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What TV cancellation are you most upset by?

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Firefly
- I wonder how the person who's decision it was to cancel firefly feels about this now. Do you think they were under a lot of pressures because of funding, or they just weren't that into the show, or was there a new show they wanted to divert funding to. Wonder what the story was there.

The Expanse.
Firefly.
- I don’t think The Expanse was really cancelled rather than it was ended at a story point that makes sense to continue from sometime in the future. There’s something like a decade long time skip and a huge thematic shift between books 6 and 7.
  
  That last season was disappointing to me

Firefly

Firefly
Raised by Wolves
Better Off Ted
- Raised by Wolves was very trippy but it felt like they knew where it was going and the acting was fantastic. At least it was as original as it gets.
  
  Why was it cancelled exactly?

Limitless. It was just starting to get to the good shit when they cancelled it!
I was also upset by Star Gate Universe's cancellation. I hadn't been a fan of StarGate prior to its release. Seen a couple bits here and there but never just watched the show. After going through SG-1 and Atlantis, I can see why OG fans didn't like Universe. But I still think it was great on its own, as someone who knew nothing about the OG series when I saw it. But, if they do re-explore the same story and ideas, I'd want it to be the same campy shit that SG-1 was, instead of the serious tones Universe had.

In order that I remember them now
Drive
John Doe
The OA
Sense8
Limitless
Dollhouse
Tru Calling
Dark Matter
My So-Called Life
Witchblade
Carnivàle
Probably more, I'll add them as I think of them
Firefly would make the list, if I watched it while it aired. But I didn't see it till later.
- I cancelled Netflix because they cancelled Sense8 and The OA.
- Sense8 being cancelled was a crime
- My so called life was amazing.

All time? Freaks and geeks. Was becoming the quintessential coming of age show, had hard lessons that were from the point of real kids growing up. Each character was relatable in their own way, and should have gone on for years.
Second to that is Arrested Development. And yeah it was rebooted but the cast had moved on. The show was on a great role and was just ahead of its time. The episodic nature of it just wasn't popular then.

I'm still not over Firefly. Or the Orville.
- The Orville hasn't been canceled, yet. S04 will enter production this year.
  
  Thank you. It's been sitting lonely in my Jellyfin for a long time waiting to hear this.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I would have loved to see how they planned to resolve that cliffhanger.

Firefly and Pushing Daisies are staples in these conversations, so I'll throw in a less common one: NCIS LA.
I watched that show for over a decade. It was something predictable and comfortable. The show ending was like losing my favourite hoodie I've had for 14 years. Does it really impact my life? No. Do I miss it nonetheless? Yes.
- I stopped sometime during season 3 or 4, can’t remember. Without spoiling anything if I decide to pick it up again: do we know what G stands for? Don’t tell me, just nod or something.
  
  Yes, we do eventually find out what G stands for.

Santa Clarita Diet and Carnivale. HBO axed Carnivale, Deadwood and Rome back to back, and I still hold a grudge.
Edit: Enterprise and Lower Decks also still sting. Lower Decks is ao fucking brilliant and I hate that no one watches it!
- I LOVED Lower Decks. Enterprise was probably the weakest of the ST series.
  
  My love for T'pol politely disagrees.
- Enterprise was ruined by Les moonves, he specifically hates the show. It's still far better than the 3 nutrek series( I called them post jj Abrams.

Raised by wolves. Atheism vs Religion into the stars. It was so good and so much of the buildup was about to come to fruition. GAH!
- Needs a petition

Mind hunter, surprised i didn't see it mentioned
- Especially since it wasn't a real cancellation, just "on indefinite hiatus" followed by "never coming back" almost five years later. The second season ending very much set up at least another season.
- Yeah, so good! This was Netflix’s True Detective and they just…dropped it?

ReBoot. One of the most incredible, ground-breaking shows of its time, but it ends on a cliffhanger. I'm still holding out hope that we'll get a movie to tie up the loose ends someday.
- Alphanumeric!
- "I've always wanted to do that."
- I’m a little teapot…
  
  Prepare to taste the blade of my.... butterknife?!

I'll never forgive Amazon for cancelling The Tick.

A lot of good answers already. I'll add Santa Clarita Diet. It's a nice little show.

My Name Is Earl
- Came here to say exactly this. Ugh ...I hate that it ended on such a cliffhanger.
  
  They had no concrete plans for the specific cliffhanger at the end, but for the show as a whole we got some closure in Garcia's AMA at least. If you haven't seen it:
  I had always had an ending to Earl and I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to see it happen. You’ve got a show about a guy with a list so not seeing him finish it is a bummer. But the truth is, he wasn’t ever going to finish the list. The basic idea of the ending was that while he was stuck on a really hard list item he was going to start to get frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. They needed to make up for something bad they had done to Earl. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with list and that he’s finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma.

Ash vs Evil Dead and Chucky
- Ash vs Evil Dead was incredible
- In the vein of Ash vs Evil Dead; I miss Stan Against Evil as well.
  
  I'm disappointed that Blood Drive also only got one season...

Recently? Probably Kaos
- Kaos was great. I was surprised.
  
  Oh, I'd also like to add any projects with Neil Gaiman getting canceled, too. Good Omens, Sandman, and Deadboy Detectives.
  They were canceled for good reason, but still...
- I was heartbroken.

Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles
Really, Westworld, but no one had mentioned TSCC yet.

Firefly
The Glades
Venture Brothers

Travelers
Or
Stargate Atlantis
- Stargate Atlantis was cancelled, but at least they made it home. Those Stargate Universe people are in for a lifetime of torture.
  
  The destiny crew have been frozen for 14 years lol already. At least ming NA made it into another show, at least for a while
- SGA was getting fucked by all the sg:1 writers that moved across and just kept writing sg1 with new names, it was a bit of a mercy kill
  
  Sga was cancelled for sgu unfortunately because MGM was losing slot of money, they needed a cheaper show

I was quite upset by The Peripheral recently. And although it didn't release to much fanfare, Constellation.
- I loved The Peripheral
- I wasn't that upset by The Perpheral's cancelation. I loved the book, and the series pretty much just ignored it. I understand why, it would be very difficult to faithfully adapt the book, but what they came up with was much too modern-TV-melodrama for me.

Firefly
Sense8
Somebody Somewhere
EDIT:
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Kaos

Glow

Stargate universe
- Meh, the first season was horrible, Interstellar Gossip Girl. The second season was an infinite improvement, but it still felt like they didn't really have any kind of plan, just keep the plot moving along while abuse Battlestar Galactica camera work to ratchet up the tension.
  I get bleak, but this was bleak with no point, which is just sadness.
  
  Season 3 was going to rectify the lack of alien arcs. It got cancelled before that. And MGM had money problems too. According to the interviews it was going to reveal more about the planet builders back from season 1, and shed more light on the "resurrected people"
  
  I enjoyed the space adventure parts but every time they broke out the stones I lost interest.

Final space

V (2009)
- Ah fuck, don't remind me. Just when it was getting tense.
  
  I stopped watching new / incomplete shows after that.

Futurama
- Which time lol

Better off Ted.
Pushing Daisies.

Better off ted.
Show was brilliant
- I'd watch a spinoff of just those two scientists. They had such good chemistry together.

Recently? The Peripheral, and Kaos.
- Kaos was so much fun, needed another 3-4 seasons.

Teen Titans ended with a cliffhanger and then Cartoon Network put out Teen Titans Go! just to add insult to injury. Certainly the pettiest thing I've been angry about for nearly 20 years.
- I thought the show ended with the movie and it wrapped things up?
  
  Trouble in Tokyo? I guess it wrapped things up in the sense of it finished its own story, but didn't really resolve or conclude anything that was left hanging in the show.
  To be fair to the creators, the comic version of TTG does fill in some blanks about Terra's cliffhanger in issue #51, which is basically super condensed version of what I would have expected to be included in the season that got pitched and turned down.

The OA

Westworld..
- Still haven't watches the last season... I don't see the point now.
  
  I think we gave up somewhere in season 3. No idea which season was the last. First season was awesome and by the third I had no idea where they were going with it. No desire to know at that point either.

Darkwing Duck, it ends with the first episode of a two parter...
- Oof

Lots of really good ones here. I’ll add Flashforward.
- Oh god, this one should win.
  It actually felt like there was a point to all the story threads, like they were trying to pull a Lost but actually had a plan in the beginning.
  
  Right!? There was some weird stuff going on, and the way the show started was pretty solid. Did they even finish the first season?

Kaos. That season 1 had me and my partner fucking hooked and they pulled the plug so fast it was hard to even finish it.
- Oh damn, really? I thought I read season 2 was a go but that was a cursory google months ago. Fuckin Netflix.
  
  I just double checked and yeah it's cancelled. Here's a quick article:
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/30931197/netflix-drama-kaos-reportedly-axed-one-series/

Arrested Development.
The Expanse.
- Expanse left at a time jump, so it's not implausible it could come back.
- The Expanse
  Read the books, starting at book 7. The plot in the show is almost identical to the plot in the books. It shouldn't be too hard to just pick them up.
  However, the books are better than the show. I thoroughly enjoyed reading books 1-6 in preparation for reading 7-9. You get to read from various characters' point of view. It's so much deeper than the show.
  
  I've read them all but I'm still bummed that the show got cancelled. Although, a lot of the stuff that happens in 7-9 feels kind of unfilmable to me. But, hey, they're adapting 3 Body Problem which is insanely unfilmable so who knows.
  I actually think the show complements the books really well -- probably because the authors were so involved in the production. In a few cases, I think they were able to fix some mistakes in the books on a second go around and also added to the world in brilliant ways too. Belter Creole as a spoken language, for example, doesn't really exist in the books and was created for the show. It's also interesting replacing the subjective view of the point of view characters with the objective view of the camera. In the first book, it just bounces back and forth between Miller and Holden. You don't really know what's going on system-wide because they don't. Having that perspective shift is really cool and it's done in a way that feels cohesive and consistent with the world of the books.

Deadwood. It was my favorite show ever. They made a movie a couple years ago to wrap things up but it's not the same

Pushing daisies was a hard pill to swallow. Such a great quirky show.
- And, from that same era, Dead Like Me.
  
  It sucks that it was only two seasons, but it did have a clean ending. No cliffhangers, or anything begging to be finished. I was happy with that.

Ugly Americans.

The recent ones that come to mind are 1899, Scavenger’s Reign, and Infinity Train. All with good premises and cancelled prematurely.

Millennium. X-Files spinoff with the venerable Lance Hendrickson.
2 seasons, although they managed to wrap it up at the end pretty well considering.
One of the most visceral, amazing shows ever made.

Scavengers Reign and Raised by Wolves
- Scavengers Reign was fantastic and its cancellation was a travesty.
  Raised by Wolves was very good too but man... Scavengers Reign...

Patriot
- The best show that I still can’t convince anyone to watch. Excellent pick.
  
  ha, I forgot about this show - I remember it being well made
  
  Tbf it's a tough sell,
  "I've seen The Patriot before, I don't need to watch it again except maybe the 'Aim small, miss small' scene"
  "Oh it's a completely distinct entity with a close title? Oh ok, yeah sure I'll put it on the list."
  Never watches half of the list even stuff I really do want to watch

Better off ted.
Avenue 5.
Alien Nation.
My Name is Earl.

freaks and geeks. unbelievably stacked cast but the network never gave it a dedicated time so no one knew when they could watch it. then it got cancelled before they aired half the episodes citing poor viewership

Inside Job

Utopia (UK)
The expense
- The expense
  A multi-season, high-tense drama series where Gary attempts to expense his lunch through SAP.
  
  I haven't watched the show, apparently they purposely end it because the new books is a time jump
- Utopia was really a good show

Colony .... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256
- Yeah, that's probably the big one for me, with Jericho being a close second.
  I generally don't like alien invasion plot lines because in most of them there doesn't seem to be a reason for the aliens to invade Earth. But with Colony there seemed to be a reason for the invasion, it just wasn't quite revealed. To conscript humans to be soldiers to fight against some other alien race... I guess? They really left us hanging there.
  Jericho would've been worse, but at least they made a mini-series to explain things and give an ending. Well and open-ended kind of ending, but we can kind of imagine how the rest of the story would go. With Colony, we didn't get that.
  
  Jericho mini series? Can you elaborate?

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