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[MacLeod]

I'd switch out V for SGU and bump Firefly up to the top spot, ditching Sarah Jane completely.

What happened to SJA was horrible, tragic and untimely, yes, but it wasn't cancelled in the usual sense, so I personally wouldn't have included it.

That's actually part of the reason I did include it- to point out that sometimes the untimely end of a show can be *not* due to suits being cunts...

I deliberately didn't want Firefly in the top spot. SGU... I think Stargate went tits-up round about the end of SGA season 3, when they got rid of Weir and Beckett, and would have rather they'd rested it for a couple of years and brought the franchise back refreshed - but if I didn't have to mention Human Target (which I did, part of the brief, though i also enjoy it anyway.) SGU would have had its slot.

V wasn't part of the brief, in case you're wondering - in fact a lot of commenters on SyFy UK's facebook page seem not to have known that it was cancelled. Most of the commenters are Americans, oddly.

I would agree with you to a certain degree, I think getting rid of Beckett was one of the worst mistakes SG:A made. You generally don't kill off one of the most popular characters and if you absolutley must you do it in a a better way than exploding tumors.

Sliders made the same mistake, getting rid of the Professor in S3 just accelerated the rot.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Oh, the second one's up.

http://www.syfy.co.uk/blog/top-ten-tv-tough-guys

I've only one other "top ten" then it's more individualist articles!

 

[Sindatur]

Come again about Farscape, Temis the Vorta? Degenerating how?

It was always pretty hit or miss in the quality department and I noticed in S4 the proportion of bad eps to good was increasing. I was glad to have the PK Wars wrapup, but I don't think it really needed another season. They'd had a good run and went out well. Really, all I'd like to see is Ben Browder in another good series. Farscape is like BSG and DS9, it was great while it lasted but I'm glad they didn't try to draaaag it out.

Caprica and Heroes belong on another list, shows that needed serious restructuring before they were worth saving. Caprica was unfocused from the start and never got it together. Heroes was like a sane person who just went insane one day and never got any better. Still can't figure out what happened there.

I disagree on Caprica, yes, it had it's problems early on, and was too unfocused, but, by the end of the Series, I was definitely wanting more, and think it went out like a lion and was overall a very worthwhile series. The last 10 episodes, didn't have more than 1 or 2 mediocre eps, IMHO. So, it absolutely turned it's self around, IMHO.

 

[JRoss]

Heroes went downhill after a generally-okay first season because all of the writers hated one another and actively sabotaged one another's arcs and the favorite characters of other writers. That's why nothing made sense after the end of season one.