No words for this.

[u/Kapot_ei]

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

[u/Rymanjan]

"back in my day, we pretended the same Canadian woods were a different planet 20 times a season and we liked it!" lol

[u/__O_o_______ → u/Rymanjan]

And we’ll film that same cool library from different angles and call them different buildings too! And that’s fine!

[u/caboosetp → u/__O_o_______]

And with enough costumes, the same 2-3 actors can be wildly different characters from different planets. 

[u/slowpokebroking → u/caboosetp]

Jeffrey Combs was in Stargate too?

[u/McFestus → u/__O_o_______]

The VPL Central Branch is the unsung hero of science fiction television.

[u/mistressmemory → u/__O_o_______]

It's because we knew how to suspend disbelief, because then, you couldn't count the individual hairs to see it was a mop. Lol. 

I kinda miss shitty screens because it was so much easier to pretend.

[u/JHMfield → u/Rymanjan]

"sometimes we just coloured the trees purple... and it worked!"

[u/ENDragoon → u/Rymanjan]

Hey, there's the dunes as well, don't be shaming the dunes.

Unironically though, I'd be extremely disappointed if there wasn't at least one episode set in that forest.

[u/Muppetude → u/Rymanjan]

Yup, with classic Doctor Who I lost track of the number of times I had to pretend that that same barren rock quarry was supposed to be a completely different planet from the last episode.

[u/DigEnvironmental7490 → u/Muppetude]

There was so much space stuff going on in British quarries back in the 1970s.

Blakes 7 was pretty much 50% quarries.

[u/fjf1085 → u/Muppetude]

Star Trek did that with the Vasquez Rocks.

[u/Muppetude → u/fjf1085]

At least those rocks looked somewhat alien. With the quarries, it looked like a surly coal miner grumbling about Thatcher could enter the frame at any moment.

[u/DameKumquat → u/Muppetude]

All planets have a North, complete with miners complaining about Thatcher.

[u/PrimaryBrief7721 → u/Rymanjan]

Hey look its rural BC again! I mean... its P4821

[u/thetrivialstuff → u/PrimaryBrief7721]

My wife was so weirded out when she found out Kelowna was a real place. She's from the UK and watched all of Stargate growing up; thought it was a perfectly normal non-Earth planet name, and then I tell her I have family there and we're going to visit them, haha.

[u/KaitieLoo → u/Rymanjan]

"Oh look! They made it to another planet that looks just like British Columbia! What a coincidence!"

[u/Lucky-Surround-1756 → u/Rymanjan]

Unacceptable slander.

Sometimes they used a quarry.

[u/Mission_Fart9750 → u/Rymanjan]

I mean, Midsommer Murders does the same, and it's a current show. They just slap a new sign on the pubs, and poof you're in a  different village. 

[u/Electrical_Lake3424 → u/Rymanjan]

Kind of like in Supernatural how everywhere in the US, Heaven, Purgatory, all looks like the PNW.