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Post by omega on May 11, 2017 10:58:38 GMT
What shows did you like that were cancelled just as they were getting good or simply weren't pulling in the ratings? How would you like to see them return?
Me, Stargate Universe. By season two the overly soap opera relationship stuff had been toned down and I really liked where the show was going. I liked the whole different tone of Universe compared to SG-1 and Atlantis (SG-1 2.0 as I call it). They committed to the not being able to go home thing, and the priority of survival over exploration was interesting. The few sentient life forms weren't obviously human or humanoid like was done previously and in hindsight the Destiny is a bit like Liberator in Blake's 7.
Here's how I'd explain the time passing thing. The stasis pods somehow malfunctioned, and the characters whose actors came back somehow aged while Destiny kept their minds ticking over. It's Destiny, they were lucky the pods worked at all.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 11, 2017 11:43:06 GMT
Anything Joss Whedon related.
American Gothic
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Post by The Matt on May 11, 2017 11:52:18 GMT
American Gothic was AWESOME!!! Gary Cole was so good in that role.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 11:55:17 GMT
Sym-Bionic Titan
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Post by melkur on May 11, 2017 17:57:03 GMT
'Roadies' from last year
Maaaaaaybe 'Crime Traveller'?...
'Noah & Saskia' (one of my favourite shows when I was growing up and, whilst I'd say that it was all wrapped up by the end, it would be nice to see the two of them X years on...)
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Post by Ela on May 11, 2017 18:54:33 GMT
Firefly, of course.  |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on May 11, 2017 19:06:06 GMT
Primeval. It was poorly treated by ITV and deserves another chance.
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Post by doomlord on May 11, 2017 19:27:27 GMT
The Tripods, Blake's 7, Firefly, Sapphire and Steel, The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 21:15:16 GMT
The Hammer House of Horror!
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Post by agentten on May 11, 2017 22:49:57 GMT
Two big ones, Twin Peaks and The X-Files, I'm happy to say I can mark off this list.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Huge cliffhanger that still frustrates me because it set up a great idea for the third season.
Hannibal - It seems possible we will see this again someday. The final episode is satisfying to me, but it does feel like there's more story to tell.
Battlestar Galactica (1978) - Up until the passing of Richard Hatch I would have loved to see a next generation Galatica that utilized as much of the original cast as possible.
Wonderfalls - Great premise and execution and we just barely got a taste of it before it was gone. Thankfully, it was at least released on video.
The Invaders - In some ways, because of the paranoid nature of the story, this is a show that works well without an ending, but I'd love to see it come back for more.
Community - The show has a great finale, but the fan mantra has always been "Six seasons and a movie" and it'd be nice to see that pay off.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 22:53:44 GMT
Community needs a movie, Firefly needs to come back, more Hannibal would be welcome and just because I would love to see more House in any way shape or form.
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Post by omega on May 11, 2017 23:03:52 GMT
Community needs a movie, Firefly needs to come back, more Hannibal would be welcome and just because I would love to see more House in any way shape or form. Firefly has continued in Dark Horse Comics's Serenity series (Fox holds the copyright on the Firefly name). The most recent mini-series, No Power in the 'Verse, has just wrapped up. |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 23:35:02 GMT
Sapphire & Steel would be really interesting to see nowadays, particularly given P.J. Hammond's work on Torchwood. Time as an antagonistic, hostile force has its uses, but it would be fascinating to see what else pushes through as a result of its interference. I'd love to see a story where Sapphire & Steel become trapped in a children's storybook, like the omniscient narrator for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh helping Tigger down from a tree using a paragraph or three. Maybe one where they end up at a Russian submarine pen during the 1980s or with a bunch of debunkers set out to prove that a French woodland doesn't contain aliens.
I'd like to see a redo of Crusade, it had a lot of really good potential that was squandered by in-fighting with the production studio. Someone came up with a show called Star Trek: Pendragon with a similar concept based around Arthurian legend which I would have loved to see on-screen. If for nothing else, but this exchange:
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 0:07:59 GMT
Community needs a movie, Firefly needs to come back, more Hannibal would be welcome and just because I would love to see more House in any way shape or form. Firefly has continued in Dark Horse Comics's Serenity series (Fox holds the copyright on the Firefly name). The most recent mini-series, No Power in the 'Verse, has just wrapped up. Thanks, Ill check them out. |
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Post by elkawho on May 12, 2017 2:49:57 GMT
Firefly, American Gothic, Almost Human, Timeless, Eli Stone
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 3:11:00 GMT
I don't know if we'll ever see any sort of TV or movie Firefly continuation. Look, I love Firefly, I do, but the whole Reavers plotline was so incredibly misconceived and tone deaf that it actually made me give up on the series and only I came back to it because a friend of mine was binge watching it and Serenity. I love Whedon, but.....yeah. Today, it'd only generate more controversy.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on May 12, 2017 5:17:12 GMT
I don't know if we'll ever see any sort of TV or movie Firefly continuation. Look, I love Firefly, I do, but the whole Reavers plotline was so incredibly misconceived and tone deaf that it actually made me give up on the series and only I came back to it because a friend of mine was binge watching it and Serenity. I love Whedon, but.....yeah. Today, it'd only generate more controversy. How the Reaver storyline was resolved was a bit misconceived, but the TV series basically played them as 1940s/1950s western Indians, a random roving set of nasties to upset the best laid plans of the heroes. |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 5:47:08 GMT
I don't know if we'll ever see any sort of TV or movie Firefly continuation. Look, I love Firefly, I do, but the whole Reavers plotline was so incredibly misconceived and tone deaf that it actually made me give up on the series and only I came back to it because a friend of mine was binge watching it and Serenity. I love Whedon, but.....yeah. Today, it'd only generate more controversy. How the Reaver storyline was resolved was a bit misconceived, but the TV series basically played them as 1940s/1950s western Indians, a random roving set of nasties to upset the best laid plans of the heroes. That's kind of the problem, though? Whedon could have played with the Wild West tropes, without retreading that ground. |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 6:36:24 GMT
I don't know if we'll ever see any sort of TV or movie Firefly continuation. Look, I love Firefly, I do, but the whole Reavers plotline was so incredibly misconceived and tone deaf that it actually made me give up on the series and only I came back to it because a friend of mine was binge watching it and Serenity. I love Whedon, but.....yeah. Today, it'd only generate more controversy. How the Reaver storyline was resolved was a bit misconceived, but the TV series basically played them as 1940s/1950s western Indians, a random roving set of nasties to upset the best laid plans of the heroes. That's unfortunate. I've never heard that interpretation before. Every single person I've come across has seen them as space fast zombies. Reminds me a little of the Hood from the original Thunderbirds. He wasn't scary because he was Far Eastern, he was frightening because of his inexplicable, supernatural influence over anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path. I didn't make the connection until a couple years ago. Just as an aside, it's odd to think that Hawaii Five-O of all shows has one of the best examples of quashing the Yellow Peril aspects of its Asiatic villain. Wo Fat becomes involved with a militant branch of the Chinese government set to assassinate their own foreign minister who is sympathetic to American interests. Later on, he's depicted as head of the Chinese mafia set to release an American-made nerve gas in his home country in order to reclaim his position in the Chinese government. |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 6:57:02 GMT
How the Reaver storyline was resolved was a bit misconceived, but the TV series basically played them as 1940s/1950s western Indians, a random roving set of nasties to upset the best laid plans of the heroes. That's unfortunate. I've never heard that interpretation before. Every single person I've come across has seen them as space fast zombies. I think it depends on your farmalarity with the wild west mythos. I saw a lot of old Westerns with my Grandfather as a kid growing up and had the talk about them. |
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