{"id":13043,"date":"2008-08-10T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/08\/10\/brilliant-but-cancelled.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:51:39","slug":"brilliant_but_cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/brilliant_but_cancelled.html","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant but Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wired lists their Top Ten Brilliant but Canceled SF TV Series<\/a> (though their “SF” seems to include heavy dollops of Fantasy, too):<\/p>\n

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  1. Firefly<\/strong>: Well, duh. Aside from the brilliantly flexible premise, rarely has a show come along with more character hooks, plot hooks, and just damned fun dialog and protagonists than this Joss Whedon creation.<\/li>\n
  2. Wonderfalls<\/strong>: I came to this quirkly little show late.  Fun to watch, but so offbeat that it might be just as well it was sunk quickly (by Fox again), since I’m not sure how it could have been sustained.<\/li>\n
  3. Now and Again<\/strong>: Never saw it.<\/li>\n
  4. Alien Nation<\/strong>: I wasn’t a huge fan of this series, but enjoyed it well enough. Certainly one of the better SF series of the 80s.<\/li>\n
  5. Space: Above and Beyond<\/strong>: I started watching it, got turned off, got turned back on in reruns (far too late). In many ways what a space war saga — a la Starship Troopers — should be.<\/li>\n
  6. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.<\/strong>: Never jumped on the bandwagon, but I know plenty of Bruce Campbell fans who loved it.<\/li>\n
  7. American Gothic<\/strong>: Never watched it.<\/li>\n
  8. Jake 2.0<\/strong>: Never watched it.<\/li>\n
  9. Nowhere Man<\/strong>: Never watched it (though it sounds good).<\/li>\n
  10. Eerie, Indiana<\/strong>: Never watched it (though it sounds fun).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, what would I add to the list? Gah — I’m terrible at remembering these things, and I’m sure I’ll kick myself as soon as someone mentions That Incredible Show I Talked About So Highly After Doyce Finally Talked Me Into Watching It Two Episodes Before It Was Canceled.<\/p>\n

    Hmmmm. The Dresden Files<\/strong><\/em>, anyone? Roughnecks<\/em><\/strong>? I think the B5 sequel Crusade <\/em><\/strong>could have hit its stride if it had had a longer run.<\/p>\n

    And Ginny<\/a> reminds me of both Max Headroom <\/em><\/strong>and UFO<\/em><\/strong>. And there was that vampire-clans-as-crime-families one that was on few years back whose name I can never remember …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wired lists their Top Ten Brilliant but Canceled SF TV Series (though their “SF” seems to include heavy dollops of Fantasy, too): Firefly: Well, duh. Aside from the brilliantly flexible premise,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[362,361,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-babylon-5","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128344,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/the-50-greatest-sci-fi-tv-shows-kinda-sorta-more-or-less-redux.html","url_meta":{"origin":13043,"position":0},"title":"The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi TV Shows (kinda-sorta more-or-less) (Redux)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 18-Oct-15 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"So this is based on an article from a Popular Mechanics (!) article on \"The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Shows Ever\" [http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/culture\/movies\/g156\/the-50-greatest-sci-fi-tv-shows]. See here [https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/the-50-greatest-sci-fi-tv-shows-kinda-sorta-more-or-less.html] for caveats and comments on that list. I've decided to do my own force ranking (thanks +Stan Pedzick), working within the same list (to do otherwise\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TV%2BGuide%2BSF.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4377,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/14\/take_my_love_ta.html","url_meta":{"origin":13043,"position":1},"title":"Take my love, take my land, take me to the trophy stand …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Sep-03 9:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Firefly won an Emmy. 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