Firefly - Nothing to say here. We were robbed. I am about to make sacrilegious comments - the universe of this show was BETTER than Star Trek’s. The writing for the characters make Star Trek’s look like cardboard cut-outs. The franchise potential was BETTER than Star Trek’s.
Jericho - Possibly ahead of it’s time, people weren’t able to pick up on the story.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Never mind the plot (pretty good), I could watch Summer Glau just WALK for an hour. Seriously. Like a flamingo, but better.
Threshold - Really wild ideas, very good actors, it was never given a chance.
Politics.
The new V series was absolutely butchered and re-edited in its first season(long gaps filled with commercials in many of thes episodes) because the so called peace themes of the invading Aliens matched Obama’s political speeches too closely when it hit in 2008.
Firely’s small government conservatism and libertarian themes made a lot of NY based Fox network metrosexuals uncomfortable.
Jericho: a prepper’s SHTF scenario. Obama and libs hate themes where folks have to learn to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and pull their own weight....unless the collectivist meme undergirds the series.
Terminator: Tired out idea, though I agree the series was fairly well done.
Threshold might have made a very good limited series with a stunning 2 hour movie finale!
Jericho - Possibly ahead of it’s time, people weren’t able to pick up on the story."
you are dead on right about Firefly.
My problem with Jericho is they just could not get the basics right.
Stuff that just screamed at you from the screen that was so wrong.
Months without electricity and gas and water but the streets are spotless no garbage accumulation (where did it all go) and everyone looks like they just stepped out of the shower.
Battle scenes where the Jericho troops are commanded by a guy who was in the special forces and he has them behind parked cars shooting over the roofs and their midsections are supposedly protected by nothing more than the windows and none of them get shot.
That same commander leading a counter attack and he gets in front of a friendly tank instead of using it to screen his movements and gets shot.
And that is just the highlights. the other problem is they would have a really good episode and then next week you were watching and saying to yourself. "Who wrote this shit?"
BTW "Revolution" suffers from the same crap. (I Don't know if it is still on) Just an unbelievable look to the series where people without modern conveniences look like they just stepped out of the hair salon.
Its one of the reasons I love The Walking Dead. Everyone looks like they are living in a broken world where the system has totally collapsed. Dirty grimy and uncomfortable!