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I knew it! It's about time Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper ended this tired series. In order for Stargate to survive in any form, SG-1 had to go. The show has limped into a 10th season, but its been over creatively for a while now. The producers need to concentrate on ONE show, as both have been subpar this season. Kudos to SciFi for cancelling SG-1. Now, hopefully, the producers will start turning out some decent scripts for Atlantis. Ah, SG-1... I'll miss you. But 10 years is enough. Good luck to Atlantis...I really hope it gets better.

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Personally, I find this surprising and dissappointing. I don't think the show's been "over" for a year at all. I think the introduction of Ben Browder -- and, more so, Claudia Black -- has breathed some new life into the series. (It was clearly struggling during Anderson's last year.)

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The ending of the 200th episode did lean toward the new Movie(s) possibly in the works which I read about at Slice of SciFi some time ago... I remember they talked about having James Spader return along with Kurt Russell... Would be interesting...

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Stargate is about where Star Trek was about 12 years ago in how they haven't committed creative franchise suicide yet. At this point a terrible Stargate script is more exciting than anything Star Trek has turned out in a long time because the crew dynamic is better and the writers seem much less self-involved.

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I thought it was going downhill when RDA was promoted to General and the shows seemed like filler. I think the new cast and bringing in a new enemy has indeed breathed new life into the show.

I certainly hope it isn't being cancelled, but 10 years is a hell of a good run.

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I think that new movie was actually something that Dean Devlin was recently talking about, independent of SG-1, that would essentially be a pair of sequels to the original movie. This sounded like maybe an interesting but ultimately wrongheaded idea to me. I've always thought SG-1 took the elements that worked in the original movie, dropped the load of stuff that didn't, and was all the better for that.

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This does not suprise me one bit. I am sad for sure, but not suprised.

Sci-Fi did the same thing with Farscape. Just because the ratings are not that great (and alot had to do in both cases of the network moving around time slots) and some new show gets better ratings in the few weeks it has been on (Eureka) SciFi makes the knee jerk reaction and cancells it.

Damn archaic nielsons.

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I'm not trying to dance on Sg-1s' grave, but I thought Ben Browder was so miscast. He is a good actor, but the producers didn't know how to use him.
"Let's have him be funny..no wait..he's aping Richard Dean Anderson. Let's reel him in a bit..no,wait.. he's now too boring."
I just thought Browder looked like he didn't know what his performance should be from episode to episode, and that is the producers fault. Now, Claudia Black, she is GREAT! She is the only real life the show had anymore. She was a great addition, but too little, too late. And don't get me started on Beau Bridges. Would it kill him to look mildly interested in the script he was acting from?
I love SG-1. I have seen every episode a couple of times. I even have a few fave episodes I could watch over and over again. But I have lost interest in it. And so have a lot of other viewers. "Stargate: Atlantis" should now get all the support it needs(from fans, producers, SciFi) to keep Stargate alive in some form for many years to come. But to get that support, it's gonna need better scripts than what has been produced this season. Seriously, Friday nights episode was laughingly bad.

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Dean Devlin will NEVER get his "fantasy" sequel to his 1994 film idea off the ground. For starters, people recognize the SHOW now, not the 1994 film as Stargate. Yeah, it got the story started, but the SHOW has made the story its own. Seriously, which actors do you people consider Jack O'Neil and Daniel Jackson? It's RDA and Shanks,of course.
Devlins' idea is just stupid, and shows he probably has never watched an episode of SG-1 in his life or is aware of the HUGE following the SHOW has.

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Sad news from where I sit. I've always enjoyed SG-1 throughout the years and thought the addition of Browder and Black was enough to refresh the feel. Unfortunately, since the Nielsen ratings still seem to be the yardstick by which a show's popularity is measured, I guess it's over. Honestly, reading tea leaves to ascertain ratings would be at least as accurate.

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It's been confirmed:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=37607

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Figures. A show hits a milestone and the network yanks it! Maybe another network would like to have a winner.

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While I'm sad to see SG-1 go the writing has been on the wall for awhile. The show stumbled last year with the exit of Richard Dean Anderson and the introduction of a new villain that wasn't too interesting. I agree with one of the other posts: Browder is a great actor, but he never jelled with the cast. It would have been better to have Carter take command of SG-1 and bring in another supporting player, but then Tapping has always been undervalued on the show. The only bright thing about this season, so far, has been Claudia Black. Unlike Browder, she stepped into a new role and made it her own, and brought a lot of humor to the show; she had excellent chemistry with Judge and Shanks. I hope somebody snaps her up for a another series. She's an excellent actress adept at both comedy and drama.

If SciFi did one smart thing it was to keep Atlantis. The show has really improved since it first aired with excellent plot growth and character development. Will it last another seven years to reach 200 episodes? I doubt it, but I definitely think it has four or five more years in it. It would be great if they added Tapping to Atlantis; her chemistry with David Hewlett is simply great.

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well ... they have 15 more episodes to air on tv ... are they at least going to "wrap-up" the story? or will they just stop?

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I hate that they're letting Atlantis continue; I think if they were going to focus on one show, it should be SG-1--I haven't found Atlantis very interesting at all from the very beginning. I find the characters far too recycled to be engaging. The one that comes closest is McKay, and the only reason his character isn't recycled from SG-1 is because he had his START on SG-1. Ronon is just the typical Teal'c character, Sheppard is just Jack O'Neill all over again....it goes on. It's complete bull to cancel the series so early in S10--and even BEFORE the 200th episode aired. For all they know, ratings could have rebounded for '200' and could have drawn fans back.

Anyway, I know this sounds bitter, and I freely admit I am. I've grown up with SG-1; it started when I was ten years old. Not having it to look forward to after this season leaves me feeling completely bereft.

Long live SG-1; God knows you've made some rough times bearable and offered a wonderful escape.

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I think the telling problem with SG-1 recently is that there are Ori in the galaxy from the start of the season and they are only going to have an episode about it this Friday. This is probably due to stress on the writers having to produce two series' simultaneously. I have always enjoyed SG-1, but it's come to close to the brink so many times that it's just devastating to see it go for good.

But if it gets shopped around anywhere, it had better be on a free-to-air channel. That'll stop alot of people from downloading the torrent just to save themselves the cable bill.

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This just sucks all forms of ass. Especially since the ratings came back for the 200th episode, and they're 1.9! I often wonder how the mind of a TV exec works. The ratings have been tanked lately due to 3 things -

1) Lousy time slot without BSG. SG-1 and Atlantis are on too late. 7-9 worked much better, but 8-10 didn't. The 7-10 with BSG worked great. That, and really cutting the midseason in half like they did is a joke.

2) Neilson Ratings System. It's old and antiquated. Everyone has digital cable or satellite, Tivos and DVRs , iPods and Media Centers; and Neilson still gathers data by randomly selecting people to fill out little notebooks and hook a box up to your TV.

3) Lack of marketing - I noticed this before season 10 (and 3 of Atlantis) started up. Nowhere near as much promotion before the season started as previous ones. We had a few commercials, and that was it.

Now, I sure do hope that Sci-Fi let's the show wrap up it's Ori storylines (at the very least). MGM has expressed interest in another spinoff (big grain of salt has it that it will based on Stargate: Horizons); so maybe we'll get a mini-series that passes the torch properly and not let this great show go off quietly into the nite.

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CNN has picked up on the news here - http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/22/television.stargate.reut/index.html

It seems that MGM is still interested in expanding and continuing the Stargate franchise in some fashion; possibly to another outlet (aka another channel).

If this really is the end, I would really like the show be given a chance to shine in the end. Just cutting the O2 off and letting the fans just hang there is wrong.

Personally, it was Farscape and Stargate that put the Sci-Fi channel on the map; and paved the way for Atlantis, BSG, and Eureka.

These geniuses cancel SG-1, but bring ECW on board?????? (scratching head).

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While decisions to keep or cancel a show have always been strongly influenced by the monetary bottom-line, it seems as if today that's the only factor behind those kinds of decisions. That would seem to be the only semi-sane reason for SciFi bringing "rasslin'" to their channel and the popularity of that form of entertainment continues to elude me, although I guess I'm not terribly bright.

This sad announcement by SciFi comes on the heels of the 200th episode getting higher ratings than any episode of this, and last, year's seasons. Anyone who was a fan of Farscape shouldn't be surprised by this cancellation though. In the case of FS, they had announced renewal for seasons 3 & 4 then went and cancelled it before the fourth season had a chance to air.

Doesn't make it any easier to take...

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It's over! It's done! It's never coming back! There is no bright side to this. I thought that it was the only thing in my life that was going to stay staple, but it's not, and I have nothing but a weak spinoff to look forward to. No more Michael Shanks, no more Amanda Tapping, Ben Browder, Claudia black, nor any other one of my favorite actors. It will fade into nothing, into history, and nothing can bring it back. The only thing I can look to is in the 200th episode, where the last hope lies in a movie.
And Sam and Jack never had time to get together, nor did Daniel and Vala. The Ori threat will continue unto eternity, and the years of my life will be utterly spent.
This may sound like overreacting, but Stargate was everything to me. It was the only thing that inspired my taste in science, in biology, in english and in history. and now it is no more.

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