Brad screwed up and he wont admit it.
I reckon he realised that there was a site out there dedicated to hating on his show. If I had spent a lot of time and effort creating something, only for a bunch of people to create a site simply with the intent of hating it, I'd be pretty pissed off. I don't think anyone here would say otherwise?
Yep, and when the fans who had been so loyal to his franchise realized that he really didnt think much of them and that they "didnt count" when it came to his new show, they got pissed off and created the site to hate on the show. But even without that site, the Stargate fandom worldwide basically got dissed by him publicly, and almost every blog and forum was hating on the show. So, Brad is reaping what he sowed. Fans spent money and hours upon hours watching the shows, which put Brad in the position he is/was in today. Without us, Brad was NOTHING.
As for not mentioning the previous series, well he's not making them at the moment.
Correct, and that was his mistake.
There's been a lot of discussion about how MGM owns the Stargate franchise and how only MGM can greenlight things -surely the ball is in their court for the Atlantis movie right now? If they were really going to invest in this franchise they'd greenlight one of each and release them across 1 year, an everybody wins scenario.
Well, MGM does own the franchise rights and always has. But they entrusted Stargate Productions to produce Stargate, and Brad was in charge of that. He was given money to build the sets, pay the actors and production crew, and he was responsible for the fate of the sets (construction, destruction, etc). Brad had the Atlantis sets destroyed instead of mothballed, so that means that new ones would have to be rebuilt to make more Atlantis.
The way it looks to me, is that Brad is using the same tactic he used to FORCE Syfy to buy Stargate Universe. By destroying the SG-1 and Atlantis sets (and not mothballing them for storage), he essentially is FORCING the only choice which is SGU. But its a failed show, and MGM is not going to fall for it. The ratings for the last episodes is just reinforcing the failure of the show. He thinks that because the SGU sets are the only ones available that MGM is going to be forced to make more SGU because there is nothing else available?
Sorry Brad, but no. :bradcry: