Let us talk about something important. What did you think about the first 3 episodes of "Stargate Origins"?

Ugh. I loved SG-1 seasons 1–7 and even season 8 was pretty solid, but the show jumped the shark with the Ori and as much as Atlantis was TRYING to recreate the magic…it never really did. SGU was just…bad.

Origins was a low budget effort, it wasn’t well thought out, contradicted established continuity with weak-contrived explanations as to why it doesn’t, and I think was just another example of MGM having their collective heads up their collective you-know-whats. MGM has been a SPECACULARLY badly run organization. I’m not a fan of media consolidation, but Amazon buying them is a mercy.

I think the abstract premise of a Stargate adventure from before the movie was a solid idea if it had been executed better. I really wish they hadn’t killed off the replicators and Goa’uld as thoroughly as they did because really, they’re the two best villain groups.

Supposedly Brad Wright has a pitch written and has been in talks on a new SG series. It would be set on Earth and would include the ‘going public’ of the stargate program among other things. However, don’t get too excited because Wright has been at that same stage for a long time now.

MGM was broke, yet not only didn’t want to bankroll a new SG series, it didn’t even want to let Wright try to secure funding through someone else (like SyFy) and use their franchise. Why a broke company would say no to someone potentially creating a new revenue stream for them is just emblematic of how badly run MGM really was.

Amazon now has the rights…but they just inherited so much stuff and appear to kind of be taking their sweet time deciding what to do about each property. Wright has to remain coy in public about progress so we don’t know a whole lot other than that he’s working on it.