What Was Supposed to Happen?

[sleepy]

"Now and Again" reminds me that I always wanted to find out how "Once and Again" would have ended had they been given a chance to wrap things up. I hated the way it was canceled. It just sort of... stopped.

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I always wanted to know what they would have done in one more season of The Lost World (Shut up, it was good!). I know the producers/writers (?) released a file with some of their roughly sketched out plans and ideas for the 5th season, but it was pretty disjointed and not that satisfying. And none of my local stations ever picked up season 4, so I haven't even seen that one! Someday I'll be able to afford the DVDs...

Also, what a third season of Dark Angel would have been like. Preferably without all the Alba/Weatherly behind the scenes crap that made so much of Season Two a complete disaster.

[chonies]

I'm trying to remember how Dolphin Cove ended. I think the traumatized daughter got her voice back but when I realized later that that was the last episode I thought it was a fake ending. Of course, now I can't remember what else happened in the show.

[Atreides]

biondetta said:

Reunion and Point Pleasant were the shows like that for me. I tracked down a few more episodes of Point Pleasant, but never found the last few. Maybe I should look again. It was cheesy, but fun.

I rented Point Pleasant on DVD. The first few episodes were boring but it really picked up by the end. Spoilers:

By the end of the season, Christina finally embraced her dark side and went all Carrie on the town. Her "boyfriend" (the guy who was the Christ to her anti-Christ) tried to kill her but failed. Christina leaves Point Pleasant, presumably for New York with Lucas. Her adopted family sets out on their quest to either save her or destroy her.

For my fellow Canadians, CTV.ca will be putting the lost episodes of Smith on their website. I saw a commercial advertising it the other day.

[Smilla]

Maybe it's minor, but the untimely death of The Lion's Den still eats at me sometimes. Especially because it appeared to me that Rob Lowe's character was going to be revealed as at least marginally complicit in his mentor's death. Rob Lowe playing a character of mixed morality would have been really interesting.

[mrspickles]

It wasn't a serial or anything, but I LOVED Greg the Bunny! I have managed to catch a few episodes on the Independent Film Channel, but it's not the same.

[livviebway]

Ultraviolet! Sure they resolved a mini-plot, but they brought back the Sexy Evil Vampire (oops, Code V) guy and established that the vampires were trying to take over the world. And I really loved Commodore Norrington: Vampire Slayer.

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Joan of Arcadia, definitely. I was so furious that we didn't get to see what happened after some kind of anti-John shows up at the end of the season. Come on, people, a spooky plot's afoot!

But the biggest one for me and my husband is Deadwood. Three quarters of the way through the goddamn plot - which is clearly ONE goddamn plot - and they pulled the plug. And now it seems that the promised TV movies to finish it up aren't likely to happen, and I could just choke a bitch.

And Firefly. Yes, I know there was a lot of closure with Serenity, and I love that with a fiery passion, but a hell of a lot of things remained unexplained, like what the deal was with Inara, and what the deal was with Shepherd Book.

Twin Peaks is another one. They did kind of wind it up, but again, there was a lot unexplained. Same with Mulholland Drive, which was supposed to be a whole show. The movie is great, but again, lots of hares started that never get tracked down.

I hate it when TV shows get cancelled without time to even wind up a plot.

[Smilla]

Okay, since the mods told me I could also use this thread to vent about people and plotlines that got killed even if the series they were developing within lived on:

I always wonder whether ER could have become a more meaningful drama if Sherry Stringfield hadn't decided to explore her options elsewhere at the beginning of season three. Would Susan and Mark have eventually ended up together? Would Susan's character have become a halfway decent physician? What were they planning for her other storylines, anyway?

What would have happened if Teri Bauer's character on 24 had lived? Both Leslie Hope and Kiefer Sutherland have admitted that her character was axed because the writers felt that trying to continue Jack and Teri's relationship on the series would have been too complicated plotwise. Okay, well, or it could have made the plot ten thousand times more interesting. Would Teri and Jack have managed to stick it out as a couple? Would they have ever dealt with the emotional fall-out from the sexual assault Teri suffered during the show's first "day"? Would one or both of them have given in to an obvious urge to murder their idiot daughter? The mind, it boggles.

[Hanky Panky]

My So-Called Life - Would Rayanne and Angela have been friends again?

Joan of Arcadia - Was Wentworth Miller really the Devil?

These are pressing questions and *still* drive me crazy!