Farscape, Angel, Firefly... but not Enterprise. Never Enterprise.
Sigh.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Not too smart. Now I guess they'lll fill that timeslot with more entertainment aimed at "the urban audience".
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
That's okay. They're just clearing room in the genre neighborhood for the in-production Highlander miniseries, which will hopefully lead to a new TV series.
Mark
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Gods..... no. How many formulatic episodes with one flashback, two duels and one bad-guy biting the dust-with cheesy "quickening effects" can one endure?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Mark,
"They're just clearing room in the genre neighborhood for the in-production Highlander miniseries, which will hopefully lead to a new TV series"
Eh? What? Links! Story!
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
MacKenzie ... ? Well, at least they're not postulating a THIRD Immortal from the Clan MacLeod ... (unless you count Quentin, or, at a stretch, Kell). I'm looking forward to it!
Jason: interesting fact, but Highlander averaged only one Quickening (excluding f/b's) per two episodes ... at least for the first four seasons or so.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote: Jason: interesting fact, but Highlander averaged only one Quickening (excluding f/b's) per two episodes ... at least for the first four seasons or so. [/QB]
That's still at least a hundred dead immortals Duncan kills with no noticible gain in ability or "power".
I'd like to see them adapt Quinten's story to live-action TV (more violence and grit would neeed to be added, obviously). Anything to get away from the formula.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Get back to the topic!!
I'm shocked and appalled... is there any sort of campaign to get them to change their minds!?!
I LOVE "Angel" - it's been Buffy's superior a number of times.
Season 1 beat buffy season 4, season 3 beat buffy season 6.
It's just not FAIR!
Maybe finally UPN will take it under it's wing like it did with Buffy?
PLEASE UPN.
Andrew
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Not over the course of the series, Jason, although you could argue (and I think Endgame supports this) that he's killed over 100 Immortals in his lifetime.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
There is an online petition - i know, i know "they don't work" - but over 8000 signatures in about a day isn't bad - so go help save Angel:
Another Highlander TV series? As if the first three weren't bad enough.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Perhaps UPN would be interested - how good did BtVS do with them?
Posted by Flying Minister (Member # 1177) on :
UPN doesn't have enough money to pick up Angel. They barely have enough money to keep Enterprise going.
SciFi most likely wouldn't pick it up. They just picked up Andromeda. They have the new Stargate series coming, the end of the old series, and I beleive they are working on the Battlestar Galactica series. They alread stand to lose too much money.
The best hope for a different network to pick it up would be either TNT or F/X.
As for the WB keeping it, I seriously doubt that's going to happen. It's been on the bubble for a couple of seasons now, and the WB would rather put out useless trash like Charmed and Smallville. Not to mention loads of half hour sitcom tripe and rehashed teen soaps like One Tree Hill.
If you're really looking to try to get this show saved, come to RenewAngel.com. We have some ears pretty high up and if anything at all can be done, it will be. We've already started the effort to save this show, and more people are joining us everyday.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Come on, Angel isn't the type of show The WB wants. They want Everwood, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls.... Smallville is okay, aside from Angel it's the only other show on The WB I watch. I don't know too much about how this season is going, but I wish they would do one final season devoted to the end of Angel. The whole season would set it up as if it were one big story instead of finding out half-way through this season.
Besides, how long could it possibly go, actors playing age-less vampires. James Marsters is 41 years old, eventually makeup won't be able to cover up his age. The difference between this and Data, they could have always said Data created some sort of aging subroutine to make him age like a human.
Don't get me wrong, I love Angel. I plan to buy season 3 on DVD since I only got to see half of it before joining the Navy. I've seen a couple episodes this season, one in which Lindsey returned calling himself Doyle and pretending to have visions for Spike.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Am I allowed to make a "don't post spoilers in such a casual manner, you bastard" comment?
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Then I shouldn't say what happend to Lindsey in the 100th episode of Angel then and who ended up stoping by?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
No. Obviously.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHEN WILL TV EXECS LEARN WHAT PEOPLE WANT?!!
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
People are morons. I'd say the execs are catering for their needs superbly. I'd long given up watching either Buffy or Angel, and I'm not surprised the latter has finally been cancelled. It was an adult show, with adult themes and really what they wanted was just another teenybopper show, something like Smallville. I think we're headed for another drought as far as decent SF/fantasy/genre TV goes, the last ten years have kind-of spoiled us in terms of the variety available. No-one's been able to come up with the Next Buffy (unless you count Smallville), or the Next X-Files, or the Next Hercules/Xena, and the Next Trek lost its sheen about two Next Treks ago.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
No Angel - means that the only show worth watching will be Stargate-SG1... gawd Stargate-Atlantis better be good.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Dont bet on it.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
I SHOULD JUST END IT RIGHT NOW.
At least there's fan fiction.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I can't imagine how you were even able to bring yourself to type that. You should get some kind of a medal or something.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Too bad Mutant Enemy couldn't come up with something as brilliantly plausible as an "aging routine" to explain aging vampires. Brilliantly Plausible. I mean, what would they be able to resort to? Magic? Foolish Tomfoolery!
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I kid, of course.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
That is such a comfort.
And there is just something really, really terrible about UM telling others to get a life. I don't know what, but there is...
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: There is an online petition - i know, i know "they don't work" - but over 8000 signatures in about a day isn't bad - so go help save Angel:
Another one was at 20,000 or so earlier, I think. Take away the blank "signatures" as well as the completely ignorant ones and those by the same people over and over again, there are about 3,000. Good luck with that.
I'm just going to wait and see what happens, but I'd love for it to be picked up elsewhere for a couple more years.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Terrible, you say? Terrible it is!
PS: How can I find women?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"let your fingers do the walking" Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And there is a summary at the top of the page for 3 online petitions (the middle one is the one I posted earlier) and some details about who to send your physical letters to.
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