TV 30 day meme

[fleetfootmike]

If it's good enough for autographedcat, it's good enough for me.

Day 01 - A show that should have never been cancelled

And this one should come as no surprise: Firefly. Joss Weedon just has no luck with Fox, does he? Best TV SciFi show ever, great characters, great stories, great look.

Maybe the legend is inflated by it not having time to suck, like Buffy eventually did. But... still.... Damn, it was good.

Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this t.v season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best t.v show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First t.v show obsession
Day 29 - Current t.v show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[smmc.livejournal.com]

Can I mash day 1 and day 3 together and say Legend of the Seeker? 2nd season got so very good, it's still airing, but almost done. And it's been canceled. WAH!

If I can't? Day 1: Toss up between Farscape and Firefly.

[filklore-on-lj.livejournal.com]

Carnivale. A show following two different story lines, about a travelling carnival of strange people, and a priest and his followers, who are due to meet in a head-on collision, planned to happen in series 3.

Cancelled after series 2.

[filklore-on-lj.livejournal.com]

Looking at the bright side. It was because of Firefly's cancellation that Whedon made the wonderful 13th episode of Dollhouse - Epitaph One - as insurance against the same happening to that show. Pure genius.

I think maybe they should make that a requirement for TV shows - that you be obliged to also make a (normally unaired) "final show" that will complete a show should it be cancelled.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

" think maybe they should make that a requirement for TV shows - that you be obliged to also make a (normally unaired) "final show" that will complete a show should it be cancelled."

...The snag being that you'd probably have to update it each year (depending on the nature of the show). I personally never found JMS's pre-shot finale to B5 very satisfying, for example. It was an epilogue rathern than a wrap-up, and the series itself would have been just as good without it, plus there were the obvious missing characters from Season 5.

OTOH, what they've done with Chuck season 3 (where they clearly weren't sure they'd get a full season when they started) is masterful, [IMPLICIT-BUT-CAREFULLY-VAGUE-SPOILER ALERT; STOP HERE IF YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW!] creating major plot & character transition points at the places in the season where shows most often get cancelled. There are two eps mid-season, either one of which would have been a perfect "final ever episode", each with a big hint of "and our heroes went on to have fascinating lives after this... but that's another story!")

[plaid-dragon.livejournal.com]

Dark Angel. I'd love for it to have gone on to another series especially if it eventually resolved the Max/logan thing.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

The one good thing about the Dark Angel cancellation[1] was that they knew about it long enough in advance that they were able to wrap it up sensibly. Not perfectly, there were still things like the Max/Logan relationship left dangling, but at least it felt neither rushed nor truncated.

Incidentally, have you read the DA novels by Max Allan Collins? "Skin Game", "Before the Dawn" and "After the Dark". They follow on from the end of season 2, and do provide resolution. If not, remind me and I'll lend them to you (only the first is still in print according to Amazon, the other two are available used).

[1] Which incidentally caused me to boycott Firefly for a long time, because DA was cancelled in favour of FF which was itself cancelled...

[plaid-dragon.livejournal.com]

I haven't, on purpose. I don't like reading spin-off literature so I've opted to prefer an unresolved ending.