Stargate fandom

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Corin Nemec at Gatecon in 2006

Stargate fandom is a community of people actively interested in the

Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer and aired by Syfy, which now owns television properties they previously held with Carolco Pictures
).

Thanks to Stargate fandom, the franchise has spawned other media including

direct-to-DVD, which in total grossed over 21 million in the United States. In 2002, the franchise's first animated series, Stargate Infinity, was released as an introduction to the Expanded Universe. In 2004, Stargate Atlantis was released as a spin off from Stargate SG-1 and a new Stargate spin-off series entitled Stargate Universe
was released in the fall of 2009.

Fandom

While panned by critics, the 1994 film,

feminist approach to certain characters, most notable Samantha Carter (portrayed by Amanda Tapping).[2]

Gaters

Fans posing as SG teams at Dragon Con in 2008

Brad Wright used the term "Gaters" to refer to fans of Stargate SG-1 in 2001,

GateWorld became a major franchise news site with special arrangements with MGM; GateWorld's founder Darren Sumner was later hired to serve as a news editor for the official Stargate SG-1 magazine and to check Stargate comic books for continuity errors with the TV shows before publication.[4] Late Night with Conan O'Brien graphic designer Pierre Bernard gained notoriety among Stargate fans for devoting several of his "Recliner of Rage" Late Night segments to SG-1. The producers invited him to make cameo appearances in the episodes "Zero Hour" and "200".[5]

Gatecon

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Gatecon's founder Allan Gowen said, "With the current world economic status it is making it harder and harder for people to attend conventions," as the reason why there is not going to be any Gatecon in 2009.[6]

Until 2005, Gatecon was the main Stargate SG-1 fan convention. It was held in the Vancouver area, with more actor and crew member participation than other conventions. SG-1 conventions by Creation Entertainment were also marketed as "The Official Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis Tour", which mostly took place in the United States until Creation Entertainment acquired the license for Vancouver conventions in 2005. Wolf Events organized many SG-1 conventions in Europe, particularly in the UK and Germany.[7]

GateWorld

GateWorld
news site
Available inEnglish
OwnerDarren Sumner
URLwww.gateworld.net
LaunchedOctober 22, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-10-22)
Current statusActive
Content license
Copyright

GateWorld (also known as GateWorld.net and abbreviated to GW) is an English-language

season nine of Stargate SG-1 and the announcement of the third Stargate live-action television series being in development and the casting of Brian J. Smith
in this new show.

GateWorld has an extensive show encyclopedia, cast interviews, an online store, forum, articles, reviews as well as a large episode guides, with transcripts and pictures. The site also features up-to-date news. The GateWorld forum has more than 44,000 members and 9,100,000 posts. The record number of users online at the same time was 2,770 as of 10 May 2011, the day after the last episode of Stargate Universe aired.[8]

History

GateWorld was inaugurated on October 22, 1999 as "Starguide," a fan site that has changed addresses and servers many times since then. The site was developed by SG-1 fan, Darren Sumner to be an online community for the show Stargate SG-1, similar to web sites for other science fiction shows. Though the site focused on Stargate, other parts of the site were devoted to other sci-fi series in the form of episode guides. It was during this time that Starguide was given the new name GateWorld.[9][10] The main site was completely redesigned in 2006 to coincide with the broadcast of Stargate SG-1s milestone 200th episode.[11] With the cancellation of Stargate SG-1, Gateworld announced its support for SaveStargateSG1,[12] a fan run campaign to get international networks and executives to show support for Stargate SG-1 and to help get it back on the air.

Although the webpage focus lay on news coverage and the episode guides, it also started to include a large

Alpha Site
is a site made by the creators of GateWorld. It was made in case of system problems with GateWorld, deeming it unable to connect to the site. The site provides news on problems and updates on site maintenance.

In 2007, GateWorld launched its Creation Storefront

jewelry, photographs, autographs, keychains, and calendars
available for purchase.

On January 4, 2008, GateWorld launched a new service called GateWorld Play, a Stargate video service similar to YouTube. Plans were to update this new channel "seven days per week for the foreseeable future".[13][14]

Reception

On June 9, 2006

SyFy Genre Awards for "Best Web Site".[17] It was also nominated in 2006.[18] The producers of the Stargate franchise are in good contact with GateWorld and have mentioned the website favorably in several audio commentaries. In 2004, Darren Sumner was invited to tour through the sets of Stargate Atlantis and to interview the members of the series' crew. Since then he and partner David Read make an annual pilgrimage to Vancouver, where the franchise is filmed, to visit the studio and interview the casts and crews of both shows for the Website. Producer Joseph Mallozzi
stated in his blog:

"I have always been a supporter of GateWorld and consider it the premiere site for Stargate fans online. In fact, I was the one who suggested to MGM Marketing several years back, that they look toward establishing some sort of working relationship with Darren and GateWorld."

— Joseph Mallozzi's, weblog[19]

Looking back on producing SG-1' season 5, Joseph Mallozzi also stated in 2011:

"And, when we weren't writing or producing, we were checking out Gateworld which was fast becoming THE one stop shop for everything Stargate. In fact, Gateworld was so impressive in its scope and detail that we eventually abandoned updating the show's massive bible [...] in favor of directing prospective freelancers to the site. It blew all other Stargate-related sites, even the studio's which paled by comparison. Over the years, Gateworld evolved alongside the franchise, growing and improving. In later years, I would roll my eyes and fans on other forums would accuse Darren and David – "the Gateworld guys" as we called them – of simply being a PR arm of the franchise. The truth is, as incredible as they've been in the amount of support they’ve shown, there have also been incidences[spelling?] in which we've strongly disagreed with some of the decisions they've taken. Nothing that couldn't be talked through but, still, enough to remind everyone that Gateworld was and would remain a strong and independent online entity."

— Joseph Mallozzi's, weblog[20]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Storm 2005, pp. 6.
  2. ^ Beeler and Dickson 2006, pp. 1–3.
  3. ^ a b Wright, Brad; Glassner, John; Mullie, Paul; Smith, Stuart T.; Giannazzo, Tom (2001). Stargate SG-1: Season 3 – Timeline To The Future – Part 3: Beyond The Gate (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment.
  4. ^ Storm 2005, pp. 81–86.
  5. GateWorld. Archived from the original
    on May 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
  6. GateWorld
    . Retrieved 2009-04-19.
  7. ^ Storm 2005, pp. 93–95.
  8. ^ "GateWorld Forum". GateWorld. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  9. ^ Juarez, Vanessa (June 2006). "Summer TV: July 2006". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  10. ^ "Site History". GateWorld. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  11. ^ Sumner, Darren (August 18, 2006). "Introducing: GateWorld 2.0!". GateWorld. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  12. ^ Sumner, Darren (August 28, 2006). "Fans Rally: SaveStargateSG1.com!". Archived from the original on August 21, 2009. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  13. ^ Storm 2005, pp. 81-87.
  14. ^ "GateWorld introduces GateWorld Play". GateWorld. January 4, 2008. Archived from the original on April 18, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  15. ^ Entertainment Weekly Issue #880/881, 9 June 2006.
  16. ^ Luba, Frank (June 17, 2007). "Stargate secrets revealed at last". The Province. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  17. ^ "Stargate takes SyFy Genre Awards". Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). October 5, 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  18. ^ "SyFy Genre Awards Nominations". SyFy Portal Yahoo Group. June 19, 2006. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  19. ^ Mallozzi, Joseph (February 17, 2008). "February 16, 2008". WordPress. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  20. ^ Mallozzi, Joseph (May 3, 2011). "May 3, 2011: Skinny little Maximus! Stargate: SG-1 season five memories! The Refuel update!". WordPress. Retrieved 2011-05-04.

Bibliography

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