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Series you wish had lasted just one season longer
- Thread starter Squarehard
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Yeah, I'd like to see their approach.
I suppose technically there's still a chance? I'm not convinced.
I forgot about this one--the show was getting a little long in the tooth and it was time to wrap things up, but they definitely deserved a season to really wrap things up.
There are a ton of other shows I'm seeing listed that I'd have liked to have longer runs (Galavant definitely died too young, but I also feel like it had multiple seasons of ideas left in it) but this is one of the few where I'd definitely like one more season with no real aim to continue.
Admittedly, it's been a few years since I've rewatched it but I recall always being really content with the ending. The highlight of the show was how perfectly it encapsulates the youth culture of that time and
saying "fuck this, I'm running off to follow the Grateful Dead"
Damn that fucked. Guess in a way it gave Netflix another reason to let it all go besides Covid. Sucks for the rest of the cast, I hope they get a lot of success cause I enjoyed their work. Kathryn Newton though she hella moved up after this show lol.
It definitely wasn't their intended ending. It was cancelled because of low ratings, NBC fucking up episode scheduling and airing it during prime time so they had to compete against the most popular shows at that time. It wasn't the worst ending, but there was definitely more room to grow and develop these characters. I would really have liked to see at least one more season.
The way season 2 ended was such a fucking big move, I so wanted to see more. Even just one season, hell a movie at least. Just let them finish it fuuuck. Will always be mad at Netflix for that.
Fuck, why did you have to remind me of this...
Such an insane cliffhanger to end the series on. Ugh...
I don't think there is. I've given up on it getting an ending.
i know. its one thing if it was like some open ended interpretive thing like season one, but nope this one ended like WE GOT PLANS BABY. then netflix fucked that right up. sigh.
crap can't believe I didn't list that.
S2 was so good. What a damn shame!
Think they had 5 seasons mapped out
Southland. Ended on a weird cliffhanger.
My real request though is an odd one of sorts. Babylon 5. It did get 5 seasons but! They initially thought they were getting canned after 4 so they condensed all of the plot lines to end the series in season 4. I wish they had the time to do it properly as was envisioned. The season 5 we ended up getting wasn't that great in my opinion.
My real request though is an odd one of sorts. Babylon 5. It did get 5 seasons but! They initially thought they were getting canned after 4 so they condensed all of the plot lines to end the series in season 4. I wish they had the time to do it properly as was envisioned. The season 5 we ended up getting wasn't that great in my opinion.
My first thought too, it's a crime it didn't make it past one season
Thankfully it's pretty easy to see where they were ultimately going based on Spider-Man comics and comments made from Greg Weisman.
Peter and Gwen would have eventually gotten together and finished high school. Norman returns and murders Gwen. MJ helps Peter through his grief, and eventually they get together. Oh, and MJ reveals she knows Peter was Spider-Man.
In no particular order; these are some shows in the last year I've finally caught up on and its a travesty they were cancelled or at least denied a final wrap-up season:
- The Newsroom
- Better Off Ted
- Happy Endings
- Traffic Lights
Currently rewatching it to torture myself, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (BBCA). I can't be too mad because Max Landis is a piece of shit, but afaik it was cancelled due to lack of viewership.
Oh hmm I guess I am. I had no idea they did a 2008 series. I thought he was referencing the 90's animated series which also ended on a cliffhanger.
These were the first three to come to mind for me :P
Unfortunately, I agree. It was very clear that the showrunners were over it and were looking to wrap it up asap and move onto Star Wars (hilarious how that turned out). I don't think they would have even agreed to another season, I'm sure HBO would have been fine with it.
Farscape
Space Above and Beyond
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Universe
Firefly
Earth 2
Star Trek Enterprise
UFO
Blake's 7
And many other scifi shows cut down in their prime.
One day I hope we find passages to alternate realities where we can trade for all the seasons they have of these awesome scifi shows and in return we give them all the seasons on what their world was just a failed Tracey Ullman Show spin-off called The Simpsons.
Space Above and Beyond
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Universe
Firefly
Earth 2
Star Trek Enterprise
UFO
Blake's 7
And many other scifi shows cut down in their prime.
One day I hope we find passages to alternate realities where we can trade for all the seasons they have of these awesome scifi shows and in return we give them all the seasons on what their world was just a failed Tracey Ullman Show spin-off called The Simpsons.
this may sound weird, but Avatar The Last Airbender (Spoilers Ahead) should have got a full season of zuko and suki on team avatar. like they did the best job with the time they had but its even referenced in the show where each character essentially had a life changing fieldtrip with zuko to make him fully part of the team. and then the finale happens.
and suki in all future media was shown as a full fledged member of the team. but she got very little interaction with the team beyond sokka.
I would have another season to fully cement zukos alliance change, give suki far more development with the rest of the team. also give toph some kind of purpose or actual end to her arc. maybe a reconciliation with her family. make the lion turtle/energybending thing less of a last minute Deus Ex Machina. (like i kinda wish the energybending involved the whole team rather than just ang.) and finally, make Azulas descent into madness feel less abrupt. oh also i dont know, actually explore the zukos mom mystery which they dumped onto the comics.
also, 1 season per element. water, earth, fire, air i mean air as the final season is a sorta stretch. but its where ang learns a peaceful way to stop ozai, which is what airbenders are all about, peaceful resolution. and its like the air is getting cleared of the fire nations smoke. idk i just want the books to match the intro.
and suki in all future media was shown as a full fledged member of the team. but she got very little interaction with the team beyond sokka.
I would have another season to fully cement zukos alliance change, give suki far more development with the rest of the team. also give toph some kind of purpose or actual end to her arc. maybe a reconciliation with her family. make the lion turtle/energybending thing less of a last minute Deus Ex Machina. (like i kinda wish the energybending involved the whole team rather than just ang.) and finally, make Azulas descent into madness feel less abrupt. oh also i dont know, actually explore the zukos mom mystery which they dumped onto the comics.
also, 1 season per element. water, earth, fire, air i mean air as the final season is a sorta stretch. but its where ang learns a peaceful way to stop ozai, which is what airbenders are all about, peaceful resolution. and its like the air is getting cleared of the fire nations smoke. idk i just want the books to match the intro.
Joss is a pos, I'll get that out of the way now, but I still feel a little bitter that Angel ended how it did.
The show was only getting better with every season, and the 5th was the peak (except they clearly scrambled the last episodes together after the news of the cancellation so it gets a little messy, even if the ending is fine).
Season 6 was planned to be a continuation of the same setting, it would've been great. Oh well.
The show was only getting better with every season, and the 5th was the peak (except they clearly scrambled the last episodes together after the news of the cancellation so it gets a little messy, even if the ending is fine).
Season 6 was planned to be a continuation of the same setting, it would've been great. Oh well.
Deadwood at least got a movie ending.
I would say Rome. All it needed was one more season and the second season wouldn't have to rush through the story.
