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05-17-2007, 03:31 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: On average, The Atlantic technically!
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| Shows That Shouldn't Have Been Axed! Watched an episode of Now and Again last night and wondered why the hell did this get canceled so early on? Got me thinking about other great shows that have been canceled before there time so I thought we could have a simple thread on our top 5 shows that got canceled when they shouldn't of! Make a list and explain why! Here's mine in no particular order... Firefly - Nuff said really Now and Again - A great little series with a really good cast and a good script, just wasn't given time to flourish into a TV spectacle! Twin Peaks - With out this there would be no X-files, Northern Exposure or Lost! Granted with the second series was not as good as the first but it's still a hell of a lot better than most things on TV back then and at moment! Arrested Development - One of, if not the funniest shows on TV! Makes me laugh every time I watch it! The comic timing from all the cast is just perfect! Angel - A worthy successor to Buffy if not better in some ways! Much better than the last few seasons of Buffy! and just as they changed the dynamic, introduced spike, culled a few cast members and gets the highest viewing figures for the series, they have to go and cancel it forcing them to try and tie up 8 years of story build up and continuity into 3 episodes! Why I ask you when shows like this get axed, shows such as Charmed and Andromeda survive? Why? It's truly a crazy world we live in! |
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05-17-2007, 03:48 PM
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| SFM Guru  Join Date: May 2006 Age: 22
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| Enterprise: Last season was the best of all, really got their act together. Over There: A quaility show, even if your not american. Justice League and Xmen cartoons: lol, best shows ever. Not so much a 'shouldnt have been axed' as much as they didn't think it would be axed, but i'd liked to have known how they planned the Blade series to go. |
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05-17-2007, 05:58 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Realname: Michael Join Date: May 2006 Location: Regensburg, Germany Age: 24
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    | Space: Above and Beyond Do I really need to say more? Firefly Great show, great premise, great actors and of course TPTB who wouldn´t recognise a clue even if it bit them in the a$$. Crusade Initially TPTB tried to screw with it whenever they could and when the show finally got down to talk business the manipulated first half of the season had already poisoned the well. Legend Of The Rangers I´m sure we all agree the "weapons chamber" was a true FUD but it would´ve been interesting to see where a full season would have went. |
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05-17-2007, 06:01 PM
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| SFM Obsessed   Join Date: May 2006 Location: Serenity Valley Age: 26
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| Firefly Crusade Firefly Justice League Firefly Jon Doe Firefly Carnivale Oh... and Firefly  |
| My Modern Theory Of Natural Selection: Anyone dumb enough to do something stupid deserves the consequences... Stupid is an active choice. Countdown 5 Digital | |
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05-17-2007, 06:02 PM
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| SFM Oracle  Realname: Rich Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hull, Yorkshire, England Age: 39
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Blog Entries: 2 | DS9, killed off at 7 seasons so it wouldnt outshine TNG, and denied movies because "they wouldnt be economically viable", instead we get insurection and nemisis, thanks B&B. The adventures of Brisco Country Jr, if you havent heard of it, look it up. Space above and beyond, if it were around today there might have been at least a tv movie to tie up the loose ends. Family guy/futurama, stupid fox, at least they had the sence to bring them back when DVD sales went through the roof. |
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05-17-2007, 06:06 PM
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| SFM Obsessed Join Date: May 2006 Location: Serenity Valley Age: 26
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| My Modern Theory Of Natural Selection: Anyone dumb enough to do something stupid deserves the consequences... Stupid is an active choice. Countdown 5 Digital | ||
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05-17-2007, 06:08 PM
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| SFM Guru  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Newport Beach, CA Age: 24
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Firefly and S;AAB top my list of things I wish didn't get cut. Crusade sucked balls and we all know it. But I place blame for that on the producers and not JMS. The new B5 movie should prove to be pretty interesting. As for Trek....well, let's just say the worst things to happen to it were B&B. Ron Moore and co. did a good job of resurrecting Enterprise, but it was too little too late. | |
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05-17-2007, 06:24 PM
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| SFM Guru  | Space above and Beyond - The acting wasn't always great but there was so little crap, it was good solid narrative all the way through and the characters developed and weren't 'reset' at the beginning of each episode. Firefly - With the canning of Angel and this I think someone had something against Joss Whedon because I can't think of a reason to spam both shows other than fubar management. Trek - It died after DS9 really, Voy is cool but it was saved by 7of9 and not because of her characters leet hacker skills. Then it got better but let's face it the first episode was pretty dire and I thought a little too coincidental even for Trek. B&B sucked and for some reason either no-one could see it in the management or they were just dug in too deeply and wanted their meal tickets to life with eternal wealth. |
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05-17-2007, 06:38 PM
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| Better Dead Than Red   Realname: Andy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Syracuse NY USA Age: 24
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Firefly . . . COME ON! How do the suits rationalize canceling it? It should be it its fourth or fifth season by now . . . | |
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05-17-2007, 06:47 PM
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| just some guy  Realname: Roger Join Date: May 2006 Location: 90 degrees to reality Age: 44
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