Enchantermon on 17/4/2010 at 03:14
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And Enterprise, which really got started in the 4th season, only to get canceled :( (though I liked all of it!)
I really liked Enterprise too, and would have loved to see more of it.
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How about series that were cut down way beyond their time?
Two words: Power Rangers.
Volitions Advocate on 17/4/2010 at 04:06
Space: Above and Beyond
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/)
One of my favorites of the 90s, it only ran for 1 season, 22 episodes. It was epic, and you really cared about the characters. The alien from the show even had a cameo in the hallowe'en episode of Millennium in the 2nd season.
I could've watched several seasons if they had ever aired.
I also really enjoyed Earth 2
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/)
tim curry was in it for a little while, very interesting show about a group of colonists that are sent off to colonize a planet because earth is getting to crowded or something. But they're sabotaged and set to blow up (a plot which they foil) and during their 20 years in cryo sleep, technology advances and they manage to send more people to the planet ahead of them to destroy their chances of colonizing. Mix in aliens and you had a fun show. I guess it wasn't very popular though.
EDIT: OH! nobody has mentioned Gargoyles yet! One of the best cartoons of my youth!
Tonamel on 17/4/2010 at 06:55
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Tone, while Day Break was great too, IIRC it did get a proper closure at the end and might even have been conceived as a one-season series. So one might just think about it as a miniseries of sorts and thus somewhat misplaced in this thread.
Ah, cool. I'm getting close to the end, and things do seem to be tying up nicely.
And I'll definitely second Invader Zim and Gargoyles. I wasn't even thinking of cartoons when I made this thread. I might add Freakazoid to that list as well, if only because it's one of my all-time favorites.
quinch: I have no idea what that show's about, but I'm pretty sure I want to watch it :D
PeeperStorm on 17/4/2010 at 09:41
I'll second
Brimstone. Smart scripts, witty dialog and just a dash of dark humor? Sign me up. John Glover as The Devil was inspired casting. I've often thought that after the cancellation there should have been an
X-Files crossover episode where the agents investigated Stone. A dead police detective apparently returned to earth and killing people sure sounds like a case for Mulder to me. Then at least the show could have had a wrap up. Both were Fox shows, so it would have been do-able.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr deserved a much longer run than it got. Bruce Campbell as a Harvard lawyer turned bounty-hunter. Some great guest stars in it too.
I'd be willing to watch more
Zim and
Freakazoid too. Both smart shows that poked fun at all the standard cartoon cliches Maybe throw in some
Megas XLR as long as we're talking about cartoons. Oh yeah, and
Frisky Dingo too.
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There ain't no such animal. If the mentality of the audience is the deciding factor, and it is, all such DIE because they deserve to.
If nobody watches, then any producer will kill it before it bleeds money.
So, like I said, "There ain't no such animal".
Bullshit. Some shows get royally screwed over by their networks so that they never have a chance:
* Not promoted
* Put in one of the Time Slots Of Doom
* Put on opposite a wildly popular show on another network
* Arbitrarily canceled because of corporate politics
* Arbitrarily canceled because a network pinhead doesn't like it.
* Time slot gets changed almost every week
* Network pinheads piss off the show's creator so that he leaves and the show dies
* Network cuts the show's budget dramatically
* Network airs the episodes in non-sequential order
* Network forces show to take a "hiatus" or three
* Show canceled because it would overshadow another show on the same network that the executives really, really like
Fox is particularly adept at all of the above douchebaggery.
Queue on 17/4/2010 at 12:08
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: A brilliant, but one and done, Aaron Sorkin project that was overshadowed by 30 Rock. I'm not sure why in the name of fuck the network gave it the axe. If was fresh, funny, intelligent, different, gave the viewers something to think about.... Oh wait...
I loved Invader Zim and hated Nickelodeon for canceling it, but I'm sorry to say it was already showing signs of "strain" and staleness in the second season--though that may be because Vasquez knew that the network didn't want the show.
Futurama was truly one of the best shows on television when Fox killed it. Unfortunately, the new incarnations in "movie" form suck balls.
When I was a kid, it bummed me out terribly when they canceled Salvage 1. Now, I hate myself have having ever watched it.
(...maybe that was the A-Team I'm thinking about.)
DarkForge on 17/4/2010 at 12:49
I still lament the cancellation of
Invasion. Had the potential to stand as one of those multi-season storylines a-la Lost or Heroes (whatever your opinion on those shows may be), but sadly it was never given a chance to continue.
Oh and
Team Knight Rider, just because it was a guilty pleasure and they way they left us hanging at the end was frustrating. :(
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Dark Angel Quote Posted by Queue
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: A brilliant, but one and done, Aaron Sorkin project that was overshadowed by 30 Rock. I'm not sure
why in the name of fuck the network gave it the axe. If was fresh, funny, intelligent, different, gave the viewers something to think about.... Oh wait...
Agreed on all these shows. I should say there's still a lot of Seven Days that I've never seen, so it probably just feels like it left before its time to me (the more appropriate question would be why BBC2 never aired all of it).
I do miss Studio 60 though. Absolutely loved that show, even when it did mutate into a political soapbox near the end. I agree with you Queue; it was a finely crafted show that had me cracking up in certain places and debating issues with myself in others. Thankfully, they at least wrapped a lot of things up so you weren't left with a frustrating cliffhanger that will never get resolved.
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...Ran two seasons, then was cancelled after the writer's strike. Season 2 has never made it to DVD. I am still pissed.
This is off-topic but since you bring it up, I might as well mention Friends spin-off
Joey. I don't consider Joey to be a show that was cut down before its time; while I liked it, I don't feel it was working that well and it was never going to equal the success of its predecessor. However, I'm still waiting for Season 2 of that to emerge on DVD - the Friends collection just isn't complete without it. :(
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
Two words: Power Rangers.
Power Rangers can be a hard one to call actually. On the one hand I kind of agree with you; every year was another incarnation, which did help to keep things fresh but kind of got a bit too much to handle after a while. Then again, if its last season
RPM was any indication of the direction the franchise was heading in, it's actually a shame - the writing and overall quality in RPM was a pretty damn good improvement compared to some recent seasons, and it was considered a favourite by many fans. At least they went out with a bang.
Rumours persist that PR could still return in a year or two. At the very least Bandai may continue the toyline, even if there's no show to promote it.
quinch on 17/4/2010 at 13:33
Chronicles of Sarah Connor :( The writing was a bit shit with a couple of lame soliloquies in the first few episodes but the Terminators really put the shits up me. It was just starting to gather momentum then it was canned.
I think Futurama ran it's course to be honest. Season 4 was too melancholy for me. I saw one of the new episodes and stopped watching after about 15 minutes it was so awful.
