Disapointing Endings...

[JayEgo]

There've been a few series that have finished quite abruptly, due to network cuts, being axed or generally being thought of as too naff to continue, such as Eldorado (a UK soap that was a washout!) Amongst these, I was horrified to learn of Angel being axed in the US, despite not yet having managed to secure the funds to even begin to buy the show on DVD.

Worse, was the loss of Dark Angel. A series I do have on DVD, have thoroughly enjoyed wathcing and am in mourning for now that it's gone!

Anything that you think was gone before it's time?

Ja¥son xx

[McClance]

Crusade from J. Michael Straczynski. I would have enjoyed that series like I have enjoyed the series from which it spawned. :rolleyes: :cry:

[Kitsch]

Hey, I liked Eldorado, towards the end when they were desperately trying not to get axed it got pretty good (for a soap, anyway!).

I enjoyed American Gothic which didn't seem to get too many series as well.

[granath]

Crusade from J. Michael Straczynski. I would have enjoyed that series like I have enjoyed the series from which it spawned. :rolleyes: :cry:

I wholly agree. I adored B5...

[Jax]

Yeah I loved Dark Angel as well - and also I remember really liking Earth 2 but if I remember rightly, it didn't even last 1 season...

[Dawn]

Just from this last year: Wonderfalls, Tru Calling, Boomtown

From earlier than that: Dark Angel, Earth2, Pretender, Firefly (but at least there's a movie coming! :ok: ), Miracles, Veritas: The Quest, Wolf Lake and Roswell.

Some of these shows only got aired a few times, but I still think they would have been good. :tilt:

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I think that the WB's Tarzan got cut off far too soon after only 8 episodes :cry: I thought it had a real future. The animated MTV Spider-Man also seemed to be popular, but got dumped after its first season of 14 episodes.

[Jax]

Aahhh yes I rather liked Roswell too, and that reminds me I heard that X-Men Evolutions was cut as well, I rather enjoyed that one!

[Apocalypse]

Yeah I loved Dark Angel as well - and also I remember really liking Earth 2 but if I remember rightly, it didn't even last 1 season...


I really liked that show too.... how evil is Tim Roth(?)? :evil:

[Jax]

Do you mean Tim Curry Apo?? I love him in almost everything I see him in - especially Rocky Horror!

[Apocalypse]

Do you mean Tim Curry Apo?? I love him in almost everything I see him in - especially Rocky Horror!


*L* Right.... Curry, Rice, Roth... sounds like dinner! :evil:

[Shadow*]

Well you have all mentioned a number of series that I loved and made a hole in my, albeit small, TV viewing schedule when they finished - Dark Angel, Roswell & Wolf Lake.

Another that I enjoyed was Ultraviolet.

Link (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-4940/)

[granath]

I thought it was a shame Roswell had to end so suddenly too.

[Lady Cin]

Of those already mentioned, I loved...
Wolf Lake
Earth 2
Crusade

And a few that weren't mentioned already...
Space: Above & Beyond
Kindred: The Embraced
Mantis
V
The Lost World
Xena: Warrior Princess
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Relic Hunter

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:

[Bardmaiden]

Hey, I liked Eldorado, towards the end when they were desperately trying not to get axed it got pretty good (for a soap, anyway!).

I enjoyed American Gothic which didn't seem to get too many series as well.

American Gothic was cool, wish they had made more

[sglandon]

"I was horrified to learn of Angel being axed in the US, despite not yet having managed to secure the funds to even begin to buy the show on DVD."

We were a sad, sad household when Buffy ended, and then Angel. My older son freaked out at the end of Angel as only a irate 13-year-old can. "I HATE Joss Whedon! I can't believe he ended it THAT way!" Luckily, through creative budgeting, we have all of Buffy on DVD and almost all of Angel - Angels's last season will come out in February. We are the biggest nerds, I think - we have discussions like these characters are real! "Remember when Buffy did so-and-so?" :roll:

Stacey

[Jax]

Oh yeah Due South, starring Paul Gross as a mountie who came to America to find his father's killer or something, and he had a deaf wolf called Deefenbaker, I loved that show - he was so polite ;) :D

[Pickles]

I really loved Due South as well.

I also loved Joss Whedon's "Firefly". We haven't even had it on TV here, but managed to see it and thought wow, so we bought it on DVD. Everyone we have shown it too, says that the pilot is the best pilot they've ever seen, let alone the 13 episodes or whatever it was that was made. What were Warner's thinking when they pulled the plug on it. Totally mad. Can't wait for the movie though (but I guess I'll have to).

Pickles

[TamTam]

Some good answers already. Kindred, absolutely. Wonderfalls, disappointing that it was cancelled so soon, but maybe they thought it was too quirky for the audience. We were all very proud of Due South up here. It lasted several seasons in Canada, but only one or two in the States.

I loved Futurama, why didn't it catch on? And Mr. Bean, too, although there might be more episodes across the pond than there are here.

[Dawn]

I can't believe I forgot about Space: Above & Beyond!! I'm still :irked: that they took it off. I loved that one.

Due South was a favorite too. :ok:

[Dawn]

Just thought of another one: Highlander: The Raven. They left it on a cliff-hanger! :irked:

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Aahhh yes I rather liked Roswell too, and that reminds me I heard that X-Men Evolutions was cut as well, I rather enjoyed that one!

X-Men: Evolution got cut??? Aw, I didn't know that, it was an awesome show :cry:

[JayEgo]

Well you have all mentioned a number of series that I loved and made a hole in my, albeit small, TV viewing schedule when they finished - Dark Angel, Roswell & Wolf Lake.

Another that I enjoyed was Ultraviolet.

Link (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-4940/) I've got Ultraviolet on DVD now... Gave the Video set to my M'uthas partner I think...? :erm:

A really good series that did indeed feel like there was more to come... For years i was expecting the second series that never materialised :(

Ja¥son xx

[Flinx]

Just thought of another one: Highlander: The Raven. They left it on a cliff-hanger! :irked:John Doe lasted only one season & ended on a great cliff-hanger.

Flinx :crazy:

[Ian]

Bad endings? In two words - Blake's Seven.

[Stewart]

def initly blake 7 what a crap ending i was angry how the bbc finished it mind you i was onky a kid then but what a stupid way to go . also how about the way quantum leap ended we all wanted sam to come home awwww

[-H-]

Oh yeah Due South, starring Paul Gross as a mountie who came to America to find his father's killer or something, and he had a deaf wolf called Deefenbaker, I loved that show - he was so polite ;) :D

:faint:

I loved that show !!!!!!

I always wanted more .... and i wanted to find out what happened to the real vecchio (he was replaced near the end - under the guise of going undercover with the mob or something)

My favorite episode though had to be all the queens horses :D :D :D "enough said!" ;)

[-H-]

John Doe lasted only one season & ended on a great cliff-hanger.

Flinx :crazy:

You mean there isn't going to be any more John Doe !!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I wanna know what happens next !!!!

[Earthmother]

Crusade, Roswell, Pretender, Strange World Those are the ones I miss the most, but I would love to have seen some of the others mentioned.

[j_mercuryuk]

never knew so many people liked due south as well. me and my BF went through a DS craze. . . . it's so good through.
i presonally thought it was time for Angel to end, it was getting repeatative and i had got very bored of it, couldn't watch it.
Buffy ended too soon, or they decided to end it too soon. the last season was just so f**ked up.

[Yonuh Adisi Fiend Jedi]

I liked Poltergiest the Legacy

Now I'm not really sure if it was really axed but I sure haven't seen it in almost two years.

[-H-]

I've got Ultraviolet on DVD now... Gave the Video set to my M'uthas partner I think...? :erm:

A really good series that did indeed feel like there was more to come... For years i was expecting the second series that never materialised :(

Ja¥son xx

Ditto on the ultraviolet series!

I saw it when it first aired on TV and got hooked within 10 minutes of the first episode :D

Many moons later i saw something familiar looking in the DVD section at Tesco ... walked past ... and in a comedic moment walked backwards after a brain lag moment picked it up looked close ....

and loudly enough my housemates at the other end of a huge Tesco store could hear me .... "When did this come out on DVD!!!!"

needles to say i promptly bought it (along with a pack of Apple Dohnuts ;) ) and still to this day have it at hand :D (the DVD not the Dohnuts)

Shame they never took the series any further :cry:

[murphy]

I really loved Due South as well.

I also loved Joss Whedon's "Firefly". We haven't even had it on TV here, but managed to see it and thought wow, so we bought it on DVD. Everyone we have shown it too, says that the pilot is the best pilot they've ever seen, let alone the 13 episodes or whatever it was that was made. What were Warner's thinking when they pulled the plug on it. Totally mad. Can't wait for the movie though (but I guess I'll have to).

Pickles

Warner's didn't axe the TV series Firefly, that was 20th Century Fox D**n them to He** anyway. Warner's is making the movie. I have a faint hope that the movie will do so well that they will bring the series back with all the original actors, only this time on the WB network instead of the Fox network.

Fox gave the X-files a year to catch on. If they had only given that same consideration to Firefly. (Just finished a marathon watching of all the episodes and I wanted to cry because the show was ended.):2cent:

[Sandi]

I liked Due South also! Space A&B did a wrap-up ending but I didn't like it and wish I'd never seen it. I never did watch the last episode of DS9 partly for that reason.:roll:

A long time ago they made a show that I think was called Space Rangers or something like that. It was every bit as campy as Star Trek but I loved it and it just vanished, replaced by some cop show or something.:cry:

Edited to add: Did anybody here ever watch "The Cape"?

[Ian]

I saw the ending of DS9 (it was a two-parter), & it was OK, but I agree that Space A&B was a terrible ending.

[Grey Bear]

I liked Ultraviolet. It was one of the first television series to paint vampires in a totally unsympathetic light, portraying them as evil, emotionless monsters who would stop at nothing to get what they wanted (the "nine-year-old" vampire? Or perhaps the father who became a vampire and turned his young daughter into a vampire as well? The meningitis storyline gave me the creeps) and a group of "Hunters" who were far from lovable themselves. I quite liked the array of weapons they had (carbon bullets, nyacin gas cartridges, a rather ingenious method of storing "Exterminated" vampires, the delightful use of UV light to contain living vampires) and the way they treated the Vampires. There was no "Buffy" style Vampire-Human romances here - there was a clearly defined line that the vampires were the enemy and the humans were fighting for their right to live. What was really creepy was the effect of the first episode - Jack Davenport's friend arranged to become a vampire, he was given a sum of money, told how to end his existence and all of the nonsense - but it also dwelt on the aftermath of his "Vanishing" (and it showed how easy it is to slip from living your life in the daylight world to the nighttime world and totally lose everything you had) on his friends and his girlfriend. I particularly loved his girlfriend - the episode where she's in the house with the reporter and we're left wondering if he is or isn't a vampire...and the confrontation between her and Jack in the bar where he smashes the mirror up to see if she's a vampire and brings out the gun - and then we see her running out of the bar, running between two mirrors...and seeing her reflection mirrored thousands of times over. Class, man, a far superior premise to Buffy and definitely brilliantly written and acted.

I was never a fan of Space: Above and Beyond. Just some of the ideas were a bit too naff for my liking. Earth 2 was good, for a while. I distinctly remember how I felt the first time I saw Dark Angel and felt that this was the closest we'd ever get to live-action Anime. Roswell was too teenyboppy for me to ever get into. After they started on the "Alien Royalty" crap, I thought "Oh my God, its like my worst nightmare, but with Aliens instead of Scotland!" and switched right off. I remember The Cape and I only watched one episode of it.

Dissappointing endings? Try Voyager. I *hated* that ending. I would have rather seen the crew continue battling their way home instead of some lame-duck Deus ex Machina (or, would that be Deus Ex Tempus? My latin is crap!) giving them supa-dupa armour to defeat the Borg. (The Borg Queen is my favourite bad guy as well and look how undignified they made her - they just HAD to do the cliche and give her a background...) No, I would have preferred for them to continue fighting to find their way home.

I've already seen the spoilers for the end of Enterprise and as much as I loathe that series (sorry, Scott Bakula? You're crap now as you were in Quantum Leap, mate) I still feel sorry that the worst Trek series ended on such a really crap note. Troi and Riker using Enterprise as a holodeck simulation? What the Frell? There was a fan outcry for a series based on one of the Timeships shown in Voyager - that would have been a *highly* interesting storyline (and it would have made a Temporal Cold War storyline far more plausible) - and there was even a suggestion of a show set on one of the 'liberated' Borg cubes - that would have been a damned good show. But no. They went with Scott Bakula's rather questionable Captain (tell me, anyone, does anyone see anything familiar in the later episodes of Enterprise? The constant "Damn it, I'm not treating that alien nice until they tell me what they know!" reactions got me thinking "Just rename the ship USS Abu Ghraib and be done with it"). It got rather tedious. And plus - it had *zero* bearing on what was to come - the cheap sets and campery of the Original Series. Just *how* were they going to manage that?

GB

[McClance]

The ending of Enterprise disappointing?

Oh. You mean that one hour that featured the the cast & crew of Enterprise interacting with a vegetable-chopping Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis and the familiar-looking ships that looked like the NCC-1701, NCC-1701-D, and NX-01.

I thought that one hour was all just a joke--a really bad joke, I might add.

That one hour was so dismal, that I've forgotten that it even existed. The way I see it, the episode before it was the end for Enterprise.


I also didn't like the ending of Star Trek: Voyager. It was too abrupt, like they just ran out of money, film, and time. They should have had one more episode showing the crew re-adjusting to life on Earth.

[Brenda]

Recently - JAG just ended, stupidly I might add. I really liked that show. Also Joan of Arcadia - while it was getting old that she had to start a new project in every episode, I think it had the best family relationships I have ever seen on a TV show.

Not so recently - Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Does anyone else remember the show Brisco County, Jr.? It starred Bruce Campbell as a bounty hunter - it was a comic western, with some spoofery and the occasional sci-fi, and I loved it! It only lasted one season, IIRC, and no sign of it on DVD yet. :sad: My nostalgia comes back every time the Olympics do, because one of the themes they play was also the theme song for Brisco County, Jr!

[cwolf]

The first Dark Angel book was a creation of the author... but the following two ARE confirmed to be modified from scripts for the 3rd season. THEY end the series. You want to read them to see the finality of it all, trust me.


Worse, was the loss of Dark Angel. A series I do have on DVD, have thoroughly enjoyed wathcing and am in mourning for now that it's gone!

Anything that you think was gone before it's time?

Ja¥son xx

[cwolf]

Wait a minute... I thought the ending was when the Past, Present, And Future Picards and respective friends joined at a nexus to stop time from collapsing.

never mind... too many star treks in my head. LOL you did say Enterprise after all

The ending of Enterprise disappointing?

Oh. You mean that one hour that featured the the cast & crew of Enterprise interacting with a vegetable-chopping Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis and the familiar-looking ships that looked like the NCC-1701, NCC-1701-D, and NX-01.

I thought that one hour was all just a joke--a really bad joke, I might add.

That one hour was so dismal, that I've forgotten that it even existed. The way I see it, the episode before it was the end for Enterprise.


I also didn't like the ending of Star Trek: Voyager. It was too abrupt, like they just ran out of money, film, and time. They should have had one more episode showing the crew re-adjusting to life on Earth.

[McClance]

Don't get me wrong.

I loved every Trek series that has been made: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT.

But that last episode that was made for Enterprise...

I cannot in good conscience call that Star Trek.

[Brenda]

Who wrote the Dark Angel books and what are they called?

I thought of another show - The Pretender! It got a little wierd at the end, but it was always fun watching him learn about the stuff that any kid who wasn't raised in a lab would know about.

[Sandi]

Don't get me wrong.

I loved every Trek series that has been made: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT.

But that last episode that was made for Enterprise...

I cannot in good conscience call that Star Trek.


I've learned to be relieved that the local channel dropped it before the last show aired. As far as I know, the Enterprise continues to explore. . . .

[Flinx]

<snip>
Does anyone else remember the show Brisco County, Jr.? It starred Bruce Campbell as a bounty hunter - it was a comic western, with some spoofery and the occasional sci-fi, and I loved it! It only lasted one season, IIRC, and no sign of it on DVD yet. :sad: My nostalgia comes back every time the Olympics do, because one of the themes they play was also the theme song for Brisco County, Jr!You might want to try TV Shows On DVD (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/).

[selket]

i liked a show called mercy point. it was about a hospital space station. it was there one week and gone the next.

[McClance]

Of those already mentioned, I loved...
Wolf Lake
Earth 2
Crusade

And a few that weren't mentioned already...
Space: Above & Beyond
Kindred: The Embraced
Mantis
V
The Lost World
Xena: Warrior Princess
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Relic Hunter

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:


The ending the V certainly was disappointing, wasn't it?

I just saw the series a month or two ago on DVD.

[Anareth]

Oh, Due South, that was one. And The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., which fell victim to the X-Files lead-in jinx. Also sci-fi's The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and The Chronicle, which were victims of Sci-Fi's policy of bouncng any good series around the schedule until no one could find it and then cancelling it for poor ratings.

I'm sorry, but as a VTM/White Wolf player, Kindred: the Embraced ran about eight episodes longer than it should have. The acting made Spelling's other shows look like art. I have seen C. Thomas Howell (Frank) in other things and know he's actually capable of acting, so I don't know what happened. And they COMPLETELY SCREWED UP THE ENTIRE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GAME! At least if someone did it now they could get away with making it more like the game without having to be on at 1am on pay cable.

[C_ris]

Due South was great! Such a mismatch of characters... :D

[Lady Faizah]

I can't believe that Farscape hasn't been mentioned yet! You don't get a much more disappointing ending than 'To be continued' :irked: Yes, Farscape actually ended with a to be continued, and several of the main characters seeming to be dead. A usual end-of-season cliffhanger perhaps, but there was no 'next season'. :irked: I am still incredibly bitter about this. Farscape was a brilliant show, in my opinion.

The aliens weren't all just 'human with bumps' like in many sci fi shows, although the peacekeepers did look human. The first bad guy turned out to not be all bad (although I still wouldn't trust him with my life) and I actually missed Crais when he left the show. (Well, the character. The actor kept on doing the voice of Pilot)

I could go on and on, I really could. I like most sci fi, but nothing can compare to Farscape.

[Anareth]

Well, we did get "Peacekeeper Wars." So it didn't end completely, and hopefully they'll 'conclude' that, too.

[Lady Faizah]

Well, we did get "Peacekeeper Wars." So it didn't end completely, and hopefully they'll 'conclude' that, too.
Point... Although I didn't hear about Peacekeeper Wars actually being on TV until about a month after it was on. For one, it was on a completely different channel that usually played old movies, not sci fi TV shows. :irked: And I never once saw an ad for it on any of the channels I'd have expected to air it. :irked:

But I'll stop now, before I go into my rant about why we need a sci fi channel. :roll:

Oh, and I heard that two of the actors from Farscape have moved on to regular roles in the next season of Stargate (although it'll be a couple of years before we get those episodes on PayTV... more, if they're going to Atlantis) -- regular roles in another show does not bode well for the continuation of the first.

[Anareth]

Oh, Farscape's dead as a series, but another movie's not out of the question. And yes, Ben Browder's now a Stargate regular, and Claudia Black has a recurring role (not a regular, though.)

[Lady Cin]

I'm sorry, but as a VTM/White Wolf player, Kindred: the Embraced ran about eight episodes longer than it should have. The acting made Spelling's other shows look like art. I have seen C. Thomas Howell (Frank) in other things and know he's actually capable of acting, so I don't know what happened. And they COMPLETELY SCREWED UP THE ENTIRE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GAME! At least if someone did it now they could get away with making it more like the game without having to be on at 1am on pay cable.

I too play VtM and I loved it. Yes they changed some things that make the game the game, but hey, for a tv series about a game I thought it was awesome. I loved how they portrayed the Brujah (my fav clan) and the enmity between the Brujah/Ventrue. Leaving out the Tremere made sense because of the magic and I doubt they would have even brought in the Giovanni for the same reason. All in all, I think they did pretty good...it was close enough to the game to be recognizable and while some of the acting/plots were weak, I KNOW it would have just gotten better if Mark Frankel hadn't died.

I would absolutely, positivly LOVE to see this series revived...somehow.

[Anareth]

Yeah, it was great...except they were all babies, Archon is a rank, not a name, the mortal characters were UTTER MORONS (Caitlyn is such airhead if you shone a flashlight in her right ear, you could play shadow puppets on the wall to her left), and they completely eliminated the entire reason for the organized prince/conclave system--hello, the existence of the Sabbat? Forget the Giovanni, where are the Lasombra and Tzimisce? (Okay, okay, the Sabbat Tzimisce, as opposed to, say, the Dark Age voivodes, are probably a bit much for prime time, but Lasombra are everything people think when you say 'vampire', down to the missing reflection.) The characters are utter wimps, though when the show was produced they might not have gotten away with the proper amount of violence. Worse, they were all super!pretty Melrose Place types and grossly human. There were characters with five-minute bit parts on Buffy who were more convincingly vampires. The only characters who didn't seem to be moping about wanting to be human are the villains. HARMONY on Buffy is a more convincing vampire. And all due respect to Mark Frankel but Julian should've been eaten alive years ago. He's a profoundly weak prince.

I'd like to see a series based on VTM revived--TOTALLY REWRITTEN and produced by someone besides Aaron "90210" Spelling.

[Sandi]

Two other shows I just remembered were "Strange Luck" and "Early Edition." I kinda sorta remember they did an ending show for "Early Edition," but Strange Luck just sort of vanished. :cry:

[Staerwyen]

There've been a few series that have finished quite abruptly, due to network cuts, being axed or generally being thought of as too naff to continue, such as Eldorado (a UK soap that was a washout!) Amongst these, I was horrified to learn of Angel being axed in the US, despite not yet having managed to secure the funds to even begin to buy the show on DVD.

Worse, was the loss of Dark Angel. A series I do have on DVD, have thoroughly enjoyed wathcing and am in mourning for now that it's gone!

Anything that you think was gone before it's time?

Ja¥son xx


Where did you get Dark Angel from? I've been looking for it for forever and cant find it anywhere

[Brenda]

I really liked Early Edition. I still say the quote - "I get tomorrow's newspaper... today." Because part of the Sunday paper arrives on Saturday.