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Stargate: Origins Announced at SDCC
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Nah, this is what happens when you wish on a monkey's foot
Frozenprince
Banned
So this mean SG-1 is getting yoinked from Hulu or did it already get taken down and I just didn't notice?
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Nah, Moneky's Paw would have been the Emmerich trilogy. This is just the genie phoning it in.
BattleMonkey
Member
Even CBS knows to not do just a trek app, it's all of CBS you get ahold of.
Stargate didn't have that huge of a fan base, and it's been off the air for a long time now.... they really think this is going to succeed?
Are we really certain the gate won't open? I mean their not afraid to retcon stuff. I mean, Ra being the last of his kind was a key plot point for the first movie, didn't stop them from going "Nope, there a actually a ton of them."
I'm guessing they get the gate up, explore a little, then Thor's people show up and go "not yet humans" and make them all forget somehow.
I'm guessing they get the gate up, explore a little, then Thor's people show up and go "not yet humans" and make them all forget somehow.
Team Filler
Member
Like, I'd even take a series about the original rebellion against Ra, as that still leaves open some degree of actually using the stargate.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
We saw the rebellion in Moebius.
whiteninja
Member
What is this obsession with prequels? Star Trek and now this? Whats next, Babylon 4?
I actually woundnt mind a series focusing on B4 and
Valen
Transistor
Banned
Well ain't this a bitch.
The fuck are they thinking?
The fuck are they thinking?
Team Filler
Member
I mean the original, original rebellion, not the ad-hoc one as a result of time travel fuckery.
Unless the show was intending the SG-1 event to actually be the original, in which case I got nothin'.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
It was the original.
How much have they reconned from the TV show canon though? Quite a few bits changed from the film to make the TV show work at all.
Team Filler
Member
But the fish in the pond! The fish!
They are easier to do because you don't really have to be held to canon
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Bullshit. If anything, the list of "shit you can't do because canon" would be way more restrictive for a prequel.
Been a while d nce I watched the show , by off the top of my head... Jack was having weird continuing dreams of being some random guy for years and just never mentioned it until they meet?
He'll theyve even retcinned the gate not opening before, with her boyfriend going through that one time and not coming back.
If they wanted to make a prequel, they had an entire galaxy filled with Goa'uld and opressed humans to make new stories.
This screams like it is more an MBA pitched new distribution "concept" and they are using a beloved but forgotten series to try and build it.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
They probably can't afford the wormhole effect, especially since they can't afford to get the stargatecommand.com domain.
Sax Russel
Banned
... What? -_-
Especially in this case since the gate cannot even be opened if they stick to Stargate cannon. That immediately cuts off a lot of potential storytelling right off the bat.
Dislocated
Member
If they wanted to make a prequel, they had an entire galaxy filled with Goa'uld and opressed humans to make new stories.
How cool would it have been to see the origin of the Tok'ra? Or the beginning of the System Lords? There were so many other options!
Still, I'm trying to remain optimistic. Maybe they'll see the outcry over this and realize "Oh there are definitely people out there hungry for more actual Stargate stories." And they could easily make a show that you could watch without knowing anything about the original. Gonna keep my eye on this.
Not till 1945.
CloudyTuba
Member
A streaming service dedicated solely to Stargate...
I've already been grumbling about every channel wanting a piece of Netflix and Amazon's pies taking us right back to the days of cable channel piecemealing, and here's fucking Stargate trying that shit all on its lonesome.
Good god. And here I thought CBS was up its own ass. Hard pass.
I've already been grumbling about every channel wanting a piece of Netflix and Amazon's pies taking us right back to the days of cable channel piecemealing, and here's fucking Stargate trying that shit all on its lonesome.
Good god. And here I thought CBS was up its own ass. Hard pass.
It would be great and if its hard to sell to the executives, you could just say "we are making sci fi Game of Thrones with alien system lords and slaves and shit".
I don't feel optimistic though, they couldn't give a decent ending to Atlantis nor Universe. The people in charge of these decisions have no respect for the franchise. Better let it rest in peace.
McStickenstein
Member
Well I didn't ask for this. I was just a kiddo when SG-1 was airing, but I really liked it. This however...
Lynd7
Member
A Teal'c mini series about his time as First Prime might have been alright.
tearsintherain
Member
I wonder if someone at MGM thinks that somehow they will get some gamer attention from the Assassin's Creed Origins game coming out this year, also set in (ancient) Egypt.
I mean, ancient egypt woulda been awesome... 120 minute movie of Ra lording it over egyptians, them getting sick of his shit and tossing his ass through the stargate and closing it up. I think one of the SG1 movies actually dipped into it with a time travel story but hell, just write around that.
Watching young Kathleen (which doesn't even make sense... wasn't she like 10 years old?) watch her dad dig up a stargate is not that interesting. I guess they could have her mom travel through it and have adventures, but that is some serious retcon bullshit given that we know her impact will be absolutely zero and Kathleen will end up with no knowledge of anything.
I mean, ancient egypt woulda been awesome... 120 minute movie of Ra lording it over egyptians, them getting sick of his shit and tossing his ass through the stargate and closing it up. I think one of the SG1 movies actually dipped into it with a time travel story but hell, just write around that.
Watching young Kathleen (which doesn't even make sense... wasn't she like 10 years old?) watch her dad dig up a stargate is not that interesting. I guess they could have her mom travel through it and have adventures, but that is some serious retcon bullshit given that we know her impact will be absolutely zero and Kathleen will end up with no knowledge of anything.
How About No
Member
Ten minutes each...huh?
da fuq is this???
da fuq is this???
Pattycakes
Banned
"back and better than ever"
my ass
my ass
Yeah. This is ridiculous.. Langford? Cmon man her and Earnest got plenty enough story time in that episode dedicated to them, and in There but for the Grace of God when we got to see the alternate timeline Langford.
I don't understand how any of this could really even be entertaining. They aren't going to figure out how to open the fucking gate in Langfords story except for with Earnest and she wasn't TOLD about it, so how can it happen in this series at ALL without major retcons?
So a SG series without the gate being used? What is it? Just a drama about them digging it up at Giza?
FML man I can't fucking deal. I love this show's universe but they have been fucking up since Atlantis. I don't understand.
Edit: Oh god, 10 mins and 10 episodes of course... Theres no way there would be enough material for something actually substantial. Just kill me now.
Butterfly Witch
Member
If they wanted to prequel they could have focused on Bra'Tac, on the human revolt, creation of the Tok'ra or literally anything else.
Stargate is about aliens and gate travel. This has none of that.
Rodney McKay
Member
I'll watch it, hopefully it'll generate enough interest that we'll eventually get a new full show instead of just a miniseries.
But what in the world at the Stargate Command thing?!
The early announcement of this news made me interested in rematching the show again, but I'm not sure how much I'd pay to be able to do that without commercials when I already pay for Hulu and Netflix.
But what in the world at the Stargate Command thing?!
The early announcement of this news made me interested in rematching the show again, but I'm not sure how much I'd pay to be able to do that without commercials when I already pay for Hulu and Netflix.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
They're going to try to get you to pay to stream SG-1 I guess.
I...never wanted to know more about her. they told everything I need to know about the time they found the gate imho.
god.
I wonder how I'll be able to watch it in germany. I mean, I don't want to but as a stargate fan I've to watch it..have to show my interest in the series, right?
stargate is about traveling to alien worlds and stuff.
god.
I wonder how I'll be able to watch it in germany. I mean, I don't want to but as a stargate fan I've to watch it..have to show my interest in the series, right?
stargate is about traveling to alien worlds and stuff.