There's going to be more Stargate. A 10-episode digital series. That's exciting news enough, but...
It's going to be about Catherine Langford's early years.
It's going to be FEMALE-LEAD STARGATE.
Look at that beautiful thumbnail of A WOMAN in front of the Stargate:
FEMALE-LEAD. STARGATE. CATHERINE. LANGFORD.
AND THAT MEANS IT WILL ALSO BE A PERIOD PIECE.
I AM LIVING!!!
ETA: Continuing to add icing to this delicious cake: the director is a woman.
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At first I was, like, what? The Stargate didn't open until Ernest disappeared. But this is movie 'verse, not tv 'verse, right? So a totally different imagining of how it all works. But why did Catherine go get Daniel after the lecture to work for the USAF if she has already been through? So many questions! But female lead, female director, period piece—I am psyched! I've always loved that historical part of the movie.
ETA: Nope it's the tv 'verse. Even more questions, then! I just read the Vox article, which is really good. I totally agree with all of this:
Langford has long been a fan-favorite character, both because of her importance to the events of the overall Stargate franchise and because she serves as a crucial intermediary between geeky, intellectually curious civilians like us, the viewers, and the alien worlds of the Stargate. Additionally, she was the rare model of a competent older woman who was defined mainly by her achievements as a scientist and a military adviser.
“The only reason [the plot of Stargate] happened,” wrote culture writer Gavia Baker-Whitelaw in a 2013 blog post, “is because the 80-year-old daughter of a 1920s Egyptologist became so obsessed with an old Egyptian artefact that she spent her whole life researching it until people finally got to travel to other planets. Which to me is a far more compelling origin story than any amount of daddy issues, dead wives, or misunderstood loner antiheroes.”
“I just want a whole movie about Catherine Langford,” one Stargate fan opined on Tumblr. “Like, the whole thing is just about her working on the Stargate, fighting to get the program started, dealing with sexist asshats in the military and academic communities. ... And just generally being a badass.”
Edited 2017-07-21 04:35 am (UTC)
(Also if we get to see her eventually seeking out the work of Daniel Jackson? I would also be happy about that. HEE.)
I like the idea to explore the early years very much!
I'm not familiar with either of the writers attached and that makes me a liiiiiittle nervous because their IMDB pages don't list a lot of writing credits. BUT everything I keep reading about this is making me happy, so I'm willing to without doubt until I see it.
They're 10-minute episodes, so what we get will ultimately be short and sweet.
I've only watched SG-1 casually--though I've watched a heckuva lot of songvids--but I shared the news with TODS, a much more regular watcher, and he was very pleased, especially about the focus. So, additional vicarious squee!!!!