With Star Trek thriving in its renaissance, what’s holding Stargate back from its own rebirth?
Is fan interest too low, or are tangled rights keeping the gate shut, as it were?
With Star Trek thriving in its renaissance, what’s holding Stargate back from its own rebirth?
Is fan interest too low, or are tangled rights keeping the gate shut, as it were?
I’m curious what a new Stargate show would even look like. The strongest part of Stargate’s identity was modern earth interacting with the scifi stuff out there. Throughout the shows, earth kept unlocking more of the XCOM tech tree until it was finally granted Asgard knowledge. SGU was able to somewhat sidestep this by mostly being isolated from earth, but a new show would have to deal with the fact earth (or at least the governments of earth) have had access to advanced alien technology for decades.
A new show could lean into that, but to me that kind of takes away what is special about Stargate and just turns it into another space opera. A new show could also hit a big reset button by denying earth access to the Asgard knowledge again and somehow taking away a bunch of the backup knowledge to de-power earth, but that route has the danger of feeling cheap and having details not make sense.
The obvious answer is reboot. Edit: to be clear I mean their answer is reboot, not mine.
fuck no. Not everything needs rebooting. If they don’t want to continue the series that’s one thing, but I don’t want a darker, slower, mumblier, grittier reboot, that tries to teach me a lesson after each episode, that will probably make Teal’c into a famous stand-up comedian to subvert fan expectations for a familiar yet fresh feel.
Reboots are usually depressing af
A choice which also has many downsides.
It just seems really difficult to envision a way to put Stargate back on TV that isn’t somewhere between underwhelming to full on disaster.