Predictably, Firefly and Megas XLR. I admit I would have liked to see Heroes return for a fifth season, but I admit that four seasons was pretty much its time.
Shows which died before their time
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Megas XLR and Samurai Jack... I gotta say I loved the 300 crossover with Jack and everything about Megas... something about a giant robot destroying the DMV makes me happy
Evil Con Carne, Arrested Development, Dead Like Me and the Angry Beavers. All those shows were awesome.
This.aeroblaster said:Sym-Bionic Titan
Look it up, one of the best shows ever, never renewed for a second season.
I found out two hours ago about this. I currently have a deep-seated and extremely petty hate for all my favorite CN cartoons at the moment (Regular Show, Adventure Time, Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.) and some that aren't (Clone Wars, Ben 10, Generator Rex, MAD) and some that have zero to do with anything (Superjail!, My Little Pony, Squidbillies, anything on [adult swim].)
Worst of all I feel quite mad at myself for not having contributed my viewership. I loved what little I saw of the show, then I got so busy with school that I simply forgot when it was on.
I don't care what the OP said.
Invader Zim was cancelled way too early, and for stupid reasons too.
Invader Zim was cancelled way too early, and for stupid reasons too.
I nominate the following . . .
TV Funhouse spin off on Comedy Central
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Invader Zim
Harvey Birdman Attourney at Law
Batman: TAS
That Clerks cartoon
and Home Movies needed more publicity . . .
TV Funhouse spin off on Comedy Central
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Invader Zim
Harvey Birdman Attourney at Law
Batman: TAS
That Clerks cartoon
and Home Movies needed more publicity . . .
As much as I would love to be 100% thorough and list every single murdered show since I have been old enough to appreciate quality as opposed to cartoons which were almost always nothing more then 30 minute commercials for action figures.
I'lll throw Firefly up again even though I came aboard the Serenity just recently due to the BBC/Discovery off-shoot, the "Science Channel" started running them again. I always menat to do it so much sooner after being highly impressed with the theatrical film but just never got around to it.
As far as Comedy shows go Arrested Development goes completely without saying. However I haven't seen anyone mention Wonder Showzen. Which for those unfamiliar finally took advantage of the extremely simple concept of making a epically demented kid show(Think Sesame Street on crack, meth, and heroin chased with some high qulity LSD). While yes the concept was simple, and obvious the execution was what made it unique.While lasting only two seasons every single episode was absolute comedy gold with massive replay value. The only exception being the last half of the "Patience" episode after your first viewing. I'll avoid spoilers since I really want to encourage you guys to check it out!
I don't want to make this post too much bigger so I will just add two more shows whose untimely deaths really made me wary of getting attached to TV shows.
HBO's DEADWOOD, AND CARNIVALE!
While Carnivale struggled to find an audience making the cancellation massively depressing but not surprising Deadwood was a completely different beast. Deadwood was not only a much better series then The Sopranos, but it was also beating The Sopranos in audience numbers. HBO killing that series when all it needed was one more season to be complete left me jaded to TV as a medium for quite some time. I'm still not over those losses even now with HBO being back on top due to shows like True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, and Game of Thrones. I still would love to kick some of the HBO executives in the balls.
I'lll throw Firefly up again even though I came aboard the Serenity just recently due to the BBC/Discovery off-shoot, the "Science Channel" started running them again. I always menat to do it so much sooner after being highly impressed with the theatrical film but just never got around to it.
As far as Comedy shows go Arrested Development goes completely without saying. However I haven't seen anyone mention Wonder Showzen. Which for those unfamiliar finally took advantage of the extremely simple concept of making a epically demented kid show(Think Sesame Street on crack, meth, and heroin chased with some high qulity LSD). While yes the concept was simple, and obvious the execution was what made it unique.While lasting only two seasons every single episode was absolute comedy gold with massive replay value. The only exception being the last half of the "Patience" episode after your first viewing. I'll avoid spoilers since I really want to encourage you guys to check it out!
I don't want to make this post too much bigger so I will just add two more shows whose untimely deaths really made me wary of getting attached to TV shows.
HBO's DEADWOOD, AND CARNIVALE!
While Carnivale struggled to find an audience making the cancellation massively depressing but not surprising Deadwood was a completely different beast. Deadwood was not only a much better series then The Sopranos, but it was also beating The Sopranos in audience numbers. HBO killing that series when all it needed was one more season to be complete left me jaded to TV as a medium for quite some time. I'm still not over those losses even now with HBO being back on top due to shows like True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, and Game of Thrones. I still would love to kick some of the HBO executives in the balls.
The Tick ; Firefly ; Futurama ; History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi (anime) ; Sealab 2021 (cartoon) ; Special Unit 2 ; Castle (if it ever ends it'll be too soon!!!)
ah also Haven, Better of Ted and Arrested Development i was really shipping for the boy and his cousin but the series ended stupidly (imho) before that
ah also Haven, Better of Ted and Arrested Development i was really shipping for the boy and his cousin but the series ended stupidly (imho) before that
I always thought The Critic could have lasted a few more seasons than it did. Two is not enough.
Or at least give it a proper ending. I'll let this image explain how I feel about the finale:
Or at least give it a proper ending. I'll let this image explain how I feel about the finale:
all i know is if they dont at least release a DVD collection of it i will seriously go forward with operation "Terner"AyreonMaiden said:This.aeroblaster said:Sym-Bionic Titan
Look it up, one of the best shows ever, never renewed for a second season.
I found out two hours ago about this. I currently have a deep-seated and extremely petty hate for all my favorite CN cartoons at the moment (Regular Show, Adventure Time, Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.) and some that aren't (Clone Wars, Ben 10, Generator Rex, MAD) and some that have zero to do with anything (Superjail!, My Little Pony, Squidbillies, anything on [adult swim].)
Worst of all I feel quite mad at myself for not having contributed my viewership. I loved what little I saw of the show, then I got so busy with school that I simply forgot when it was on.
im more pissed that the show didnt have a real finalie.Double A said:
I don't think a show ending in its prime is a bad thing...
It gives you a much better memory of the show.
For instance, Firefly ended strong and is loved by millions of nerds. If it continued it could have gotten worse or stagnated, souring memories. Black Books is another example of this.
The IT Crowd is probably the best example of a show that should have ended but instead took a train to shit town. It started as a brilliantly clever show about the general social ineptitude of an IT department, but then devolved into a mess of lazy writing about a department that sometimes has computers in it.
Don't be sad that your show ended in its prime. Be thankful that it didn't end as a steaming pile of shit.
It gives you a much better memory of the show.
For instance, Firefly ended strong and is loved by millions of nerds. If it continued it could have gotten worse or stagnated, souring memories. Black Books is another example of this.
The IT Crowd is probably the best example of a show that should have ended but instead took a train to shit town. It started as a brilliantly clever show about the general social ineptitude of an IT department, but then devolved into a mess of lazy writing about a department that sometimes has computers in it.
Don't be sad that your show ended in its prime. Be thankful that it didn't end as a steaming pile of shit.
Firefly. Can't think of anything that has been cut that I care about.
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.
It has been cut, three episodes left.Yarggg said:
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.