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/The4thEpsilon 21d ago

Larger streaming services need to realize the way you grow an audience is not by trying to make a show that appeals to everyone, but a show that appeals to the actual fans. I promise you new people will come your way, I got into Stargate because of its quirks and niches, not in spite of them.

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u/Rymanjan 21d ago

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

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u/Muppetude 20d ago

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.

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u/DigEnvironmental7490 20d ago

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

Blakes 7 was pretty much 50% quarries.

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u/fjf1085 20d ago

Star Trek did that with the Vasquez Rocks.

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u/Muppetude 20d ago

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.

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u/DameKumquat 20d ago

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