Welcome to the Gate, With Conditions: #SaveStargate Answers Amazon's Jac Schaeffer News
After Variety's Jac Schaeffer report, the #SaveStargate campaign answered with a measured statement: a welcome to the new team, but no interest in a remake or reboot. Here's what it says, what it doesn't, and one detail the campaign's headline gets ahead of the reporting.
The Petition Just Hit 120,000 — And a Very Unconfirmed Rumor Has the Fandom Holding Its Breath
The #SaveStargate petition crossed 120,000 signatures this week, with organizers taking the campaign straight into DragonCon's crowds in Atlanta. And now there's a rumor floating around — thin, unconfirmed, and worth exactly the grain of salt it comes with — that Amazon might not be as done with this as it's pretending to be.
"Really?? Do They?": Michael Shanks Isn't Letting Amazon Forget What It Cancelled
Three months after killing its Stargate revival for lacking "broad appeal," Amazon told the Edinburgh TV Festival it would "welcome any conversations" about picking up Doctor Who. Michael Shanks had exactly four words for that, and they're the most #SaveStargate thing anyone's said all summer.
Aboard the Argo: We Finally Know What Amazon's Cancelled Stargate Actually Was
Three months of silence, and it took a hotel ballroom in Birmingham to break it. At Starfury: Ascension 2, Michael Shanks and David Read laid out what the dead Amazon series was actually going to be — a parallel-universe Daniel Jackson, a ship called the Argo, and a version of Stargate that finally sounds like it deserved the fight fans have been putting up for it.
Chevron Locked, Off the Books: Michael Shanks Is Building the Stargate Amazon Won't
Daniel Jackson is dialing himself back in. Michael Shanks just announced a full SG-1 rewatch podcast at Comic-Con's #SaveStargate rally — produced by Dial the Gate's David Read — and it's the clearest sign yet that this fandom isn't waiting around for a studio to change its mind.
