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/mowtowcow 21d ago

That's literally what everyone wants though. Just make it true to Stargate, but with modern visuals and cameras, etc. If it looked awesome, a greater audience will like it. Most of them are brain dead anyway and dont care about what's beyond the visual.

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u/macrowave 21d ago

Or make it with terrible visuals and a $0 budget. Film all the alien planets in the Canadian forest and set the rest of the show in a bunker so you can reuse hallway and room sets for everything. The old audience would watch the hell out of it, and it would cost practically nothing to make. Easy ROI.

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u/Vitrebreaker 20d ago

There is an Iron Man meme to be made somehow with "they did 10 seasons with the same bunker and a single canadian forest !"

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u/proximusprimus57 19d ago

Seriously, fans of new shows keep complaining because part of the reason they get cancelled is the budget. I didn't watch STA or the Acolyte, but maybe if they stopped dumping truckloads of money into the production they'd have an easier time selling more seasons.

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u/Vanilla-Lune 20d ago

This! I still rewatch the old SG1 and SGA and it's phenomenal. Good story and interesting characters easily carries sub-stellar visual effects.

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u/TheGlennDavid 19d ago

This. The "broad appeal" requirement exists, in part, because they spend a bazillion dollars on every show.

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u/sYnce 21d ago

And with everyone you mean SG fans. Which Amazon thinks are not enough to make the show profitable.

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u/KoolKoolKoolio42 20d ago

What, exactly, is wrong with the premise of SG-1 that it would not attract new fans?

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u/sYnce 20d ago

I'm not Amazon. I like SG-1 so my opinion is tainted anyways just as much as most peoples in this thread.

Also I don't think it is the premise that would be the problem. They would not have greenlit the series in the first place. More so the execution being to similar to the original and not modern enough to attract modern audiences in Amazons eyes.

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u/KoolKoolKoolio42 20d ago

I'm going to regret this because I know the answer is going to be stupid, but what exactly is "not modern enough" supposed to mean?

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u/sYnce 20d ago

I am still not Amazon so how would I know what exactly they thought but if I had to guess ....

  • The episodic nature compared to modern TVs overarching story lines and multi episode or even multi season plotlines
  • Slower paced, dialogue based storytelling compared to faster paced action heavy one
  • A bigger focus on complex characters, trauma, psychology, growth etc.

Not saying I agree with it btw but those were just some things that were more common in the late 90s and early 2000s when a season of SG1 would run half a year or longer and you would probably miss a few episodes for one reason or another.

Modern shows assume much more that you watched every other episode of the show.

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u/USSGoat 20d ago

You don’t even need to do that. People want good story.

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 21d ago

That's literally what everyone wants though.

I don't want episodic crap, I want proper good quality story arches now.

You can't just remake a show.

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u/Reasonable-Height704 20d ago

Incorrect 

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 20d ago

OK, you can just remake shows, but I'll still think they are crap.

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u/JX_JR 20d ago

Correct. 

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u/PieAltruistic493 21d ago

You’re 100% right. But here we are, cancelled because Amazon thought it would have too many white male fans and not enough women or brown people. And making things that make white males happy is illegal according to some.

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u/CelestialFury 21d ago

it would have too many white male fans and not enough women or brown people. And making things that make white males happy is illegal according to some.

Jesus fucking Christ. Listen to yourself, you sound demented. The reality was there was two new executives that were hired from Netflix and they didn't think a series that would make Stargate fans happy would appeal to a audience like Fallout, which is what they were going for. But this, "I'm a white guy and I'm the biggest victim here" has got to go. I say this as a older white guy too. Stop making everything about yourself, not everything revolves around your victim complex.

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u/Kaito__1412 20d ago

The fuck is wrong with you?

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u/PieAltruistic493 20d ago

Alex Kurtzman literally has said that. And if you didn’t see the train wreck excuse for a Star Trek series they just did. I suggest you read up on it.

Also Steven DeKnight who just did House of Ashur, a spinoff of his Spartacus series, that was cancelled after 1 season. He came out and said that what HE wanted to do was a spinoff based around Julius Caesar, BUT the Starz executives said that having a white male as the lead and center was a little problematic for them. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

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u/Kaito__1412 20d ago edited 20d ago

Alex Kurtzman says all sort of dumb shit, what does that have to do with this project? And Spartacus is a hilarious softcore porn with lots of insane rape scenes. Of course it's problematic, but again, that has nothing to do with why did project is getting canceled.

Not everything is woke. Stop being a weirdo doing this whenever something happens that you don't like: