Had you ever noticed how they named that TV series twice, Stargate SG:1? The ‘SG’ stands for ‘Stargate’, so it’s a bit of a silly title.
Speaking of silly, I’ve spent the weekend watching a vampire drama series from the US called Moonlight. It’s great! It’s a bit like Angel (The Buffy spin-off) but less tongue-in-cheek. It’s just started in the UK, but I’ve sneaked ahead and watched the American episodes. It’s a really enjoyable series and I sincerely hope it gets picked up for a second season, if it doesn’t I could easily see a Firefly style outcry. I seem to be a jinx for TV series’, so I hope that my enjoyment of the program hasn’t doomed it for cancellation! (John Doe starring Dominic Purcell, I’m looking at you in particular.)
CBS are allegedly thinking about it, depending on viewing figures for the next few episodes, which could either mean that they really are deciding whether to bin it or give it a second season, or that they just want to drum up more interest. It would be a shame if this one sank into the mire of police procedural dramas and ‘reality’ TV that seems to fill the schedules the rest of the time.
Have a great week, and don’t forget to vote please!
I love stargate.
Why did they cancel firefly!!!! Why?!?!?!
Because they wanted the money for something else? Personally I was rather enjoying Dark Angel, but they cancelled that to give Jos Whedon more money to make a second pilot episode of Firefly (the first one was awful apparently).
It’s all about business, and if they can’t make enough money from selling advertising during a science-fiction western series then the series gets cancelled. Who wouldn’t want to advertise during a sci-fi western, eh?
You liked Moonlight??? I watched the second episode the otherday and I felt like killing myself. “Mick St John?” “Yes I’m Mick St John.” “Has anyone seen Mick St John?” “Hey Mick St John over here!” I thought it was terrible! Now “Bloodties” on the other hand… THAT was a cool vampire show. Set in Canada with some awesome characters. Based on a set of novels about a detective called Vicky Nelson. Excellent
Moonlight is cheesy, but it’s very enjoyable. Maybe it’s because we gorged ourselves on the whole of the first series that we enjoyed it more – you get into the swing of it and ignore the occasionally patchy script.
I’ll check out Bloodties. It sounds like the kind of thing my girlfriend will have already read the books of.
I’m behind on the times, excuse the out-of-dateness of this comment. But I love Moonlight, in all of its cheesy glory. It keeps getting better, and has almost approched the level of a series that started out good. I am pleased that you like it too. Now we just need the post writer’s strike episodes and a second season pick up…
PS- Love the comic!
I’ve seen the whole first series, and it ends pretty well, so I’m really hoping that it gets a second chance and a full-length run.