Stargate Atlantis Series Ending after this Season

[Hand of Evil]

Five seasons is the magic number for a show, it is something about rerun and profit. It also has a lot to due with "scale", how much everyone is paid, after that mark is reached it, the dollars start to add up. There is also contracts, actors don't want to get tied down to a show.

As far as SG:U, they could have just put Atlantis in space, it is a space ship!

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Five seasons is the magic number for a show, it is something about rerun and profit. It also has a lot to due with "scale", how much everyone is paid, after that mark is reached it, the dollars start to add up. There is also contracts, actors don't want to get tied down to a show.

As far as SG:U, they could have just put Atlantis in space, it is a space ship!

I know 5 years is the goal for rerun syndication. I thought though that actor contracts were for 7 years and this was the break point where shows either quit or thier costs go way up.

 

[Ranger REG]

I know 5 years is the goal for rerun syndication. I thought though that actor contracts were for 7 years and this was the break point where shows either quit or thier costs go way up.

Nope. Most actors enter into a contract of 5 years or less.

They'd like some leeway to negotiate for a higher pay when the contract expires. Either that or allow a point of departure for whatever reasons (like wanting a film career or a change of scenery).

 

[WhatGravitas]

Five seasons is the magic number for a show, it is something about rerun and profit.

Then... where was my fifth season of Farscape?

Anyway, I'm sad to see SG:A going, but the I'm only in the show for the characters, the Stargate stories are pretty bland, IMO. The writers are not very good at keeping stuff interesting - especially the myth parts of the story are rendered very mundane, discovered. Plus: Replicators. They make everything worse.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Then... where was my fifth season of Farscape?
Cheers, LT.

Made for TV movie...Peace Keeper War and actors moved to SG.

I know your pain, I was so frelling pissed at Sci-Fi for pulling the rug out on Farscape.

 

[Pyrex]

Stargate: Voyager?

That was exactly my thought on seeing the blurb.

Hopefully it won't suck.

*goes to IMDB to see if anyone has been cast yet*

 

[Ranger REG]

Then... where was my fifth season of Farscape?

Ask that in a new thread.

 

[kinem]

Anyway, I'm sad to see SG:A going, but the I'm only in the show for the characters, the Stargate stories are pretty bland, IMO. The writers are not very good at keeping stuff interesting - especially the myth parts of the story are rendered very mundane, discovered.

I agree. The show is still good, in part because McKay is a great character. But the plot has run out of steam. In the early seasons the big struggle to survive the wraith worked well, but the wraith are a joke now having been beaten in countless variations.

Nor would bringing in a new enemy, like SG1 did with the Ori, feel like anything more than an attempt to milk more episodes out of the same old formulas. Nor is there reason any longer to wonder what secrets of the SG universe Atlantis holds - we have seen evey sci-fi trope on the show already.

It has definately suffered from too many filler episodes and the inability for "epic plot arcs" to last more than 2-3 episodes before being totally resolved.

I don't think the show has enough to keep it going more seasons.

 

[Wycen]

Comparisons to Voyager aside, I am glad there will be another Stargate spinoff.

 

[Orius]

I agree. The show is still good, in part because McKay is a great character. But the plot has run out of steam. In the early seasons the big struggle to survive the wraith worked well, but the wraith are a joke now having been beaten in countless variations.

Yeah, I kind of feel the same way. I thought the show was great in Season 1, but I'm at the end of Season 3 now, and a lot of the episodes felt kind of bland and like the same old thing. The Wraith became even more irrelevant than the Goa'uld, and it's not really convincing. And while McKay and Sheppard seems to work well together, Teyla and Ronon kind of feel one-dimensional. It's possible that maybe some of the producers are getting a bit burned out.