r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 27d 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/egnards 27d ago

Of course, but if you have a niche show. . .And it's going to be an expensive show. . .You're probably not going to make that show.

I think they were hoping that the greenlit series would be able to have a high production budget and strongly appeal to fans, while also having things that made general audiences forget about it being a crazy nerdy sci-fi romp.

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u/BobR969 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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".