TV shows that deserve a second chance.
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Legend of Korra. After the abysmality of the second season I can't really blame people for not tuning in to season 3. But by God they should have. It's easily the best season yet, and can stand toe to toe with The Last Airbender. At one point I thought it was basically everything I like about anime, mixed with the best aspects of western animation and devoid of nearly everything I hate about anime.
Yeah, as much as some folk hated the lose of the isolation theme the show got better with two additions. The introduction of the Daedalus and ditching Ford for Ronin. After watching the first episode of Atlantis all I could think of was, bad guys show up out of blue, bad guys kidnap a group of good guys team, good guys go after bad guys, good guys find out that bad guys need good guys to live, good guys find out bad guys are a hell of a lot more powerful than they are or to put it another way SGA starts out exactly as SG1 did.
On a side note Universe did get a second chance from me. I hated it at first, it was way too slow paced and as a long term SG1 and SGA fan the new style of show just did not gel well but I gave it a second chance a year after it had been canned, bought it on DVD and ended up liking it. It really did get much better after the mid way point of the first Season.
Emmerich can suck it, I've got no issue with a reboot but the whole attitude of hating on the TV series after he sold the rights, claiming like his reboots will be the only definitive Stargate because that's what his original vision for the franchise was and ignoring the entire expanded SG universe. He can bite it.
Excluding Young Justice (it doesn't need me to mention it) I nominate these shows-
Sym-bionic Titan- Ok the show was repeatitive with the monster of the week but I would like to see it actually finish.
Thundercats 2011- I was far more invested in this show among the reboot cartoons show. Come on! I want to see Lion O defeat Mumra once and for all!
Wonder Fall- It had a quirky little synopis and from the sound of the potential future plot (another plastic lion that is not deform tell the main character to do bad things) it had potential.
The Tick- It was short lived but awesome show!
Sym-bionic Titan- Ok the show was repeatitive with the monster of the week but I would like to see it actually finish.
Thundercats 2011- I was far more invested in this show among the reboot cartoons show. Come on! I want to see Lion O defeat Mumra once and for all!
Wonder Fall- It had a quirky little synopis and from the sound of the potential future plot (another plastic lion that is not deform tell the main character to do bad things) it had potential.
The Tick- It was short lived but awesome show!
My vote is for Carnivale(2003- 2005), a surreal story about a carnival traveling the Dustbowl during the Depression. Had some really interesting imagery and notions about the spirit world, and mixed biblical lore in with some homebrew strangeness.
I felt Lie to me lost its way in the middle of the second series. I think he writers started grabbing at straws, adding and removing love interests after a few appearances and downgrading the supporting cast. Adding conflict for no reason between Lightman and his staff. It all got a bit messy.Whatislove said:
Making Tyr a mustache twirling villain and killing them off killed the show. First two seasons were great, third season had some great standalones, but after that it went downhill.Sea Sponge said:
Stargate Atlantis was a god damned great show. The characters were so fun and vibrant that it just made the show enjoyable to watch, no matter where the plot went. I think it was a smart move to make the comic relief characters to be the scientists rather than the military personnel (like in SG1), since I always found the "science" episodes so boring in SG1.
I'm told that the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is so-so. I know from experience that the following seasons are excellent.
I DEMAND MORE INVADER ZIM! OBEY THE FIST!
(Captcha: das oontz, now I want to go clubbing in europe. Ohhh yah)
Itd also be nice to get another season of Claymore. All the cool shit happens in the manga after the first season!
(Captcha: das oontz, now I want to go clubbing in europe. Ohhh yah)
Itd also be nice to get another season of Claymore. All the cool shit happens in the manga after the first season!
im glad im not the only one pissed that 'almost human' got strangled....i realy liked the back and forth between dorian and his human (lol)
for me, i would prefer another shot at Crusade (the babylon 5 spin off) than a rebbot of B5 itself (since we lost peter jurrasic, it just wouldnt work unless it was animated and they used his voice i think. no one i can think of, could play the great and silly londo molari better, if at all)
*edit seems i was wrong. londo is still with us, it was G'Kar we lost. ether way no one but andreas could play G'Kar and no one but Peter could play Londo ....
of course firefly...if they could make another series set *befor* serenity (the movie) we could have more full crew stories but i doubt they would...how about cartoon / books with their stories slipped in between episodes..guys..guys?
but yes. too many good shows these days are being canceled becasue the 'mainstream' types dont watch them
(ergo, its not some drama-llama laced soap opera style tween adoring, young adult drama show or true life / reality tv show stuff. just because its cheap to make, does NOT make reality tv shows better. its just means your budget goes further and you can make more of the same drek.)
or they get moved up the schedule so crap can be put on at the highest viewing time slot...
yes, im looking at YOU bbc....stop shoving the damn dance shows and singing shows on at the 6-7 slot....you know thats why the ratings for dr who dropped over the years after tennant left. it wasnt ALL matt smith or river song hate. your target audience has allways tuned in, its the social types that are getting ready on satday night at that time, who pop the telly on while getting ready to go out on the town that you loose...by the time 7.30 or 8pm hits, they are ready to go get waisted..they leave by then. want better ratings for it? shove the reality crap to 8pm and see the difference lol
for me, i would prefer another shot at Crusade (the babylon 5 spin off) than a rebbot of B5 itself (since we lost peter jurrasic, it just wouldnt work unless it was animated and they used his voice i think. no one i can think of, could play the great and silly londo molari better, if at all)
*edit seems i was wrong. londo is still with us, it was G'Kar we lost. ether way no one but andreas could play G'Kar and no one but Peter could play Londo ....
of course firefly...if they could make another series set *befor* serenity (the movie) we could have more full crew stories but i doubt they would...how about cartoon / books with their stories slipped in between episodes..guys..guys?
but yes. too many good shows these days are being canceled becasue the 'mainstream' types dont watch them
(ergo, its not some drama-llama laced soap opera style tween adoring, young adult drama show or true life / reality tv show stuff. just because its cheap to make, does NOT make reality tv shows better. its just means your budget goes further and you can make more of the same drek.)
or they get moved up the schedule so crap can be put on at the highest viewing time slot...
yes, im looking at YOU bbc....stop shoving the damn dance shows and singing shows on at the 6-7 slot....you know thats why the ratings for dr who dropped over the years after tennant left. it wasnt ALL matt smith or river song hate. your target audience has allways tuned in, its the social types that are getting ready on satday night at that time, who pop the telly on while getting ready to go out on the town that you loose...by the time 7.30 or 8pm hits, they are ready to go get waisted..they leave by then. want better ratings for it? shove the reality crap to 8pm and see the difference lol
Without a doubt Millennium. The first season of this show from the late '90s remains the best I've ever seen. The characters, the storyline, the setting, the atmosphere, the philosophical undertones; everything was of such an exceptional quality. And it had Lance Henriksen(love that guy) as one of his most impressive roles as a former FBI profiler who can peek into the mind of a serial-killer and now works for a spooky group of high-level consultants known as the Millennium Group. There is an overarching plot that involves the agenda of this group, but each episode is basically standalone with a distinct and highly intriguing new story.
The first season was just exceptional, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed(well, for me atleast). The second season was also pretty good but it slowly got kinda in a slump as Frank had to partner up which diminished much of the oppressive atmosphere and the storyline started to divulge heavily into conspiracy theory. The writers had to make a lot of concessions due to the the network(Fox) finding the show ''too dark''. Now compared to shows like Breaking Bad or The Walking Dead it can be considered pretty tame, but times change I guess.
Millennium was also way ahead of it's time, dealing with issues that are probably even more relevant today than they were back then. I keep gushing over it but the first season of Millennium, it's a truly amazing piece of work. Interestingly Lance Henriksen seems interested to reprise his role as Frank Black in a feature film, though Chris Carter(the series creator) is ''too busy surfing''.
The first season was just exceptional, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed(well, for me atleast
). The second season was also pretty good but it slowly got kinda in a slump as Frank had to partner up which diminished much of the oppressive atmosphere and the storyline started to divulge heavily into conspiracy theory. The writers had to make a lot of concessions due to the the network(Fox) finding the show ''too dark''. Now compared to shows like Breaking Bad or The Walking Dead it can be considered pretty tame, but times change I guess.Millennium was also way ahead of it's time, dealing with issues that are probably even more relevant today than they were back then. I keep gushing over it but the first season of Millennium, it's a truly amazing piece of work. Interestingly Lance Henriksen seems interested to reprise his role as Frank Black in a feature film, though Chris Carter(the series creator) is ''too busy surfing''.
On a single-season scale, I'd say The Leftovers fits this quite well. I was ready to drop out after the first four episodes, since all of them but the third one were pretty boring. Intriguing, interesting, yes, but still boring and meandering. I kept watching because episode three was really, really good and I hoped for more episodes like it.
Boy am I glad I kept watching, because episodes 5-9 have all been exhilarating, and I can't wait for next week's finale.
Boy am I glad I kept watching, because episodes 5-9 have all been exhilarating, and I can't wait for next week's finale.