How are you coping without the SG franchise?

[jelgate]

I'm not

[Jolinar_of_Malkshur]

PickTV tomorrow evening at 9pm (freeview channel 11 *i think*) will see the final episode. Until it started on PickTV I never knew it had aired here!

Ah, right. Yeah it aired on Sky 1 (I think) originally, around the same time it aired in America.

[min min light]

Yes I've read that interview (actually I was just reading it before I came back here and found your reply lol) and I'm glad to see at least that Eli survives but at the same time I'm also really gutted that he (and the others) knew how the show would continue and we the fans will never find out. The sets have been demolished, the props have been sold off [ ... ] Now MGM have sold them all off, can you really see them ever spending that money again to revive a show they thought was failing? - I sure as hell can't and thats why the interview with David makes me sad.

Yeah I suppose when you put it like that it's unlikely, and now I want to know why he can't tell the ending - because MGM will sue him? (Does MGM own even future plots the writers might have done - I don't know how that works.) And if so, why doesn't MGM at least allow the writers to put it in novel form, because they sound like they could use the money. They wouldn't even have to do an actual paperback, they could go e-reader.

[YceQueen]

I cope (or try to) by rewatching it all the time, discussing it with other fans, reading fanfiction etc. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing, and it's what keeps me going.

I was shocked as well to learn that they sold a lot of props. I thought they'd keep stuff like that in storage for a bit longer, considering how huge this franchise was. And it's always kept me a little hopeful that we might get a movie one day. Now that's just gone.

Maybe the writers are hopeful, and so are plenty of actors. But MGM obviously isn't. They don't care.

[majorsal]

Yeah I suppose when you put it like that it's unlikely, and now I want to know why he can't tell the ending - because MGM will sue him? (Does MGM own even future plots the writers might have done - I don't know how that works.) And if so, why doesn't MGM at least allow the writers to put it in novel form, because they sound like they could use the money. They wouldn't even have to do an actual paperback, they could go e-reader.

i'd like to know why the movie scripts for sg1 and atlantis haven't been novelized (or just plain released) either. maybe mgm 'will' do something with them sometime in the future?...

i keep waiting to see if mgm will take advantage of this great franchise and do something with it. the franchise didn't die off, it was killed.

[the fifth man]

I really do miss Stargate being on TV. With time, I have moved on. Hopefully, one day, it will return to television.

[min min light]

i'd like to know why the movie scripts for sg1 and atlantis haven't been novelized (or just plain released) either. maybe mgm 'will' do something with them sometime in the future?...

i keep waiting to see if mgm will take advantage of this great franchise and do something with it. the franchise didn't die off, it was killed.

It's a mystery to me why they haven't - aren't they pretty broke? It seems like I remember reading that somewhere. You'd think they'd jump at the chance to make some money off SG books.

I think I'll try to track down an address for them and ask. What the hell.

[majorsal]

It's a mystery to me why they haven't - aren't they pretty broke? It seems like I remember reading that somewhere. You'd think they'd jump at the chance to make some money off SG books.

I think I'll try to track down an address for them and ask. What the hell.

battlestar galactica: blood and chrome was supposed to be a tv show, but for whatever reasons it didn't happen. skip ahead a year or more, and now it's a webseries.

how about that for stargate???

[Snowman37]

It's a mystery to me why they haven't - aren't they pretty broke? It seems like I remember reading that somewhere. You'd think they'd jump at the chance to make some money off SG books.

I think I'll try to track down an address for them and ask. What the hell.

MGM sees the SG franchise as a financial failure (thanks to SGU). The studio no longer has faith in Brad Wright's team, hence why all proposed movie pitches were shot down. If the studio thought there was money to be made, we'd have heard by now of some kind of production being outlined.

[Lythisrose]

Not well, to be honest. But what can you do? Rewatch and read fic I suppose.
And find a new show or two to follow if you can.

[majorsal]

Not well, to be honest. But what can you do? Rewatch and read fic I suppose.
And find a new show or two to follow if you can.

let mgm know you're still interested in stargate? it's what brad wright said the fans should do. i tweet to mgm frequently.

(at least i know i've tried, even if nothing comes of it)

[min min light]

MGM sees the SG franchise as a financial failure (thanks to SGU). The studio no longer has faith in Brad Wright's team, hence why all proposed movie pitches were shot down. If the studio thought there was money to be made, we'd have heard by now of some kind of production being outlined.

I was talking about an ebook or something that won't cost them much, and would at least let us know how it was supposed to end.

[Lythisrose]

let mgm know you're still interested in stargate? it's what brad wright said the fans should do. i tweet to mgm frequently.

(at least i know i've tried, even if nothing comes of it)

I have, I have. To various entities. (I think Craig Engler thinks I'm an idiot at this point! )

PS - yes I know Syfy isn't the one making the decisions regarding rebooting the franchise.

[rushy]

I suggest you all go watch Smallville or Doctor Who. That would take at least a year off and then you can come back to Stargate.

[Energizer_Vs_ZPM]

maybe mgm 'will' do something with them sometime in the future?...

i keep waiting to see if mgm will take advantage of this great franchise and do something with it. the franchise didn't die off, it was killed.

No they won't. Didn't you see what I wrote previously? - Everything has been SOLD. All the props from all the shows. The MALP has been sold, the star map from the SGC has been sold, even the actual stargates have been sold off in sections (instead of the whole gates - just to make it that bit harder to re-create the show). Even the captains command chair from destiny is up on ebay now for $10k.

MGM have no more interest in SG. They killed it themselves with season 1 of SGU and then blamed us for the shows demise because the viewer numbers fell. In their eyes it was a bad show and SG had come to an end because they can't take the can and admit they fouled it up.

SG wasn't killed, it was assasinated with a precision sniper rifle. They knew exactly what we fans liked, they knew exactly what we fans wanted and they gave us something weird with season 1. In the USA you guys have plenty of action shows to choose from and tons of drama too. In the UK most of our TV is the cheapest crap they can get from anywhere - IE mostly drama or cookery shows. Anyone who watches SciFi shows wants action, technology and something cool to watch. Not a script resembling Coronation Street which is exactly how a good number of episodes in season 1 went. They must have known this - these people have been writing SG plots for over a decade and listening to feedback so they have no excuse at all IMO. Like I said, they didn't kill SG they assasinated it.