Voyager should never have happened, period.
Scotty; pull the plug
- Thread starter RobertScorpio
- Start date
Because the story of Season 5 got mashed into Season 4 as they weren't sure if the show would continue beyond season 4.
I thought Stargate SG1 should have finished after Season 7 and then move onto Feature movies.
X-Files should have finished in season 5 or so.
Earth Final Conflict.
Sliders. Well the problem wasn't the length of the series but how bad the show got.
Same for Andromeda.
Enterprise should have ended after everyone got a look at season one.
We should have accepted that it was a flat out failure of the premise. The temporal cold war, then the Xindi bullshit, all of it was just piling on something that should never have been made the way it was from the beginning. Even the 3 or 4 TOS like episodes in the last season weren't right - they feel like DC Elseworld's stories.
We should have accepted that it was a flat out failure of the premise. The temporal cold war, then the Xindi bullshit, all of it was just piling on something that should never have been made the way it was from the beginning. Even the 3 or 4 TOS like episodes in the last season weren't right - they feel like DC Elseworld's stories.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
What is considered 'the last' season of BAB5...I consider seasons 1-4 a complete, nearly perfect series...
Rob
-- Seaquest. The Season 2 "retrofit" to a sci-fi/sea-opera series, really destroyed the show.
-- Babylon 5. The stories from the last season would have worked better as a series of mini or made-for-TV movies
-- Enterprise. It was painfully clear after Season 2 that the show was dead, but they kept the corpse on life support.
-- SG1 and SG:A. Both started out strong, but they really had only so many stories in the premise before the enemies had to be dialed by to B-movie grade in order to make it beleiveable that the heroes to trump them every week.
-- Andromeda / Earth: Final Conflict. Both series suffered from good (but cliche) concept, but crap execuetion.
-- Babylon 5. The stories from the last season would have worked better as a series of mini or made-for-TV movies
-- Enterprise. It was painfully clear after Season 2 that the show was dead, but they kept the corpse on life support.
-- SG1 and SG:A. Both started out strong, but they really had only so many stories in the premise before the enemies had to be dialed by to B-movie grade in order to make it beleiveable that the heroes to trump them every week.
-- Andromeda / Earth: Final Conflict. Both series suffered from good (but cliche) concept, but crap execuetion.
Star Trek: Voyager.
^^^But by running long, X-Files gave us 2 years of Annabeth Gish, so I never complain about it.
(from a practical standpoint, yes, it ran several years too long)
She was even better in Brotherhood, if you know what I mean.
^^^But by running long, X-Files gave us 2 years of Annabeth Gish, so I never complain about it.
(from a practical standpoint, yes, it ran several years too long)
Yes, and I am a big fan of Robert Patrick also. It definitely wasn't the fault of the new cast members. If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage.
This thread belongs in the "Stargate" forum.
Well my first thought was X-Files, but yeah...
Turn the Stargate franchise over to all-new producers and writers and it could be a whole other story. Nothing wrong with it that some decent writing (and casting) couldn't fix.
And the jury is way out on Heroes. The current hack writers have already been fired and replaced by a guy I expect to get that show back on track. There's plenty of life left in the premise and the characters. Properly managed, it could run for a decade without it wearing out its welcome.
Only because it was such a hack job with that unlikable idiot Kevin Sorbo stinking everything up and unavoidable as the lead. (Really, Tyr was the only one I much cared for.) I couldn't stomach it from the start and reportedly it got worse?
But with decent writing, casting and production values, could have at least been another Farscape - a show with its ups and downs, but well worth sticking with for the ups.
I've progressed finally to S9 of the series, and ugh, I'm sorry, Gish is intolerable. I think I'm at the point where I just need to call it a day. Maybe I'll watch at least the teasers of the remaining episodes to see if there's anything worth bothering with, but I find myself zapping thru all of Gish's scenes.
Somebody in a position of responsibility should have fired Berman & Braga after S1 and brought in Manny Coto. If he'd been on board from S2, he might have been able to salvage the series.
Hahahah, I actually only got to Season 2 or 3 of Buffy. So I would be cool with just Season 1 to 5?
And, I thought Season 5 of B5 was okay.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Is there any truth to a new STARGATE movie being produced by the movie-producers? And that it will be a direct sequel to the movie and totally ignore the series? I hope so...I like SG1, when I get to see it, but sometimes it just seems like warmed over milk. A new movie with Spader/Russell would be cool to see after ALL these years...
Rob
Rob
No, there's no truth to it. Dean Devlin, one of the two producer/writers of the original movie, likes to bring it up every couple of years, as the original plan was for a movie trilogy and he has a bit of a personal vendetta against the series for stamping on that plan. It is widely speculated that the third movie plan became Emmerich's Independence Day.
Double ditto with a slice of "immediately".
stargate should have ended at season 7.
and dare i say it but i think star trek went on for too long well at least it should have had a break between ds9 and voyager of maybe a year then bring out voyager and the rest.
and dare i say it but i think star trek went on for too long well at least it should have had a break between ds9 and voyager of maybe a year then bring out voyager and the rest.
The original Battlestar Galactica should have ended with the "Saga of a Star World" miniseries. It had an interesting premise, some good (for the time) effects, wonderful music and, despite some significant flaws, a fairly compelling storyline.
The series that followed, however, was complete and utter crap.
The series that followed, however, was complete and utter crap.
Voyager should have been yanked when it went to its first commercial break.
Enterprise was two seasons too long. But it was the first two seasons which were the worst, so I'm not sure how you would work that out.
Enterprise was two seasons too long. But it was the first two seasons which were the worst, so I'm not sure how you would work that out.
Last edited:
Well, there was "The Ultimate Computer".
Similar threads
