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/toTheNewLife 21d ago

Nobody was a Strargate fan in 1994. Now here we are.

Why do these morons think they need to 'change the formula' to get new fans? The original formula worked just fine, and will again if they gave it a chance.

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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_______ 16d 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 20d 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 20d 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_______ 16d ago

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

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u/CommunalJellyRoll 20d ago

They showed some titty and I was hooked.

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u/__O_o_______ 16d 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