SciFi Series Given Up on Too Quickly

None Generalized Fun Discussion

[Reily]

A Break From Serious Discussions SciFi Series That Didn't Get a Proper Chance

Why they should have had that chance? Why they failed?

[marron]

We never missed it.

[GreyFriar]

To me, the “Lords of Kobol” was a ‘hidden’ reference to the early computer programming language of Cobol. I learned it in a college computer class back in 1968.

[Army Air Corps]

I still have my die-cast Eagle transporter.

[Political Junkie Too]

Now that you mention it, I remember thinking why aren't the other countries invading the United States in mass, given their localized weakness? Why would they all stay out of it? Wouldn't this be the rest of the world's chance to get even?

I always thought that was a plot hole.

-PJ

[Kartographer]

Falling Skies was great at first, but changed writers and production staff to many times and always for the worse! DS9 was the best Star Trek series ever! Very gritty. Best episode that shows this is ‘In the Pale Moon Light’. Most interesting Star Trek character Garak!!!

[CJ Wolf]

Quark touched all that saw it and was canceled too soon

[Political Junkie Too]

Another show I thought was interesting was NBC's Revolution. This was about the loss of electricity across the globe, and civilization had to survive without it. Imagine life after an EMP.

Unfortunately, it devolved into a soap opera with all the usual heroes and villains.

-PJ

[CJ Wolf]

It also lasted along time and had a movie. Doesn’t really fit the criteria given.

[MrEdd]

Do you realize that The number of syllables in the verses allows “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” to transpose with “The Marine’s Hymn” in the same way “Amazing Grace” transposes with the theme to Gilligan’s Island?

[sparklite2]

successful TV shows that go on too long

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That sounds like LOST. It went from intriguing to ridiculous, then unwatchable.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does western with steampunk count as science fiction? I always thought that Brisco County Jr was a cute show.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Heroes and Twin Peaks suffered from the same problem. The writers could not keep up with the storyline.

Once Upon a Time was slipping into that same trap.

-PJ

[Kickass Conservative]

I did not know that.

Now I will staring at the ceiling all night long while running those Songs through my head, over and over again.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Vipers, like X-wing fighters, had air intakes and wings. Isn't this supposed to take place in space? There was one scene where they got too close, and you could see that the turbofan blades were molded into the body of the viper hull.

One realistic think I liked about the reimagined BSG is that the vipers could turn around and fly backwards, which is what you can do in space. What you can't do is just go in whatever direction you point your ship. There is no air pressure to vector against, like with airplanes.

[sparklite2]

I am probably misremembering, but I think I read somewhere that the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay can be read to the tune of “The Eyes of Texas.

Try it with this.

My candle burns at both ends;
it will not last the night;
but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends —
it gives a lovely light!

[oldvirginian]

Defiance had wrapped for the season and the cast had gone home when the decision to cancel it was made. SyFy let them come back and shoot the final episode to give the viewers closure on the series.
They could have left us hanging like usual.

[Army Air Corps]

Most interesting Star Trek character Garak!!!

Plain, simple Garak....

[Army Air Corps]

I loved that show. The Orbs were an excellent McGuffin.

[Deplorable American1776]

Wasn’t that a Quaker Oat cereal...

[tbw2]

The third season would have been the most interesting.