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Cowboy Bebop, the live action one.
I know that a lot of teh fans of the original anime series hated it, but I never liked that and really enjoyed the live action one.
Also Star Trek: Prodigy.
My name is Earl. One more season and it could have been perfect.
Westworld. It was the final sason, had already been renewed, was already in pre-production, and they paid all the actors. But new management trashed it for a tax writeoff
Constantine.
Santa Clarita Diet. I just liked the characters, the actors have some real strong performances, and the plot was going down some interesting paths with the society of zombie hunters.
Better Off Ted was SO GOOD 😭
Edit: Almost forgot about Day 5. It was a Rooster Teeth webseries and some of that showed in the script and acting, tbh. But holy shit it was such a cool premise. Big mad that I’ll probably never find out wtf happens to that world.
Marianne, and The OA.
Firefly. Upset now and for forever.
I still rewatch the series and movie every few years and get pissed off at the end all over again.
Yeah me too… but knowing how Josh Whedon operates, fuck Josh Whedon
came to say its still firefly. Just watching serenity and I have not since it came out. Even bought the blue ray and did not watch it at the time. I have to say I like it a bit more. I think I was so sad at all the plot lines I could see them snip at the time that it just sorta depressed me when I watched it in the theater.
Mindhunter on Netflix
Truely criminal
Disney really f’up when they bought fox: gifted and runaways, AOS, all the X-men related spinoffs.
Raised By Wolves
It was a polarizing show, but my sci-fi heart loved it. Also the intro music was hauntingly beautiful.
I went over the wikipedia entry, and that show is just as weird and opaque as I remember it.
We never really got any answers to a lot of questions in the show. I actually loved how weird it was.
Came here for this. Still hoping someone will restart it at some point. It had excellent world building.
Netflix cancelling KAOS after one season.
they cancelled blood of zeus, because they dint want to continue the series, it was meant to go on for another 3 seasons. also heard netflix made any showrunners from cancelled shows legally unable to go to another network to continue the series.
The forever answer to this is Firefly.
But as for others: Babylon 5, Threshold, Black Books.
I don’t think Black Books was cancelled as such, I just think Dylan Moran was done.
Are we not counting cancellations by the writers?
You have to admit, Bab5 had a great run and the last season didn’t hold the appeal of the first 4.
The fifth season was good half way through, that’s when they didn’t renew the contract for a (much more expensive) sixth season, and Stracinsky suddenly had to wrap the story up.
The Santa Clarita Diet
It was stupid fun and a different take on the zombie genre with black humor (making death or violence humorous…not the racist one) and only had about one more season to wrap things up
Fuck you Netflix
Also …can I add Dark Angel?
Oh my god yes Dark Angel, still kills me. And also SCD, great show, and the combo of Olyphant and Barrymore? Be still my beating bisexual heart!
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I’m not a big Terminator-head, only seen half of the movies, but that was the version of Terminator I really got into.
TSCC ENDING SPOILERS, STAY OUT
The decision to end the show by having John jump into the post-apocalyptic future was wild, from a production standpoint. You have this show that’s in permanent danger of being cancelled and you go “What if we set up our ending so the next season is guaranteed to blow the budget because we can’t just film in present-day California any more?” It was a great hook, but I wonder whether they could have gotten a third season if they’d presented a smaller target.
I loved this show! But the abrupt “ending” just left so many plot points unanswered that I can’t rewatch it at all, because I get disappointed. The acting was quite impressive, especially Lena Hedley (Sarah Connor), who went on to play Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones
A lot of great performances, absolutely. And the long-form presentation is really what gave Summer Glau room to do the kind of “robot becomes human” work that is not really possible in the movies.
I agree that the ending is kind of too specific to be satisfying. I don’t mind ambiguous or open endings that leave you wondering (maybe forever) what will come next, but the ending we got told us too much and not enough at the same time.
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I feel like cutting the episode slightly early would have worked better if they wanted to craft a “maybe we’ll get a season 3, maybe this is the end” situation. If the cliffhanger was “Will John stay in the present or jump into the future?” and the show got cancelled there, there’s nothing promised about where this story is headed and the possibilities for what adventures come next are basically endless. Instead, the show told us exactly what direction the story was going in and then … didn’t do it. That’s worse to me.
