More Stargate?!?!!
Nov. 19th, 2025 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverAbsolute total coincidence.
My husband wrenched his knee and aggravated the tendonitis in his arm a couple of weeks ago (not in the same incident; they just happened with a day of each other), so he was looking for things to do that he could do sitting in one place but not at his computer (which is what aggravated his tendonitis). We got into a discussion about some event in Stargate SG-1, which we found was in the second episode of the fourth season, so we decided to watch the episode to answer whatever the question was.
Hey, that's a great thing to do that's sitting in one place and doesn't use your arm! So, once the episode was over and we found that we enjoyed it more than we had anticipated, we watched the next one. And the next one. And the next one...
Basically, we've been chain-watching SG-1 for the past week or so, and we're now near the end of season 6. It's twenty-six episodes per season, so we really are watching a lot. And it's been awesome! It's been a while since we rewatched SG-1, so though we're able to figure out what each episode will be from the first thirty seconds (and we've been racing each other, who figures it out first), it's been really fun seeing all the details again. Still lots of <3 for O'Neill, Teal'c, Daniel, Dr. Fraiser, General Hammond, and especially Jonas (we're in his single season now, and I still prefer him over Daniel). Sam is still an annoying caricature of female empowerment, but not so bad when you're expecting it. Oh, and Maybourne! Probably one of the best character development arcs ever!
Speaking of Maybourne, my husband has been reading the r/stargate sub, though I think he's always been following it, but only now he's telling me about it because we're watching the show. He says that there's a movement of "Maybourne did nothing wrong," which is awesome. I mean, they're wrong -- Maybourne did a hell of a lot wrong -- but it's nice to see that lots of people recognize that he's an amazing character.
Anyway, so we were on a road trip today (overnighting in the nearby city) and silence fell in the car for a little bit, so my husband pulled out his phone and checked Reddit, and he discovered that just today, they announced a new Stargate series! Omg!
There isn't much info on it yet. It's being produced by Prime Video (which is good for us, as we don't subscribe to anything else). It's not a reboot, but a continuation (so, much like 2005 Doctor Who). The showrunner is one of the writers that was involved in all three SG series, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. No description of the show or cast list was released, though one of the old showrunners said that he's seen the script for the pilot and it will be just like the old shows, focused on exploration and human spirit. So, I'm expecting late 2027 at the earliest, more likely mid-2028.
We've been talking all day about what this show could possibly be about. The thing about all of the old SG series, they were all about humans going out with current-day technologies and exploring a universe that's so much more advanced than they were. The stories, then, were that humans were the underdogs, hopelessly outclassed, but able to find solutions to the problems because of their determination and cleverness.
However, SG-1 and Atlantis (I've never seen Universe, so I don't know about that) pretty much ended with killing off all of the powerful races in the show (the Ori, the Asgard, and the Replicators are all dead, as well as all the powerful Go'auld) and landing the most advanced Ancient city/spaceship ever in the ocean outside San Francisco Bay. The writers are going to have to come up with some pretty amazing BS to challenge the humans, who had already started to build their own spaceships and weapons at the time and have now had fifteen years to incorporate Ancient tech.
We're optimistic, though. All we really want is a "go explore a new planet, get in trouble, save the day" show. If they can do that, we'll be happy.
My husband wrenched his knee and aggravated the tendonitis in his arm a couple of weeks ago (not in the same incident; they just happened with a day of each other), so he was looking for things to do that he could do sitting in one place but not at his computer (which is what aggravated his tendonitis). We got into a discussion about some event in Stargate SG-1, which we found was in the second episode of the fourth season, so we decided to watch the episode to answer whatever the question was.
Hey, that's a great thing to do that's sitting in one place and doesn't use your arm! So, once the episode was over and we found that we enjoyed it more than we had anticipated, we watched the next one. And the next one. And the next one...
Basically, we've been chain-watching SG-1 for the past week or so, and we're now near the end of season 6. It's twenty-six episodes per season, so we really are watching a lot. And it's been awesome! It's been a while since we rewatched SG-1, so though we're able to figure out what each episode will be from the first thirty seconds (and we've been racing each other, who figures it out first), it's been really fun seeing all the details again. Still lots of <3 for O'Neill, Teal'c, Daniel, Dr. Fraiser, General Hammond, and especially Jonas (we're in his single season now, and I still prefer him over Daniel). Sam is still an annoying caricature of female empowerment, but not so bad when you're expecting it. Oh, and Maybourne! Probably one of the best character development arcs ever!
Speaking of Maybourne, my husband has been reading the r/stargate sub, though I think he's always been following it, but only now he's telling me about it because we're watching the show. He says that there's a movement of "Maybourne did nothing wrong," which is awesome. I mean, they're wrong -- Maybourne did a hell of a lot wrong -- but it's nice to see that lots of people recognize that he's an amazing character.
Anyway, so we were on a road trip today (overnighting in the nearby city) and silence fell in the car for a little bit, so my husband pulled out his phone and checked Reddit, and he discovered that just today, they announced a new Stargate series! Omg!
There isn't much info on it yet. It's being produced by Prime Video (which is good for us, as we don't subscribe to anything else). It's not a reboot, but a continuation (so, much like 2005 Doctor Who). The showrunner is one of the writers that was involved in all three SG series, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. No description of the show or cast list was released, though one of the old showrunners said that he's seen the script for the pilot and it will be just like the old shows, focused on exploration and human spirit. So, I'm expecting late 2027 at the earliest, more likely mid-2028.
We've been talking all day about what this show could possibly be about. The thing about all of the old SG series, they were all about humans going out with current-day technologies and exploring a universe that's so much more advanced than they were. The stories, then, were that humans were the underdogs, hopelessly outclassed, but able to find solutions to the problems because of their determination and cleverness.
However, SG-1 and Atlantis (I've never seen Universe, so I don't know about that) pretty much ended with killing off all of the powerful races in the show (the Ori, the Asgard, and the Replicators are all dead, as well as all the powerful Go'auld) and landing the most advanced Ancient city/spaceship ever in the ocean outside San Francisco Bay. The writers are going to have to come up with some pretty amazing BS to challenge the humans, who had already started to build their own spaceships and weapons at the time and have now had fifteen years to incorporate Ancient tech.
We're optimistic, though. All we really want is a "go explore a new planet, get in trouble, save the day" show. If they can do that, we'll be happy.
