Season 7 is a "GO"/Shanks' return

[Garron]

Season 7

Will there be a season 7?

Any information about this matter will be appreciated.

 

[Garron]

Season 7

Will there be a seventh Season?

Any information out there would be appreciated.

 

[summershake]

All we know is that they are considering a seventh season at the moment. Brad Wright said the topic is in discussion right now, but whatever happens, he will not be on board if they decide to shoot one. If that happened, the feature film wouldn't be shot after season six as planned, but a year later after season seven.
He also said that the writers and producers will have to know if there'll be one more season really soon, because they'd have to change the plot-lines of the last episodes then. Daniel would most likely descend at the end of season six so his character can be part of the movie, but with another season all that will change.

 

[spookypumpkin]

keep an eye on www.gateworld.net they have spoilers and interviews w/ the writers, etc.

 

[webmouse]

To the best of my knowledge, S6 is it. When taping is finished, the team moves on to making the SG1 feature film.

 

[webmouse]

Originally posted by summershake
... the writers and producers will have to know if there'll be one more season really soon, because they'd have to change the plot-lines of the last episodes then. Daniel would most likely descend at the end of season six so his character can be part of the movie, but with another season all that will change.

There are times when I think TV land is being created out of pipe smoke . . . They just say these things to keep us confused, right?

 

[mystery]

Oh yeah, they do... *G*

Not sure if I want a season 7 though... Better to stop while the show is still good, and not get totally out of track like so many other shows.

 

[CynVision]

Originally posted by webmouse
To the best of my knowledge, S6 is it. When taping is finished, the team moves on to making the SG1 feature film.

I've heard this also, but it be a bit shortsighted for a network to axe a top rating show the first year they have it. I've heard some theorize the suits are watching the numbers carefully. The only problem is that if you can't get the cast you have now to work it because they're off doing a feature film, who do you cast to continue the series?

 

[skoon]

well I though RDA said Six is definatley his last season. Would anyone bother to continue without him?

 

[webmouse]

Originally posted by skoon
well I though RDA said Six is definatley his last season. Would anyone bother to continue without him?

With MS gone (well, mostly, anyway) and RDA saying 6 is enough, S7 is going to look more like a spin-off than a full inheritor of the first film and preceding 6 seasons. If such is the plan, then the remaining cast and the writers have an uneviable task before them.

 

[Garron]

Originally posted by CynVision
I've heard this also, but it be a bit shortsighted for a network to axe a top rating show the first year they have it. I've heard some theorize the suits are watching the numbers carefully. The only problem is that if you can't get the cast you have now to work it because they're off doing a feature film, who do you cast to continue the series?

You've made some interesting and insightful contributions Cynvision. How about introducing STARGATE 2010 or 2025, whereby some new friends have appeared and some older ones faded. Obviously Daniel, Jack, Sam, T'ealc, and Jonas have gone their separate ways, or have they?

How about introducing some new technology besides MP5, Zat Guns, and Staff Weapons? This could be new look for Stargate.

How about someone take the football and run with it? (you produce some of your own ideas!!)

 

[pamie]

I would love to see a season seven but a season six without Michael will be bad enough but a season without Richard Dean Im not sure how the fans would take that.
It would be great to see more of Sam and Teal'c but Im not sure there would be too much of a show without the main guy in it....IMHO

 

[skoon]

The adventures of Dr Carter & Dr Macay fighting it out amongst themselves...

 

[webmouse]

Sounds like we're headed for a sit-com

 

[Sphinx]

The comments made over at gateworld were probably made to gauge public opinion on a 7th season. I think most people have got used to the idea that the sixth is the last, including the actors.

There was a definite drive for a 6th season by fans, arcs were left unfinished etc etc. From what's been said so far in interviews to date it seems like the writers want to tie up all the loose ends enough to lead into a movie script and then the spinoff (Stargate : Atlantis). I haven't yet seen the same kind of drive for a 7th season as we had for the 6th (although I'm willing to see what happens later this season before making my own mind up).

It's interesting reading all the same, we'll have to wait and see.

Just as an after thought, I thought it odd that recently the TV Zone special on Stargate had cover text to the flavour of "Gating for the last time" for the Season 6 roundup.

 

[CynVision]

Yah. the seaQuest pitfall is exactly the one that would be a chore avoiding if they did do a season seven. (Although the virutal online seasons of seaQuest 2047 was quite cool, btw) My point is that there was such a backlash against loosing Michael Shanks, I think the series wouldn't recover it's ratings prowness should it completely replace the cast. The momentium of the show would be lost. I've long posted that if they wanted to continue SG-1 they should have been filtering people through in season 5, showing them off, judging who was a canadate to be picked up as a replacement team for SG-1. The series creators limited themselves to following SG-1 in this series by titleing it "Stargate SG-1." At the time in 1997 it made perfect sense. They didn't have delusions of a large fan following and franchise back then. They were out to do a TV show the likes of which hadn't been tackled in the US/Canada for many years. The spin-off was their bid to continue but it's looking like they'd never pull off doing a film and the spin-off at the same time because it bucks traditional TV and film making by trying to run two story lines and produce two products out of the same studio. If it has been done, I haven't heard of it.

heh "STARGATE 2010 or 2025, whereby some new friends have appeared and some older ones faded. " They actually seem to have the +25 years area covered with the new Stargate:Infinity animated series coming out in the fall.

I did have a small story line kicking around my head but it involves one of my site's fic characters rather heavily. Part of it that would be cool involved a Charlie O'Neill slipping into our universe from the "once thought destroyed" quantium mirror. In his universe, Jack O'Neill was a diplomat from the start and died working for peace negosiations. His son didn't die at age 10 because Jack didn't have a gun in his home. Charlie O'Neill got bit by the Save The Earth bug when the Gou'auld came looking for Earth. But Charlie's universe has no experience fighthing and they opt to send people looking for Earths that do. That idea at least holds guest apperances of RDA as Jack open to generate some cool interaction there.

 

[webmouse]

Originally posted by Garron
. . . How about introducing STARGATE 2010 or 2025, whereby some new friends have appeared and some older ones faded. . . .

This is sounding more like a spin-off, which is fine in and of itself, but it isn't really Stargate SG1 anymore, is it?

Each of the Star Trek shows is set in the same universe, but with totally different characters and premise. Yes, Stargate could do the same thing -- "SG1: The Next Generation" or whatever -- but it would be creating a totally new program, independent of the present 6 seasons.

Spin-offs have been notoriously tricky in attracting audience (hmmm, "Lone Gunmen" comes to mind). The Roddenberry creations have been blessed with a huge loyal following. Does SG1 have that kind of market pull and do the producers want to take the chance?

 

[CynVision]

Originally posted by webmouse
Spin-offs have been notoriously tricky in attracting audience (hmmm, "Lone Gunmen" comes to mind). The Roddenberry creations have been blessed with a huge loyal following. Does SG1 have that kind of market pull and do the producers want to take the chance?

An example of a spin off that did wildly well is Xena. Which came off Hurcules which in turn came off of the pair Action Pack movies promoted just before the WB got it's start in my area. Oh, and Angel off of Buffy would be another success story. The other example is the Law and Order stuff. There's a thing that just will not die.

 

[webmouse]

Most sequel films do not do as well as the first, either. Some spin-offs work and others don't, but the successful ones have characters and plots that stand on their own.

Just being a spin-off of a great show is not enough -- the new creation has to have its own life. That's a real challenge to producers -- to create something new out of something old without being too derivative and without being so different that the audience can't make the connection.

It seems to me that S7 of SG1 without RDA and MS wouldn't really be SG1 anymore, but if a creative corollary idea comes around, I'll be watching.

 

[Garron]

Originally posted by webmouse
Most sequel films do not do as well as the first, either. Some spin-offs work and others don't, but the successful ones have characters and plots that stand on their own.

Just being a spin-off of a great show is not enough -- the new creation has to have its own life. That's a real challenge to producers -- to create something new out of something old without being too derivative and without being so different that the audience can't make the connection.

It seems to me that S7 of SG1 without RDA and MS wouldn't really be SG1 anymore, but if a creative corollary idea comes around, I'll be watching.

What about Stargate 2010 or Stargate 2025? New friends and old friends. New enemies and old ones.

I think that will fly for sure! What does everyone else think?