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2009/07/04 00:59:24
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought
Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes
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BrookM wrote:Deadwood still needs a good ending.
I think I heard something about them making that into a movie, along with Rome.
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2009/07/04 01:03:49
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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I want more Venture Brothers!!! It's the greatest animated show ever made. Not even Metalocalypse is as cool, and I am duty-bound as a rabid fan of death metal to long for it.
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2009/07/04 02:09:15
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant
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Those 2 shows are coming back and metalocalyse will be double the length.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
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2009/07/04 02:10:46
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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yea, i remember hearing a while back that new venture bros were in the works
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2009/07/04 09:07:33
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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WHY, OH LORD, DID YOU LET THEM CANCEL JERICHO?!?!?!?!?!?!
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2009/07/04 10:46:27
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
The ruins of the Palace of Thorns
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Firefly
Dark Angel
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2009/07/04 13:28:37
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Major
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The Simpsons should have been put out of it's misery years ago.
24: As much as I love it, unless the writers can go back to the gritty basics of the first couple of seasons and stop the wildly OOT nonsense of the seasons 4 and 6 (5 was much better) then they should just kill it off now. I haven't actually seen season 7 yet so if they are already back on track I apologise.
Stargate and all it's umpteen spin offs cannot die soon enough.
My Name is Earl: Started out as one of the funniest shows on TV. Now it's really drifted from it's original vision and is just filled with surreal jokes about rednecks. I honestly can't remember the last episode where Earl actually did a list item.
Shows that shouldn't have been cancelled:
Terminator - TSCC: Really needed at least another season to wrap things up properly.
The Unit: Just heard this was cancelled, not happy at all.
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2009/07/04 13:37:13
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
The ruins of the Palace of Thorns
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My Name is Earl has been cancelled, and therefore joins the list of shows that shouldn't have been, IMO.
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2009/07/04 14:10:05
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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That last episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles really painted themselves into a corner.
24 lost me after the first season. They just repeat the same formula with variations.
I agree, the stargate shows jumped the shark multiple times. Mostly the replicators, then having other replicators in the Pegasus Galaxy.
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2009/07/04 18:31:06
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Major
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Fifty wrote:My Name is Earl has been cancelled, and therefore joins the list of shows that shouldn't have been, IMO.
Oh right, well then I'm not sure how I feel. The first 2 seasons where excellent but 3 and 4 were inconsistent at best. There were enough flashes of genius to keep me watching but just too much filler material for me to keep raving about it. It wasn't so far gone as to be unslavagable but part of me is glad it's going to at least go out whilst being, on the whole, a good show.
My main issue with 24 is the writers inability to find a theme and stick with it. Constantly changing bad guys and threats several times during each season means that a day typically becomes several mini story arcs as opposed to the one big one the show was initially. Season 4 was particularly bad in this regard.
Constantly trying to one up the threat level from season to season doesn't help either. A small yet credible threat like in season one (assassination of presidential candidate) worked nicely. In season 6 when Jack was chasing multiple nukes around it was just nuts.
Like I said still haven't seen season 7 so they may well have corrected this already.
Just to change the subject I've just finished watching the Shield which is a cracking example of how to end a show at the right time. It went out on top like nothing I've ever seen before, leaving you hungry for more whilst at the same time glad they won't give you any. I think this is partly down to the 13 shows a season format. This means the makers kept the story tight and the filler minimal. The best show on TV I've seen in the last 10 years and yes I have seen the Wire.
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2009/07/04 18:46:47
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Combat Jumping Rasyat
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Rome, 13 of the most important years in Roman history stuffed into one season = lame.
Kitchen Confidential, why can't Fox just give quality shows that aren't immediate hits a chance?
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2009/07/04 18:48:28
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Sheffield, City of University and Northern-ness
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Dal'yth Dude wrote:Should be cancelled immediately: Heroes
How Dare You?
Heroes is my favourite TV show.
Shows that shouldn't have been cancelled:
My Name Is Earl (they cancelled the show inconclusively)
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2009/07/04 21:10:19
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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I've dipped into 24 here and there, and it is well directed and tense.
..but I pretty much gave up when i saw a scene with a nuke going off in.... New York ( ? or somewhere) and the next scene was..... everyone just carrying on and some cleaners going to work at/in a motel.
Now, I'm pretty dedicated to my job... but there's limits you know ?
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2009/07/04 22:02:19
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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Never should have been: Rocko's Modern Life.
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Humans were put on this earth to fart around, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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2009/07/04 22:09:52
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Most series are best left at one season unless the writing or premises are good. 24 is more a one off gimmick. Heroes suffers under the writer strikes and the bad desire to milk the cash cow. Most comedy series become stale because the jokes are just plain horrible.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2009/07/04 22:51:10
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Nasty Nob
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If Enterprise had stuck to the template of the first half of season 1 then I would have been sad if it ended, but the second they stared traveling time I just stopped caring.
I started watching my name is Earl about a month before it was cancelled.
Family Guy shouldn't have been canceled to begin with, but I think if it hadn't been canceled and continued then it would have fizzeled out. Sometimes getting canceled is the best thing that can happen to a show.
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"Just pull it out and play with it" -Big Nasty B @ Life After the Cover Save
40k: Orks 
Fantasy: Empire, Beastmen, Warriors of Chaos, and Ogre Kingdoms |
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2009/07/05 13:00:13
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Major
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reds8n wrote:I've dipped into 24 here and there, and it is well directed and tense.
..but I pretty much gave up when i saw a scene with a nuke going off in.... New York ( ? or somewhere) and the next scene was..... everyone just carrying on and some cleaners going to work at/in a motel.
Now, I'm pretty dedicated to my job... but there's limits you know ?
Indeed, that was season 6 and it was in LA. I remember the casualties being stated as 12000. Now considering that 9/11 had 3000 casualties and was big enough to dominate all media for about 6 months and change US foreign policy for the next decade it seems rather bizarre that an incident with 4 times that many casualties can be forgotten about within 2 hours as the writers move onto the next sub plot. That was a prime example of the sort of OOT nonsense that's becoming very detrimental to the show.
The pace, tension and characters remain top notch hence even during that season I kept watching. The writers just need to start toning things down.
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2009/07/05 16:59:36
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Fireknife Shas'el
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Shouldn't have been cancelled: Murder One (shouldn't have been so badly re-tooled ofr season 2 either), Terminator: TSCC. It was just starting to get it's legs, and there was a megabudget movie that would have worked as a promotional tool, alas it was too expensive on a per-episode basis
Should be cancelled: Doll House. I love Buffy & Angel, but I'm sorry Joss, this one just doesn't work and Ms. Dushku doesn't have the acting chops for Echo
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2009/07/05 17:23:23
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Shouldn't have been.
Sarah Connor Chronicles. Only seen the first season thus far, but thoroughly enjoyed it.
Space : Above and Beyond. You think Firefly got stiffed? Try having the last episode as the characters shot down, in space, and then fin. Sucks!
Firefly. It was good, it was fairly original, and I, like thousands others (if not millions) throughly enjoyed it. Seemingly, Fox hit it with the big bad 'Not The Simpsons' hammer...
Doctor Who, circa 1989. Why did you do it BBC? Sylvester McCoy's stories I number around the best out there. It was Colin Baker who stuffed it to the point where not even Peri's outstanding cleavage could make it interesting! Oh, and now that Russell T Davies is out of the picture, here's hoping Stephen Moffat brings back the Timelords. Stupid thing to do wiping them out. Tosser.
Blade, the TV Series. So much promise. Writing was slightly ropey and not having Snipes in it was an adjustment, but deserved a second crack at the whip.
Should be cancelled / should have been cancelled sooner.
Sex and the City. Lame. Lame. Lame.
Friends. 10 seasons. 1 joke. Recycled umpteen times. Made stars out of utterly talentless hacks.
The Simpsons. The stories are getting poorer and poorer. Endings just sort of end, without really being a decent ending, and the original charm has long been lost.
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2009/07/05 17:29:53
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Da Head Honcho Boss Grot
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Superjail! needs to come back.
I <3 it. 
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Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
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2009/07/05 17:31:28
Subject: Re:shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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Brainiac, Myth Busters and all those other "zany" science shows can stop now, it's not funny any more and I already know what Kari Byron looks like naked.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2009/07/05 17:41:28
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Da Head Honcho Boss Grot
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Bill Nye was cool.
Also, every show that's supposed to be about finding "ghosts" in old houses with bad camera work can be cancelled right now.
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Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
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2009/07/05 18:25:53
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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Orkeosaurus wrote:Bill Nye was cool.
Also, every show that's supposed to be about finding "ghosts" in old houses with bad camera work can be cancelled right now.
Or just given an extra riff track.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2009/07/06 00:23:15
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Killer Klaivex
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I don't want Stargate to go away, I was really pissed off when they cancelled Atlantis. Killing off Carson was a slowed thing to do as well, even if it was a cool twist. I was fine with ending SG-1, because 10 years/seasons is long enough.
Family Guy needs to be cancelled. It's just The Simpsons for adults now.
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People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made. |
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2009/07/06 00:42:22
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Hanging Out with Russ until Wolftime
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Shouldn't have been Cancelled:
Firefly
Sonic SatAM (It was good DAMNIT!)
Futurama (but it is coming back, so that is good)
Stargate SG1
Should be cancelled:
The Simpsons
Star Trek Enterprise should be retroactively cancelled IMO.
CSI of all kinds need to be axed
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate "Anything But SG1"
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2009/07/06 00:44:48
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant
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i hate to do this but... i agree with gwar
when is futurama coming back.
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-to many points to bother to count.
mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
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2009/07/06 00:45:44
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Killer Klaivex
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Gwar! wrote:
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate "Anything But SG1"
You'd better lock your doors and board up your windows tonight.
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People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made. |
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2009/07/06 00:56:29
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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shoulda been:
Star Trek: Enterprise - after the pilot.
Heroes.
Supernatural
Doll house (yet more proof that Joss is not the be-all and end-all).
The simpsons
All reality tv shows (kitchen/bathroom/neighbour makeover shows, big-brother crap and all similar shows).
24
Lost.
Shouldn't have been:
Farscape. I coulda done with a longer stretch on that show.
Space: Above and Beyond.
Killing off Rodney in SG:A was the best thing they did (apart from replacing Weir).
Rodney was an annoying git.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2009/07/06 01:06:00
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Da Head Honcho Boss Grot
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Supernatural was pretty good. At least the first season was, I didn't see the second one.
Lost isn't bad either. I'll never watch an episode, but it has some pretty religious fans. I'd say that the show has merit, even if it's not exactly my "cup of tea" (as you unamericans say).
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Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
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2009/07/06 01:07:50
Subject: shows that you shouldnt have been canceled and shows that should be.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Cheese Elemental wrote:Killing off McKay was a slowed thing to do as well, even if it was a cool twist.
chromedog wrote:Killing off Rodney in SG:A was the best thing they did (apart from replacing Weir).
Rodney was an annoying git.
I must be missing something, because he was quite alive in the series finale.
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