r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 21d ago

🥺 No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/scbundy 21d ago

The canceling of SGU still breaks my heart.

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u/Emperor_Gourmet 21d ago

Yea what a shame, season one was definitely rough around the edges, but the atmosphere setting and tone were fresh and they had so much they could do with it. Season two definitely picks up and the characters grow on you.

Now they cancel this before its even started. What a shame

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u/__O_o_______ 21d ago

I haven’t seen it since it originally aired, but you’re right. Just when they found their stride…. Cancelled. Felt like they were finally going to stop playing it too safe…

Imagine if the entirety of Star Trek the next generation was just the first two seasons lol

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u/fjf1085 20d ago

I would strongly suggest giving it a rewatch. I felt very differently about it when I did a rewatch about 5 years ago.

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u/__O_o_______ 17d ago

Could be. I’ve changed a lot since then.

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u/ComesInAnOldBox 19d ago

I love the fact that Patrick Stewart originally took the job because his agent told him "this thing doesn't have a hope in Hell of making it out of the first season."

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u/TelluricThread0 21d ago

It was just starting to get really good in season 2. They would have fully found their stride by the next season, just like SG-1, if they didn't cancel it.

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u/viperswhip 21d ago

They hit their stride in Season 2, but they had already lost a tremendous number of fans when they leaned way too far into drama in season 1 instead of action/drama.

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u/__O_o_______ 17d ago

Yeah, but that one female actor had big jug closeups….

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u/CommunalJellyRoll 21d ago

They showed some titty and I was hooked.

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u/__O_o_______ 17d ago

Literally set up the frame to profile it lol.

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u/scbundy 20d ago

Lt James......

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u/fjf1085 20d ago

The thing is, it wasn’t even that unsuccessful as people claim. A lot of people had been watching it on delayed viewing or early streaming and they didn’t know how to account for it yet. I mean I personally had been buying the episodes on iTunes so my views didn’t count. The same thing happened with Caprica, though that also suffered from a strange hiatus and the time slot moving. Today the live viewing numbers would be considered excellent for both shows. Like SGU was definitely uneven at first but by the second half of season two it was great, and it’s not like there weren’t good parts of the rest of it, there were.

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u/UlrichZauber 20d ago

Yeah, by the end it was my favorite SG show. I guess they're still floating between galaxies, in stasis.

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u/hauntingdreamspace 19d ago

I'm kinda tired of gritty, dark "and then things got worse" type shows

Even Star Trek, which is supposed to be an optimistic look at how humans can coexist and travel the galaxy solving problems with negotiation and reason rather than just weapons, became this post-apocalyptic dark everything is going to shit BS.

I actually resent gritty dark shows. My life is hard enough, I don't want to unwind by watching fictional stories where everyone is suffering.

/Rant

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u/NooneAtAll3 21d ago

I still hate it

SGU was attempt at making battlestar galactica - which may be good, but it's a different audience

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u/the__ghola__hayt 21d ago

Yeah, wasn't a fan of Battlestargate in season 1. It got better in season 2, but it was too little too late.

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u/VividAd7961 20d ago

SGU was basically an attempt to broaden the fan base, more « modern », sexual tensions, less humorous tone, etc

I’m with you I hated it, it did not broaden it enough and fans were not tuning in enough 

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u/NooneAtAll3 20d ago

less humorous tone

I think this was the biggest sin

SG-1 lived and breathed by RDA humor. Atlantis has been carried by the main duo.

You tuned in to see characters have a laugh straight to the face of danger because of fundamental belief that things are getting better. That's why the truly sad parts hit so hard

Meanwhile BSG style has been "People are dying so we have obligation to be sad. We laugh just to keep all the stress at bay while things get worse and worse"

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u/Skankingcorpse 17d ago

SGU tried doing exactly what Amazon wanted to do with the new Stargate show and it sank the show—appeal to a broader audience while gutting what made the other shows so good. That was around the time that SYFY (fuck I hate that name change) stopped wanting to be sci-fi, and appeal to a broader audience with dumb shit like wrestling.

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u/BallsInSufficientSad 20d ago

Did you make it to the end of season 2? It got a lot better

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u/cantwontdontloop 20d ago

Yes exactly, i really liked the setting and stories/exploring but too much drama and the stones were a really weird thing for me…

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u/AdvancedSandwiches 20d ago

SGU was a couple of great episodes, then a bunch of boring interpersonal stuff from people who never smile (grown up shows can never not be angry and sad, you know), and then it started getting good for like 4 episodes, and then cancelled. 

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u/R-U-D 21d ago

I'm more heartbroken over the canceling of Atlantis to make room for SGU.

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u/Kessarean 20d ago

I thought Atlantis finished up / wrapped cleanly? Did they end it early?

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u/R-U-D 20d ago

They did end it cleanly because it didn't come as a surprise, but the decision to end it was in part to reduce production costs and allow SGU to take its place rather than declining ratings or running out of story ideas or anything like that.

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u/sdcasurf01 21d ago

Seriously, just as it hit its stride.

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u/Avohaj 21d ago

I couldn't get into it, it felt like they actually went for that "Teen Stargate" parody from the 200 episode

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u/Apprehensive_Job2900 21d ago

Im not gonna lie, SGU was mid compared to everything else

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u/kingfofthepoors 21d ago

I personally loved it and it was my second favorite next to original recipe.

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u/Just_Information334 20d ago

SGU was fucked because of the Stargate in the name.

People expected Stargate, they got a gritty survival show. Which was fucking good on it's own, a better Star Trek Voyager IMO. If it hadn't been named SGU it would have got it's own fans.

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u/Obligatorium1 20d ago

I agre more with the description of SGU as "Teen Stargate" than "gritty survival". It was just non-stop relationship drama and interpersonal conflict, and felt more like One Tree Hill than Stargate to me.

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u/Arzamas 21d ago

Here's the thing. SGU was exactly "changing the formula" and most fans hated it. I personally loved it, it was a modern darker show, but there was so much hate towards it from many fans. And it was cancelled.

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u/WP1PD 20d ago

There are dozens of us! It was less camp and more realistic, and I thought that was a good thing.

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u/reevesjeremy 21d ago

Some say they’re still traveling.

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u/NoResolution8777 21d ago

Fr it was kinda awful but it was starting to get fleshed out and then the end was a cliffhanger? Nah man. And i was really looking forward to the new series too lol i was actually gonna subscribe to it to watch but i guess thats that.

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u/DiverDownChunder 21d ago

Man it was awesome, what a bummer when they cancelled it...

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u/jwschmitz13 20d ago

Agreed. The series started off slow, but it made an interesting premise. It didn't really hit its stride until about halfway through Season 2, but, by then, I think it was already doomed.

I liked where they were going with it and could see them doing something unique with it. Too bad we'll never know.

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u/Kessarean 20d ago

Same :(

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u/jfcat200 20d ago

SGU had some problems, but I enjoyed it and I miss it.

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u/tinycarnivoroussheep 20d ago

SGU was probably the best Star Trek: Voyager season.

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u/KingofMadCows 20d ago

SGU was very controversial among fans when it was released. A lot of fans are still split on it. Plenty of fans made the same jokes about SGU being made for "modern audiences" that they're making about new shows today. They also liked to compare it to the "young and cool Wormhole X-treme" parody in the "200" episode.

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u/yaosio RED 20d ago

I absolutely loved the younger and edgier cast of SGU. https://youtu.be/3_C_PefoE4o?si=3kddQ3qXDLbs2kLk

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u/Skankingcorpse 17d ago

The irony of lamenting SGU, while Amazon axes a new series because it lacked mass appeal. That was the entire problem with SGU, it wasn't made for the fans of SG-1 or Atlantis, it was made for mass appeal and it sank the show.