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[gategrrl]

It's all over my flist--Atlantis cancelled. After a five year run with a turnstile for the actors and halfway through a new set of producers, it was finally officially canned by SciFi.

Did you really want to continue twisting in the wind with the pallid story-lines, revolving cast, and improbable romantic relationships? Would it *really* be desirable to have it spiral down in quality even *more*?

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[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

If only Stargate SG-1 had been canned at that point.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

You mean after five seasons? Yeah, I think that would have been best, although season 6 is okay for the most part. I think those were left-over scripts from the Showtime era.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Too true. Woe.

[iloveatlantis.livejournal.com]

I can agree with you there.

[amycooper.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think after S5, they hand maybe what, five good episodes? Not even that?

By then they had already done some worrying things with Sam Carter, but hadn't completely destroyed her character yet. Looking back, it would have been for the best if SG1 was canned then.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Maybe roughly a dozen, if I want to be generous.

[nialla]

I think if SG-1 had ended at season five, Sam Carter wouldn't be as reviled in some quarters as she is now. TPTB had played with ship, but it hadn't yet become the carrot to dangle for attention.

Also, ending at season five would have kept Sci Fi out of the picture as far as producing new stuff. I don't think they were as bad as some networks on making demands, but then the current Boyz at Bridge were giving them the great tasting generic sci fi they wanted.