Amazon recently canceled its Stargate reboot mere months after officially unveiling it, and the streamer’s logic seemed to encapsulate the out-of-touch nonsense that defines Hollywood decision-making. Stargate, according to Variety, was axed because it would only appeal to Stargate fans. Who could have foreseen?
Fans have launched a campaign to save the series, but it’s likely a doomed endeavor. As absurd as Amazon’s argument may sound on the surface, we’re long past the days when a show like Stargate could be made on the relative cheap for a narrow but passionate fanbase. With genre television now costing millions of dollars per episode, creating something that only appeals to the hardcore is an easy way to flush those millions down the toilet. And 10 years ago today, no project demonstrated that frustrating conundrum better than Warcraft.
