Firefly. Can't think of anything that has been cut that I care about.
Yarggg said:
Stargate Universe. Hasn't been cut yet but it has been announced.
That show is awesome.
It has been cut, three episodes left.
I'll watch the end to see how they will do it, but I'm glad they killed it.
Whoever was doing the writing needs to be slapped. I wanted to watch a Sci-fi show, that mainly deals with the Stargates, Aliens, and finding out more about the universe of the show; I didn't want an angsty soap opera with love triangles and what not.
They also messed up by adopting the horrible filming style that Battlestar Galactica had. It's grainy, dark, and has way to much camera movement. Instead of wasting seconds of camera time by quickly panning from one person in a conversation to the next, just blip the camera from person to person. That way I don't feel like I watching someone making a home movie of the events.
Back on characters, they focused way too much story time on just characters. Most episodes are around 10 minutes at most of real sci-fi subject matter, while the rest of the show is people squawking at each other about who loves who, or who hates who.
Example: The civilian leader's lesbian relationship. All the time wasted on her going back with the stones and talking with the other woman. If that had been totally taken out of the show, never been shown, it wouldn't have harmed anything. The only thing it did was add filler because somebody over there couldn't think of any more plot to add. Which is bad, since there was only ten minutes of real main sci-fi plot in each episode. They have weeks to write and plan each episode, if I worked hard for one day, I could easily write more plot than they did. A good balance for a sci-fi show is at least 30 to 35 minutes of main plot, and 8 minutes max of filler. And that is what the relationships stuff was, filler. It didn't matter to me what kind of relationship she had. It just wasn't important to the story or show.
Episodes that were mostly filler, that is what killed the show. All one has to do is watch the other two Stargate series to see that they horribly changed things up with Universe.
Now SyFy blamed the bad ratings on that it was aired on a bad night. No reasonable person is going to buy that story. It had bad ratings because it was a Stargate show that wasn't set up or written like a Stargate show. Because of that, they pissed off the fans. I care so little for the characters, except Rush(he's the only good character), that when I saw that one episode where the colonel dreams about the Destiny being destroyed, I actually jump for joy and laughed because I thought that they actually killed the show and that is how they ended it, I still hope they end it that way.
The worst part of this whole fiasco is that the reason they canceled Stargate Atlantis is because they were riding all their money on Universe. There was going to be a Stargate Atlantis movie, but because Universe was canceled, they stupidly decided against the SA movie. What they don't understand is that they would get good money from a SA movie if it was written the traditional way, but my money is on that they didn't want to write it the traditional way.
So it was the creators' own faults for Stargate Universe being canceled. They screwed with what made Stargate great Sci-Fi and they paid the price, by receiving the wrath of core and loyal fans.
The writing and story has changed for the better as of late, but that is because they probably cut all the relationship stuff so they could fit the plot back in where it should be. It's a little too late, and little did they know, if they had done that from the start, they would have had an insanely popular show.
They probably won't, but I hope they learned something from this.
Goodbye SGU and good riddance; may your death not hinder the possible creation of a better and more traditional Stargate series.
