Comments on: Stargate II http://www.fieryrobot.com/blog/2006/07/22/stargate-ii/ Defender of Corporate Headquarters Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Arlo http://www.fieryrobot.com/blog/2006/07/22/stargate-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Arlo Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:32:04 +0000 http://www.fieryrobot.com/blog/2006/07/22/stargate-ii/#comment-254 <p>I think doing a movie that ignores 9 seasons of a TV show spin-off, and 3 seasons of that spin-off's spin-off is about the dumbest thing the studio could do.</p> <p>If you think about the marketing aspects of it, it's a lose-lose situation. People unaware of the TV show that see this will be upset that the show has nothing to do with the film, fans of the show will be mad that the film has nothing to do the last nine years of plots and arcs, and about the only people that will like it are folks that enjoyed the original film and hated the show. That would be about 7 people.</p> I think doing a movie that ignores 9 seasons of a TV show spin-off, and 3 seasons of that spin-off’s spin-off is about the dumbest thing the studio could do.

If you think about the marketing aspects of it, it’s a lose-lose situation. People unaware of the TV show that see this will be upset that the show has nothing to do with the film, fans of the show will be mad that the film has nothing to do the last nine years of plots and arcs, and about the only people that will like it are folks that enjoyed the original film and hated the show. That would be about 7 people.

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