The Expanse. I’m happy it was completed and not cancelled but it felt rushed. Currently reading the books, on book 3/9, really good.
Enjoy the read one of my favorite book series ever.
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of the expanse yet. I think we might see a bit more at some point.
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Yeah I really hope we get to see Laconia at its prime, some day.
I know it isn’t the same thing but there is an Expanse game coming out called The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. So at the very least we may get a big action rpg out of it.
That said, I would love to see the show taken through all of the main series books instead of where they ended it in the show.
That could scratch that itch.
Watchmen is the first that comes to mind.
Also Peacemaker supposedly isn’t going to get anymore seasons.
I’m actually watching Peacemaker right now but I’m not sure it’s the kind of show that can really keep going. It’s not going to go past season 2 then?
Over the Garden Wall
I do wish McHale got to put more things out. I’m excited to hear he’s working on something coming out next year called the Elephant.
Fantastic series, I need to rewatch it again when the weather gets a little more Fall-like
Ooh yeah, but on the other hand, it’s now the perfect length to binge on a dreary Sunday afternoon in October. So I think instead of a second season of Wirt and Greg, I’d like a new series of similar length, maybe a little darker and chillier, for a blisteringly cold November night.
Andor could have probably done with one more season to really flesh out Cassian accepting his rebel place. (Probably did not need the intended 5 seasons)
Arcane. But I’m pretty sure Arcane will be the best visual media I will ever see in my lifetime that nothing will ever really compare to, so it’s probably a good thing it concluded while at its peak.
Fringe was at it’s best during their earlier monster-of-the-week seasons but quickly strayed away from that to progress the overarching story, would’ve been nicer to have more seasons with a slower burning story development while still focusing on what made the show special.
Legion (FX Series) while excellent on it’s own, you could tell the productions creativity was far from exhausted and could’ve easily filled another wacky season.
I miss the x-of-the-week format, personally. We get 8 episode long miniseries every couple of years now and while they can be great I miss getting 24 episodes a year watching your favorite familiar characters working through entire story arcs in 48 minutes. Not every episode was great, and you got your Christmas episode and the flashback episode in there. But on balance I think it was great and miss it.
There’s also this new trend of making a series which becomes very popular and then waiting 4 years to make the second season. By that time it not only lost it’s relevance, but also the actors have very visibly aged.
I was going to say Fringe but because of the way it became I’m glad it ended when it did. But you make a good point, if they had slowed the story down and gave us more monster of the week they actually could have been the new x-files. I would have like more seasons of that show.
Legion is some of the best television ever made in my opinion and I think it could have had at least one more season.
There’s a sort of pattern that all x-of-the-week series fall into, and it’s “Why do our characters have these wacky adventures so often?” and the answer to that is often “Because there’s a grand scheme to it all and they’re the chosen ones”. Same thing happened to Supernatural, or Primeval, I think even the Power Rangers.
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Firefly!
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to shift the feeling that we were robbed of more.
Edit - Realised I misread the title, was indeed cancelled not completed.
Wasn’t Firefly famously cancelled?
Someone who watched Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad told me that they thought Breaking Bad would’ve been better if it started with Gretchen, Eliot, and Walt starting Gray Matter together — followed them through the relationship breakdown due to Walt’s insecurity and then Walt meeting Skyler before a Time Skip taking us to where season 1 picked up.
The Wire. It wrapped up well, but i just want more.
I liked the deuce, as I thought it had a similar style of storytelling.
Treme I liked as well, but it’s something else - not the same style as the other 2.
Yeah. Neither Treme or The Deuce were finished.
Black books. I miss the mysantropic book seller.
I’m afraid I’ve got to go old school. If you’re looking for something that was completed but could have gone longer I say Quantum Leap. Don’t get me wrong the finale was great and I loved that Sam decided to keep leaping to help those in need, but man I could use more.
Shhh… Don’t say it too loudly or someone will go and try to reboot it and completely ruin it.
I love the new version. It wasn’t really a reboot but a continuation.
Supernatural. (jk)
The O.A.
I really feel like they could have ran with the ending (even though I didn’t like it) and went even crazier with the story.
The Owl House.
Firefly
Wasn’t Firefly cancelled?
Technically they completed the story in Serenety.
That, or they misread the title at first like I did.
The magicians could’ve used more seasons if they had more ideas
So much. I usually skip musical episodes, 90% of the time, but theirs were so damn good. Some serious vocal talent (4 octave range, bitch).
Season 3+ was some of the best television I’ve seen. Once they abandoned the books and understood that they were doing their own thing that only really related in setting and themes they were really able to do justice to traumatized millennial grad students do magic that requires one to be a genius sans marbles.
What they did with Margo and Eliot was moving without ever stopping being incredibly camp but also dark. The show perfectly hit the tone of laughing your ass off because your life went off the rails and now you’re canceling an emergency therapy session to deal with stress because you absolutely cannot fit it into your schedule.
Also by far the best deaf representation I’ve seen on TV, which was nice as someone hard of hearing
The bottle episode where Elliot and Quentin have to solve the mosaic to get the key is one of the most touching episodes of TV I have seen.
It broke me especially because the writers didn’t pretend it didn’t happen, only the characters did. Having Quentin’s bisexuality go from one scene that could be interpreted as a joke or a one off to an actual conflict the character experienced of knowing he could have a loving relationship with Eliot, but that he didn’t have the courage to seize outside of Filory was oof.
Honestly I don’t think I’ve seen another show that handled struggles with vulnerability and emotions that well.
I felt sad that for both it was the healthiest loving relationship they would each have.
They ran out of books by the end. It’s odd how much better the TV show was compared the the source whose first book was great and then got worse over the next two.
They didn’t even bother trying to adapt the third book more than loosely. I’ve never read them but my wife did and she felt that the whole theme of “Quentin isn’t the protagonist of the world, he’s just the point of view character” was much worse than just showing him as a character in an ensemble cast who struggles with main character syndrome. She also felt Grossman did Julia dirty with how she handled the aftermath of her rape.
