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Suprised to see Burn Notice, silencer. I just LOVE that show.

Should be -
Any VH1 "reality" show (notable exception for Celebrity Rehab)

Why? -
Space: Above and Beyond - Kristen Cloke where are you? If you have some time and want to get some coffee or y'know hang out that'd be swell.

FARFREAKINGSCAPE- That last episode makes my hair hurt.

silencer.001 wrote:AKAIK it was cancelled at Ep9 of season 2

Doh, that's unforunate.

Goliath wrote:

Dal'yth Dude wrote:Should be cancelled immediately: Heroes

How Dare You?
Heroes is my favourite TV show.

I'll save my snarky comments about about your taste.

Why do I think Heroes should be cancelled?

- Characters change way too much with little to no motivation.
- Humor is defined by those two wacky asians and their hijinks.
- How many times does Ali Larter have to die and come back?
- dropped plot points or plot devices. Whatever happened to Molly, the meta GPS?
- Using future events to motivate people gets old, yet it is a core premise in nearly every season. Then in the last season they explicitly state that one can't change the future without ramifications. D'uh!
- Sylar, the most dangerous person in the universe who everybody wants dead is now in Nathan's body with nobody caring or worried?
- In season 2 the first half of the season is Maya and her brother running through central america. The same scene over and over. Then after she gets to America with Sylar she's pretty much dropped before she gets killed. All that build up for a bunch of nothing.
- Suresh was supposed to be a 50 something year old scientist without powers to provide the moral compass of the show. Instead he becomes a young hunk they have to give powers to. One season he is good, one he is doing the devil's work. As long as he has a lab he doesn't care after 5 minutes of whining to his benefactor
- Speaking of powers, why give Ando a power? Again, a normal interacting with a meta is a theme that could be explored in greater depth, but instead, they just give Ando a power that guarantees his sidekick status. Remember HRG's point about a team being a normal and meta?
- no budget for effects. So Nathan, Peter and Sylar go head to head behind a closed door and all we get to see are some flashes of light thru a keyhole? Really? Who approved that? Even the disappointing ending to season 1's climax looks like an ILM masterpiece next to that.
- No continuity. Pretty obvious by most of the posts above, but there seems to be little continuity in the show. When one of the producers was asked about that, he stated that DVRs and internet downloads were the reason. Apparently recording and re-viewing shows makes it *less* likely people can follow what is going on!
- too many characters, too many powers, and no coherent focus

The last season and a half I kept watching thinking to myself "Self, it can't get worse." Now I watch it to see how many drinks I can stomach in an hour.

Twin Peaks deserved at least another season and a real ending. But it was doomed by too many writers in the kitchen and ABC's incredibly dumb decision to move a hit show to Saturday night, which is death for television not aimed at octogenerians. Not sure there's ever been a show that hit such heights and lows so quickly. It was a pop culture phenomenon at the end of season one (cast members on SNL, cover of Rolling Stone, etc.), then got cancelled ignominiously before the end of season two. Quite the rise and fall.

Some other shows that deserved better, just off the top of my head:

Doctor, Doctor (with Matt Frewer)
Brooklyn South
EZ Streets

@reds8n, that show with Clooney was called ER. So yes, George Clooney was on TWO series with that name. Weird.

@Redbeard, was Crime Story the one with Dennis Farina that opened to "Runaway"? If that's the show, it was a good one.

It's astounding to me that and Survivor and Desperate Housewives are actually still on the air (they are, aren't they?). ER was like that. Was it last year or the year before they ended it? I remember seeing a commercial for the series finale and being surprised because I thought it died 5 years earlier. Call it the Abe Vigoda effect.

Heroes is a spectacularly cheesy show. Cheesy effects, cheesy plot...seriously, I'm still waiting for Electrawoman and Dynagirl to show up. It's funny to me that there a lot of people who watch Heroes who probably wouldn't be caught dead reading a comic book...when in fact there are many superhero comics that are better written.

Firefly really was a great show. I honestly didnt know about it until the movie Serenity came out. I loved that movie so much! Then I was shown the shows, and I still cant understand why it was ever canceled.


Reboot was one of my favorite shows growing up too. My god was that a bad ass show!


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Ill add that I watch heros. It started out really good, and I used to read comic books. The last few seasons have been steadily getting worse. Infact he season that just ended had a couple shows in it that just made me mad I watched them.

gorgon wrote:@Redbeard, was Crime Story the one with Dennis Farina that opened to "Runaway"? If that's the show, it was a good one.

That's the one I was thinking of.

Yes, that was the one.