The Friday Question: 11/2/07
The previous blog talked about Joss Whedon and mentioned the topic of this week’s Friday question. If you are an avid TV watcher, one of the worst things that can happen is watching your favorite show go bye-bye.
Now, good shows usually run their course and are due to be wrapped up at some point. But I’m talking about that show that never had a chance. It was good, but canceled before its time. Be it low ratings due to poor marketing, or a bad time slot, something happened to make the networks totally ruin your TV watching.
So this week’s question is this:
“What show did you love the most that YOU felt was prematurely axed?”
I have two, which I did mention before: Sports Night and Firefly.
I would probably chose Firefly as the top one because it only ran nine episodes and was getting better and better all the time. FOX wouldn’t even give it a full season to try and see what happened. I watch Jericho and there is no way that show compares to what Firefly was in its short duration, and yet FOX is bringing it back.
The characters on Firefly were the heart of the show and it’s something that Whedon does well. He also wrote the opening song for the show, which just gave it more of that special touch.
Sports Night, while canceled after two seasons, at least has a great wrap up in that final episode which gave it some closure. You can watch both seasons and feel pretty satisfied at the end.
Firefly…nope. At least the movie helped it along, but it wasn’t the same. I know Whedon had a ton more stories left to tell.
So what about you? What’s your favorite show that was canceled before it should have been?
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Freaks and Geeks is probably the pinnicle; great show, amazing writing (Apatow) and production, short run (less than one season) and not a great ending.
I also enjoyed Veronica Mars (which had plenty of stories left to tell) and SportsNight (I've only watched S1, because I wanted to save the rest for later).
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I plan on doing a blog next spring for the summer on shows that you need to watch on DVD that were short lived or whatever, and that's going to be on it.
I think one of your choices will be my wife's for sure :)
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Even when the story got criticized for veering off the season long mystery arc, it's safe to say that VM as a character had enough unique entertainment value to keep it all going much, much longer!
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The Flash was in the 90's, a little dated if you were to see it today, but it was well done at the time, it was cancelled simply becuase it was pre-empted by the Gulf war., episodes were never reshown, or placed in extremely odd hours, and thus never picked up as noone watched it (duh, noone had a choice).
Space Above and Beyond was the BSG of its time, it was a gritty diversity filled continual conflict between humans to get organized to repel alien invaders. If you thought Bill Buchanon was cool on 24, he was AWESOME as the commander on this series. This only lasted one season, and sure enough was a Fox series.
Both the Flash and Space Abovce and Beyond are on DVD today, I would recommend Space to everyone...I have it , anyone wanna borrow it?
Also...
I really did enjoy Drive, this year... right up until Fox cut the series after 4 episodes.... Hmmm, I see a pattern.....
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And I had almost forgotten about Space Above and Beyond. I'm going to have to search for that DVD. Another FOX sci-fi letdown.
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Also, Drive...I stopped after a few episodes...it was good, but started getting a bit too far-fetched. I also got a bit tired of the same freeway flashing by during all the chase scenes.
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Um, I really used to love My So Called Life. It was such a teen, mid 90s, grunge era show. Really captured that time well but only lasted one season. And it really started the careers of Claire Danes and Jared Leto. I also really wish Felicity lasted longer than it did...I'm getting teary just thinking about it.
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I also loved "John Doe" and "Touching Evil" and both those shows were cancelled after the first season. At least the main actors all went on to do more successful things. Dominic Purcell (John Doe) has gone on to do "Prison Break" and Jeffrey Donovan (Touching Evil) has gone on to do "Burn Notice" - both highly successful shows.
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