New Show: Terra Nova

[The Dark King]

Yeah, Fox has a habit of putting on decent sci-fi action shows and then canceling them on short notice. Surprised Fringe is still on because of that. They had this one show on back in the day when the X-Files was still on the air called Space : Above and Beyond produced by the same people that did the X-Files that was about marines in the future fighting to protect the human race from a race of aliens hellbent on destroying mankind. That show had good ratings and they canceled it after only one season and worse yet ended the show on a cliffhanger should have/would have been resolved in the next season had they renewed it. Pissed off still to this day about that shit.

They do that to a lot of shows like Stargate Universe(best series of the SG universe in my opinion) only got two seasons. Kyle XY 3 seasons. Could have went much longer. Flash Forward was a great concept and got canceled after one season yet they kept V?
The new Bionic woman was decent too but I think Isiah Washington(Burke from Grey's Anatomy) killed that.
Legend of the Seeker only got two seasons and that show grabbed the audience left in the void after Hercules and Xena got cancelled.
Its a damn shame.

 

[pettyofficerj]

They do that to a lot of shows like Stargate Universe(best series of the SG universe in my opinion) only got two seasons. Kyle XY 3 seasons. Could have went much longer. Flash Forward was a great concept and got canceled after one season yet they kept V?
The new Bionic woman was decent too but I think Isiah Washington(Burke from Grey's Anatomy) killed that.
Legend of the Seeker only got two seasons and that show grabbed the audience left in the void after Hercules and Xena got cancelled.
Its a damn shame.

i actually liked Flash Forward

V was iffy...but some of these cancellations are just weird.:roll:

 

[The Dark King]

i actually liked Flash Forward

V was iffy...but some of these cancellations are just weird.:roll:

I actually understood why they cut Sarah Conner. It was too expensive for those special effects but Flash Forward could have been their next lost. Makes no sense.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

They do that to a lot of shows like Stargate Universe(best series of the SG universe in my opinion) only got two seasons. Kyle XY 3 seasons. Could have went much longer. Flash Forward was a great concept and got canceled after one season yet they kept V?
The new Bionic woman was decent too but I think Isiah Washington(Burke from Grey's Anatomy) killed that.
Legend of the Seeker only got two seasons and that show grabbed the audience left in the void after Hercules and Xena got cancelled.
Its a damn shame.

Just my take but Stargate Universe got canceled due to money and budget. The Sci-Fi network would rather produce & pump out cheap EFX ridden straight to DVD crap to make money rather put in the money for a high concept and quality show like Stargate Universe.

Legend of the Seeker was running on syndicated channels and syndicated channels right now are living up to their name at least up here and playing a lot of no longer on the air TV shows Like Seinfeld and Friends so it was a losing game for that show because it's not about ratings on those channels. Now that would be a show that the Sci-Fi channel could produce and run that had of a low budget, but was still good quality if they were smart.

 

[The Dark King]

Just my take but Stargate Universe got canceled due to money and budget. The Sci-Fi network would rather produce & pump out cheap EFX ridden straight to DVD crap to make money rather put in the money for a high concept and quality show like Stargate Universe.

Legend of the Seeker was running on syndicated channels and syndicated channels right now are living up to their name at least up here and playing a lot of no longer on the air TV shows Like Seinfeld and Friends so it was a losing game for that show because it's not about ratings on those channels. Now that would be a show that the Sci-Fi channel could produce and run that had of a low budget, but was still good quality if they were smart.

Very true and the women were fucking top notch. God bless Canada.

 

[qnet]

Heroes stared off strong but after the second sesason it just started to go downhill. They messed up by keeping Sylar around and trying to make him the mainstay bad guy of the piece. They should have done something unique like introducing all new characters and circumstances each season, but still have a small number of characters from the first season to interact the new characters and provide sort of a link that to how they gained their abilities. Then had the show survived a couple extra seasons, that would have been the time to have Sylar come back more powerful and twisted than before.

Good points about Sylar. I use to post on the Heroes forum and, there were a lot of Sylar fans. I think another problem is they relied too much on fan input.

Heroes was a great show even that with the time lost a little still was a lot better then many other shows

there is so many that been cancelled that was good like sarah connor chronicles, Firefly, and so many other good shows

I watched the whole Firefly series on Netflix along with the movie Serenity. I loved that show.

 

[Thump]

In my opinion, the issue with shows like Heroes, Stargate Universe, and Flash Forward. Is that the show runners spent the bulk of their creative energy thinking of the cool idea for the show, yet they spent little time putting a long term story structure in place. They (Show Runners) usually just pulled stories out of nowhere as they went along, with no regards for the overall concept.

TV writers need to pitch shows like Comic book writers do. They should have the first dozen episodes planned out before day one, and they should have the entire series outlined in a unified story arc, with room to make change if need be. That way the show feels cohesive.

One more thought on Heroes. That show should have gone full superhero. By that I mean, the show should have been an origin story for the birth of a superhero universe, kind of like the way Smallvilles original concept was.

 

[The Dark King]

Heroes suffered for two big reasons to me. One the focused far too much attention on the Patreli family drama. At point you just didn't care anymore about Claire's issues with her dad.
2. The worst thing any universe with super powers can do is make a hero or a a villian who is all powerful and they did that bs with Sylar and Peter. Peter's fear of@ Sylar never made sense since to me he was the more powerful of the two since all he had to was be around someone while they used their power to get it. The idea of letting him have only one power out of time was a good idea but too little too late and also to anti climatic.
The show had so much promise and they fucked it up.

In my opinion, the issue with shows like Heroes, Stargate Universe, and Flash Forward. Is that the show runners spent the bulk of their creative energy thinking of the cool idea for the show, yet they spent little time putting a long term story structure in place. They (Show Runners) usually just pulled stories out of nowhere as they went along, with no regards for the overall concept.

TV writers need to pitch shows like Comic book writers do. They should have the first dozen episodes planned out before day one, and they should have the entire series outlined in a unified story arc, with room to make change if need be. That way the show feels cohesive.

One more thought on Heroes. That show should have gone full superhero. By that I mean, the show should have been an origin story for the birth of a superhero universe, kind of like the way Smallvilles original concept was.