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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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.
I've heard the rumor of it taking a ridiculously long break, 10-20 years, before it will continue. Fincher wants to jump the storyline ahead from the 70's to the 90's and have the actors looks age appropriate. Who knows it'll that's really true, or anyone involved will still retain interest. But, if Twin Peaks can pull it off...
Farscape is always my answer to these questions. I enjoyed Peacekeeper Wars, but it definitely felt rushed. Had it been a full season, it would have been frelling amazing.
Stargate universe ended on a cliffhanger, stargate atlantis ended without dealing with the wraith threat or the evil asgard etc. Star trek enterprise's cancellation resulted in one of the worst most hated last episodes in scifi. Quantum leap ended without ever resolving the main plot. Inside job like most of netflix's decent shows, got killed off for stupid reasons.
It's worth a watch anyway if you don't mind it ending on an insane cliffhanger lmao. Real shame, one of the most creative and interesting sci fi shows out there.
The movie was pretty superfluously a power fantasy, but the show had actual likeable characters, and long-term intrigue. As far as cop procedurals go, it was way up there.
This is an older one, but The Critic. It was on two different networks and lasted only one season on each network. It was a funny show, but the inconsistent schedule killed it way too early.
“Happy”, I think a lot of people overlooked it because Christopher Meloni having a cartoon unicorn as a companion seemed cheesy, but the show wasn’t afraid to dive into truly horrific plot lines.
The less-grounded corner of my brain thinks the show was cancelled because it was openly talking about skeletons in the closets of network executives.
Pushing Daisies really deserved another few seasons, but the (previous) writer's strike left it with a really abrupt and unsatisfying end. There wasn't any other show quite like it.
And of course, the perennial winner of such threads, Firefly. At least that got a movie though.
Star Trek: enterprise. Probably not the best Trek show but it got dropped right when it had found its stride. Also I enjoyed the temporal war arc, which most trek fans seemed to hate. Would have loved to see the stuff they later revealed in interviews that was planned, like archer himself becoming the suliban leader from the future.
Arguably Enterprise should have ended before certain things happened in the last episode that fans HATED. Or reboot the friggen series and hand wave it away as part of the time cold war.
Music videos on MTV
Science shows on discovery channel
History shows on the history channel
Well-produced soft porn on Cinemax
Comedy shows with actual writers and actors
News shows with actual journalism
I actually liked that the show got a proper ending. This post shows that there are too many series that just pucker out without getting any plotlines resolved. Fringe had coherent seasons that all did something different instead of staying with a monster of the week formula.
I forgot how that show ended and convinced my SO to watch it. Imagine my absolute HORROR when that time came around and I realized what I had a just done to her. She was devastated.
Kidding aside, it's just not my type of comedy - neither are The Office or Seinfeld if you'd like to use this fact to gauge my taste - but I can't deny the wide appeal of any of these shows.
Not exactly a cancelation, but Star Trek TNG. All of the characters were far more developed than TOS's, which is why they didn't work as well in movies. Better for them to have their own episodes than to unsuccessfully have them share a movie. Any of them could have been just as good, if not better, as multi-part episodes.
I'd say that's mainly a consequence of needing to produce so many episodes per season, not an indication that there were no stories left for the characters.
Constantine. It had it's problems, like many Arrowverse shows at the time, but Matt Ryan was a fantastic John Constantine and I thought the show had a lot of untapped potential.
he has a fantastic run on Legends of Tomorrow, never seen the Constantine show as its not on any streaming I’m aware of so not sure how different the character is, but I imagine he plays it similarly. Legends itself is probably the best arrowverse show, after they get past the first season and stop taking it seriously.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I was in awe with this show. Had waited years for it and was not disappointed! I loved the story and the set pieces were absolutely gorgeous. You could tell a lot of love and care was put into it. I was hoping they’d go all the way with this show and that it would end naturally as a full prequel story to The Dark Crystal.
But no. Netflix pulled the plug on Age of Resistance after the first season because it was too expensive. It still stings to this day.
Reaper. It was a fun show with a great premise. Basically, a couple sells their sons soul to the devil before he is born. Then on his 21st birthday the devil arrives and informs him he is going to be a bounty hunter for hell. Also, Ray Wise played an awesome devil.
Final Space deserves to be mentioned here. I know there's a wrap up graphic novel slated and I'm super excited to see where Olan goes with Godspeed. But having the whole ip basically wiped off the face of the earth as a tax write off has to be one of the most messed up ways to cancel a show...
Yeah, Quentin is a bit punchable in the first episodes, but I really liked him as a character starting somewhere in the 1st season. Who I couldn't stand was Penny.
I'm glad to see Carnivàle has already been mentioned. If I could choose only one, that is it. There are many others that have been mentioned that are also on my list though.
About the only shows I can think of that I haven't seen mentioned but would also add are Penny Dreadful and Jupiter's Legacy.
Deadwood. It is still a classic top 5 HBO show, but unfortunately with so much wasted potential and unexplored storylines. I do rewatch it from time to time, but the knowledge of what could have been is kinda detracting from my full enjoyment of it.
Boardwalk Empire. It got more seasons than Deadwood at least, and also had a final episode which kinda wrapped things up, but it was so rushed and contrary to the general pace of the show that it is very jarring to watch.
This appeals to Hongkongers only, but I miss 頭條新聞 (News Headlines) (I made up this translation)
Despite its name, this was a sarcastic show aired on RTHK, an official government channel. It talks about a lot of events, poor decisions and wrong-doings of the government in a funny way. Unfortunately it was shut down in 2020, by the government.
Our democracy and freedom have been declining since then.
I didn't really watch shows on Netflix and I couldn't care less about people complaining about their shows being cancelled left and right. But Inside Job was recommended by my friend and I loved it. After finding out it was cancelled after 2 seasons, I finally understood the pain these people were feeling all along...
Exactly what I was gonna say. The show was just starting to get good again after a couple mediocre seasons, and then they fucking cancel it on a cliffhanger?
That show should have been cancelled when they turned it into a nonsense comedy that was like a low budget, unfunny Rick & Morty. An unpopular opinion, I know, but it started off with such potential and turned into a joke.
My folks loved it, I even got them to sit down with me and watch the animes first episode with me back to back with the live action one. My frustration is that it was close to being good... all untill the main villian opens their stupid mouth.
Of all the Netflix anime-to-live action adaptations, this one was the only one ive seen (sorry One Piece, havent seen it yet) that added something to the creative work of the orginal. Jet and Fey got real glow-ups with their characters and full 60ish min episodes all to themselves. Their anime counterparts got the same treatment, but the episodes were much shorter and we got to spend less time with just them. (We do not talk about Ed)
To me, the live action show fell to pieces when they introduced the villians and just how silly they were. At this point, enjoy it for what it is but expect 80% style, 5% substance, 15% of Netflix's nonsesne.
Rubicon was an interesting show. Could probably be rebooted. Especially if they could talk the actor who played the main character into making mysterious cameo appearances like he’s been in hiding or something.
Stargate Universe. It was Stargate meets Battlestar Galactica and I loved it. It wasn't without its issues, but I felt it was really finding it's feet. Then it ends on a cliffhanger after 2 seasons
I learned today that there are 2 shows called Flash Forward, but if you are talking about the one from 1995 with Jewel Staite then I agree. Also Space Cases.
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself. Thought it was very interesting, I loved the magic system and the characters were well developed. It was a really fun journey and the production was such an interesting vibe.
Crusade. The story was just starting to get interesting but JMS had used all of his pull just getting the fifth season of B5 on the air. I'm cautiously optimistic about the animated series that was hinted at by The Road Home but I'm also not holding my breath.
The Get Down was such a good show with a fun aesthetic. It was about the birth of hip hop but talked a lot about the politics and culture at the time. It lasted 2 seasons on Netflix and somewhat on a cliffhanger for a few characters, and I wish they got another season or two to fully wrap it up.
Bonding. First season was ridiculous wrt consent in bdsm but the whole shit was giving hilarious. S2 they tried fixing the consent thing and seemingly forgot to be as funny.
The characters had to race across the country, iirc the organizers of the race all had something to compel each driver to stay in the race.
It aired on a holiday weekend and they showed the fort two or three episodes like 3 or 4 times over the weekend and said they were going to cancel it because each time they aired the episodes viewership was less and less… well duh it was the same couple episodes over and over. I do not think episode 4 ever aired.
What about Brian. Mostly because I think it was the first show that I ever got into that was cancelled without resolving the story. Didn't know that was a thing that could happen.
I don't know the scoop on whether or not it's actually cancelled or if season 6 is in Max/Cartoon Network limbo or what is even going on with it, but I'm saying Summer Camp Island.
It voluntarily ended but one more season of Seinfeld. They said the show was getting too ridiculous but one more season of ridiculous would've been nice.
I am not okay with this - I was so excited when I watched that seried but then it was announced that it would be cancelled. The only season had a plot twist at the end that the comic didn't have and I was really excited to see where it goes. But Netflix couldn't let that happen.