Pathogen ratings. Its the End!
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Well that is always a cause because it makes fans tired of the show and the writers tired of well good writing.
I don't know that this is the reason fans are bailing...I watched SG-1 for all but the last season and SG:A for all the seasons but couldn't stomach SG:U. Which raises a larger question: is there any space opera series that could survive on TV, and if so, what are its characteristics? What channel should it air on?
I've been enjoying Clone Wars but I wonder how much of that enjoyment is desperation?
Clone Wars is hit and miss. Sometimes they do a really cool episode that can even be a bit poignant, other time they have a nauseatingly bloated action fest.
All things considered it's easily the best North American produced sci-fi show currently in production.
All things considered it's easily the best North American produced sci-fi show currently in production.
Yeah, I'd have to strongly disagree with that assessment. Relative opinions and all not withstanding, Fringe has turned into a consistent, excellent sci-fi hour of TV. (Unless your comments were limited to shows airing on the SyFy network in which case I can't argue with you there)
^ I quite missed Fringe last week. I'm always sad when there's a non-Fringe week during the season.
Except Clone Wars airs on Cartoon Network. What he probably means is best "space based sci-fi show".
If this gets cancelled then we won't see any Stargate again. People said Trek needed a break yes we have the new films but Trek on tv is probably not going to happen again.
Star Trek and Stargate are nothing alike.
One was decades ago, was canceled, then had a movie a decade later. There were 3 seasons of a TV shows and a few movies before TNG. Sure there was Phase 2, and they went with movies, but then they did decide to go with 4 more shows afterwards.
Stargate was only one movie, it started with a movie which they used to launch a TV franchise. They could have made the original trilogy, they didn't, they wanted the TV show. The TV show was a HUGE hit on Showtime and after a few episodes they had an 88 episode order. There wasn't talk of a spinoff until the third season, and never talk of another movie.
There have been three TV shows, 17 seasons, and only one movie, the DVD ones don't count. That's completely different than Star Trek.
Plus I think Star Trek will return to the air at some point. Enterprise had 13 million viewers for the pilot, sci-fi on TV isn't dead, it just needs to be retooled to... not suck, be cheaper.
I can see new people coming in and making DVD movies (after the MGM mess is fixed) of Stargate, hopefully different and better than what we have now. 1-2 a year and SyFy then buys the rights to air them and they do well maybe get some new episodes.
Stargate is a TV franchise that started from a movie.
Star Trek is a TV show that became both a TV and movie franchise, they are completely different.
Well, that is one interpretation. However, I don't really think Fringe is that good a show, but that's a discussion for another time.
That's not entirely accurate. The original Stargate movie didn't do well enough at the box office to justify a sequel. It wasn't until a few years later, Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner felt the Stargate concept had potential as a TV series, pitched the idea to MGM who approved and so on.
And there has frequently been discussion about another movie. Lost City was originally written as a theatrical movie (a fact mentioned several times on the DVD commentary). Also, back in 2006 Dean Devlin tried to get his sequel to the original movie made.
STARGATE was the sleeper hit of 1994. Worldwide, it grossed 196.56 million dollars, and it was in the top 20 domestic releases that year (#17). The budget was 55 million dollars. It earned more than enough money to warrant a sequel.
MGM just had other plans, choosing to develop it as a television property. It wasn't until they chose to develop it as a television series that Wright and Glassner (independently) pitched their ideas of what a Stargate television series would be, ultimately leading MGM to ask the two producers to pair up in developing STARGATE SG-1.
MGM just had other plans, choosing to develop it as a television property. It wasn't until they chose to develop it as a television series that Wright and Glassner (independently) pitched their ideas of what a Stargate television series would be, ultimately leading MGM to ask the two producers to pair up in developing STARGATE SG-1.
I'd say Dean Devlin and Rolnad Emmerich weren't that interested at the time in making a sequel instead they ent straight into ID4.
It seems so. I suspect that if they had been interested in making a sequel in a short time period, it would have been made and the ideas about a television serious would have been put aside.
But, how could someone with Emmerich's tendencies say no to a project with INDEPENDENCE DAY's incredible production values (basically, the ability to indulge in his every whim)?
But, how could someone with Emmerich's tendencies say no to a project with INDEPENDENCE DAY's incredible production values (basically, the ability to indulge in his every whim)?
Supposely they got the idea for ID4 at a press conference for Stargate. They both said they didn't believe in aliens and a reporter asked them if space ships came and hovered over our major cities would they then believe in aliens. Or something like that. And their talk of a sequel to ID4 got messed up after they accepted the offer to do Godzilla.
Well I'm entirely sure Godzilla was the cause, but I do know they had plans for ID4 2.