Yeah I remember when Kotaku was posting bikini cosplay pics basically every day to get views, and then almost overnight it swapped to being anti-gamer.
Makes you feel old doesn’t it. I remember reading gaming magazines and the focus was on gaming and then it seemed at least every other issue was about girls in gaming
Well this is a hastily cobbled together shit-take of conjecture and misdirection.
The author starts by misreading a grassroots marketing launch as a statement of exclusive intent. Come on. Announcing a series TO a fandom alongside its community leaders is standard PR; it's not proof that the show was designed exclusively FOR fandom. In fact, it was made clear from the start that, first and foremost, the series would function as an accessible entry point for new viewers...while still respecting canon. And, by the way, “Respecting canon” does not mean “requiring new viewers to be familiar with 350+ hours of existing Stargate programming” as this article implies.
The author proceeds to support their point by launching into fan fiction: "No plot details were revealed about the scrapped show, but I can easily imagine…” And they certainly do. What follows is a parade of clichés, a generic legacy-sequel checklist that the author has conjured up from nothing and pinned to the new show as predictive evidence.
Then comes the claim that Starfleet: Academy failed because the showrunners: "focused too much on paying tribute to the series' past.” Uh, wut? Yes, Starfleet: Academy did receive a fair amount of criticism, but strict adherence to canon wasn't on the list of grievances. This reads like a comment from someone who likely never even watched the show, much less perused the fan response.
They state: "Rebooting the cannon also would let the new Stargate showrunner bring back the Goa'uld, the franchise's most iconic villains…” No, it wouldn’t. Know why? Because the goa’uld... ARE CANON!!!!
The article concludes with a disconnected meditation on an old Stargate storyline with no relation to either the new show or the author’s own argument.
I want to say it was written by A.I., but surely A.I. would display more logical consistency than this.
anubis was supposed to be the biggest and baddest of goa'uld, literally ascended... he was never really defeated, but other than him, the goa'uld were massively outclassed by the villains that would later be faced.
replicators were defeated, but they're a trope that could certainly re-emerge as other civilizations independently invent autonomous exploration
ori were the biggest baddest enemy ever, and yet they were defeated by daniel jackson and the ancients.
wraith were a side show, slightly more powerful than goa'uld, not as powerful as ori.
the biggest villains of SGA and SGU were their story's downfall... that it wasn't other species... simply that they were always fighting for survival with the city/ship. it'd be one thing if they were cast onto a planet's wilderness. but no one can relate to survival in a random super-ship. it's not even interesting. if SGA team wasn't fighting the city all the time, they easily could have obliterated the wraith.
SGU's visual style was really good, but the writing was bland. they focused much too hard on just baseline survival with the ship.
the direct-to-dvd situation really fucked them over. brad wright and rob cooper had season 11 already written, but scifi was rebranding to cheaper productions like fucking WWE wrestling. apple tried pick it up, but scifi wouldn't let them, and scifi demanded enforcement of the non-compete that wouldn't let them do it elsewhere. the only loophole was direct-to-dvd, and MGM still owned the underlying rights, so they pulled the trigger.
continuum was a weak wrap-up of baal and the time travel trope. ark of truth was supposed to be season 11, and they got stuck compacting it down into a single movie.
nothing they've talked about addresses any of it. like if they're trying to cater to new fans, why bring back the goa'uld at all, and unless somehow its the return of anubis or a bigger badder goa'uld, old fans won't care.
Much like Sony is now physically incapable of not centering women in every game they make, Amazon is physically incapable of accurately or respectfully adapting or reviving a beloved IP. Feminist Marxist inversion is now 100% baked into the process.
I’m old enough to remember when polygon catered to actual nerds
I must have missed that weekend.
Years ago. And maybe it was called something else and then bought out
Yeah I remember when Kotaku was posting bikini cosplay pics basically every day to get views, and then almost overnight it swapped to being anti-gamer.
Makes you feel old doesn’t it. I remember reading gaming magazines and the focus was on gaming and then it seemed at least every other issue was about girls in gaming
Response from Joseph Mallozzi, writer and producer on multiple Stargate series https://x.com/BaronDestructo/status/2062286728095052128
Well this is a hastily cobbled together shit-take of conjecture and misdirection.
The author starts by misreading a grassroots marketing launch as a statement of exclusive intent. Come on. Announcing a series TO a fandom alongside its community leaders is standard PR; it's not proof that the show was designed exclusively FOR fandom. In fact, it was made clear from the start that, first and foremost, the series would function as an accessible entry point for new viewers...while still respecting canon. And, by the way, “Respecting canon” does not mean “requiring new viewers to be familiar with 350+ hours of existing Stargate programming” as this article implies.
The author proceeds to support their point by launching into fan fiction: "No plot details were revealed about the scrapped show, but I can easily imagine…” And they certainly do. What follows is a parade of clichés, a generic legacy-sequel checklist that the author has conjured up from nothing and pinned to the new show as predictive evidence.
Then comes the claim that Starfleet: Academy failed because the showrunners: "focused too much on paying tribute to the series' past.” Uh, wut? Yes, Starfleet: Academy did receive a fair amount of criticism, but strict adherence to canon wasn't on the list of grievances. This reads like a comment from someone who likely never even watched the show, much less perused the fan response.
They state: "Rebooting the cannon also would let the new Stargate showrunner bring back the Goa'uld, the franchise's most iconic villains…” No, it wouldn’t. Know why? Because the goa’uld... ARE CANON!!!!
The article concludes with a disconnected meditation on an old Stargate storyline with no relation to either the new show or the author’s own argument.
I want to say it was written by A.I., but surely A.I. would display more logical consistency than this.
NPC brain is inferior to AI. AI is at least race realist.
even then, it's dumb...
SGU's visual style was really good, but the writing was bland. they focused much too hard on just baseline survival with the ship.
the direct-to-dvd situation really fucked them over. brad wright and rob cooper had season 11 already written, but scifi was rebranding to cheaper productions like fucking WWE wrestling. apple tried pick it up, but scifi wouldn't let them, and scifi demanded enforcement of the non-compete that wouldn't let them do it elsewhere. the only loophole was direct-to-dvd, and MGM still owned the underlying rights, so they pulled the trigger.
continuum was a weak wrap-up of baal and the time travel trope. ark of truth was supposed to be season 11, and they got stuck compacting it down into a single movie.
nothing they've talked about addresses any of it. like if they're trying to cater to new fans, why bring back the goa'uld at all, and unless somehow its the return of anubis or a bigger badder goa'uld, old fans won't care.
Much like Sony is now physically incapable of not centering women in every game they make, Amazon is physically incapable of accurately or respectfully adapting or reviving a beloved IP. Feminist Marxist inversion is now 100% baked into the process.
No one will admit that woke is what kills series because everyone is woke.
Stargate universe was canceled way too early JUST FINISH THAT STORY HOW HARD IS THAT
Sam Nelson is a dumb cunt lmao
Starfleet Academy failed because the scripts were slap-on-forehead dumb and slathered all over with DEI.