Meme - Day One: A TV Show That Should Never Have Been Cancelled
N.B. - This is a repost - I want to try and keep this up but the Universe got in the way. So, take two!
I've seen these about on LJ and everytime I've seen them, I keep thinking 'That would be a Good Thing To Do' and guess what?
I promptly forget to do something about it! That is until now. May the 'verse have mercy on your unsuspecting souls!
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
So - Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
This question is perhaps the oddest of the lot. Or at least the most difficult to answer. Take your pick.
Mainly because, nearly all of the shows that I'm likely to talk about either ended when the time was right or they ended after they should have done. Very few have ended too soon, in my 'umble opinion. All bar, possibly, one.
And that one is....
Star Trek: The Original Series
Here - have a clip from the episode that, quite possibly!, started off the whole slash movement (or at least gave it a good kick up the bum!)
For those of you who have computers that *hate* embeds - it's the fight scene from 'Amok Time'
If memory serves - by the third series, NBC were getting cold feet about this little show (if only they had the Doctor's TARDIS!) and were cutting the budgets as well as moving it to the 'Friday Night Death Slot' (is it me or does this all seem *scarily* familiar to folks?).
Admittedly, this doesn't explain some of the utter dreck (Spock's Brain anyone?!) that was aired in the third season. Even so, no one can take away how groundbreaking (both societally and fannishly) the series was.
Not to mention what an impact it had on culture. There's a reason why the test Space Shuttle was called 'Enterprise'!
Just think what it may have achieved if the show had run the full five years....
I've seen these about on LJ and everytime I've seen them, I keep thinking 'That would be a Good Thing To Do' and guess what?
I promptly forget to do something about it! That is until now. May the 'verse have mercy on your unsuspecting souls!
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
So - Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
This question is perhaps the oddest of the lot. Or at least the most difficult to answer. Take your pick.
Mainly because, nearly all of the shows that I'm likely to talk about either ended when the time was right or they ended after they should have done. Very few have ended too soon, in my 'umble opinion. All bar, possibly, one.
And that one is....
Star Trek: The Original Series
Here - have a clip from the episode that, quite possibly!, started off the whole slash movement (or at least gave it a good kick up the bum!)
Click to viewFor those of you who have computers that *hate* embeds - it's the fight scene from 'Amok Time'
If memory serves - by the third series, NBC were getting cold feet about this little show (if only they had the Doctor's TARDIS!) and were cutting the budgets as well as moving it to the 'Friday Night Death Slot' (is it me or does this all seem *scarily* familiar to folks?).
Admittedly, this doesn't explain some of the utter dreck (Spock's Brain anyone?!) that was aired in the third season. Even so, no one can take away how groundbreaking (both societally and fannishly) the series was.
Not to mention what an impact it had on culture. There's a reason why the test Space Shuttle was called 'Enterprise'!
Just think what it may have achieved if the show had run the full five years....