The End Of Stargate As We Know It?

[tielan]

Actually, I do feel kinda fine about it.

Not fine fine, but not manically depressed, either.

All in all, five years has been a good run for the show. SG1 started off with four, got an extra one added, and since then has been adding on in yearly increments.

To some degree, though, I'm waiting for the news from MGM, Sci-Fi, or JoeM rather than Gateworld's notice off another site. Yes, GW is a pretty authoritative site, but I'd prefer news like this to come from the company.

If there's anything I'm depressed about, it's that there won't be any development of the Pegasus galaxy in the end: that our wonderful, white Earthnocentricity conquered all before it and ended the threat to these poor pitiful locals who didn't know what to do with themselves before we people from Earth came along.

Granted, we're talking about TPTB, so chances of development of Pegasus galaxy? Not a big priority.

And now that we've sorted that out, time for the LOLs!

"Reap as you sow, Mallozzi. This is your doing!"

"First Possible War With Russia, and Now this"

"How can you end Atlantis????? Whats wrong with you??!!!!! Why you're doing this to us?? Stargate Atlantis was always a popular. In USA, Canada and even THE WOORRLLDDD!!!! At least there going to be movies!!I just can't believe Atlantis will end!!"

Oh look. Someone's already started a petition.

I bet there'll be five Virtual Season Sixes in production by the end of the month.

Did I say the end of the month? I meant the end of the week!

You know, this is going to be a bit of a downer for Gatecon. Like the 2001 announcement of MS's departure from the show. --

Comments

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Meh. Go figure.

Every time I get into a sci-fi show, it gets canceled 1-2 seasons later. (Or is already gone - Firefly, anyone??) Came into Dr. Who just after season 3, now the series is out until 2010 except for tv-movie specials throughout the year. Came into SGA just after S4, so yeah. >.>

So aside from the Dr Who specials, I'll have like, NO reason to watch SciFi anymore. At least I know ahead of time. -_-;;

[tielan]

*hugs*

I, too, saw Firefly only after it was cancelled. (Then again, it had a very small window of viewerage.)

I've been watching SGA from the beginning, only getting into the fandom during S2, and have gone up and down and up and down since then as far as the show goes.

What else is Sci-Fi showing right now that they expect to attract people with? SGA screens to late Jan, BSG starts then...but what about next summer/fall? Do they plan to have the SG:U series already up and running?

[saeva.livejournal.com]

You're not on IM so I'll have to resort to LJ comment. Woe.

The thing is that in the television industry, something like ninety percent of what's conceptualized is never greenlit, of the ten percent that is 9/10ths of it will never be pitched/be picked up by a network, and of that ten percent I think it's like 75% of it will be cancelled within two years/seasons. That's an incredibly small margin of success and, more importantly, while it's not truly random it's based on so many fluid and rapidly changing factors that it's nearly impossible to predict what will succeed and what won't. Television studios capitalize on what they feel is the current tide by, if one show becomes a hit, producing more like it. In some cases, like with the crime (lab) procedural trend, it works. In others, like immortal detectives, it doesn't.

But what this basically boils down to is that if SciFi keeps throwing enough (easier, more cheaply produced) shows at the audience they will, eventually, find something that sticks and becomes the next Stargate. If history holds to itself then they'll probably do that by taking a liked, but not successful enough for a more major network show and parent company NBC will buy it out, thus ensuring at least some viewer retention/built in audience. It's not a bad way to play the odds because not only does it retain audiences but it significantly reduces the amount of development time that usually limits what a network can produce. I wouldn't be surprised if, next summer or fall, we see some continued version of a show that got axed from NBC proper or even another network this fall. Maybe if T:SCC falls from Fox, for example.

(And speaking of Fox, it has a bad rep for preemptively cancelling shows but the actual statistics don't really put it at any disadvantage from other networks. The difference, for fandom and especially the sort of fandom into things like Stargate, is that it's the only major network, up until practically the last year or two with the success of things like Heroes, that's willing to take a chance on sci-fi productions. Another crime or law show, statistically, has a much better chance of pulling in acceptable viewerage, even if a scifi or paranormal show has a better chance of, if it pulls in an audience of all, becoming a hit.)

[tielan]

You're not on IM so I'll have to resort to LJ comment.

Sorry, hon. I'm in stealth mode.

But what this basically boils down to is that if SciFi keeps throwing enough shows at the audience they will, eventually, find something that sticks and becomes the next Stargate.

Ahh, so it's down to costing again?

Does it make a difference since MGM seems to be the one that's canned the show, not Sci-Fi?

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, I'll still be tuning into SF for Sanctuary - mostly b/c of my mad love for Amanda Tapping. I'll give anything she does a fair shot to see if I like it.

I thought BSG was over for good? *headscratch*