Thank you all for the show recommendations
Firefly
Still hurts
Even Frasier got a reboot but not this one. How disappointing.
Honestly? With the benefit of hindsight, I’m actually pleased it wasn’t given the chance to become a Dollhouse.
The movie gave closure, and we left the characters in a good place.
Dollhouse gave us 5 seasons of content in one, and ruined itself in season 2, and many other shows have just run until everyone was sick of them, before getting an anticlimactic ending anyway.
Wash would like a word with you…
The correct answer.
Damn. Right in the feels.
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This right here showy how Lemmy is superiour to reddit. Back there I always opened the comments whenever this topic was posted (so, once a week) and usually had to scroll waaaaaay down to see the correct answer.
Here it’s #1. And 2#.
Firefly
Edit: oh ya, and Farscape!
FIREFLY
If you like firefly there’s another show similar that was also cancelled too soon. Darkmatter. I actually prefer it over firefly tbh.
Will check it out, cheers
The comment from @resolved3874 just above this implies this would be a pathway to sadness.
Game of Thrones. Sad we never got to see past season 6…
Serious answer: I just heard The Peripheral got cancelled after Westworld also got cancelled :l
Re Peripheral …. Seems to be a victim of the strike, according to Wikipedia. Last I heard it was renewed for a season 2. But they canceled it anyway.
Shit I liked that show and the story. I guess at this point don’t watch any streaming shows. They are getting to have the google effect it’s all getting cancled before the story finishes so why start.
The expanse.
Although I would’ve loved to see them complete the entire story I was still pretty satisfied with how they left it (other than the edits they made for Alex’s story).
Unfortunately, the changes to Alex’s story were do to the actor’s own actions.
Cas Anvar is a douchebag. He ruined the show for me.
At least we have the books which did a fantastic job wrapping up the entire story
The Expanse could always be picked back up if Amazon would get it’s head out of its ass. It stopped where the books do a time jump forward and the characters are older.
It didn’t got cancelled to be fair. It was a great show that run much longer than it’s viewership can support, and it was announced way earlier that the story will be wrapped by 6th season.
The Expanse universe is not abandoned either. Telltale Games just launched a new Prequel adventure game a few days ago: https://store.epicgames.com/tr/p/the-expanse-a-telltale-series
I haven’t seen any reviews of the game. Is it any good?
It did get cancelled. Twice. The show ended roughly where the 6th book ended and was intended to complete the last 3 books, but because it was cancelled, we didn’t get to see how they would have handled those books without the time jump.
I think the most we might get is a movie. But it would be wild if in ten years or so they actually got the cast back and continued the story like in the books
The time gap between books 6 and 7 would have been difficult.
The Walking Dead.
Should have been cancelled like 9 seasons earlier.
Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. “I think we’ve found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem…”.
Yeah but for the first few seasons the problems were new and interesting at least.
First season was directed by Frank Darabont who is awesome at making great movies from written works of art. Then AMCunts saw this and fired him after awesome season one and replaced him with Glen Mazzara who never made anything worthy of note. They also doubled the number of episodes for same content and requested that more episodes are shot indoors to make everything earn more money. And it fucking worked.
I stopped watching when they introduced horrible CGI and fake gun effects (no knock back, no shell ejection, no slide movement).
I’d argue the first few seasons - apart from the horrible acting from time to time, and prolonged passages just to stretch time, and filler episodes, and dumb people, and…
Yeah, it was shitty from the beginning.
That and the stupid Hyundai always looking like it just rolled out of the shop.
And you remembered it was a Hyundai, advertisers win again!
Yeah, but not quite. I’d never buy one because of this though.
Fun fact: I’m an online marketeer.
… for Kia
Haha I wish, but I get where you’re coming from
I was with them up to the end of the second season with the farm.
After that they fell into the cycle of characters having to be excessively stupid to inject drama.
I stopped watching at the point where they pretended Glenn was dead, but he was actually hiding under the bin. Not because it was a cheap trick, but mostly because that was the point where I realised I no longer cared who was alive and dead.
Yeah, that was almost the breaking point for me aswell. And IIRC it was a last episode of a season aswell. Fuck that cliffhanger.
I stopped watching when Glenn finally died. Mainly due to the fact that I found out through social media because I missed the first episode of that season when they revealed who got beat with Negan’s bat, and everyone on social media ruined the reveal.
He was my favorite character, and I know in the comics he dies much earlier than in the show, but I lost interest after that.
On the other hand, I would have been happy if Z-Nation had gone on as long as The Walking Dead.
I was thinking the same for X-Files lol
Heresy
I’ve got two:
Stargate: Universe. I never got into Stargate before, and I really liked what was going on with Universe. Longtime fans didn’t. Though, after going back and getting into SG-1 and Atlantis, I very much understand why they hated Universe. The original shit is so much more fun, where Universe was overly serious. I still like the concept, but I think it would have been way better with the campyness of the original shows.
The second is Limitless. It was really fucking good. It was constantly pulling me in. And they cancelled it because too many people found it to be “unrealistic.” I’m sorry the show about a neutropic drug that makes you into a super genius isn’t real enough for you.
Came here specifically to mention Stargate: Universe. It was so good until it got cancelled.
“That is one sweet potato” is still an inside joke I share with a couple of folks.
Yep. Was gonna post SGU if it wasn’t already here! It was an interesting show with a good cast.
It could still be rebooted since there were a ton of people on the ship and all of them were in stasis when the show ended.
Another property Amazon is sitting on.
SGU was a soap opera in space. So much drama between the characters instead of an outside force much of the time. SG1 was mostly focused on the SG team working together against something external like the goa’uld. Very rarely was there anything other than comradary or in jack and sam’s case, romantic feelings and/or sexual tension. The chemistry between the main cast was great. SGA had some degree of intracast member tension but by and large they still worked together well. SGU had a lot of mistrust between Rush and everyone else and for good reason. He was an arrogant dick that put his own interests above others a lot of the time. Keeping secrets from them and generally being unlikable. Eli’s arc was just sad. He was away from his mother who later became ill, watched the woman he had a crush on choose someone else and had to personally sever the connection between him and his new romantic interest to save Rush then if that wasnt bad enough, we dont know what happens to him after the finale. SGU might have been ok and I stress ok but not on par with SG1 or SGA if it was a completely separate franchise but alas, it was part of the same franchise and there was no justifying that it held its own against the others.
I finished season two after they canceled it thankfully. I’m glad I didn’t wait in anticipation for it.
Such a cool idea.
There it is. Didn’t think I would find it.
It was amazing. Something completely different and much darker. Still sad it got cancelled :/
2015 or 2022 ?
I dropped off of Limitless HARD after the “smell o vision” episode. I understand it’s just entertainment and none of it is real…
But that was too much of a leap to make in terms of suspension of disbelief. I watched Stargate Atlantis, really liked a lot of the show.
Better Off Ted
Thank you! I still watch it all the time.
That sounds like a Breaking Bad spin-off…
No, it’s one of the funniest shows ever.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Star Trek: Enterprise
Freaks & Geeks
Sense8
There aren’t enough of us that appreciated and mourn Enterprise 😔
It’s been a long time…
It was cancelled right as it found it’s footing. It’s like the studio forgot that every Trek show takes about 2 seasons to really find itself and that it then takes a few seasons for the people that wrote it off to give it another chance.
Oh, Terminator was so good. Lena Headey was great as Sarah Connor.
Firefly. Sons of Tucson.
I’m sure there are others.
My Name is Earl. One of my all time favorites and it was surprise cancelled on a cliffhanger.
I am rewatching My Name is Earl at the moment. It is still great in my opinion.
If you want closure, here’s what was planned for the ending:
Garcia said the finale would begin with Earl getting stuck on a really hard list item, frustrated that he would never finish crossing everything off his list. “Somebody shows up at our motel door,” added Suplee recently, “finds us at the bar, and starts to make amends to Earl for something.” Earl would then question where the man got such an idea and “goes back and finds all these people who have lists, who are out there trying to do good, and it all comes back to him. He was the beginning of this.” Garcia concluded, "Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with lists and that he’s finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma.
Dirk Gently’s :( fuck you Netflix.
Seriously, cancelling the show WHEN THEY FUCKING OPEN THE HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY?? My boy Elijah Wood was soo good on this!!! :((
I don’t understand why Netflix doesn’t just make movies instead of TV shows.
Or make short series instead of multi-season.
They are good at making great first season TV but then if it doesn’t get their magic number they cancel it and leave their customers hanging.
Just make the one season as an open and closed thing and call it that so no one gets their expectations up.
If it becomes some awesome hit thing, make an actual series as an offshoot / spinoff type thing.
Netflix only cares about new subs. New IPs drive new subs. New seasons of old IPs are money spent on people who are already customers. They make one season of a show you’ve been waiting for, you sign up, you watch that season, they cancel the show, statistically speaking you probably don’t cancel your subscription and then they redirect that money to running the same game on someone else.
So… Fuck capitalism?
This is peak capitalism. Taking your money, not caring about providing you with the service you paid for, and expecting you to bend over and take it.
AKA enshittification
Exactly.
I really don’t understand their business model tbh.
It seems like it’s just “burn as much money as fast as possible”.
had this one in mind reading the question, made me sad !
fuck’em!
Literally one of favourite TV shows ever, and just two seasons*. So many good feelings and great characters. Awesome actors and some of Douglas Adams’s best books ever?
Netflix fucking sucks man.
edit: corrected by peep
Two seasons.
It had so much potential and they just threw it away :(
You think Netflix fucked over that Dirk Gently?
ITV made a Dirk Gently show that was FOUR EPISODES LONG and it was better than the other show.
Gotta admit I didn’t watch that… I found out about it after I finished the Netflix show, and that it was cancelled. So I felt salty. Maybe I should watch it…
It’s much closer to the books. It deserved at least a British season of six episodes.
I also like Stephen Mangan’s Dirk more than Samuel Barnett’s Dirk, but then I’d watch Stephen Mangan read a newspaper.
I don’t think The Orville was officially cancelled but there doesn’t seem to be any plans for more as far as I know. The last season was great and set up more potential storylines.
Rome on HBO was a solid show covering an exciting time in Roman history. Sucks that they only had 2 seasons.
It was too expensive to rebuild the set after the fire. I loved that show.
Freaks and Geeks.
One of the greatest!
Santa Clarita Diet
Beat me to it. I complain loudly and frequently to anyone who will listen.
I’m still mad!
this is way too far down.
