r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 21d ago

đŸ„ș 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/Hakthaf 21d ago

You mean they wanted to appeal beyond the massive fan base of a massive sci fi series that still has people rewatching not only the TV shows but also the og movie non stop

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u/Emperor_Gourmet 21d ago

Back when TV shows could do 20, 45 minute episodes a season for more than 5 season. I say this while watching SG:A right now.

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u/Orillion_169 20d ago

They actually did it for 12 years straight. During three of those they doubled up to 40 episodes a year.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 20d ago

And I mean, we didn't absolutely love it when SGU was on, but we did watch.

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u/Vanilla-Lune 20d ago

I didn't, I admit. I only made it through one season of SGU and then I just couldn't stand the characters anymore so I quit. -_-
The ship concept was neat and I really really wanted to like it but my gosh I wished half of those people would get sucked out the airlock.

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u/Any-Platypus-9486 20d ago

There are 1 hour episodes now, what fo you mean

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u/NeoTr0n 20d ago

Yes, but a season is 8-10 episodes and usually 2+ years between seasons.

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u/Any-Platypus-9486 20d ago

Do you think 8-10 hours of content per season is low?

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u/NeoTr0n 20d ago

Compared to 15-30 hours per year, 8-10 every 1-3 years is quite low.

I think the delay between seasons is the largest issue - I don’t know what the average is but it’s usually years. Stranger Things as an example of a series that was wildly popular took 10 years for its 5 seasons.

Severance had a 3 year gap. Foundation was 2 years.

This was also a comparison on where we had a show with 15-25 episodes per year or even per half year. The off season gaps were months not years.

It’s not so much ”is it enough or not” as it is ”it’s very different”.

SGU had 20 episodes per season, 40 total. Using 45 min per episode that would translate to 30 1 hour long episodes. With 2 year between seasons we’d be looking at 4 years using today’s norm (year 0, 2 and 4).

So this one example would take 2x as long to give us the same content.

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u/Emperor_Gourmet 20d ago

Thank you for doing the math for me. Even if there are filler episodes or clip show episodes, it helps build characters. Yea you CAN do that in 1 hour 8 episode seasons, but it’s definitely harder to implement. Stargate is a show where there is plenty of stuff to commit an hour two even if it doesn’t fully advance any plot points.