Enchantermon on 17/4/2010 at 17:10
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
You've... never heard of Police Squad?!? The series that launched the Naked Gun movies? :weird:
Nope. I've heard of Naked Gun. Never watched them, though I've been told that I should. But never heard of Police Squad.
fett on 17/4/2010 at 18:26
Yes, you should.
Al_B on 17/4/2010 at 19:20
Quote Posted by witherflower
One show that should have been closed with the one season is Prison Break.
Almost agree. The first season was great, the second was still entertaining and the end of the second season could have very easily brought things to a nice conclusion. Such a shame they kept it going for another two seaons.
Queue on 17/4/2010 at 21:24
Quote Posted by witherflower
One show that should have been closed with the one season is Prison Break. It could have died a classic.
The same can be said of
Eastbound and Down. I'm actually dreading a second season--six episodes and out would have been perfect.
As for Twin Peaks, after that horrible second season it didn't deserve a third. When Lynch "gave up" the reins, it lost all that was good, that wonderful surreal feeling, and became bizarre just for the sake of being bizarre. But, at least we have a near perfect first season and some incredible music to remember it by. If you haven't done so already, find and give the soundtrack a listen. Amazing.
Fafhrd on 17/4/2010 at 21:28
A thousand times this. Airing on ABC Family, and having an ad campaign that made it look like a MiB rip-off did it absolutely no favours. Absolutely brilliantly funny and probably the most overtly and
properly geeky show that's ever been made, aside from 'Spaced' (when I watched the first episode and Wendy lists the comics she reads and includes 'Astro City,' 'Fell,' and 'Mouse Guard,' my brain just went 'HOLY SHIT. Whoever wrote this
actually reads comics').
And I
really would have liked to have seen another season of 'Pushing Daisies,' because I think they were maybe going to go someplace pretty dark with it.
Ulukai on 17/4/2010 at 22:19
I was intrigued by (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defying_Gravity_%28TV_series%29) Defying Gravity. No more than intrigued mind you, because I think I saw about 3 episodes thanks to some random scheduling.
T'was a bit hammy, but it was nice to see a 'realistic' show about space rather than anything involving lasers and beaming around and aliens. Ah well.
wootman on 17/4/2010 at 22:36
Space: Above and Beyond - has my favorite episode of any show I've ever seen: Who Monitor's The Birds? Every time I watch an episode of LOST (season 1, especially) with character-centric flashbacks, I get reminded of this episode.
Total Recall 2070 - half Blade Runner, half Total Recall, all PKD! Well it was more BR than TR - best mind fuck yet? As with S:AAB, TR:2070 also needed at least one more season dammit!
Jeremiah - I'm a sucker for post-apoc stuff. The first season was fantastic, and though there was a (half) second season, it just wasn't enough.
Also worthy of mention: Harsh Realm.
Zygoptera on 17/4/2010 at 22:55
Watched it last year and it's still just about the most creepy program I've seen. It reminded me why I still think "Sheriff Lucas Buck" whenever I see Gary Cole.
Annoyingly the dvd has the episodes in the airing order, not in the intended order.
fett on 17/4/2010 at 23:03
OH OH OH - The Lone Gunmen!!! It got axed before a full season iirc. Everyone was so sick of the X-Files at that point that there was very little interest, and it suffered Fox's typical musical chairs schedule asshattery, but the writing was spot on.
PeeperStorm on 18/4/2010 at 01:29
Truth to tell I thought The Lone Gunmen was pretty lame. I wasn't surprised that it got canceled, but I was surprised at how quickly it happened. And the utterly dethtoll way that they got dethtolled on X-Files was inexcusable.
