I remember when I used to stare at the expensive box sets of SG1, wishing I hadn’t become a freelance writer so I could afford to buy them. Now, of course, you just stream the thing.
But it’s kinda sobering to think it’s been a quarter century since the TV series spun up, or rather spun off the movie. As Inverse points out, it was a bold choice for the producers.
…while the first Stargate did decently at the box office in 1994, it was a critical failure. To spin a TV show off from it — let alone a good one — was unusual. Imagine if The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior wasn’t a straight-to-DVD movie but somehow a successful TV show. Or if the very bad straight-to-video Starship Troopers sequels were instead weekly adventures. A TV sequel emerging several years after a movie, much less a TV sequel that’s good, was not a common occurrence.
I hadn’t thought about it until I read this piece, but Stargate was just as significant in kicking off the Golden Age of Television as Buffy or… wait for it… Melrose Place. It had season-long story arcs that still allowed for stand-alone episode development, and the characters all got these rich, dense personal histories that simply didn’t exist in TV writing earlier. (Tell me one thing about the Skipper or Gilligan before they got to the island).
I might do a rewatch, at least of my favourite episodes.
I remember watching the series fondly some years later when the whole arc had finished. A little sad that Stargate Universe never got more than a single season.
SG1 was, in fact, playing in the delivery room when my eldest was born (hey, it was a long labour, we were both bored, and it's the ideal thing for a labouring woman to drop in and out of as a distraction).
Apparently the rights have been picked up by Amazon, so I'm hopeful of a) easy streaming access soon and b) the pickup of the long-rumoured Next Stargate.
i'm currently stuck in a never ending loop of star trek and spinoffs. They never end. (although alleviating it with some lower decks is pretty funny seeing all the references they riff on from the originals)
As a Farscape fan I still have to rewatch the episode where they rift on other Science Fiction series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whfMMfR4KKw
I remember watching the series fondly some years later when the whole arc had finished. A little sad that Stargate Universe never got more than a single season.
I'll see you and raise you - our youngest ended being named Daniel.. We were watching an awful lot of SG1 at the time.....
First thing I did when I retired was watch all the seasons in a row and then the movies and finally the spin-offs
Good times.
I adored SG1, and loved Atlantis.
SG1 was, in fact, playing in the delivery room when my eldest was born (hey, it was a long labour, we were both bored, and it's the ideal thing for a labouring woman to drop in and out of as a distraction).
Apparently the rights have been picked up by Amazon, so I'm hopeful of a) easy streaming access soon and b) the pickup of the long-rumoured Next Stargate.
i'm currently stuck in a never ending loop of star trek and spinoffs. They never end. (although alleviating it with some lower decks is pretty funny seeing all the references they riff on from the originals)