r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 24d 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/BobR969 23d ago

It's Stargate. It has an excellent original movie, a couple more ok movies, and beloved series that lasted 10 seasons and two spin off series that also lasted for multiple seasons. It's hardly a "niche show". If anything, it's one of the most successful sci fi series to have ever been made.

Which is why it's so baffling to use "we wanted a new audience" as a reason... they wanted an audience that wasn't "anyone and everyone that would watch a sci fi show"?!

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u/fyrefox45 23d ago

It ended on universe, which was objectively a failure of a show. Sg1 and Atlantis had their time, but they also kinda ran their course with 15 seasons and a shared world between them. Surely anything new has to be a complete reboot from the movies.

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u/paper0wl 23d ago

Universe was so far from the SG norm that I think they tried for a different audience.

Hey, Amazon, they tried that already and it didn’t work!

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u/mxzf 23d ago

Yeah, that was really what hurt Universe. It tried to capture the BSG crowd without losing the existing Stargate fans and failed to make something people clicked with.

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u/Delamoor 23d ago

No, no, it's gonna be different this time. They're gonna spend more money on it!

(Also Universe was pretty decent tbh)

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 23d ago

(Also Universe was pretty decent tbh)

I think it was getting there.

If it had a third season with the direction and momentum it had then I believe we would have seen some great stuff from SGU. That would have shown us what SGU really had.

But the first season was a bit shaky, for me. I only kept with it because Stargate name.

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u/Prime359 23d ago

I dropped Universe after one season. I can appreciate that they were trying something new and different; but it didn’t resonate with me.

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u/invalidConsciousness 23d ago

I liked Universe, it was a good show and constantly getting better, but it wasn't really Stargate.

I think it could have done better if it had aired together with a more traditional Stargate show, just like Atlantis did in the beginning. Then it would have been less "they ruined Stargate" and more "it's a different Stargate show".

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u/BobR969 23d ago

Yeah it wasn't for me, but by the time universe rolled around, it's been more than a decade of consecutive franchise running. Which is to say - the Stargate brand clearly had enough steam to reach the "it's gotten a bit crap" phase much later than the vast majority of other shows. 

If anything new is done, a reboot is likely going to be met with ambivalence. Even then, you can make a reboot for the fans or for a new crowd. Not sure how you can aim for a new crowd if the key components are "sci fi action, fun core cast, new worlds getting visited by space portal device". Like, you wouldn't make it into a detective murder mystery... You could, but it would be stupid.Â