Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Stargate Rewatch

Note: This article was written in March but was not posted until after the event started.

The Stargate franchise is officially over. That is the sad news I have come to bear.

THE GOOD NEWS!
Gateworld, An online (mega) fan base of Stargate fans and ultimate resource guide for all things Stargate, announced that they will be hosting a "rewatch" event Starting August 1st. (well July 31st really) The objective, watch one episode of Stargate every weekday, watching one season of Stargate a month. This endeavor will take over a year since this encompasses the entire Stargate franchise. The idea is to have fun watching one of the most successful science fiction franchises on television. Not simply to watch it, but to experience the series, and perhaps get some of your friends into it as well. Gateworld also suggested being social in your viewing. Like Gateworld on Facebook and follow Gateworld on Twitter and you are set. Post when you are watching the episode on twitter using the hashtag #SGRewatch and Gateworld + The Stargate fan universe will know that you are preparing on one of the most daring fanventures i have heard of.

The schedule is as follows
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

FB post that needs addressing

This will be short:

"No, you did not just call my faith a myth. Don't compare Christianity to mythology. It's real and you better believe it or your going to get left behind."




I am sure the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Nords, Druids etc. said the same thing.
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Stargate Universe to air final 10 In March

Syfy announced that Stargate Universe, the third canon installment of Stargate, will air the final 10 episodes on March 7th at 10/9c after Being Human. After that the gate will close.

At least in the series sense.

Joseph Mallozzi (Pictured) stated on his blog that all hope for a third season is pretty much over. Instead they are looking into producing movies to finish off the series.

Keep a third season in the back burner. you have TEN episodes in a less competitive timeslot to air. There is some turnaround ability. Movies would be nice but I am still waiting on the new SG-1 movie and the first Atlantis movie, so I am not keeping my hopes up.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Caprica And Stargate Universe

2010 was not a nice year to Science Fiction Shows Caprica and Stargate Universe on the Syfy Network. After a scheduling shuffle in the fall due to an outrage of Caprica's extended break the show moved from January 2011 to October 2010. The problem?

CAPRICA
Well there are two. First, Caprica's ratings were good on Fridays and was the most successful cable show in its night let alone its own timeslot. When Caprica moved to Tuesdays this season it was up against some tough competition, Glee in a preceding timeslot, and The Good Wife and Sons Of Anarchy in its own timeslot. Second, Lack of advertising. the advertising that Caprica did get announced its return in January. It wasnt until about mid-September that Syfy announced that Caprica would return in early October. After the announcement of the date change there was almost no advertising or announcing that Caprica would come back so soon. The way the word got out was through Twitter. Alessandra Torresani, Sasha Roiz, and Esai Morales spearheaded the Caprica Is Back (#Capricaisback) campaign. flooding Twitter with statements that Caprica is Back leading it to become a trending topic.

After the announcement of Caprica's cancellation there was a huge backlash on Syfy's Facebook fan page with outraged fans. (Note: there are of course going to be angry people when a favorite show is cancelled.) People were cursing Syfy, calling it the Wrestling network and the sell out network. Even prompting people to make anti SyFy posters and logos. (Such like the one above). Operation Airlock was crated as a fan based boycott of the SyFy Network until Caprica is brought back or a proper resolution is made. Suffice to say that the project was partially successful until Friday when Sanctuary aired. The popularity of Sanctuary deterred OA members from continuing their campaign.

STARGATE UNIVERSE
When The Caprica dust finally settled Syfy Decided to throw another curve ball. Cancel Stargate Universe. Now to note that when Caprica's announcement was not taken well. Stargate Universe was even worse. The messages are still flowing even to this day. When Caprica was cancelled fear struck through the SGU fanbase starting a preemptive Save Stargate Universe campaign on Twitter as well as a SGU for Season 3 campaign. Despite the impressive numbers of participants Syfy Still cancelled it citing ratings. Again the same argument can be made that Tuesday is a tough night for Cable TV. with A Glee Predecessor and Raising Hope as its biggest competitor Stargate Universe kept what can be called impressive ratings for its situation. The thing is between the Save Stargate Universe Campaign and the support from OA. Stargate Universe does have a chance to come back since earlier Joeseph Malozzi announced that Stargate Universe is a 5 season story and the fact that the campaign is a little more organized than just Operation Airlock.

Save Stargate Universe had a Resurgence Event asking the fans to legally purchase Stargate Universe's midseason episode "Resurgence" providing links to all possible forms of purchase.

An interesting fact about SGU's cancellation is that No one from production knew. All of the actors, producers and writers were informed through Twitter by fans saying how disappointed they were and how sad they were for the loss completely confusing the actors. I have a feeling that that is going to hurt Syfy in a way that we do not know yet.
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Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy New Year: NSFW

Happy New Year from Ben's Blog
Courtesy: Caius Schneider & Tina Hadley
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