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Stargate: The Definitive History of the Franchise
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Punished Miku
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Still tied for my favorite show ever made (with DBZ). I watch the entire thing every couple of years. About due for another rewatch.
DKehoe
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Ahhh, that explains it. I always wondered why the pilot had nudity when the rest of the show didn’t have anything like that.
ManaByte
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The first five seasons were on Showtime, and the last five on SciFi. It would've only gone 4 seasons on SciFi (because they like to cancel shows after 4 seasons), but they gave it a fifth season only to say they ran 10 seasons and X-Files only ran 9.
Now X-Files has had 11 seasons.
DisguiseArrsick
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I love the movie but I was never a fan of the tv show.
Punished Miku
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They had the main character retire too, and tried to soft reboot the entire series with Crichton and the Ori. They also had Atlantis.
Back in the day, SciFi's best ratings were when they had a Friday night 3 hour block of SG-1, Battlestar Galactica and then Atlantis. BSG ending didn't help things either, and then they moved shows around to try and get ratings on other nights, and it fell apart.
TyphoonStruggle
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Samantha Carter is strong women done right.
xellos2099alpha
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Atlantis was pretty good
ManaByte
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#Phonepunk#
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Awesome stuff. I loved the movie as a kid. Like I was obsessed with it. Made a DOOM wad based on it and everything.
My dad really got into the tv show and I got into it as well. SG-1 is some good stuff. At the very least it’s great to see Twin Peaks’ Don Davis in a military role again.
My dad really got into the tv show and I got into it as well. SG-1 is some good stuff. At the very least it’s great to see Twin Peaks’ Don Davis in a military role again.
Gp1
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Considering what they did to star wars and star trek... i dont know...
ManaByte
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Dean Devlin was going to make sequels to the original movie, which would've ignored the series, but Independence Day Resurgence bombed so those plans fizzled.
Cosmic Smash
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I liked Stargate Universe
TyphoonStruggle
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xellos2099alpha
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Universe is trying too hard to be BSG
DelireMan7
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Huge fan of the movie. And loved SG-1 as a kid (but actually I've never seen the end of the show...)
Watch a bit of Atlantis and liked it also.
I should re watched the movie !
Watch a bit of Atlantis and liked it also.
I should re watched the movie !
SurprisedPikachu
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God, I wish they'd bring it back proper and not as a comic. The show was really really good.
Cosmic Smash
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So much potential.
SurprisedPikachu
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It's a show that literally pissed me off when it ended because it left more questions than it answered. The fucking comic doesn't seem to address any of it and they seemingly forgot that Destiny refuels by stopping at a STAR, so the fact that an issue was wasted with them trying to figure out how to refuel the god damn thing is stupid.
Cosmic Smash
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Guess the writers thought the show would get another season or at least they hoped. Haven't read the comic. Edit: Didn't remember that the show's cancellation was announced, before the final 10 episodes of the second season aired.
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Potato Chip PRO
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I found Season 1-10 on a yard sale last week. Time to binge watch the hell out of this beautiful series. Love Stargate thanks to my pops who introduced it to me.
Relativ9
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Yeah Universe got a raw deal, so many fans disapointed that it wasn't more like SG1 and Atlantis. It was a really good show with a lot of potential, and one of the few shows that actually had the brains to deal with the trope of "friendzoned guy" in a mature and realistic way (he just gets over it and finds someone else).
Of course Universe wasn't like SG1 or Atlantis, if they were going to make another show like that I'd rather them have continued Atlantis. But it was where the franchise needed to go, there could only be so many "save the galaxy" plotlines before it started getting old, and Universe solved that problem by making each threat the characters faced small and local to them, but because of their isolated existence: just as impactful. Universe also came with the promise of finally finding a bit more about the wider world of Stargate and the Ancients, which had been kept suuuuuper vague through the 15 seasons of the first two shows. And the way they left it off was super promising as well (the idea of jumping forward in time due to the cryosleep)...man, could've been so good, I'm still pissed they didn't continue it.
Oh well, still my favorite sci-fi ever, so I guess I'll take that reboot now.
Of course Universe wasn't like SG1 or Atlantis, if they were going to make another show like that I'd rather them have continued Atlantis. But it was where the franchise needed to go, there could only be so many "save the galaxy" plotlines before it started getting old, and Universe solved that problem by making each threat the characters faced small and local to them, but because of their isolated existence: just as impactful. Universe also came with the promise of finally finding a bit more about the wider world of Stargate and the Ancients, which had been kept suuuuuper vague through the 15 seasons of the first two shows. And the way they left it off was super promising as well (the idea of jumping forward in time due to the cryosleep)...man, could've been so good, I'm still pissed they didn't continue it.
Oh well, still my favorite sci-fi ever, so I guess I'll take that reboot now.
MasterCornholio
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Stargate was really good. It's a shame that nothing ever happened with that MMO. They could have done many interesting things there.
