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TV Shows that died too early.
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I liked the original as well, and hated the tv series.
But I was specifically referring to the fact that if the whole show saw the same love in animation as the intro did, it would be one of the more amazing things ever...
but animation like that costs $texas when doing longform work.
Suffice to say I was extremely bummed when the series shifted to Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. Oh well, at least it opened me to something new. And the intro to the show was almost worth it, fucking godly. I can't imagine we'd ever get a show animated in such a fashion as a standard. Even the music is hauntingly beautiful.
I like the new Avengers cartoon, but the opening song is downright embarrassing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXi61pVSmKw
Has he done anything good since 'The Last Avenger's Story?' however many years ago that was?
Yep. Sliders went to crap right when they introduced the Cromags. Kari Wuhrer was nice though.
I loved that show. It was a pitch-perfect parody of the Xena/Hercules style adventure series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQagE62_zI
show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyvjNUENrg&feature=related
The BBC version is my favorite television show, and as much as I would have liked a third run with John Simms, I think it ended brilliantly.
The ABC version started somewhat strong (for the most part), but I just felt it meandered too much in spots and didn't have the same impact with how it built up/paid off the mystery. I realize the way the ABC version ended could still be left for interpretation, and taking the ending as non-literal would be the only thing saving it. But the ABC creators said that was what they had planned all along and if the ending is to truly be taken literally, it's a bit of a cheat and a cop-out for not just the audience but for the characters and investment in the story. :?
The one thing I do feel the ABC series nailed better was the initial waking-up-in-1973 scene where Sam spins around and see's all of NYC and the Twin Towers still standing. That had a much stronger impact than just seeing dirty, undeveloped Manchester.
I'll also throw in for Sliders. Fucking loved that show when it was on, but the moment they introduced Kari Wurher I could already see the beginning of the end. I realize it ran a couple of seasons already and perhaps it did need a central narrative to thread it, but what they ended up with was an uninspired Space-Nazis plot.
Fuck man I remember watching that show too. The outtro was good too.
Here's another show I fucking loved, got little fanfare, and went out before it's time. Intro was awesome too. And to top it off they ended the show on a major fucking cliffhanger. I never got the 3-D Glasses to see if they actually worked, but even so the entire show was awesome.
IT'S LASER TIME!!!
And yes at one time I had the song memorized, even though I couldn't understand all the lyrics.
The villian made that show
I found the most interesting aspect of that show was how they kept trying to pair our hero Ziv Zulander with Lady Frenzy, one of the main villains of the universe.
Fuckers!
Oh really? Man, it's been foreveeeeeeer since I've watched that gem. Yeah, that cliffhanger sounds awesome. For me, all the episodes just kinda blend together, and the ending of em all being something about forming up Jungle Fiver and destroying the enemy Corp megabot.
Edit: Guess not! Art style is a little similar, though.
Didn't disney break their long standing rule about the number of seasons they gave shows to give it it's last season?
Also, that reminds me. The Famous Jet Jackson
Yeah, yeah they did. That was always a weird rule to me. Was it something to do with syndication?
Yep. They try to get their series to have just enough eps for a syndication buy.
Oh, fun fact about Bots Master - it was French.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Auto-Bop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5eAafpheKU
I recall it being pretty fantastic for a mid-90s CGI show. I believe it ended on a stupid cliffhanger because the network kept shuffling it around to different time slots and it was also expensive.
Youtube seems to have full episodes up if you search for Roughnecks STC
And now I am going to be that one weirdo and claim that the ended Enterprise early. I was all sorts of jazzed to see the beginnings of the Federation, and Enterprise had some really good episodes. Some bad ones, too, for sure, but as soon as it seemed like they really hit their stride it was canceled. I really liked Bakula as Archer, and the ship design was great.
Oh, and apparently the television censors forced them to have all the guns make wimpy pew pew laser noises instead of actual assault rifle noises, and it's super disconcerting at first. It gets really hard to take seriously, having the gunfire sound that terrible. But after a few episodes you just kinda get used to it. *shrug*
While we're on that subject...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjhbOH8m2U
Easily qualifies, since they didn't find all of their items, just like Pirates of Darkwater.
I just order a few choice shows that died early deaths from Amazon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVtVZWzhG_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RsJBhhswI
And the last one ordered, one of my favorites, and apparently nobody watched this one but me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StG2a1vjC4w
Also, someone was talking about Hercules and Xena? Here's the closest thing I've seen in a long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlvC31ZnW0A
Ted Raimi even shows up! Twice!!
I enjoyed the show more for the campy Hercules stuff, like I said. We had evil clones, doubles, people splitting into shards of their personalities, being transformed into animals, old men dressing up as old women and being hit on, people randomly losing powers and have to find their true selves to regain them...basically every silly plot and monster of the week you could think of.
Yes, I know it got four seasons, but it was really starting to hit it's stride again in the 4th.
XBL:Gravity MD PSN:Gravity1204
HOLY CRAP! The actual show is SO BAD.
Oh, shit! Yeah, that was pretty awesome - and (more) faithful to the book than the movie. Which isn't saying a lot, granted.