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I think I've calmed down enough to post about this but we shall see...
Usually I'm on top of these things but I've been slacking lately on keeping up with news about my favorite shows, for some reason I was caught up in politics. So Friday night while watching Stargate Atlantis they have a promo for upcoming episodes and I hear them say they are the final episodes. I'm all WTF??? THEY'RE CANCELING IT??? And I hit the internet. Yes indeed, it's been canceled. SciFi is pointing the finger at MGM. It was MGM's decision to pull the plug and SciFi didn't have a say. However we're supposed to be placated with a new Stargate show that starts filming in early 2009 called Stargate Universe which sounds basically like a sexed up teeny bopper show if you ask me. Bunch of 20 somethings flying around in a ship. Sorry guys, that's not Stargate anything, that's more like Starship Troopers.
SciFi can't blame this totally on MGM though. Apparently when SciFi pulled the plug on SG:1 they really made sure they killed it good. MGM wanted to continue the show on another network and SciFi had a cow about it saying their first run rights were permanent even though they didn't want to show them. That left MGM with their only choice in wrapping up the show as the DVD movies they have released for SG:1. Those have apparently made them enough money to decide to give SciFi a taste of their own medicine and pull the plug on the Atlantis series and make DVD movies instead. Some snarky asshole at MGM then took one look at the crap SciFi has left for programming and offered them another steaming pile of shit with the Stargate label slapped on it to replace it. HAHA Revenge for killing SG:1!
Gone are the days when I looked forward to tuning in to SciFi to watch my favorite shows... They've all been canceled. After they finish up Battlestar Galactica sometime next spring I'll never tune my television to that channel again.
Oh, yeah, BSG lovers, final season starts January 16... right after Stargate Atlantis ends it's run.
Usually I'm on top of these things but I've been slacking lately on keeping up with news about my favorite shows, for some reason I was caught up in politics. So Friday night while watching Stargate Atlantis they have a promo for upcoming episodes and I hear them say they are the final episodes. I'm all WTF??? THEY'RE CANCELING IT??? And I hit the internet. Yes indeed, it's been canceled. SciFi is pointing the finger at MGM. It was MGM's decision to pull the plug and SciFi didn't have a say. However we're supposed to be placated with a new Stargate show that starts filming in early 2009 called Stargate Universe which sounds basically like a sexed up teeny bopper show if you ask me. Bunch of 20 somethings flying around in a ship. Sorry guys, that's not Stargate anything, that's more like Starship Troopers.
SciFi can't blame this totally on MGM though. Apparently when SciFi pulled the plug on SG:1 they really made sure they killed it good. MGM wanted to continue the show on another network and SciFi had a cow about it saying their first run rights were permanent even though they didn't want to show them. That left MGM with their only choice in wrapping up the show as the DVD movies they have released for SG:1. Those have apparently made them enough money to decide to give SciFi a taste of their own medicine and pull the plug on the Atlantis series and make DVD movies instead. Some snarky asshole at MGM then took one look at the crap SciFi has left for programming and offered them another steaming pile of shit with the Stargate label slapped on it to replace it. HAHA Revenge for killing SG:1!
Gone are the days when I looked forward to tuning in to SciFi to watch my favorite shows... They've all been canceled. After they finish up Battlestar Galactica sometime next spring I'll never tune my television to that channel again.
Oh, yeah, BSG lovers, final season starts January 16... right after Stargate Atlantis ends it's run.
