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TV Shows VII: Who gets canceled next?

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Proud2baLaker said:
Maybe this will also give them a potential out if NBC does completely cancel it at some point (ala Futurama).
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It wouldn't surprise me to have Comedy Central pick it up immediately if NBC decides they don't want it anymore for network broadcast.
 
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I just watched the Pilot for Touch on my DVR. Wow, it was really good. I'm definitely going to keep watching.
 
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Jon said:
My wife and I are on Season 6 of X Files. I'm now less looking forward to the rest of the run. Sigh.
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Season's 1-5 are the show's best in my opinion as the rain forests around Vancouver gave the show a nice eerie atmosphere. However, with the exception of the production moving from Vancouver to southern CA season 6 is also very good, but just doesn't have the same atmosphere. Season 7 isn't bad, but it is a step down from the previous 6 as the writers don't seem to know what to do with Mulder's alien/UFO storyline without making it more confusing.

Season 8 is where the wheels start to come off. Duchovny gets into a contract dispute with Fox that leads to a significantly reduced role in the show. The alien storyline has nowhere to go at this point without Fox Mulder. Robert Patrick does a good job filling in for Duchovny on the stand alone episodes, but the chemistry between Scully and Mulder that helped drive the show is lost at this point.

Season 9, the final season, is where the wheels fall completely off. Duchovny only appears in the series finale. Gillian Anderson's role gets reduced as well this season. They add agent Reyes (Annabeth Gish) to fill in. Now there are entire episodes without Scully and/or Mulder. I had no problem with Reyes and Doggett secondary characters, but they couldn't carry the show.

The X-Files is a classic case where a great show gets completely derailed by real world squabbles.:mad:
 
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Thoughts on the Walking Dead finale?

I thought it was pretty good. The first 20 minutes or so, I only remembered to exhale when they went to commercial. That was about as tense as TV can get!

Looking forward to next season and the whole Governor plotline. Should be fantastic.
 
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Bigus Paulus said:
The X-Files is a classic case where a great show gets completely derailed by real world squabbles.:mad:
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This happened to Moonlighting, too. Seasons 2-3 were brilliant. Season 4 Willis and Shepherd were basically never on set at the same time because other things were happening. Season 5 notoriously had 3+ week waits between episodes, churning writers and spectacularly terrible plot and production decisions, and the show went terminal quickly and left a bad taste in everybody's mouth.

I think Atomic Shakespeare is the best single episode of any sitcom, ever.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Thoughts on the Walking Dead finale?

I thought it was pretty good. The first 20 minutes or so, I only remembered to exhale when they went to commercial. That was about as tense as TV can get!

Looking forward to next season and the whole Governor plotline. Should be fantastic.
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I liked it. I was sure that a walker was going to grab Glen from the car while he was confessing his love for Maggie.

Again, Rick is a bad-a-s-s. Laurie needs to get eaten (and not by some lover ;)) and I'd strangle Carl and start over if I was Rick.

The hooded stranger with the Katana was at once cool and made me pause and think we had crossed over into fantasy. My 13 year old, who reads the comics, let out a huge "YES" when she appeared. Evidently a cool character. Loved the two walkers on chains with no arms or lower jaws - must give one cover to have them with you.

I look forward to next season.
 
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The character with the Katana is (according to the comics) a total badass who will make Daryl look like Mr. Rogers. Of course, that's assuming that she's actually as interesting on the show as she is in the comics. Having not read the comics, I can't say definitively, but it would seem that the TV show does not have a good track record with any form of characterization.

I'm still dying to know who T-Dog is.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Thoughts on the Walking Dead finale?

I thought it was pretty good. The first 20 minutes or so, I only remembered to exhale when they went to commercial. That was about as tense as TV can get!

Looking forward to next season and the whole Governor plotline. Should be fantastic.
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I had high hopes and it still exceeded my expectations. I'm definitely curious to see where that helicopter came from. It was interesting to watch Talking Dead after and learn that they were originally going to kill off Hershel last night and then changed their minds.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
I liked it. I was sure that a walker was going to grab Glen from the car while he was confessing his love for Maggie.

Again, Rick is a bad-a-s-s. Laurie needs to get eaten (and not by some lover ;)) and I'd strangle Carl and start over if I was Rick.

The hooded stranger with the Katana was at once cool and made me pause and think we had crossed over into fantasy. My 13 year old, who reads the comics, let out a huge "YES" when she appeared. Evidently a cool character. Loved the two walkers on chains with no arms or lower jaws - must give one cover to have them with you.

I look forward to next season.
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I think Lori's concern was not that Shane was dead, but that Carl had to kill Walker Shane. But I agree that she is useless...which means she'll be one of the last to die. :p The producers are calling this new group, where Rick has taken charge, the Rictatorship.

The hooded figure is named Michonne and is insanely popular in the comic books. She will become a regular character in season three.

So this season took place on a farm and next season in a prison....yep, this is Georgia.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Thoughts on the Walking Dead finale?

I thought it was pretty good. The first 20 minutes or so, I only remembered to exhale when they went to commercial. That was about as tense as TV can get!

Looking forward to next season and the whole Governor plotline. Should be fantastic.
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I don't know what you mean by governor plotline, without spoiling, what can you relate?

In all I thought it was a good finale for the season.

Correct me but in 'real time' we're talking months since the issue started, I'm curious how the writers make people believe the Katana character came to be in that time and how it came to be in the woods at that moment.

If the story is about to move more towards fantasy (this isn't a comic book even if the story is based on one) then I doubt I'll be as likely to follow the show.
 
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Priceless said:
I think Lori's concern was not that Shane was dead, but that Carl had to kill Walker Shane. But I agree that she is useless...which means she'll be one of the last to die. :p
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That's how I read the scene as well. There wasn't too strong of a reaction from her until Rick mentioned that Carl put him down.

All the same, Lori is a particularly annoying character on the show. She has no personality, other than being upset at whatever the plot requires her to be upset over. See also: Carol-after-Sophia-walks-out-of-the-barn.
 
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pirate said:
Correct me but in 'real time' we're talking months since the issue started, I'm curious how the writers make people believe the Katana character came to be in that time and how it came to be in the woods at that moment.

If the story is about to move more towards fantasy (this isn't a comic book even if the story is based on one) then I doubt I'll be as likely to follow the show.
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I've questioned how they could explain away strange occurrences in the past, and they always have. It seems likely that Michonne was either tracking the herd of walkers or scouting the farm to see if this group of survivors were worth her help.

IF? It's a story about the zombie apocalypse! Isn't that fantasy? :p
(But yes, I know what you mean)
 
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pirate said:
If the story is about to move more towards fantasy (this isn't a comic book even if the story is based on one) then I doubt I'll be as likely to follow the show.
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I didn't mean to suggest that fantasy was the direction that it would go - just that the imagery of the hooded figure with a sword and two armless walkers on chains looked like fantasy in that moment.

As another poster said though - zombie apocalypse = fantasy (in some ways).
 
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I had guessed that the hooded figure was a woman, as it seemed rather slight of build.

Episode was a bit of fantasy though, as it seemed all of those at the farm did nothing but head shots, despite driving around in heaving and bucking vehicles. Meanwhile, Herschel must have got off 15 or 20 rounds from his shotgun wiothout ever having to reload.
 
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MinnFan said:
I had high hopes and it still exceeded my expectations. I'm definitely curious to see where that helicopter came from.
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The helicopter in the beginning? I think that was just some artistic license, showing that just after the zombie outbreak, a bunch of them in the city got turned onto a course by following a helicopter they saw in the sky, kept on that course by basic zombie-like instinct, their numbers growing overthe course of time, until they got somewhere in the vicinity of the farm, then heard the shot that turned them finally toward Rick and Carl in the field. The lineage of a zombie herd, if you will.

And from there, mayhem.

Oh, and here's a link to a picture. I'd post the pic directly, but it's got a naughty word in it. Pretty much sums Carl up.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/428185_3534592286907_1335317695_33442925_915591052_n.jpg
 
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rufus said:
The helicopter in the beginning? I think that was just some artistic license, showing that just after the zombie outbreak, a bunch of them in the city got turned onto a course by following a helicopter they saw in the sky, kept on that course by basic zombie-like instinct, their numbers growing overthe course of time, until they got somewhere in the vicinity of the farm, then heard the shot that turned them finally toward Rick and Carl in the field. The lineage of a zombie herd, if you will.
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The helicopter is the one we first see when Rick is in Atlanta back in season 1.
 
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I know who is and isn't dead in the comics right now, but should Lori or Carl ever die on this show, I will cheer enthusiastically.
 
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