breaking my heart since Farscape
Too true. What I have read all seemed to say the sets were struck (demolished) before the show's cancellation was actually announced.
Somewhere out in the internet (zergnet I believe) is a story about the dumbest things done by studios that accidentally cancelled series. The original TV BATMAN series was cancelled, and another network wanted to buy the series, the talent's contracts, and the sets, and make new shows, and during the days of negotiations over price, etc., someone demolished the sets, and the deal was OFF! No more BATMAN.
I wonder if the 'brains' at the channel thought they could follow the path paved by the STAR TREK franchise with the many movies made? SERENITY was made after FIREFLY too...
Just in case, do you know THE PEACEKEEPER WARS was actually made to wrap up FARSCAPE? (I have seen it as a 2-disc DVD set, and it is good, and not so different from SERENITY in the end... And was also made in response to fans requests.)
was a big fan of Stargate SG-1, and I would have been quite willing to keep watching 5 more years
Besides needing another serious threat to the galaxy, or two, having to be discovered and defeated, the actors were not as physically up to so many episodes, and so much action. There should have been a great deal of ugly fallout from the Ori to deal with too. At least several of the main characters had shown the actor's real age was hurting the earlier action work that helped establish the series. I do not know for sure, but I believe Amanda Tapping (Carter) had at least one pregnancy 'shot around'. If that is true, actors leave the business, or take reduced schedules to be with their growing family.
And do you remember a SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit of STAR TREK TOS where Kirk called 'Bones' off set to come over to him, and a 'red shirt' rolled out a skeleton in a wheelchair to the voice saying "Dammit Jim, I'm a corpse, not a doctor!"?
Then there is the very real issue of salary for the actors... Do you think the show was as popular as FRIENDS to be able to afford six figures an episode like that show?
And I had wondered if Browder and Black came as a package deal from FARSCAPE, and/or to replace Anderson and Tapping.
too busy spending money on the new "more serious" (meaning they thought the critics would love it) Stargate Universe and failed to give Atlantis a movie to wrap things up. And where's that hoped-for critics' darling? Two seasons and done.
As I remember, the rebooted BSG (Battlestar Galactica) was quite a hit around that time, and its dark tone was similarly played in SG-U. Perhaps they did miscalculate on money, and couldn't do an ATLANTIS movie... Would they 'fess up? Not likely.
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8 years ago
I own Peacekeeper Wars. I just watched it. Made me wish for one more season. Heh
I think the last two seasons of SG-1 were meant to be a spinoff of a new show called Stargate Command or something like that. I would have been OK with some of the older characters leaving at that point, like Carter. I don't think Chris Judge would have left though. Regardless, Browder could have carried the show forward. It would have been interesting to see where things were going after the Ori defeat. The study of belief, religious choice, subjugation, etc. was pretty interesting for a fun, fairly light sci-fi show.
At least the show went out while it was still popular, instead of needing to be put down. Heh. Aaand it got TWO movies to wrap up some story lines. Although, you know there HAD to be some Baal clones that never got caught. They're out there somewhere.
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Claudia Black was on the show first, and they liked her character so much, they thought it would be fun to bring her back. I think they were looking around to see who could carry on, and Browder was available and a sci-fi fan favorite. And he fit in with the crew.
I miss those two.
I know Richard Dean Anderson had to slow down due to health issues and wanting to be closer to his young daughter.
I spent waaaay too much time listening to the voice overs and reading blogs about this show.
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And you're right that the writers thought SG-U would pick up the BSG fans. But they alienated the fans who carried them through 10-plus years of success with the other shows. I don't think it was all the spin-off either, although I never could connect with the characters. It just didn't feel like Stargate and the marketing was pretty snotty to the traditional Stargate fans.
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I kept up with Amanda Tapping by watching Sanctuary. It didn't live up to its promise, but it was an interesting show. I think she's mostly doing directing these days.
I met her and the main cast, writer and director of Sanctuary at a fundraising convention in Vancouver. She is really nice. They all were really. Some surprises: Christopher Heyerdahl plays some creepy characters on TV and in movies, but in person he has this gentle, quiet grace about him. And Robin Dunne is quite funny and personable in person. I thought his Sanctuary character was a bit bland, but the actor definitely isn't. And Ryan Robbins, also of Falling Skies, is a really nice guitar player and singer.
I'm cool, you're cool, we're cool, thank you, good night!-My Science Project
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