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**Falcon Horus** · 02 September 2019, 01:17 PM

I don't want to be the pessimist in the da house here but the only thing Brad Wright is currently doing, is working on a new show, tentively named Timescape HQ. Nothing to do with Stargate whatsoever, though according to Mallozzi it might have some Dark Matter crossover potential.

MGM isn't interested in continuing stargate as a tv-series. If they were, they would make a lot more noise about it, and not let peakmoments of interest go to waste, or have you forgotten how quickly the "hype" for Origins died down? The fact we're still waiting for that alleged video of that alleged script table read almost 2 months ago. American Mythology hasn't heard from MGM since september 2018 about renewing the license to continue the comics.

A freaking RPG game developer gets a license to create a stargate themed RPG... That's called playing it safe in a market that's relatively small in comparison to, let's say, a video game. To me that screams MGM has no interest in spending too much money on their franchise. The more income, the better but investing is too much to ask. HECK, Stargate Origins was produced by Mercedes Bryce Morgen herself and the production company she's employed at, Vanishing Angles. MGM was barely involved. Oh yeah, they probably pay the bill for that stupid website of theirs... Stargate Command.

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IF you there's ever a new Stargate show, it won't be with any of the characters from past series. For the love of all that is holy, I have no desire to see more of McKay at all. The "old" cast is literally too old for something new. They can come in and introduce the new cast which will consist of nobodies and maybe a name to pull in the audience -- as was the case with SG-1 (RDA).

In fact, the old cast would the fan service you so desperately want to avoid.

A new show should be that, new -- new characters, new stories, new enemies, new writers, new ideas, new actors/actresses, new everything... none of the old which has been done to death.

**PsychedeliCon** · 04 September 2019, 01:53 AM

Can't say that I agree with most of what you said. MGM did approach Brad Wright, that much we know. He is in talks with them. Nothing has come of that as of yet, but since Dean Devlin pulled out of the Movie Reboot project and that has been put on ice, a new TV show is the most likely way that Stargate can move forward. After years of almost no news, alot of Stargate media has recieved alot of updates in the last 12 months, with the website being overhauled, the facebook pages being active again, and the youtube channel showing whole episodes to probe for interest. Yes the hype for Origins died down but mostly because Origins was a low budget tiny scale project not worthy of the name stargate and not staying true to established canon/timeline. Stargate is one of these shows where a Prequel really doesn't work. Which is what leads me to your statement about needing entirely new characters, stories, enemies, writers, actors, everything.
I both agree and disagree. I think the new show will have to include a number of established characters and unresolved stories to really satisfy fans. I don't think any of the very old guard (SG1 for example) should be main characters anymore. But having Sam Carter in a George Hammond kind of role could work very well, with a cameo from RDA every now and then, and of course actors like Gary Jones and Bill Dow and Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge reprising their roles when needed. From the actors that haven't been in the franchise yet for 17 seasons like Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett we can probably expect alot more screentime, but of course any main characters in the new show would have to be new to the franchise or at least only have been minor side characters in the past (kind of like Woolsey or Rodney were before they became regulars on Atlantis). You being done with Rodney McKay is your opinion, but I wouldn't mind more of him as long as we get to see some character development and a bit less technobabble - or at least the technobabble being changed into something a bit more Sam Carter style - in that it actually makes sense physically for the most part. A new show with an entirely new setting and only new characters has only two ways it could happen: alternate universe/timeline or a setting a few decades from where SGU ended. I don't like the idea much of turning Stargate into a very futuristic franchise. What made the charm of SG1 was how at the beginning the technology standard on earth was basically mid 90s, and as the show went on, any new technologies discovered either made sense via just having been developed on earth, or respectively made sense via having been brought back to earth from alien civilizations.
I don't think Stargate Origins is representative of what MGM thinks of the franchise. They made money off it for over a decade and made one of the best sci-fi franchises in history (probably only second to Babylon 5 really). Interest is there, they just have to be careful. With Star Trek Picard launching, Star Trek Discovery going on (longer than it ever should've tbh), 2 other Star Trek series being worked on, and The Orville on the air - not to mention The Expanse and The 100, there are currently a whole number of big Sci-Fi shows and franchises being worked on, and you can't just toss Stargate in there and hope that it sticks - they have to get the timing right and make sure they don't make some of the mistakes these other franchises made (like The 100's mistake of basically killing off any character over the age of 30, or STD's mistake of being too political and having one dimensional characters, or their own previous mistakes with SGU and SGO are too obvious to point out really).
If they do it properly it can work great, and it will work best if the old characters are still there in that universe and show up when it makes sense. So actually not like Richard Dean Anderson did on SGU and SGA - where he basically just showed up for fan service.

**Platschu** · 04 September 2019, 07:08 AM

As FH has stated MGM doesn't do anything with this brand. The story could still pass 10-20 years and the next generation of heroes could lead the new SG show while the older faces could have some cameos and references or their children could get some spotlight. There are so many nice fan fictions as all of us had different visions of the future of our SG heroes. If you read the MGM thread we have talked about it for two years how the franchise could be revived step by step, but then nothing has happened. And now it looks like the even the most loyal fans have moved on as life itself.

**Falcon Horus** · 05 September 2019, 03:55 AM