Don't know whether to be happy or disappointed. Some of those that died young wouldn't have had the same impact if they'd dragged on to old age... Look what they did to Lost
Serenity tied it off pretty well, I think. To try and continue now would just reek of desperation. It died a noble death, we should let it rest. Naw, that's different. That's what happens when you successfully pitch a series without having an end game all worked out. Lost was just sh!te - Intriguing for the first season, then increasingly bewildering for the second and then just properly wutdafuq from there onwards. The end was right down there with Bobby Ewing's year long shower.
^^This. If it had stopped after series 1 [maybe 2], that would have been OK. Who remembers Flash Forward that followed? It was canned after series 1, and looked more intriguing than Lost
It's been over a decade now, just leave it alone! On a more serious note, the one series and a movie that there is is excellent, trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle now would be largely pointless and doomed.
I wouldn't mind another series would be nice to get more back story for certain characters. I would agree the film ended the series very nicely but a bit more padding would be nice, but its got to done properly with joss weadon at the helm and a decent budget. As that will never happen I think its a seris best left alone. What ever happened to that crowd funded star trek?
funny you mention B5 as ive just started another marathon of it. admittedly its been a while since i last saw it but by god i forgot how good it was.
Flashforward was rapidly becoming one of my very favourite TV series. Have you read the book? It's different (obviously), but very, very good.
I'm coming to the end of my B5 rewatch, got about 5-10 episodes left! Shame Crusade never took off. As for Firefly, I don't think S2 would be a good idea. I'd want it to be a continuation of S1 and it can't be. I would however be interested in a new series set in the same verse. Back to B5, aren't they remaking something or other with it?
theres petitions for a BR remastering but iirc they were stuck with the cost of having to redo all the CGI
B5 was one of those shows me and my family would all sit round and watch together religiously each week. Couple of years ago I watched them all again. Brilliant series! I'm shocked to learn that 4 of the main cast died.. So demote
Had the distinct pleasure of meeting the B5 cast (including those we've since lost) back in 1997 at the first scifi convention I worked at. The WHOLE cast was there plus JMS, David Nutter & Optic Nerve (the makeup people). Andreas Katsulas had the habit of signing somebody else's name whenever asked for an autograph. I think my souvenir con book is signed "Elizabeth Taylor". ObTopic:- I also met Nathan Fillion, Jewel Staite & Summer Glau a few years later at the same venue.
Firefly had a decent ending to the character arcs. Shame Wash died, but it's how they wanted it to play out. As to Farscape, that had a reasonable continuation and termination in the comics so I too consider it done and dusted. The advantage of TV shows ending is the people responsible for them move on to new and different things. Some of those will be meh, some will be great. I just wish the money bags in charge of show runs would allow stories to be finished. Not letting someone finish the end of a story is just plain mean and stupid. We've just finished watching Korra and have been completely blown away by the quality of the show. Seriously, it's so brilliant that conventional TV shows seem so lame in comparison. We're still going to watch Walking Dead, Game of Thrones etc but boy was Korra the best, most rounded TV I've ever watched. So if you're 'missing' a great show, go and find a new show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695360/
You missed one, mate. Seriously though, BSG was fantastic. I saw a few episodes of Lexx, but I never really saw enough to get into it.
