You have the power to bring back one cancelled TV show...
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ARG! Too many awesome shows to choose from. I can't pick just one.
Fanboy & Chum Chum is good, but Invader Zim was way better.Josh12345 said:
All of those are shows I would want to see come back, but Transformers Animated actually had an official end to it.CrazyGirl17 said:
Probably have to go with Firefly on this one. However Star Trek: Enterprise comes in close second. Although the first season or two were pretty bad I think they'd got in to something good by the 4th season and I reckon they could have got a few more seasons out of seeing the beginnings of the Federation.
Firefly of course. Also, if I had the power I would erase Stargate Universe from existence, and have had Stargate Atlantis continue on.
What I'm getting at is that there were two seasons, but there was no substantial external conflict. We know nothing about those blue aliens, the brown ones, and barely anything about the drone machine things. There wasn't even any good info about the ship. The only thing there was fleshing out of was the characters, but there was way too much of it and it was mostly angsty soap opera drama which also involved the most uninteresting and bland lesbian relationship ever, and it didn't even belong because it killed too much time that could have been used to push the actual show forward.
SG-1 and Atlantis worked because the characterization and interaction was kept to the proper limits, and for most episodes, didn't take over the majority of the episodes. There was always some form of arch enemy and we actually learned about each one. Plus, there was almost always some new planet or thing to explore.
SGU was basically an awful Star Trek: Voyager rip off, except in SGU the characters weren't exactly actively trying to get home. In Voyager, there was always at least one major external conflict and/or enemy per season, sometimes two or more, and we learned about each one, each alien race's inner workings. The problems I believe SGU had were, for one horrible writers, and that the premise of the show just doesn't work for the current 12 to 13 episode season set up that most hour long programs get these days, for at least two seasons. There just isn't enough space in the season to mess around with stupid and unimportant things like SGU did. It only had silly fleshed out characters, and that is it. There wasn't enough and interaction with proper sci-fi related things, like space, worlds, aliens, and the ship itself. It pisses me off that they canceled Atlantis for that SGU crap.
SGU didn't have the pacing needed to get the third season where they would be given 20 or more episodes a season. To get to that, they would have had to do the proper stuffing of the first two seasons with tons of interesting, barely main character related stuff, and flesh out and explain at least half or more of it, then when they got to a season with more than 13 episodes, they could slow down and move at a more relaxed pace. SGU had a pacing where it was like the writers thought they had at least 30 episodes in a season.
I just hope SyFy(changes back to Sci-Fi) learns what it did wrong with the show and does much better next time. Though I doubt that they did, because they did blame the shows failure on that the show was aired on a "bad night". No, SyFy, no, you alienated the vast majority of the Stargate fan base by making a horrible spin-off.
It was a piss-poor kind of trying. I for one didn't see much exploring, and there was very little external conflict. We had the tall blue aliens that were pretty much the space equivalent of a bad stalker, the brown aliens that almost were enemies but then were good though don't know if it was a sincere good, and then the drone machine things. The Lucian Alliance thing was external, but since it was isolated to the ship, it was really internal after the initial gate onto the ship.MarsProbe said:
What I'm getting at is that there were two seasons, but there was no substantial external conflict. We know nothing about those blue aliens, the brown ones, and barely anything about the drone machine things. There wasn't even any good info about the ship. The only thing there was fleshing out of was the characters, but there was way too much of it and it was mostly angsty soap opera drama which also involved the most uninteresting and bland lesbian relationship ever, and it didn't even belong because it killed too much time that could have been used to push the actual show forward.
SG-1 and Atlantis worked because the characterization and interaction was kept to the proper limits, and for most episodes, didn't take over the majority of the episodes. There was always some form of arch enemy and we actually learned about each one. Plus, there was almost always some new planet or thing to explore.
SGU was basically an awful Star Trek: Voyager rip off, except in SGU the characters weren't exactly actively trying to get home. In Voyager, there was always at least one major external conflict and/or enemy per season, sometimes two or more, and we learned about each one, each alien race's inner workings. The problems I believe SGU had were, for one horrible writers, and that the premise of the show just doesn't work for the current 12 to 13 episode season set up that most hour long programs get these days, for at least two seasons. There just isn't enough space in the season to mess around with stupid and unimportant things like SGU did. It only had silly fleshed out characters, and that is it. There wasn't enough and interaction with proper sci-fi related things, like space, worlds, aliens, and the ship itself. It pisses me off that they canceled Atlantis for that SGU crap.
SGU didn't have the pacing needed to get the third season where they would be given 20 or more episodes a season. To get to that, they would have had to do the proper stuffing of the first two seasons with tons of interesting, barely main character related stuff, and flesh out and explain at least half or more of it, then when they got to a season with more than 13 episodes, they could slow down and move at a more relaxed pace. SGU had a pacing where it was like the writers thought they had at least 30 episodes in a season.
I just hope SyFy(changes back to Sci-Fi) learns what it did wrong with the show and does much better next time. Though I doubt that they did, because they did blame the shows failure on that the show was aired on a "bad night". No, SyFy, no, you alienated the vast majority of the Stargate fan base by making a horrible spin-off.
Stargate Atlantis or SG1 with the late team (Bowder, Black et al). Not SG: Universe. If it wanted to watch BSG I'll watch BSG thanks.
You also forgot that FOX acted like a spoiled child that holds onto a toy that he doesn't play with anymore but won't let anybody have because it is his, by refusing Joss Whedon and SyFy's offer to buy the show so that they could keep it going.DumpsterHumper said:
Flash forward
2nd place - pinky and the brain.
3rd place - SGU. because it's better than SG1 and SGA (by better I mean not as childish)
4th place - firefly
2nd place - pinky and the brain.
3rd place - SGU. because it's better than SG1 and SGA (by better I mean not as childish)
4th place - firefly
Pushing Daisies. That was an amazing show. =( Think Tim Burton with a colouring book. It got cancelled a couple of years ago because of low US ratings but it did pretty well this side of the Atlantic.
