Similar short-cut series?
POSTED BY: Crowley
UPDATED: Sunday, June 19, 2005 14:46
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I've a feeling this is gonna be a gorram long list:
John Doe
Witchblade
Millenium
The Lone Gunmen
Angel
Jeremiah
Good Vs Evil
Strange Luck
Brimstone
American Gothic
Jake 2.0
I think, of all these shows, John Doe and Angel were the two that most needed closure. (who was John Doe? can anyone tell me? Please?)
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I hate, hate, HATE the word 'cancelled'.
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Originally posted by FilmCritic3000:
I hope this helps! :)
It did! Thank you :)
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Originally posted by Chisbo:
Also, Space:Above and Beyond was good(but didn't it quit at the end of a season.
Yeah, Space: Above and Beyond got cancelled after finishing one season, but the season (and series) finale was a sort of cliff hanger. It closed out one story line (colonist POWs returned) but left the rest of the story (missing members of 58th squadron) as a cliffhanger. All they really had to do to finish the series satisfyingly (in my opinion) was make a 2 hour episode closing up all major story lines.
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Thank goodness someone got around to mentioning Sports Night. Yeah, it ran for two years, but it had a few more in it. I've watched the DVD set five times and I'm halfway through the sixth.
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Hey. I just discovered this thread, and I figured that this would be a good time to resurrect it.
I got a whole list of shows that should've lasted longer than they should have. The usual suspects include the original STAR TREK, FUTURAMA, SPORTS NIGHT, MR. SHOW and UNDECLARED. But there was one show that was on at the same time as FIREFLY, and while it lasted a full half season longer and some change, it was equally screwed over, despite it being an unconventional genre approach and a critical darling. I am, of course, talking about BOOMTOWN, the greatest cop show you've never seen.
The overall structure, the emotional content, the characters (especially David McNorris, who has to be the most complex character to ever be on a network tv show) and the overall tone of the show was just a sight to behold. And even though the second season only lasted about nine eps, I'm still waiting on it's DVD release.
And one show that lasted only two episodes that has always stuck with me, even five years later, was show on ABC called WONDERLAND, which was set in a mental institution and deal with the staff that worked there. The pilot is one of the best pilots I've ever seen, and the Madonna/William Orbit theme song to it is one of the more haunting tunes you'd ever hear.
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And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
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