Daniel Butler
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They should just go public (correct me if they are publicly owned) and let the stockholders vote on shit like that.
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Omega, while I enjoyed the movie I am commenting on the stuffing of a season in to a tiny little space or air time.
Well, did you ever see the NBC Universal screens with NBC's little three tone theme on Sci-Fi?
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: They've aired, what, all of five episodes? Six? Not exactly a stealth cancellation.
Yeah, but how much further are they into the season's production? Over at GateWorld (note: SPOILERS!), they've got listings all the way through episode 17 (out of 20).
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I think what Sol means is that they're not waiting until the end of the season to tell the production folks at SG1, "Hey, ya'll are costing more than you're bringing in, and frankly, you're kind of stagnant. Get lost."
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It wont come to that- not without massive interference from ci-Fi to boost ratings (maybe bring some WRESTELING in to the show, Ron!).
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: AndrewR --
I think what Sol means is that they're not waiting until the end of the season to tell the production folks at SG1, "Hey, ya'll are costing more than you're bringing in, and frankly, you're kind of stagnant. Get lost."
OK, even still they've planned for an arc for another year - so all the stories are pretty much planned for season 10 - they need to have season 11 to wrap up.
PLUS - they are still going ahead with BSG: Caprica??!?!
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quote: PLUS - they are still going ahead with BSG: Caprica??!?!
Well, as they also said, it's because the actors' pay also is going up. And I guess there comes some point where they figure, it's enough. (Dunno how the contracts figure in there.) It's understandable, I'm not complaining about that. TV is still of course a business, not a charity. But I really still wish that they'd respect their producers and give more notice... saying "you get one more year, then that's it."
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The biggest problem for any sci-fi show, IMO, is that they cost a lot more to produce than just about any other genre out there. That tends to show up on the pennypinchers' radar quite often. SG-1 did initially keep the cost down by using current military gear and the frequent Vancouver-class planet, but I would imagine the cost has grown over the years with all the new sets and effects.
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Also, and here I guess I am being snarky, but I think it is also true: it seems to me that every SG-1 Big Bad is ultimately done in by a last-minute superweapon in the course of a single episode.
The show isn't (or doesn't seem to me to be) particularly arcy, even when they are in the middle of an arc. The situations change rapidly, rather than being drawn out in the manner of, say, Battlestar Galactica or Lost. For instance, that one Replicator kid wasn't in many episodes before being replaced by Robot Carter, who herself was only in two. Or was it three? Maybe the latter was a two-parter, but anyway it seems to me that she was introduced in one episode (I am not counting that brief end-of-the-show first appearance.) and then was destroyed in her next appearance.
That isn't a complaint, by the way, or rather it isn't necessarily a complaint. There were times when I wished they would do more with some villain or concept that they seemed to use up very quickly. But my point is they don't usually take much time to resolve plots.
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