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This is the first I have heard of it and I am absolutely hyped at the thought of a new Stargate series. I absolutely loved SG1 and Atlantis and have watched them over and over again and I am thrilled they are making another series. It will be sooooo good having proper scifi series to watch again. It has been years since we had Star Trek and Stargate on tv at the same time and we will also have The Expanse to compliment it and I am sure a few others.

The era of space scifi is back!

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Should be interesting - however, do you realise each one is only 10 minutes long ?

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where did you find that out?

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Well you can find it all over the internet if you search, here is one example ;

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...nation-1022957



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Put them all together and you have a 1 hour 40 min movie.

(Probably a bit less due to overlap etc).

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arse, I thought you was winding me up. I googled it and looked at the first five links and they said nothing of episode length.

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Gutted they are only 10 mins each but still so glad to have a new Stargate show to watch. Universe was good but it was not loved by most.

Still remember watching the original in the cinema all those years ago and loved it immensely. Then when SG-1 started I was over the moon.

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me too, I can remember being in awe at the pilot because they had the same Jaffa suits and jackal helmets and the same Stargate with the water effect. I was expecting a cheap knock off but at the time I was thinking it is just as good as the movie and a perfect continuation. SG1 is still one of my favourite series of all time because it blended story, characters, action and humour perfectly together and serves as a perfect example of how you can make a 10 season 20 eps/season series and still be good.

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Looks promising.

Lot of production for just a few short episodes though.

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It's roughly equivalent to a 1 hour 40 minute movie (10 10 minute episodes), although it's probably less than that once you count titles and credits.

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which means fantastic quality and it will be realistic and in keeping with the Stargate universe as we know it. I hope it is a huge success and encourages MGM to green light another proper series.

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Its basically a movie, split up into 10 minute blocks.

Not sure why they did it that way, seems like they could just release it as a film and be done with it - people will almost certainly combine them anyway.

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Here's a new teaser,

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if I had won the euro millions on Tuesday I would have funded a new Stargate series (and proper Star Trek).

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this looks so good. Out of all the series making a revival/come back why oh why can't they bring Stargate back.

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Yes it does look good General.

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This looks briiliant and cleary looks like a lot of love was given to it.

Would have loved if it was a full TV series though.

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It looks ok, a bit low budget vs the old one but might be worth a watch

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I am hoping this is just a precursor for a new tv series. Although the 10 min eps are going to keep the enjoyment going for a few weeks I think I would have preferred it if they have it one whole 90 min tv movie (2 hours with ads knowing what the US is like :))

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The first 3x 10min episodes have premiered this week on the Stargate Command service.

I have enjoyed it so far but as a massive fan of the movie and SG1 THEY HAVE change a few things to make this series possible.

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The original Stargate movie has been made available on youtube.

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I can't tell you how much I love Stargate, SG1 and Atlantis so assuming that I am going to love this I have decided I am going to wait till all the eps have aired and then watch them in one go. 10 minutes at a time would kill me :shocking:

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15th March for you then General.

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Great. I think i am going to plan a Dominos pizza evening and wine and something nice for dessert.

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Watched the first three tonight.

They were ok, but nothing special so far.

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I have come across these videos separately on youtube over the last couple of days and thought you would like to take a look.

It is interesting to hear what goes on behind the scenes and I wondered why it only ran for 5 seasons given the show's popularity. I have mentioned it a couple of times before but this exactly the reason why I would love to win £140 million on the euro millions on Tuesday. I would love to partner with Joe Flanigan and Amanda Tapping and bring back Stargate and Johnathan Frakes for Star Trek.:




I had a long conversation with Kush a couple of weeks about dvds, boxsets and digital downloads. Although it is convenient to stream movies and stuff these days, store media on a NAS or download games digitally I do miss having special films or tv series in presentation boxsets. I haven't watched anything on dvd for years but I refuse to get rid of stuff like my fold out boxsets of Friends, Alias, 24, B5 etc and my Buffy book dvds. I came across this video this morning and I think it is fantastic. I wish they would do this kind of thing on limited edition bluray, I would gladly pay £100 per season.

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There was talk over the last few years that they wanted to do new movies and restart the franchise but it came to nothing.

Hopefully with Origins and if enough people see it then it will pave the way for an actual movie.

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yup, and when I win the euro millions tonight I will be able to get the ball rolling. £141 million is $197 million. I am not sure if I could make a movie on that but I would go halves with somebody and get a series on the go as well.

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It has been put forward by Joe Mallozzi and others that this is MGM testing the water for a reboot of the franchise.

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fantastic fantastic fantastic, and here is a teaser for you Pip

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Its worked for Star Trek, so why not Stargate.

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Ha! Thanks General, she's a babe!

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She sure is, i would love to meet her in real life. I can remember reading a couple of years ago at one of the star trek conventions that there was a vip ticket you could buy which included a captains breakfast. Basically it was a one to one with one of the captains but you couldnt choose which one.
I have got a list of people i would like to meet and if i win the euro millions tonight i would gladly pay a lot of dosh to spend a couple of hours with lexa.

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Luckily I have met her IRL (2012) and can tell you she is a sweet as she looks and will take the time to talk to you. As regards sense of humour she's nutty as a fruitcake which suits me fine as I'm the same.

I keep hoping she'll be over here at a convention again I'll definitely be going.

Meanwhile FYI Melissa O'Neil is on the guest list for Starfury Invasion http://starfury.co.uk/ October 12 -14 along with others from Dark Matter & Killjoys.

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Everybody needs to watch this. I came across it while ploughing through Teal'c's vids and it proves that things are still very much alive and possible:

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You might find this interesting reading General.

https://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com...nd-scifi-fans/

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I can't tell you how much I wish I had won the euro millions last night so I could give him the money to make it happen.

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Things have taken an interesting turn in regard to MGM's streaming site.

Does this mean the is another Stargate in the offing???

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2018/...cess-extended/

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Well they have been trying to make a new movie for a while now.

The feature cut is great news

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you would think so wouldn't you. It wouldn't make sense for them to extend the use of their service and expand it (platform wise) at their own expense unless they were trying to build their customer base and loyalty knowing that they had something in the pipework and want to keep the customer base engaged for it.
If they are making a new series the last thing you would want to do is terminate the streaming service and access to content now and then expect everyone to sign up again when the new series comes out. If they allow everyone to continue for free now they can put ads on the front of the old SG eps advertising the new series to death and when it comes out you say 1 years membership is going to cost $xx. Everyone will pay it because they are loyal fans and are going to be hyped for it after months of build up. Very clever.

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Is this worth watching if i loved SG-1, as the IMDB scores are only 4/10?

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Did you like the original movie? This is all about Catherine and about 15 years after her dad digs up the gate.

I really enjoyed it.

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no. I can't tell you how much I love the Stargate franchise and the only reason this gets a pass is because of the fandom and nostalgia. I was looking forward to this for ages and unfortunately it is very disappointing and belongs in the category of those terrible B movies you see on the syfy channels which are rip offs of stuff like Independence Day. To cut a long story short, the acting is terrible, the special effects look like they are from SG1 20 years ago, there are tonnes of really bad plot holes in the story and really annoying story lines which don't need to be there such as the what seems to be mandatory and completely unrealistic gay relationship.
Some of the stuff you can let go but other things you can't such as the fact that nobody can pronounce naquadah even though it has been said a ****ing thousand times over however many hundreds of SG episodes of 3 different series. Stuff like that really really bugs me because they knew that the only people who would watch this are seasoned SG fans and they need to get it right.

I know they were testing the water to see if there is sufficient interest for a new series (which it looks like is going to happen) so I just hope that they get the original creative team back of Brad Wright, Jonathan Glasner, Joseph Mallozzi etc because they cant afford these mistakes.

The saving grace for this is the fact that they are only 10 minutes eps and cumulatively the length of a film. If they were normal 45 minutes episodes I would have stopped watching it very early on.

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Thanks guys i think i will give it a miss.

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yeah, you honestly aren't missing anything at all. If there was even 1 thing which made it worth watching I would tell you to watch it but there isn't. Like I said, the only good thing is that they are 10 minutes ep so after 1hr 40 mins you don't feel like you have lost too much of your life.

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Given they are only 10 minute episodes, I suggest you just give it go and see.

I get GM didnt like it much, but thats just one opinion - watch it, form your own.

(For the record, I thought it was ok, nothing spectacular, but then what do you expect on a small budget).

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As I mentioned I enjoyed it and it does go into explaining Catherine's work to get the get working.

For only 1hr 40mins it's worth checking out.

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it isn't just the production quality, it is the fact that it contradicts or ignores lots of the things we already know about Stargate. Stargate like Star Trek is a series with a scientific foundation and they established some science and "rules" about it. If someone else comes along and changes those rules without explanation then it doesn't make sense, isn't real (my realism factor) and spoils the series. I have already mentioned the fact that they cant pronounce naquadah, there was something which bugged me about the staff weapons but I can't remember what it is was but here is another corker for anyone considering watching it and would like to know what they are letting themselves in for:

We know that in order to establish a wormhole the Stargate need a massive power source such a naquadah generator or a huge lightning blast (millions of vaults). Despite that established science and energy requirements, in Stargate Origins they get it going by hooking it up to a car battery. I wish Catherine told the SGC and SG1 that in the future because they could have saved themselves tonnes of time and carried one around in their backpack for emergencies, it sure would have come in handy.

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Bad news I am afraid. I am pretty sure that shortly after Origins aired I saw a youtube vid with Christopher Judge saying that a new Stargate series was definitely going. Unfortunately it looks like everything has been knocked on the head. If MGM have no intention of developing a new series again they should sell the rights to another network so the legacy can continue or at the very least do a deal with someone like Sony and Marvel have done for Spiderman.

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Things may be a-changing, so much so Joe Mallozzi thinks now is the time to wake up MGM to get the ball rolling.

https://josephmallozzi.com/2019/11/2...rm-has-a-date/

His blog post today gives more reasoning behing the drive.

https://josephmallozzi.com/2019/11/2...te-a-new-hope/

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Hmmm, I'll believe it when I see a series announced.

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yeah, it shame because I think they are missing out big time. We know that most companies are only interested in how much profit they can make and the thing which I don't understand is given the renewed interest in sicifi over the last few years and the resurgence of Star Trek, you would think they would be scrambling to jump on the bandwagon and bang out at least two new Stargate series. If they aren't interested in doing it themselves they should license it to another company so they still make some $$$. It is a win win all around and I just don't understand why they are holding onto it.

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Not going to happen anytime soon, if at all - MGM dont seem to have any interest.

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Start getting excited because I am. Recently we have witnessed Amazon throwing money at certain franchises such as Star Trek and LotR because they want to compete with Netflix and add quality content to their library. From previous discussions we have had it has appeared that MGM has been the stumbling block when it comes to getting the go ahead for a new Stargate series.

Well guess what https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/07/2.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/07/2.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/07/2.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/07/2.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/07/2.gif

It looks like Amazon are buying MGM. How amazing will it be if someone with enthusiasm and especially a fan comes along from Amazon and throws a tonne of money at a new Stargate series just like they did with The Expanse? :hyper:

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63298285/

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Yes, I’d say Amazon taking over MGM is the best news for anyone wanting new Stargate.

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Maybe, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Well worth 10 minutes of your time

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Well the buyout is happening. Keep every finger, toe and anything else you can cross crossed.

https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-ag...845bn-12317488

They did well with The Expanse. It would be stupid not to take advantage of the fact that you now own a massive and popular scifi franchise like Stargate. The great thing is that you know it will be looked after and given the love it needs with regards to $$$. There wasn't anything wrong with The Expanse but you could see the step up in production quality when Amazon bought it.

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Given the arms race currently ongoing in the streaming tv industry, I think there’s a decent chance they will latch on to Stargate. And if they somehow haven’t realised it yet, you could always write in and remind them. ;)

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I should be President of programming at Amazon. They have just been handed gold on a silver platter. Make hay while the sun is shining. If life gives you lemons make lemonade. As they say at Nike:

JUST DO IT!



If they haven't had the conversation already, lets hope Brad Wright, Joe Mallozzi & co get a phone by the end of the week.

Go go go........

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There's every chance of that happening.

Jeff Bezos:

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Fantastic. Full steam ahead please.