Well Bite me.
Just when I get comfortable with Stargate Atlantis after losing Stargate SG-1, they go and pull the plug on it. Yep, it’s been announced today that this, the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis, is its final season on television.
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With the culmination of this fifth season, Stargate Atlantis will air it’s 100th episode titled “Enemy at the Gate.” The 100th episode will air in January of 2009.
They’ve added to the cancellation message that the Sci-Fi Channel has green-lit a two-hour movie based on the series. It has yet to to be titled, but the film will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.
The movie will follow up on the final season of the series.
The successes of the previous two Stargate movies, The Ark of Truth and Continuum have been successful enough to generate additional plans to continue to expand on the SG-1 and Atlantis franchises.
Despite this being the last season of the folk we’ve started to get used to following, like Rodney McKay getting braver, Woolsey developing into a better base leader and what not, we have to start bidding farewell.
Oh no, with Ronon going away, my wife is going to get very grumpy.
I noticed that in the press release, they didn’t touch on the issue, maybe hoping to generate more of a sales momentum,
BUT (yeah, isn’t there always a “but” in there somewhere?), back in early April I had reported on a new series being developed called Stargate: Universe. It was created by Stargate: Atlantis co-creators Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper.
In SG: Universe, the series will take place on a ship that was part of an Ancient experiment that involved two ships. One that automatically populated the universe with Stargates, the other to follow up and explore.
So Stargate will move onward, continuing the mythos. And like I hoped in my other post, I hope they twist it up and make it unique versus the usual story outlines they’ve been presenting to us.
Image and News Source: Gateworld
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I had totally forgotten about this thread. I had come across an article on scifi.com and thought it would be great to post it on Screen Rant. Vic had to remind me Bruce already posted it. I think a Wraith must have sucked all the juice out of me and that’s why I can’t remember a fracking thing!
That’s it I’m D-O-N-E.
I have avoided buying or renting the other “closures” for the 1st series as I viewed them as pure $$$$$$ grabs & so I will also do with this.
I already pay for my tv access via my DishNetwork pkg which includes the Sci-Fi Channel so if the “closures” don’t show-up on my tv then I won’t see them.
If I had not already been an Atlantis watcher when they pulled this “closure” crap with the 1st show I wouldn’t have watched the 2nd. And now since they pulled this $ grab crap again BUT this time BEFORE the next series starts then I’m NOT going to watch the 3rd. Screw-em!
Star Trek folks never pulled this (which is a series of series that Stargate has stolen story ideas from MANY times, BTW) $ grab crap by trying to “blackmail” ppl into paying $ to see movies for “closure”. ST did their closures on TV (well, except the original but that WAS canceled B/C of ratings) for their series & the movies were BONUSES NOT “CLOSURES”.
LONG LIVE TORCHWOOD!
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are you freaking kidding me? this is the only time i get to sit down and watch tv, and they have the nerve to pull it? Can’t we petition it or something? I mean seriously, i think if scifi pulls this show, the channel might have a hard time getting ratings…does that make sense? this is stupid!!!! they cant pull the series!!!!!!!!!!
Hell just watched the last 2 episodes of the last season of Atlantis.
5×19 Was really ridiculous having a Wraith lose in Vegas or something. Besides the lack of fictional coolness this episode should have been used to make more of the last episode. Would have liked to see the people of the earth finally included in all the space fairing things.
As a stargate universe earthling I would be getting more and more mad of the fact they keep all of it hidden. Atlantis should never have been cloaked at the last moment.
This sudden ending of Atlantis sucks. Now there is no more quality sci-fi. Only low budget stuff which is amusing but not great.
Maybe they could do some remakes of older great shows like:
- Earth Final Conflict
- Space: Above and Beyond
- Sliders
- The Visitor
- Odyssey 5
- Threshold
To name a few.
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