Okay, Stargate Universe is gone...there is no more Stargate of any sort on the near horizon...yet. I cant say this wasnt expected. I think that time needs to pass so that Brad can internalize the fact that Stargate and its future and direction are no longer under his direct control. None of his "people" are in place to pull strings, and his "old boy" connections at the old spendthrift MGM have been let go and retired by the new owners. There is a new audience out there...and the old ones. We will wait.
So what will have to happen to free the canon yet preserve it?
Perhaps they could take a page out of JJ Abrams book and do a temporal solution. They could use Atlantis, but have new actors manning it (and perhaps a core of the original actors as well). Or, they could continue the SG series with an SG-2 or SG-3 or even have a post-secrecy earth fully aware of the stargate and armed to protect itself against attacks (that could be cool!).
Perhaps they could ignore the current canon altogether and start at the end of the original movie (new Jack and new Daniel). This would effectively wipe out all of Brad Wright's stargate canon and go in a different direction. I think this might be the best solution to get a fresher audience as well as keep the old one. But there is a caveat...
PROBABLY, the original creators of Stargate (Emmerich and Devlin) or even a different set of writers will write SEQUELS to the original movie, both would provide a proper jumping point for a new series. That is the caveat with solution #2, if there are sequels, they need to preserve the new extension of any canon set by any sequels.
I dont know what is going to happen with Stargate in the future, but I am absolutely certain that it will return in some form. I am also certain that Stargate Universe will never really thought of as full canon by fans of Stargate. Any new Stargate would have to return to the roots of Stargate, and with SG-1 and Atlantis being the first two shows, and the new movies being action/adventure/drama, that will make SGU seem even more foreign to the whole continuum.
So what will have to happen to free the canon yet preserve it?
Perhaps they could take a page out of JJ Abrams book and do a temporal solution. They could use Atlantis, but have new actors manning it (and perhaps a core of the original actors as well). Or, they could continue the SG series with an SG-2 or SG-3 or even have a post-secrecy earth fully aware of the stargate and armed to protect itself against attacks (that could be cool!).
Perhaps they could ignore the current canon altogether and start at the end of the original movie (new Jack and new Daniel). This would effectively wipe out all of Brad Wright's stargate canon and go in a different direction. I think this might be the best solution to get a fresher audience as well as keep the old one. But there is a caveat...
PROBABLY, the original creators of Stargate (Emmerich and Devlin) or even a different set of writers will write SEQUELS to the original movie, both would provide a proper jumping point for a new series. That is the caveat with solution #2, if there are sequels, they need to preserve the new extension of any canon set by any sequels.
I dont know what is going to happen with Stargate in the future, but I am absolutely certain that it will return in some form. I am also certain that Stargate Universe will never really thought of as full canon by fans of Stargate. Any new Stargate would have to return to the roots of Stargate, and with SG-1 and Atlantis being the first two shows, and the new movies being action/adventure/drama, that will make SGU seem even more foreign to the whole continuum.