# Stargate SG-1 Canceled. There is Hope **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692 "2006-08-22T03:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/1 "2006-08-22T03:04:30Z")
[http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate\_sg-1i\_cancelled\_iatlan.shtml](http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg-1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml) > [@](#): > > The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show’s milestone two-hundredth episode on Friday. [http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper\_isg-1i\_will\_go\_on.shtml](http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1i_will_go_on.shtml) > [@](#): > > Don’t count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series (story), the show’s producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively. I’m sorry. I don’t have much to say. Sci-Fi did the same thing to Farscape… they’ve shredded the seasons for the last two years… But SG-1 is as important to MGM as the Bond series is, I’ve heard someone say. So… well, we’ll see, won’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/2 "2006-08-22T03:27:55Z")
It had a ten-season run, which is pretty damn good by almost any yardstick. Plus, Stargate Atlantis is still around. I’m glad to hear that they want to continue the franchise in some way. We’ll see what develops. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/3 "2006-08-22T05:55:30Z")
Let’s not forget that SciFi _did_ save Stargate … after Cinemax tired of it. I agree that ten years was enough. They could have ended it well with the “Invasion Earth” episode, where O’Neill bit the big one running the big weapon. But they had to milk it. The show has nowhere left to go. How many times can we have SGC and its alien friends face and defeat yet another galaxy-wide, seemingly invincible foe? Enough. ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/4 "2006-08-22T10:26:11Z")
SG got old quick. After O’neil left it turned to crap. Atlantis was cool at first but it’s the same old thing. Sorry, I tried to like it and did for awhile but the episodes were just too redundant. and bringing in what’s their names from farscape…It would’ve been better if they’d have stayed in character as arin and john. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/5 "2006-08-22T11:07:29Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] Let’s not forget that SciFi _did_ save Stargate … after Cinemax tired of it. . [/QUOTE] Wasn’t it Showtime? Or do I recall incorrectly? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/6 "2006-08-22T11:35:09Z")
I really don’t understand the fan uproar. It had a good run and it is getting long in the tooth. As much as I liked Stargate: SG1 back in the day the new episodes after the defeat of the Gua’old (sp?) just seem like re-hashes of the earlier episodes but with a different bad guy. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/7 "2006-08-22T14:44:07Z")
I think that you’re correct … Showtime hosted SG during its first five seasons. Either way, SciFi gave it five or so more good years, when it really should have departed at around season seven. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/8 "2006-08-22T14:49:13Z")
Say what you want, any show that gives me more of Amanda Tapping in all her blonde tousled glory is ok with me. In fact they could just have an hour of her walking around in undress greens and I’d be just fine with it:) For like minded Samantha Carter fans, check out " sam\_daily " on LJ. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/9 "2006-08-22T15:11:41Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] I really don’t understand the fan uproar. It had a good run and it is getting long in the tooth. As much as I liked Stargate: SG1 back in the day the new episodes after the defeat of the Gua’old (sp?) just seem like re-hashes of the earlier episodes but with a different bad guy. [/QUOTE] But compared to the rest of what passes for science fiction on TV, I would prefer SG1 rehashes. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/10 "2006-08-22T16:18:03Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] I really don’t understand the fan uproar. It had a good run and it is getting long in the tooth. As much as I liked Stargate: SG1 back in the day the new episodes after the defeat of the Gua’old (sp?) just seem like re-hashes of the earlier episodes but with a different bad guy. [/QUOTE] I would’ve agreed with you a couple of seasons ago. RDA had pretty much checked out and not much was going on. But I’ve really enjoyed the additions of Cameron and Vala (Ben Browder and Claudia Black) and I think the cast has new energy. I’d like to see another couple of seasons. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-canceled-there-is-hope/369692/11 "2006-08-22T17:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=tremorviolet] I would’ve agreed with you a couple of seasons ago. RDA had pretty much checked out and not much was going on. But I’ve really enjoyed the additions of Cameron and Vala (Ben Browder and Claudia Black) and I think the cast has new energy. I’d like to see another couple of seasons. [/QUOTE] I agree, except for the Vala part – just doesn’t do anything for me on any level. Unlike most people I never saw this series til it got to SciFi channel – so, like the old add says, if you’ve not seen it before, it’s new to you. I enjoy it, and SG-A, because they are fun action adventure fantasy – something we don’t have nearly enough of on the tube for my money.