SGS1 season 11?

[dizzyg]

is SGS1 going to get a season 11? 10 i think is almost at an end, just wondering what to expect from them?

[Mav]

You mean they are finished shooting season 10 right?

 

Season 9 ends here next week, episode 9x20. Then this summer (probably around July-ish) season 10 of SG1 will start (along side season 3 of Atlantis and BSG).

 

I assume they had begun or were at least half way through filming season 10. We actually do not know if they are contracted for a season 11. At the start of season 9 they secured themselves a guarantee for a full season 10, in the very least.

 

Time will tell.

[remedyu]

 

Well, I think it's time the series ended. It should have ended once the Goa'uld were contained. The new enemies are just too much.

[Mindwalker]

I have to agree. Even though I love SG1 as much as the next 'gate-fan... it has to go.

Unless they can freshen up like ten times better than what they did with the Ori.

[Centurion]

I'd watch season 11 of SG-1, but maybe you're right. If SG-1 goes, however, I'd like to see it replaced by another spin-off series like SGA.

[maybrick]

You guys are crazy. If you really don't like the show that much then you don't have to watch it. Personally, I think the Ori are badass!

[Tenebrae]

If SG-1 tied up at the end of season 9, I'd shed no tears.

 

It's got to the point where - despite having replaced the main character and several auxillary ones, defeated their main nemesis after 8 years and so on... it's starting to be a bit like Star Trek XII - So Very Tired.

 

"The Galaxy is under threat!"

 

"Again?"

 

Yeah. I don't respect people that demand season after season of a show that's obviously past its prime. All it means is 3-4 years down the road you're going to bitch and moan about how there aren't any new sci-fi shows.

[maybrick]

I don't respect people that demand season after season of a show that's obviously past its prime.

 

Well, That's an awfully silly reason to disrespect somebody. I can see disrespecting a person for beating their spouse or something, but for wanting to see more of a show they like?

[Jawa]

no it's like forceing a race horse to race 9 years after he last one anything, just cause you love him so much. It may be time for his offspring to shine a little. I suggest that they after season 10 take a year break comming up with a good consept and let atlantis go at it alone. Maybe get thier "Worf", they could use a daniel jackson in the Pegasus galaxy. Then start the new SG1. Keep the New guy build a new team.

 

Just my opinion...

[maybrick]

My opinion is that SG-1 isn't past it's prime. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that, with the exception of Richard Dean Anderson leaving the show, it's better than it's ever been. Every year is better than the last. I love the new direction! If that belief gets nothing but disrespect from people on this board, then I can learn to live with it. :)

[Cypha01]

maybrick, you're not alone. I like the new direction alot too.

[Tenebrae]

That's ok, it's not as if I can STOP you from encourage stagnation and lack of imagination in sci-fi.

 

Well, not unless I became a bald, cloned assassin and systematically murdered all the people involved in the show.

 

THAT would be a TV show.

[Vyperion]

My opinion is that SG-1 isn't past it's prime. In fact' date=' I'd go as far as saying that, with the exception of Richard Dean Anderson leaving the show, it's better than it's ever been. Every year is better than the last. I love the new direction! If that belief gets nothing but disrespect from people on this board, then I can learn to live with it. :)[/quote']I don't disrespect your belief (nor anyone's belief as long as they don't force it on me) BUT Stargate was about the fact behind the myths. It was about the Goa'uld impersonating the Gods of ancient egypt From Re to Anubis. Over the course of the series we learned that there were other such impersonations like the Asgard who impersonated the Norse Gods and were kind to the people of Earth.

 

With this latest season the enemy they are trying to beat are Gods or certainly nanometres away from it. They have the power and capability to wipe out any opponenets that stand in their way. It's not myth, it's fact and the only thing stopping them is an equally powerful race preventing them directly entering our galaxy but allowing their followers to wreak havoc simply because everyone has the right to choose. If anything the only reason they seem to be fighting it is because they don't have the choice, it's either worship or die. It's not much of a choice but it's a flimsy premise for (almost) all-knowing beings to effect upon a galaxy.

 

The other bitch is that they go to the trouble of getting a new lead, new general, new doctor, new sexy female alien (well, Vala ;) ) but they bring back the three lead chacraters of SG-1 and still call it that. I appreciate that it's named after the team but why didn't they give it an new name? Why not have it set at the alpha/beta/gamma site (Stargate Alphasite)? Why not have it at a better secured facility that people are actually participating in the program that aren't military? It's basically the same old SG-1 only with a lower-paid lead character. It's like they thought:

"How will this new show be better than the last one?"

"Well while it's set at the same place we've replaced most of the cast of SG-1 and thought of a kick-ass enemy for them to fight.."

"Well how can we keep the older viewers of SG-1 watching?"

"Easy, we replaced most of the cast but we need the less expensive ones back to keep supporting the lead man"

"Why not just go all the way and keep calling it SG-1?"

"Brilliant idea! That way it'll still technically be the same show and we can charge just as much to license it, perhaps more"

"Next you'll be tellling me it's another evil twin story"

"Well not quite. You see the bad guys are like Ascended but they believe in forcing worship on the lower beings while their cousins, the Anceints, beleive in giving everyone the choice of whether or not to worship them and basically sit back for another two or three years letting their cousins worshippers run riot around our galaxy, blowing stuff up"

"So it is an evil twin story."

"It's not like those geeks can complain about it"

"People who will most like parody you on message boards and rip each episode for being less impressive than they hoped, quoting howthere's a lack of any decent action and mocking the inevitable mid-season cliffhanger because you release the episodes so that you can pre-empt thanksgiving and christmas"

"By the way we've already finished the new ttile sequence..."

 

Consider that they've had at least four major breaches of security about the existence of the stargate (not to mention dozens of near-misses for Earth's destruction) over the course of eight years and given the state of affairs on our own world it's too convenient that somone more corrupt hasn't got ahold of that fact and either exposed it or ransomed it. As has been said to me many times "Life's not fair" so how come they keep getting away with it, always in their favour?

 

I recently re-watched season 8 and towards the end they had a strong continuity - the five episodes preceeding the Moebius finale had Daniel abducted, Dakara found, Anubis returned, Replicators destroyed and Daniel's return coupled with Anubis stopped, it was like one giant episode. By the end of Moebius they had basically shut up shop - Goa'uld defeated, replicaor vanquished, Jaffa free, O'Neill the General of the base, Sam going off to get married and O'Neill's pond had fish. They were done. Then season 9 started with self-contained episodes and storys and basically stepping back into the fold like it was a brand new show. Except it isn't. Expectations are high enough for a new show but from one which has such a large fanbase they were even higher.

[Tenebrae]

Yeah, Moebius was a really lousy finale - totally eliminating the tension from the rest of the season and just a handy way for them to get a ZPM. You really feel that it could have happened at pretty much anytime.

 

To be honest, there just isn't a great deal to link season 9 to the show before that point.

 

That aside, it's more a case of the fact that the show is just horrible now. It's not surprising, they've been running for 10 years and I don't think that the turnover of creative staff has been that great. I mean, there is only so much you can do with "monster/crisis of the week". The show is just treading water now... it's kind of a shame they didn't do something else instead of continue it for 2 pointless seasons.

[Cypha01]

Tenabrae, I see where your coming from but I disagree with you...but each to their own right ? :)

 

That said, I feel the way you do about stargate but with the new Dr who. I feel is way past its sell by date (i.e. I prefered it when it was time and space and not time and london council estates with london being invaded...again).

[Vyperion]

Tenabrae, I see where your coming from but I disagree with you...but each to their own right ? :)

 

That said, I feel the way you do about stargate but with the new Dr who. I feel is way past its sell by date (i.e. I prefered it when it was time and space and not time and london council estates with london being invaded...again).

Doctor Who has had two major breaks in the last decade; it's been cancelled longer than Stargate has been going. Couple that with the fact that even though the charcter is still the same his identity has changed throughtout his 40 years of exposure. Each Doctor brought his own personality into the fold which reflected in the events around him. It evolved. The Doctor changed, assistants joined and left him and even the enemies learned something from previous mistakes.

 

Stargate still has the same characters. Teal'c who was supposed to be a pillar of the Free Jaffa gave up his position really quickly, Daniel's trapping in the Milky Way was convenient and Sam returning timed rather expertly with Vala leaving and they step through the gate meeting new races, disagreeing with their principals or morality and getting into the same scrapes they did for the preceeding eight years. They settled back into a routine with Teal'c being stalwort, Daniel translating everything and Sam coming up with brilliant solutions to the massive problem.

Why didn't Sam stay with Pete?

Why haven't we seen the Russian team since season 6?

Why aren't more military forces involved like Marines, Army and other Allied Forces (Chinese and British)?

Why hasn't Daniel who knows that the Ancient knowledge still resides in his mind tried to unlock it to help?

Lots of potential expansion, untapped.

 

I'm still jaded from when they decided to cancel Farscape. Now that was a show. A bunch of escaped prisoners being chased across the galaxy having each of their appendeges bitten, prodded, poked and genrally unbound from the human norm. Worms being put into your stomach through your belly button, creatures that weren't just people dressed in a costume with a little makeup.

 

Having also read the sci-fi wire it seems the real-life Cheyenne Mountain base is shutting down too. Maybe they feel they don't want an almost-real history to fall back on seeing as how the real Norad still operates from there.