on the same level as SG-1 and SGU.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I didn't really like SGA as much as SG-1. It was more polished and they tried to have more prominent arcs but those arcs weren't especially memorable, and the one-offs generally didn't impress.

Not that SGA didn't have any good episodes, but I felt its quality was not as consistent as SG-1.