If they cancelled it because the original fans would have liked it too much I’m glad they cancelled it rather than have execs on set making it suck and then releasing it
This is some high quality GIF action. I can't remember the last time I saw such quality. If I have to see another low quality GIF, I'm going to lose it. You know, go crazy. Nuts. Insane. Bonzo. No longer in possession of my faculties. Three fries short of a happy meal... WACKO!
Anything with any interesting flavor is going to automatically turn off 50% of potential eaters, so everything has to be a bland, boring, safe, middle of the road exercise in mediocrity or else it won't sell to as many boring people as possible.
We're never getting anything good from a major studio again unless it's by complete accident.
My cynicism levels are so high that someone close called me a "hater" recently. But I just don't see the possibility of anyone taking an older, loved, and cherished IP and making something new with it that wouldn't suck.
I've just been let down so many times before. :(
Meh, Paramount isn't doing very good right now. Look at Stargate Academy: wonderfully diverse new characters, given boring teen romance plots with poor story consistency. And since it's both gay and mid, the fascist fans blame the mid on the gay and the fanbase drifts more right-leaning, which is going to make future Star Trek shows suck! Instead of doing Starfleet Academy, they should have just made Upper Decks for half the price and everyone would have loved it.
So I kinda think the new Stargate show would have sucked and it's better to just give up on the whole thing. I haven't finished Atlantis yet, so I've still got new Stargate to watch.
Jay-Den on the first day of class: I don't want to die valiantly, I want to live valiantly!
Darem on the first day of class: Look at me, I'm the leader of the jerk squad!
Jay-Den when he gets his own episode: I'm such a bad warrior, I haven't reconciled my upbringing with my personality yet.
Darem when he gets his own episode: Before I joined Starfleet I was a timid friendless geek, but I think I'm actually a confident asshole on the inside.
Both of these episodes are great stories in isolation, but the problem is that these characters were introduced to us as their older fully realised selves, and then we watched them get retconned to less realised people and organically develop into their starting portrayals. The stories are robbed of weight because they're solving problems created by a retcon.
19 Comments
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 70d
If they cancelled it because the original fans would have liked it too much I’m glad they cancelled it rather than have execs on set making it suck and then releasing it
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 69d
This is some high quality GIF action. I can't remember the last time I saw such quality. If I have to see another low quality GIF, I'm going to lose it. You know, go crazy. Nuts. Insane. Bonzo. No longer in possession of my faculties. Three fries short of a happy meal... WACKO!
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 29 pts · 69d
More Stargate GIFs in this style: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35266222
Tutorial for my technique for making these: https://feddit.org/post/11802992
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 69d
I can't believe that post has only 25 upvotes! That tutorial is the first Lemmy post I've ever bookmarked.
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 69d
This is from the groundhog day episode, right?
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 7 pts · 69d
Indeed
negativenull@piefed.world · 9 pts · 70d
Star Trek, Dr Who, and now Stargate?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 69d
TV shows are like McDonalds now.
Anything with any interesting flavor is going to automatically turn off 50% of potential eaters, so everything has to be a bland, boring, safe, middle of the road exercise in mediocrity or else it won't sell to as many boring people as possible.
We're never getting anything good from a major studio again unless it's by complete accident.
Sebeck012@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 69d
My cynicism levels are so high that someone close called me a "hater" recently. But I just don't see the possibility of anyone taking an older, loved, and cherished IP and making something new with it that wouldn't suck. I've just been let down so many times before. :(
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 70d
Is it official? No backsies?
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 70d
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/fan-launch-save-stargate-campaign-petition-amazon/
There's a chance for backsies.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 69d
We love a chance for backsies
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 69d
Whatever happened to this bratty little asshole?
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 69d
Probably on a research base somewhere.
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 3 pts · 69d
On some planet
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 69d
Better then area 51.
Lemming421@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 69d
Given what happened to the top guy from her training class, she’s probably long dead… ¯\(ツ)/¯
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 4 pts · 69d
Meh, Paramount isn't doing very good right now. Look at Stargate Academy: wonderfully diverse new characters, given boring teen romance plots with poor story consistency. And since it's both gay and mid, the fascist fans blame the mid on the gay and the fanbase drifts more right-leaning, which is going to make future Star Trek shows suck! Instead of doing Starfleet Academy, they should have just made Upper Decks for half the price and everyone would have loved it.
So I kinda think the new Stargate show would have sucked and it's better to just give up on the whole thing. I haven't finished Atlantis yet, so I've still got new Stargate to watch.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 5 pts · 69d
And to elaborate upon the poor story consistency:
Jay-Den on the first day of class: I don't want to die valiantly, I want to live valiantly!
Darem on the first day of class: Look at me, I'm the leader of the jerk squad!
Jay-Den when he gets his own episode: I'm such a bad warrior, I haven't reconciled my upbringing with my personality yet.
Darem when he gets his own episode: Before I joined Starfleet I was a timid friendless geek, but I think I'm actually a confident asshole on the inside.
Both of these episodes are great stories in isolation, but the problem is that these characters were introduced to us as their older fully realised selves, and then we watched them get retconned to less realised people and organically develop into their starting portrayals. The stories are robbed of weight because they're solving problems created by a retcon.