Stargate Atlantis Cancelled

August 22nd, 2008

I woke up this morning to some really unexpected news, unexpected, unwelcome and generally confusing (actually more than one piece of news but the other piece is unrelated).   Apparently they are cancelling Stargate:Atlantis in favour of making tv movies.

It was just hitting its stride!?   It feels like Enterprise all over again.   Show finally starts showing a little more promise and then they pull the plug.

SGA and I had our differences, there were a lot of filler episodes, but all the pieces were there.   Great cast, pretty good special effects (great for TV) and a premise that I thought interesting.   They just had to write more compelling stuff on a regular basis, because when an episode was good it was bloody good!

It’s OK though, the studio tells us, because they’re going to make ‘movies’ and tell SGA stories in a larger canvas.   If the SG1 ‘movies’ are anything to go off I look forward to one or two long episodes in the coming year.

Wasn’t it SciFi who cancelled Farscape?

With BSG folding too I’m not sure where this leaves television science fiction at this time.   I guess Fringe and Dollhouse are coming but it’s not really the same as a space show.   Maybe I’ll go watch some Eureka.

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