Cliffhanger cancellations
Stargate: Universe.
The final episode involved all but one crewmember entering stasis pods for a 3-year trip to a neighboring galaxy.
Did they arrive safely?
What did they discover?
Did the lone crewmember survive 3 years on minimal rations and life-support?
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Twin Peaks very famously cancelled on a cliffhanger at the end of season 2. But not really because Fire Walk With Me sort of kept it going and then of course there was The Return a few years back, but it was a very different show by then.
Far less famously there was a UK Sci fi kids show in the 1980s called The Tripods that was based on a trilogy of books. They made two seasons which corresponded with the first two books and never made the third one.
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The final episode involved all but one crewmember entering stasis pods for a 3-year trip to a neighboring galaxy.
Did they arrive safely?
What did they discover?
Did the lone crewmember survive 3 years on minimal rations and life-support?
Supposedly there's is a new show or movie in the works that promises to wrap up this story line.
Final Space was cancelled after three seasons which was the Show's original halfway point. The creator intends to finish it with a one shot graphic novel, who knows how that'll turn out because the show was written off on the company's taxes. You can't watch it ever again.
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Twelve Forever.
I understand why, the animation studio shut down, but still it's a shame.
For those unfamiliar, Twelve Forever was a show where the main character Reggie doesn't want to grow up. She escapes to a magical Island with her friends. The Island changes depending on its inhabitants - in this case, based on Reggie's mind. However, the main downside is that if you stay on the Island for too long, you gradually lose your mind and forget who you were before coming to the Island.
The artstyle is similar to Adventure Time but it is set in the 2000's.
We never get to find out what the Island is about! I'm still disappointed that I'll never know what direction they were going with this. What was going to be on that Island? It annoys me to no end that I'll never know.
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Duckman - A part 2 to the Season 4 finale was never formally planned, but still...
Also the Show's creator passed away.
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Also the Show's creator passed away.
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The PJs~ In the last ep Thurgood got drunk & had sex with his wife's sister Bebe by mistake because Bebe was sleeping in his & his wife's Muriel's bed after Bebe got in a fight with her long-term boyfriend. Bebe got pregnant & Muriel said for them to get a paternity test & that she would divorce Thurgood if he was the father. The test said he was not the father & it ended with showing the fetus which looked like Thurgood implying the test was wrong.
Special Unit 2~ Around the end of the series the unit started realizing there was something like a conspiracy that was directing/encouraging the problematic links & had caused the death of Nick's previous partner.
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These are some series I saw smothered to death by cancellation in "real time." Mulberry was the first series I remember being really disappointed about not returning to PBS after the BBC canceled it. That was in the 1990s.
Mulberry
Alphas
Pushing Daisies
Avenue 5
These are series where I bought the DVD set, knowing it was not finished.
The Middleman (Maybe not a cliffhanger (???), but it ends abruptly with unresolved points. When I watch the DVD, it always feels incomplete.)
Wonderfalls
Joan of Arcadia
I would consider adding Firefly, but it continued with the movie Serenity. I'm not saying a longer series would not have been nice, but they had an opportunity to tie up the story. There were also comics.
Dead Like Me was cancelled after not completing some of the stories.
There are probably more.
However . . .
In 2017 a comic titled Stargate Universe: Back To Destiny arrived, which picked up from the show's cliffhanger. It opened with Colonel Young, being awakened from his pod by Eli and a group of unknown characters. In a flashback, Eli's various failed attempts to fix his pod are shown, but he managed to buy himself a further ten weeks of life support.
Eli then discovers there are more pods hidden on the Destiny, which is how he discovers these surprise new characters. The rest of the Stargate Universe comic plays out this mystery. The canonicity of this comic is debatable since none of the original creative team was involved, but with little to no chance of a third season, this is probably the only resolution fans will receive.
Read the full article HERE
Read the SGU comic HERE
Note that the SGU comic is NOT canon -- it is not an official sequel. But it is still a good story.
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Lockwood & Co.
For those unfamiliar, Lockwood & Co was a Netflix adaptation of the book series. Despite its popularity, reaching the top 10 in the UK, unfortunately it didn't reach Netflix's streaming number expectations so it only had one season.
Which is a shame. It had excellent dialogue. Good sound mixing. The actors conveyed the characters well. Great special effects. The exposition felt natural. Good pacing. I liked that the setting felt lived in rather than just an airbrushed version of London.
The main plot was tied up nicely. I liked that the story was focused and concise. However, elements that were going to be explored in the future, that were brought up in the series, obviously didn't reach their full conclusion due to the fact it was cut short.
On the plus side, the adaptation rarely diverges much from the source material. So I'm reading the book series to find out the conclusion. I do have issues with some of the main character's internal dialogue, but the story is enjoyable enough that I can look past it.
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