Stargate SG-1 Cancelled
Aug. 21st, 2006 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eregyrnhttp://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg-1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml
Whoa! I didn't see that coming... well, I didn't see that coming *today*, anyway.
I... need to process. I need to read more.
It wasn't that I wasn't expecting it, really.
Still, I need a hug. (just a little one)
Whoa! I didn't see that coming... well, I didn't see that coming *today*, anyway.
I... need to process. I need to read more.
It wasn't that I wasn't expecting it, really.
Still, I need a hug. (just a little one)
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:16 pm (UTC)Our show! :(
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:40 pm (UTC)*squishes our show*
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:38 pm (UTC){{hugs}}
I feel for y'all who've been into the show for years and years, I really do. Your show!
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:55 pm (UTC)Though you could *perhaps* argue that the timing may work out better in the long run. I was just reading something today about them having yet to write the last few eps of the season, and them holding off to see whether it would be a season or a series finale. Obviously THEY saw the writing on the wall, too.
If an announcement NOW does give them time to wrap it up better, then, great. Hell, I bet they can even get RDA back one last time. :P Given the circumstances.
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-21 10:09 pm (UTC)(But I wasn't riding quite such a high after Angel's 100th. Yet, you're right, I remember feeling that it sucked.)
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:38 pm (UTC)Damn. Just... noooooo.
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-21 09:42 pm (UTC)*hugs you a lot*
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:00 pm (UTC)I really, really thought I was better prepared for this.
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:06 pm (UTC)The only bright side to it is that the timing MIGHT indeed make a difference to their being able to do up a proper series finale, now. They have at least 2 eps totally unwritten and I believe 18 is in an early stage.
Given the timing, they MIGHT be able to pull something out, go out in style.
It still hurts, though. Was really riding *such* a high from the weekend, and... POOP!
*HUGS BACK*
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:01 pm (UTC)and as much as i'm not surprised, i'm grateful for fanfic, and ten years, and wonderful people. and i'm also feeling very 'whoa' myself. gah.
*more hugs*
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:07 pm (UTC)*HUG*
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:48 pm (UTC)so good to hear your voice just now. and yup, very waaah indeed. *sigh*
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:36 pm (UTC)Our show. *poutwithbottomliptrembling*
Our boys.
Dang :o(
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-21 10:54 pm (UTC)It has been 'pass a hug to your fellow Stargate fan' time on LJ for a few hours ;)
I am very sad about this. I still enjoyed the show. I did not want it to end.
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:44 am (UTC)Otherwise, yeah. The writing was there on the wall. I was definitely seeing it. SciFi was sending out signals right and left, honestly. Possibly also, as you say, setting it up in such a way so as to make their cancellation of it look natural, if you will. I'm not 100% sure *why*, but then I'm also not a fan who's going to say she's utterly shocked by it, so... yeah.
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Date: 2006-08-22 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-23 03:19 pm (UTC)I guess... two things. Time dulls memory, at least a little bit. Or else, makes one falsely optimistic. Not that Skiffy wouldn't behave moronically about a show, basically sabotaging it. I'm afraid my native optimism did not extend so far as to believe THAT. I suppose if I had optimism about anything, it would have been, "well, they'll play games, and cancel it unfairly -- but they won't be TOTAL ASSHOLES about it, surely they've learned THAT lesson".
Well... nope.
Look, Skiffy. I'm not part of the "rending garments" portion of the fandom. I can see a case for several points of view, one of which is, "it's time to retire it". That isn't necessarily my biggest beef with them. For me, it's not a FS situation, in the sense of, SG-1's just had so much longer and fuller a life than FS got, and that's what really hurt about FS. But *dude*. Way to be *as* tactless as humanly possible about the timing. That's what gobsmacks me.
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Date: 2006-08-23 04:11 pm (UTC)And I honestly wouldn't have expected it to make it past eleven seasons (and it sounds like the cast and producers didn't either), but having an eleventh as a planned "last season" would have made a nice run for the new cast and allowed them to wrap up the new storylines well. Hell, planning the tenth as the last season from the start would probably have worked fine.
Instead, Skiffy chose to "reboot" it in s9 and then sabotage it and cancel, in their inimitable manner. And yeah, the timing just smacks of this dumb, petty, gratuitous meanness.
And that just annoys me. As well as making me sad for my new Gater friends. Losing your show is a inevitably a sad thing, no matter when and how it ends.
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Date: 2006-08-24 03:04 pm (UTC)And they did. They screwed with it six ways from Sunday before the ratings numbers ever came in. Now Skiffy makes comments like, we just think this is the right time to retire it. Look, Skiffy -- okay, fair enough. But what you *DO* is you tell that to the show's makers before S10 premieres. Even then, the timing means that a portion of the season is already in the can. But *that* is the proper warning to give.
And then you still PROMOTE it, you morons -- you promote it as "see the final season of American television's longest-running scifi show!" And everyone knows from the start and there basically aren't all these damned hard feelings.
The thing is, I can't *quite* blame Skiffy for not doing the "generous" thing (which is, look at the show, see that it has started a bunch of story-arcs that need a S11 to deal with comfortably, and give it that), because it is not the only network that has pulled the plug on a show when all it needed was *one more season* to wrap up gracefully.
Exhibit A: Babylon 5. (Oh yes, I was there for that whole thing, too.)
Exhibit B: Deadwood. (WTF, HBO? No, really, *W*T*F*???)
And Skiffy's not the only network that shoots shows in the foot and then kicks them out when they inevitably underperform. (I'm lookin' at YOU, FOX.)
I've never understood what was going on in Skiffy's heads, though. Never. I didn't understand at all how they treated FS. Not why they decided not to keep it, I did sort of understand the economic considerations. But the WAY they did it, I never understood. And watching them make similar mistakes with SG-1... apparently they learned no lessons at all from the scolding they got over FS. Which I guess shouldn't surprise me, but... damn.
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:18 pm (UTC)I mean, yes, I have like four seasons to catch up on still (darn my tv reception!), but aaaaaaahhhh! *pouts*
Also, I want to read the scrapped 'finale' scripts they wrote to end each season when they thought they were being cancelled - are they available anywhere, do you know?
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:51 am (UTC)I don't know that any of the previous "finale" scripts are available -- I think that they each just sort of got reworked very quickly. Like, I know that the finale of S6, "Full Circle", was the hastily-rewritten thing that they had originally intended to do as a post-series tv-movie (or feature film, either one).
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:54 am (UTC)On Friday, I'll have to bring that "Inside" special after all. Of course, in light of this, a lot of things on it will just be horribly poignant. (BB talking about how much he likes doing the show, how much he likes doing genre, and just how glad he is to *have a job*. etc.)
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 01:24 am (UTC)*sniff*
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Date: 2006-08-22 12:43 pm (UTC)Been there, done that, cursed Skiffy.
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Date: 2006-08-23 03:27 pm (UTC)Yeah. As I said above -- actually, I still give the edge to Farscape, in terms of winning the prize for Shitty Treatment by Skiffy. I don't think this quite compares, still. I'm cursing Skiffy, but for some very different reasons than I cursed Skiffy over the whole FS thing.