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Out of NOWHERE we get this announcement that a NEW Stargate series has been greenlit by Amazon. LETS GOOOOOO!!!
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT’S NOT A REBOOT AND THE ORIGINAL CREATORS ARE MAKING IT I HAVE FULLY LOST MY GODDAMN MIND!
Not only the creators of SG-1, but Roland and Dean who created the freaking movie too!! It’s bananas that everyone involved with ALL aspects of SG are aboard this new endeavor. Let’s go!!
Roland reported hated SG1 though… Wonder if it grew on him over the years or if this will be a different beast entirely.
I CANNOT WAIT for this to be inexplicably canceled after a critically acclaimed first season! Hey, wait…
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Still, super stoked!
They are EPs, which is a contractual obligation. There’s been no mention they will be directly involved.
It’s being made by Martin Gero, creator of Blindspot.
A couple relevant images I made years back
I’ve never understood why the Expanse is in this list. Amazon picked it up when it already had a rabid, albeit small, audience and then cancelled it 3 seasons before the end.
Yeah, that last part stings. My favorite sci-fi series of all time. I still hold hope that they’d do the last 3 in a few years as the books were set 30 years later.
Yeah, at least the series was canceled at a logical point in the story. It would be neat to be able to get the original actors back to continue the series in 30 years or something. But we have seen how difficult it can be to get an original cast back only five years after a series’s cancelation, so I doubt that was their plan.
That broke me. Kudos.
Uhh hopefully less blatantly pro military propaganda then the previous shows.
It was pro military propaganda the same way Star Trek was pro communist propaganda.
It showed the military actually being the good guys, mostly, taking account of their mistakes, mostly. Working with others and being a positive force both for their country and for everyone else, mostly.
That is a very idealised US military that bares little resemblance to the real one, and it was great propaganda for the ideal that doesn’t exist, much like Star Trek.
Frankly I don’t mind fictionalizing the military to show them as idealistic, accountable, intelligent, and egalitarian. It’s what they should be, and it sets an example that both gives an ideal for the real military to strive towards, and it stands in contrast to the real world issues with the actual military, highlighting the ways in which they come short or behave counter to that ideal example.
Personally I want more people that are going to enter the military to want a military like SG1 than to want a military that does what it actually has done historically. We shouldn’t whitewash reality, absolutely, but that doesnt mean we can’t have better examples in a sci-fi world.
Did star trek literally work hand in hand with “communists” and was reliant on them like stargate was with the US air force? Your argument is nonsensical.
SG was during the era of “American military exceptionalism”, which was common at the time and we were the good guys with morals & high standards. The whole point of the team was to do good and fight against the exploitation of other worlds. The perception of the military is much different now and I think it would be more of an exploration show that’s not military based.
Expect that’s never been true for the American military and Stargate literally worked so closely with the US Air Force to sanitize its perception they should be considered one the main writers.
did they do that for universe too?
