DonTadow said:
Google stargate cancelation and you'll find articles that talk about a 30 percent drop in ratings being the cause of the cancelation. IF you read the scfi article you just get a press release spin but other news articles indicate this was not an "ending of the series" this is a cancellation. Cancellation means that the show wanted to go on but was cut. Regardless of waht the actors say (saving face) not too many knew this was coming, especially after the 200th episode. I've ready far too many press releases in my life to fall for spin, thats why I get my news from other sources.
Like I said, they were saying this well before any hint of cancellation news. It was at ComicCon. I was in the room in the press pit. Nobody was saving face, as there was nothing to save face FROM. The actors didn't know this was coming (why would they, actors don't make those decisions), but they did make it clear the show was getting a bit tiring, they had personal lives that wanted to get back to, they had planned on cancelling a while ago to make movies, and it was odd that the show was even on the air this year.
How are the situations different between farscape and stargate? Both fell into second tier status on scifi after a new show.
Farscape never had first tier status to begin with. SG-1 was originally slated to be cancelled before BSG had even aired (it was renewed, hence the current plot was taken out of the movie script and put into the show). How are these at all the same?
Both have been reported to have escalating costs.
SG-1 had decreasing costs actually.
If you recall, last year the writers explained that they had to use a number of box episodes (everything inside of the normal set) because their budget was too much.
That is not accurate.
Just because they were canceled in different years does not mean that their situations was different. Actually, both shows were on five years, which I'm betting is the cut off point for scifi.
How about Farscape had bad ratings and high costs, while SG-1 had tired actors and an exhaustion of ideas and crew. Ten years is a long time for any show, mucy less a sci-fi show. Everyone knows SG-1 was on it's last legs for years, ever since Richard Dean Anderson left (and phoned in an entire season). It's nothing at all like the Farscape situation.
You had to know something was up when scifi canceled the stargate marathon on mondays and replaced it with dark angel.
How does that in any way relate to anything? Usually, stations play MORE of the reruns when they are cancelling a show, not less.
As for the movie, its far cheaper to make a made for TV movie
It's a made for movie theatres movie from what they are saying. And it is FAR more expensive.
than to make 26 episodes of a series with different sets, union workers and tv execs.
SG-1 was made in Vancouver Canada, not Hollywood (not SAG - and I know because my wife is a Canadian, and an actor, and checked it out at one time when she was considering auditions). It was quite cheap to make this show. And their sets had be fixed for about 3 years now. This was not about costs.
Heck, for the cast its no difference than a good two part episode. Heck its far cheaper to make a low budget scifi movie than it is to make stargate.
No, it isn't. And, I think you're just throwing your opinion out there and disgusing it as facts. You might want to think the situations are the same, but they are not. And you have yet to offer a single link to anything that even hints the two situations are similar.
If you want to be bitter about this cancellation in the same way you were bitter about Farscape, fair enough. But don't try and pretend you have some inside line to proof that you know for sure the situations are identical and you know why decisions were made, when all you are doing is wildly speculating.
Me, I am just going off of what the cast and production crew were saying before this announcement (and before they knew about it) - that the show was on it's last legs, that they never expected it to last for these last couple of seasons anyway, that they always intended to end it and move into movies long ago, and that a lot of the cast and crew are a bit tired and wanting to pay more attention to their personal lives.
That's proof enough to me that the reasons are different than what happened with Farscape.
