If there was any TV show that was cancelled or cut short that you could see the planned continuation/ending of, which would you choose?
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Niche show, but Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Holy shit that was a great show and SO well written, but I can see why it wasn't well received on a traditional TV format - if you didn't watch from the beginning and keep watching to the end it wouldn't make a lick of sense. Definitely meant to be enjoyed with a serious watch of an entire series and not episodically.
I would give my left foot for a Season 3.
I just wanted to post this! It felt like they were setting up a really interesting overarching plot with the "backstage of reality", I wish they told us what their plans for that were.
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
Wheel of Time
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Stargate universe.
Battlegate Univactica?
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
Black Donnellys
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Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book's backstory.
I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.
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A series that basically nobody knows: John Doe
A guy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, not knowing who he is. But knows literally everything else. Basically walking Wikipedia
First season ended on massive cliffhanger and was cancelled
I always talk about this and also have the feeling no one knows about it. In any case I think I read somewhere that the idea was going to be along the lines of "right before you die you have a moment of clarity where you know everything, John had had a boating accident that led to that moment and he came back from the death". Honestly knowing what the future looked like sometimes I'm almost glad it got cancelled, because I think that would have been a bit of a boring explanation.
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
I'm surprised no one mentioned My name is Earl, it's a tv show about a guy who wins the lottery and is immediately hit by a car, he then hears about Karma so he decides to turn his life around by making amends for all of the wrong things he did. It's a very fun comedy, and it was cancelled on a cliffhanger because the producers specifically asked if they were getting a next season and were told yes.
This one is the one that hurts me the most, because they knew how the ending was going to be, but didn't got thr chance to film it, and it would have been perfect. Essentially he would have gotten to an item on the list that he just couldn't do, whenever he tried something would prevent him from doing it, and it would seem that karma was against him. But then someone would come to him wanting to make amends for something they've done to him, and he would ask where the person got the idea, and it would be because someone made amends to him, and he would keep pulling at that thread until he found out that he inspired people around him to make their own lists, and those people inspired others, and so on and so forth so he would feel that he finally did more good than bad and would tear up the list and continue with his life. Oh, and the cliffhanger? It wouldn't matter, it was just going to be an excuse to bring some celebrity, they didn't even knew who the father was going to be.
PS: if you liked My name is Earl, and you weren't aware there's another TV show by the same people called Raising Hope which is the same style of comedy, with a bunch of the same actors, and they make constant references to MNiE.
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Also apparently Joss Whedon is a cunt
Rewatching old shows is painful. So much homophobia and sexism and racism was played for laughs
And that’s just Xander.
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
GLOW!
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
Raised by wolves. Like, more than anything. I want to know what happens so badly.
It was such a unique, utterly batshit crazy show that just really started going off the rails in the best possible way at the end of season 2. There was something so hauntingly bleak about it all that I fell head over heels in love with and its cancellation hurts to this day.
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Didn't "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" get canceled?
I desperately want it back.
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I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I think it's would have depended if it were made as a planned story, or open-ended one that ends when it gets canceled. And after Buffy, my guess is it would have been more focused. On the other hand, it was on a more major network, obviously with way less freedom.
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Black Donnellys
Oh, yes. Which reminds me, Reaper.
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Red Dwarf, but with both Naylor and Grant continuing on from before the split. It felt to me that the quality dropped once they fell out and Grant left.
GoT, shame it got cancelled after GRR ran out of material, what would a sixth and seventh series looked like? Not some badly written, overly nasty, fan fiction, but actual quality as we had in the earlier seasons and books?
True Detective season one, by that I mean actually carrying on that plot line with the abuse cult rather than the "reboots" with new casts and settings in the future seasons. Those are great, I still want those, but I also want more of what we had in season one.
Hannibal, its time to revisit this overly stylized wardrobe of a cooking show
If HBO were smart, they'd just call Redo on the last one or two seasons with new, but seasoned writers. I rewatch genre shit like this all the time, but I can't be bothered with this one because the ending is so rushed. I constantly want to, but not once since the ending.
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
Loudermilk.
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
Constantine series. Damn is it good
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Raised by wolves. Like, more than anything. I want to know what happens so badly.
It was such a unique, utterly batshit crazy show that just really started going off the rails in the best possible way at the end of season 2. There was something so hauntingly bleak about it all that I fell head over heels in love with and its cancellation hurts to this day.
Stopped at first season after I heard it was cancelled. Really wanted to know what's the point of this honey pot planet and that wierd snake thing. Really like the concept of the show
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
Really like earth 2. This point it would have to be a reboot.
I swear there was a British version that was somewhat decent that was also cancelled but I cant remember its name.Space: Above And Beyond
Babylon 5: Crusade
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I always talk about this and also have the feeling no one knows about it. In any case I think I read somewhere that the idea was going to be along the lines of "right before you die you have a moment of clarity where you know everything, John had had a boating accident that led to that moment and he came back from the death". Honestly knowing what the future looked like sometimes I'm almost glad it got cancelled, because I think that would have been a bit of a boring explanation.
Yup, the creators talked about the planned premise
I kind of like it. Depending on how they reveal it and build up on it
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For me it would have to be The Owl House
I haven't seen this one mentioned yet, Daybreak.
Teen drama series about teens trying to survive in a zomble apocaylse, it was well written but what really makes me want a season 2 is the cliffhanger that shifts the entire show on it's head.
Throughout the series, Josh (the main character) is trying to get a girl called Sam, in the finale Sam rejects her because she notices he wasn't really in love with her. Josh was just trying to play a hero getting a damsel in distress, it was a amazing breakdown of toxic masculinity that makes so much sense if you rewatch the series with the twist in mind. Sam then becomes the leader, the position that Josh has been working for the whole series and that's the cliffhanger. I remeber people getting mad because those were the exact types of people Josh was. A season 2 could have gone even deeper into the toxic masculinity angle and that would have been awesome.
