Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
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It was popular because of who? The fans! No one needed the Disney-ization of Stargate. This is probably a good thing.
>The only thing that is blocking the SG-1 movie or the Atlantis movie, the only thing, is the fact that the direct-to-DVD market has gone away
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Interestingly, he also talked about the need to appeal to an audience outside of the existing fan base, quite relevant to the current discussion:
>If you just try to hang on to the viewers you have and the numbers are going down, they’ll eventually go down to the point where the network and the studio will say, “OK, we’re done.” That’s what happens. That’s definitely what happens.
I was pretty optimistic after watching the announcement [0] that this would be a decent show.
Here’s hoping they’ve developed it enough that they can shop it around.
Which one? Universe? Atlantis? SG1?
in other words, it would have been good
Not at all related, "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy". ;)
Maybe this is a good thing.
To me the plight of Hollywood is “forever shows” where the writers start without knowing where it would end, so shows never really “end” they just slowly fizzle out without ever getting to the end.
I simply loved “the good place” for having such a powerful conclusion.
I'm going to call this news a win.
Look at the Ring of Power. Did it have broad appeal? Maybe, first 2 episodes brought in 25 million viewers. The whole first season was watched by 150 millions, despite season completion being ~40%. For reference, X-Files pulled in more only in 1 of its 11 seasons with most under 20 mil, and Friends lowered in 20-25 mil with only one season being about 30 mil. So the numbers are impressive but do you know anyone who loves the Rings of Power? Anywhere near to how people love SG-1?
I suppose if you make O'Neill a woman, you could bring in Vala earlier in the series as a similar distraction
If Hollywood doesn’t figure this out in time, they will fail. Already shows like Kill Tony are becoming the biggest and most prolific stand-up shows in America. Those people can be truly funny because they have no boundaries. Listening to comics on every other show feels extremely boring now. SNL is unwatchable, late night talk shows are failing, “clean” comics play to empty arenas. The problem is those guys are straight up racist, homophobic, and misogynistic and tightly bound to the Trump administration.
And I have no idea when
>> "Unapologetically promiscuous leading men, women on screen purely as sex props and not in some two bit low production value shoot em up. I mean high art like countless examples in the recent past."
would have been the norm. Even the worst of the Hays Code era had plenty of strong leading women. Before that, tons of lecherous women, queer women, etc.
Here’s how it applies to the top 10 movies on IMDb
Shawshank redemption: the well liked male protagonist righteously murders his wife for cheating on him
The Godfather: pretty much encapsulates all of my requirements
12 angry men: no women
Original LOTR: Does women characters incredibly well
Pulp fiction: Mia is in there for a few key scenes, no nonsense
The good, the bad and the ugly: self explanatory. Great male characters
Forest gump: Jenny might be the greatest villain ever for her promiscuity
I can go on and on. All these movies have gravitas. You won’t see any movie post 2015 even crack the top 100 (besides Parasite but that isn’t Hollywood) because that’s about when they lost the plot.
And Atlantis had a civilian woman in charge from the pilot episode.
...This is probably for the best. Studios try to avoid catering to the incel fandom, as that scares away everyone else who might otherwise be interested.
Also...SG-1 and Atlantis both featured competent women. Carter, Fraiser, and Weir were smart but not strong. Teyla was strong but not too bright. Most of the guest characters were minorities. The show was woke as heck.
your beloved franchises vill be re-imagined for ze modern audience und there's nothing you can do about it.
Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.
They will likely hire the cheapest script writer, who in turn will likely offload it to the cheapest LLM, resulting in derivative work that is not in any way creative or inspiring.
Still, there have been sci fi masterpieces released recently. Dune being the most obvious. Not an original story but a far more worthy production than stargate sg-1. Everything everywhere all at once was also more compelling than stargate imo but this might be where your anti woke complaints come in. Nope also fits this bill, but fine you dont have to love that. There are still examples which have no wokeness at all as far as I can tell. I found the foundation show to be similar quality to stargate sg-1, perhaps a bit worse I guess but in no way definitively worse. Topically I found project hail mary to be good enough, certainly no worse than stargate.
Or Carter's literal first scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi4lt-17OxE
And so on