> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.popcast.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Amazon Said No Thank You to Legacy Stargate Fans and This is Why... - URL: https://www.popcast.co/amazon-said-no-thank-you-to-legacy-stargate-fans-and-this-is-why/ - Published: 2026-10-13T20:12:39.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-13T20:12:39.000Z - Description: Time to Break Out Physical Media? - Author: Shane Montgomery - Tags: Stargate, Opinion The real reason why Amazon took a hard pass on Legacy Stargate Fans when it Chose to go with Jac Schaeffer for the new series over Martin Gero is likely because they don't need you! In fact, Amazon Executives believe you've already been captured. We keep thinking, this makes no sense. They need long time fans to bolster viewership of their new show... Actually They Don't. This is going to blow your mind! Amazon values new subscriptions over everything else. The number 1 priority of Mike Hopkins who is in charge of Amazon Prime is to keep subscriptions growing as this is the #1 metric stock holders look for in streaming services. This is why every streamer is in search of the mythical younger audience because they represent not yet captured subscribers. Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel and now STARGATE. We all keep saying, it makes no sense! We're not watching these new crappy shows... how can they keep making them!?!? The Answer is BECAUSE WE ARE ALREADY WATCHING. That's right. These streaming services can see that we are already subscribed and watching Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and even Enterprise. We are still watching Star Wars eps. 1-6 (okay 4-6 anyway) and we are watching Iron man through End Game. And Guess what happened with the New Stargate Series was announced? We started watching SG1, Atlantis and Universe with our Amazon Prime subscriptions! That was the moment they got us. And it was the moment they realized they didn't need us for new Stargate. Here is the pitch: "Old fans are already subscribed. They are watching the old shows and they aren't going anywhere. Since we don't have to release the views on new shows, we don't have to count on them. What we need is to focus on NEW FANS... people not already subscribed to watch Stargate. Now, who are those people? Young people, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, mostly women and young people struggling to find their identities. This generation is young and emotional and the content needs to reflect that. Besides, old fans will probably watch the new stuff anyways." What about advertisers? Won't they be upset by the views? NO! Because they are advertising across platforms and streamers can fudge the views however they want. But they can't lie on that 10-Q form to the SEC without repurcussions. So Amazon Studios TV Chief Peter Friedlander wants to keep his job and decides to hire Blair Fetter from Netflix because Netflix is arguably the only streamer that has found the mythical audience. Gero is Out and they hire 47 year old Jac Shaeffer, whose Agatha All Along and work on Wanda Vision will 100% create Stargate to capture this small and non paying segment of the population. That's right I said non-paying. I don't know how Amazon hasn't figured out that us Legacy Stargate fans are the ones paying the subscription fees for this younger Audience they so badly want to capture. That's why Robocop's original co-creators are working on the new Amazon series still. Because there is not enough original content to capture original fans yet. They are going to have to build that audience with this show and then they can replace them with future content. So, if you really want these streaming services to do the right thing, perhaps it's time we start pulling old DVDs out of storage bins and start watching our favorite old shows from physical media because that will scare the shit out of them. And just perhaps, they'll start taking us seriously again!