Posted on 04/11/2019 4:42:34 PM PDT by 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?
It has sort of lasted forever... Virtually all scifi TV series since then have been essentially the same construct...
Yes. The main character played a college grad struggling to get by in a gift shop where fate would have inanimate objects try and help her by stating obscure references. Quirky good fun!
On most of these TV Science Fiction Shows there is no resolution. The Shows just end a Season and they are gone.
Felt that way about Earth 2. I thought it had at least a few more seasons left in it.
I was a bit partial to Jolene Blalock as T’Pol. But I won’t argue against Jadzia Dax, either!
Seven of Nine was a bit “overdone” to me. More like a fantasy woman, than real.
Ah, now we’ve gone OT!
Dark Matter
That was kinda cool though, they way they just all wandered off into the wilderness with nothing but the shirts on their backs, thinking they’d build their own houses and farms. With no tools. With no seed to plant. With nothing to protect them from the ravages of the coming winter. In two weeks starvation would set in. Then disease, the elements, predators, or attack from the natives they knew nothing about. Too bad there wasn’t an episode about it.
bttt
That’s the one. With only a handful of episodes, I don’t think the family ever got out of that alternate dimension, did they? I just checked the credits. Didn’t realize until now that Jonathan Banks (”Mike” from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul) was one of the baddies on the show.
Loved that show. It had infinite possibilities.
Oh, man, circa 1979, did every pubescent and prepubescent boy in America have a crush on Erin Gray, or what? Total knockout.. in a nice girl kinda way. Ditto Bionic Woman and the girls on Charlie’s Angels. The ‘70s pretty much rocked... at least compared to now. What kind of you women do boys see on TV these days? Tatted-up chicks, dykes with noserings, etc.
I have that book in paperback. Excellent read.
Babylon 5
Which continued in numerous audio and books.
The series was to be continued in Crusade but that was canceled after 13 episodes and not concluded.
You are both right and wrong. You are right that the show disappeared from its usual slot - got me also. But wrong it was concluded but on another network and there were 5 movies as well as a follow up. Here’s the list in chronological order
1a-In The Beginning (Movie 2243-2278)
1b-The Gathering (Movie) 2257
2-Season 1 Signs & Portents 2258 (iTunes)
3-Season 2 The Coming of Shadows 2259
4-Season 3 Point of No Return 2260
5-Season 4 No Surrender, No Retreat 2261
5-Season 4 Third Space (Movie) 2261
6-Season 5 The Wheel of Fire 2262
7-River of Souls (Movie) 2263
8-Legend of the Rangers (Movie) 2265
9-A Call To Arms (Movie) 2266
10-Crusade 2267-2270
11-The Lost Tales - Voices In The Dark 2271-2278
13-Sleeping in the Light 2280
14-The Deconstruction of Falling Stars 2380-1002380
Still going ...
Thanks for that. I knew I was a least half smart.
There was Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys and Exo-Squad.
How bout The Expanse?
Firefly is the given. It had great potential but was sunk by executive meddling.
More recently, Dark Matter was left hanging after three seasons.
I haven’t (yet) seen a vote for The Expanse, which IMO is the best SF series of the last ten years. Supposedly Amazon picked it up after SyFy canceled it, but the fourth season has yet to materialize. I’d hate to think it fizzled out mid-story.
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