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Written by: Mariyam

Published: December 4, 2025, 10:26 am

After more than a decade of quiet following the cancellation of Stargate Universe, Amazon MGM Studios has given the go-ahead to a new series, that starts a buzz around — Stargate is back. But this isn’t simply another content drop for Prime Video, it’s a calculated, strategic play to fill the void left by The Expanse.

Franchise veteran Martin Gero is showrunner, and Amazon isn’t rebooting a show — they’re resurrecting a titan of sci-fi equity.

“Stargate is a staple in my TV experience, it feels like it’s a part of who I am.”
—Gero said.

The problematic casting has ignited a debate following the announcement. So let’s fire up the DHD and take a look at the business decisions behind this, the cast changes and what the ‘special quality’ is with the new Stargate. 

Why Replace the Original Cast of Stargate?

The most agonizing question for the hardcore fans becomes: Why replace the legends? They can just recast the original legends including Richard Dean Anderson (O’Neill), Amanda Tapping (Carter), or Christopher Judge (Teal’c) of Stargate series in the reboot?

Choosing to introduce a new cast is not erasure, it is a natural consequence of biological reality and storytelling imperative. 

The time gap is huge so lead actors age, particularly Richard Dean Anderson is now entering the era of 70s. The typical modern streaming blockbuster production schedule includes 14-hour shooting days, heavy prosthetics and intense stunt work. And while the original cast may be beloved, asking them to lead a kinetic, action-heavy military sci-fi series in 2025 is physically untenable.

“Stargate was an amazing experience that shaped my career and taught me so much about story-telling, working together and the enchantment of making science fiction real.”
—Gero said

As TVline mentioned, In narrative terms the original SG-1 (Stargate) team was too powerful. By the end the franchise had Earth plenty of Asgard plasma beams, Ancient databases, time travel tech. drama is not compelling unless there’s vulnerability. To create drama that’s compelling you need vulnerability. 

The writers need a ‘reset’—a younger, less experienced team that could actually be threatened by the galaxy’s danger and recapture the underdog tension that made early SG-1 so great. 

The Director Is Looking For Special Qualities in Cast

They aren’t just looking for good actors but they were hunting for a specific vibe that has gone missing in modern sci-fi: Optimism.

Martin Gero and the Amazon brass are reportedly attempting to reimagine what we call “Competence Fantasy.” In the age of series such as Star Trek: Discovery or The Expanse (latter seasons), which ended up emphasizing trauma, bickering, and dystopian grit.

The new players were able to move seamlessly between high stakes and levity. They wanted that “glint in the eye” — to borrow literary mechanics from O’Neill — the ability to make a joke while facing down an alien armada. The reason the new cast was chosen was not because they are “tough soldiers” but rather, they have an infectious, immediate chemistry. 

The studio is looking for a team that actually likes each other, even in the face of adversity – a “warm bath” viewing experience where you want to hang out with the characters, not just watch them suffer. 

Decoding the Rumors: The “Modern O’Neill”

The lead was said to be offered to Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton) but nothing has been confirmed as claims were made that he and Zoë Kravitz had been cast. While the actual resource indicates Page is under contract to star in a Netflix thriller, that is not what the rumor speaks to.

 Amazon is on the hunt for a lead who is a combination of physicality and intelligence and who can talk their way out of conflicts rather than fighting, a “Modern O’Neill,” and who is an icon that holds Gen Z and Millennial audiences around the world. 

There is also the “Vancouver Factor.” With the production returning to British Columbia there are rumors flying about Jensen Ackles (The Boys, Supernatural). Ackles makes perfect sense in the Amazon world and he represents that rugged, dry deadpan military humor that the franchise is. 

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Conclusion

In the end, this resurgence is a “Leg Up” play. Bringing TV veteran Martin Gero and original film creator Roland Emmerich together as Executive Producers, Amazon is now bridging the 30-year divide between the movie and the show.

The new cast aren’t looking to rewrite the past; they’re securing the future. They are being asked to keep the torch burning so the Stargate stays open for another 10 years. This “special quality” is more than just acting talent — it’s the charisma needed to invite a global audience through the Gate room, and it shows that while the faces might change, the spirit of exploration never does. 

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Written by: Alpana

Published: November 17, 2025, 11:26 am

Landman’s return for Season 2 certainly promises more of that high-stakes dustbowl drama Taylor Sheridan fans have come to crave, but the real fireworks this season don’t come from a new well or a corporate takeover. It comes in the form of one man: Sam Elliott as T.L. Norris, the estranged father of Billy Bob Thornton’s explosive lead character Tommy Norris. According to Collider, “Death and a Sunset,” his debut in the premiere, makes it clear right away that the corporate endgame for the Norris family will not be itself but deeply, painfully personal. 

The Weight of Grief Defines T.L. Norris’s First Scene

The introduction to Sam Elliott is a lesson in minimalism. T.L. is first shown sitting outside an assisted living home in Texas, in a wheelchair, as he watches the sun go down. This delicate pause in reflection is so different from the usual frenetic West Texas life Tommy lives and is quickly interrupted by utter despair. T.L. is informed his wife, Dorothy, passed away peacefully while in memory care. 

Elliott anchors T.L.’s arrival on the scene in a gritty, bare-bones melancholy. The iconic actor does not go for melodrama, he just lets the staggering weight of loss permeate the scene. At one point, an employee offers a platitude that Dorothy is in a “better place,” and T.L.’s response is humorously unflinching, being a window into his morose outlook on life: 

“If I do, that means I’m in hell, too”. 

This moment serves as an emotional anchor for the scene, signaling that Season 2 will require as much soul excavation as any drilling operation. The audience is immediately brought to a man defeated by life, proving T.L. is what broke the family, not took part in it. 

Season 2 Shifts Toward Soul-Deep Storytelling and Family Trauma

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The opening provides a trope-defining line that encapsulates the whole premise of T.L., and the thematic stakes for this season are set by it. Looking back at his life, the elder Norris laments with soul-crushing despair that, 

“I wasted 60 years on hope”. 

This admission is the character’s aching thesis. T.L. isn’t just rueful about a few missteps, he laments the act of having placed faith in a brighter horizon.   

T.L. as a Failed Father and a Man Defined by Pain

This radical cynicism is based on well-defined, deep-lying failure. T.L. is a failed father, emotionally distant from his remaining children after losing one at a young age. He possesses both the physical limitation of the wheelchair and glimpses of a violent, wild nature, as he has been seen throwing punches. 

In an era when the world cannot get enough of chasing the next great big boom, T.L. is a reminder of how hollow that chase has increasingly become. He’s not a wise sage, but an anti-mentor, someone who exemplifies the worst-case scenario, a lifetime of trying that ends with nothing but loneliness and regret. 

T.L.’s presence guarantees that Tommy’s rise in the corporate world will be upended by a personal disaster. When Tommy gets the call that Dorothy has been killed just cutting off what is obviously a tender moment with Angela and the message is clear: the past is here, and it wants its due.   

A Long-Avoided Father–Son Confrontation Finally Approaches

As reports suggests, The showdown between father and son is coming, and it’s been years in the making. Their relationship has been one of profound avoidance for an extended period of time, a painful dance of silence now must come to an end. The terrifying but valid honesty that is necessary Tommy himself understands the required fearsome truth: 

“We’ve been lying by omission to one another for ages. Let’s not begin.”  

T.L.’s Search for Redemption from Generational Truth and Reckoning

Sam Elliott confirmed that T.L. is looking for “a way back” into the family, and said his relationship with Tommy will have a “real arc”. This path to rapprochement will make Tommy face what his own ambition “really cost emotionally” and make him “make peace with the broken man that made him.”

T.L. Norris is not only a fresh face to the cast list but he’s the excruciating impetus that compels the Norris family to sever the walls they’ve built around their pain and generational trauma that’s lain buried beneath the West Texas soil. 

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Conclusion

Sam Elliott’s T.L. Norris is not a throwaway character to get some exposition or comic relief in, he is the motivating psychological centerpoint for Landman Season 2. And so Righteous Thieves takes shape, refocusing the series’ perspective, now grounding the weight of drama from all corporate survival to the toll the West Texas oil life takes on a person inside. 

Representing deep regret and a generation of trauma not yet healed, T.L pushes Tommy Norris to come to terms with the fact that attaining success in the professional world means nothing if your personal life is one of emotional neglect. The M-Tex fight, in the end, is a sideshow to the real one: the painful, painstaking work it takes for father and son to finally stop running from the truth and discover, in a world defined by volatility and unforgiving landscapes, a way to come home to one another. T.L.’s presence guarantees the highest stakes in Season 2 aren’t the price of oil, but the price of the soul. 

Welcome to Fandomfans — your source for the latest buzz from Hollywood’s creative underworld. Here, we explore the introduction of T.L. transforms Landman from high-stakes industry drama, into the element of generational trauma. T.L. is purpose-built to be the embodiment, physically and emotionally, of everything Tommy Norris has sought to escape.