LOL Videos of awesome

Yeah, but at the start of the trailer...



Those eyes... just... don't look right... not on Rogue...

I get that having your main character look like this...:



... for an entire film will be off-putting.

So...

I'm willing to reserve judgement until I go see it. And I do plan to go see it at the cinema.

 

Both, and yeah but nah, that ain't right either way.
I'm not a complete arse and will accept some change / artistic license, hell he changed over the years as new artists came and went, but it neds to be closer to the original for me, less confused, less soft, less a poster boy for a cosmetic and more https://2000ad.com/news/the-history-of-rogue-trooper/

 

had a feeling that would be in here, i for one am glad it reflects the source material more than the super serious and often bland look the franchise has taken on since the Oshii film of 95.

 

Tom Scott came up to the right end of the country.

 

I’ve been watching that via Nebula, damn good series.

 

oh sweet ****in merciful jesus, I can only get so erect.



and if you thought "hang on, thats familiar..."

 

As long as someone, at some point, dares to refuse Nicolai's batchall.

 

he is in it, and i think they've got the original voice actors from the show back.

 

Not “awesome”, but follows-up from a past post here…

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it’s gone.

Cancelled.

They had original writers and showrunners, an experienced and acclaimed team lined up, it was a multiple years-long project and not a flash in the pan, a writer’s room was set up in January, it was already moving into pre-production… Amazon had absolutely everything they needed to make a new Stargate series that would draw in the extremely dedicated fan base and build a brand new audience. But apparently “the new series’ vision and creative direction no longer aligned with Amazon’s programming strategy”.

So… loosely translated… “Let’s ruin Stargate like we ruined Tolkien with Rings of Power”.

I had high hopes for the Warhammer 40K series that Henry Cavill is working on with Amazon. I don’t now. But I at least know that Cavill cares enough about the source material to want to do a good job - that’s why he isn’t The Witcher any more. But I don’t see how you can “do a good job” when you’re working with Amazon.

 

As a fan of Clarkson's farm, and of Eddie hall's shenanigans i approve this

 

Honestly, I'm not unhappy about that.
Stargate by the end had gone pretty much as far as it could with the story, humanity (well, the USAF) had gone from tiny little explorers going out in to the universe 4 at a time and trying to not die, to an intergalactic super power with some of the most advanced starships in the setting and the collective knowledge of the two most powerful space faring races to ever exist.

There's literally nowhere a new series could go the original didn't go before it. So it would either be a reboot... and fail because the original team was perfectly cast and the new one couldn't possibly match it. Or it would try to remake itself for 'modern audiences,' and become a focus grouped sludge that resonates with nobody.

 

This

and after looking at what Nu-trek and Nu-warz had become, im kinda glad that we wont get a reboot, and by the sounds of some of the commentators it seems like the studio exects were trying to 'rings of power' the setting for 'modern audiences'
in universe with now Overpowered the humans had become it would be tough to create an antagonist that could pose any real threat to the humans without stranding them a la Universe did, and im still upset that we wont ever get a conclusion to that particular story, it was just finding its feet and getting decent when it got canned after losing too many viewers as the show spent half the first season bogged down in teen angst and melodrama and everyone blamed Universe for the cancellation of Atlantis, which is its own story ( TLDR MGM wanted Atlantis to go to the big screen like SG1 had but then just ran out of money )

 

Think you guys got the wrong end of the stick here, because it’s worse than you think.

We’re almost certainly going to get new “Stargate”, and it’s going to be the shitty “appeals to modern audiences” reboot, remake, re-imagined, etc, version.

The show that was cancelled was not planned to be a reboot, or a remake, or even pick up from SG-1, Atlantis, or Universe. It was planned to be a completely new story, with new characters, that was set in the same universe with the same canon.

That is what Amazon greenlit 6 months ago, and then decided it didn’t want when a bunch of new execs came in.

The now cancelled idea was being driven by Martin Gero, Brad Wright, and Joseph Mallozzi, producers & writers (what we’d now call “showrunners”) from SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe. They even had Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich on board, both of whom wrote the original film and the latter directed it. Gero had been working on the idea that became this new show for years. It was fully intended to be something that appealed to both new audiences, by being a new and original story, but also appeal to long-time fans, by being set in the same universe with a deep respect for the existing canon. All the stuff you mentioned regarding how the T’auri are now so incredibly advanced was taken into consideration. Something that someone like me, who’s been watching it for nearly 30 years, could point to and say “yup, this is Stargate, and this is what I’ve been waiting 15 years for”; but could also draw in a new audience that could pick up this series fresh. And once those latter people became fans, “hey, wanna see how this all got started? Well you’re in luck, there’s 350+ episodes across 20 seasons of 3 TV shows - knock yourself out…”

But now we’ll likely never know what could have been, because Amazon owns the franchise and Amazon want the shitty version instead.

 

Doing what Amazon does best - enshitification

 

Studio execs doing what studio execs do best: thinking they know what audiences want and steamrolling over the actual artists, writers, and other creatives actually working on the film/show.

The fact that it just happens to be Amazon in this case I think is more of a coincidence. Because I was watching this Corridor Crew video yesterday, which featured the guy who owned the special effects company who worked on the reboot of The Thing. They did a shitton of practical effects in camera, and the vast vast majority of their work didn’t make it into the final cut. It was always planned that there would be some CGI work, and that was accounted for in what they did and how it was filmed. But before the film released, they learned that studio execs had decreed that the practical effects work had to be replaced by CGI in order to “appeal to modern audiences”…