I saw a tweet about the cancellation of the new Stargate show saying, "They'll probably cancel it, they need to allocate ROP funds." While I think there might be other reasons behind the cancellation, it's pretty clear that shows like Wheel of Time are canceled by Amazon to secure ROP budgets.
I would seriously doubt it, unless you’re changing the timeframe it is set in.
I wouldn't want it to be less military really, it's one of the things that sets it apart from... that other science fiction series about going on away missions.
If they were going to do another version, I think a good new direction would be the program finally going public. Based on the 3 different shows there's thousands of people aware of the program and eventually that would get out to the general public. I think that might lead to some interesting storytelling there.
I don't know how they could possibly do Stargate without a strong military involvement in the storyline. I mean, what would they use instead? FedGov civilians and contractors?
The govvies would sit around all day in meetings talking about what to do with the thing (while the contractors actually do the work) and the first time they (the contractors) actually get it open (if they are allowed to get it open by successfully negotiating the bureaucracy and justification paperwork set up by the govvies), hordes of Jaffa and their Goa'uld masters would pour through the portal, get a foothold in whatever 60-plus-year-old office building where they were working, followed by a swift conquering of the entire planet.
The End.
Yeah, not feeling it...
Stargate 2026: The Air Force buries the gate immediately because the brass thinks everything it doesn't understand is demonic.
Stargate: NGO. Now they're making world-shaking decisions on the weekly without even the pretense of democratic oversight!
Huge Gater here, was really looking forward to the new series so of course it gets axed. I was really curious what Martin Gero was going to do with the Stargate program and how he would explain Atlantis and Universe not getting proper endings. Oh well
Ironically, Atlantis was the Stargate franchise's attempt at being non-militaristic. I remember an interview with SG-1's military advisor just before Atlantis came out where he was asked if he'd be working on Atlantis or if it would have its own military advisor, he said Atlantis wasn't going to have a military advisor because its focus was more civilian heavy than SG-1. Though really, that had just as much of a military presence as SG-1 did, but whatever.
Atlantis tried to give the show an international feel too with it being an international expedition but that aspect was relegated to the background pretty quickly
Indeed. But thankfully, the squeaky wheels often indicate there's something broken that needs to be fixed.
Yes, this post was written to indicate that comments that might sound intelligent and deep are basically smart ass and don't make sense.
Squeaky wheels don't think. They are just that. Objects. Now, people commenting how they feel.... They think there driving the cart.
Yes, that was also me trying to be as smart ass and glib as the post I am quoting. It's also me showing that rhetorical nonsense adds nothing to a thread. Like my post does right now.
Anyway, good to know fans are voicing their opinions. As humans are allowed to do. It's also bed time where I live and I have work in the morning. Looking forward to see if I have any mod warnings or thread bans when I'm having my morning coffee.
It might be interesting if it weren't about a team going on missions to explore new worlds, but were just about an Earth united with the galaxy through the Stargates, and what the civilian characters' life is like in such a world. We'd learn about the alien worlds through diplomatic interactions or trade or tourism, or through the aliens coming to visit or immigrate to Earth.
They certainly believe that, yes.
See the metaphor "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". In this context, squeaky wheel just means he who complains the loudest. The aphorism is about how attention gets focused in practice, not about how resources are allocated rationally, whether because of merit, need, or anything else.
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