Shows that you wish hadn't been cancelled...

Defying Gravity from 2009. I loved where that was going. Although, the creator published his notes on how it would've gone if he'd got his full multi-season run. He did it because he respected the fans and he won a lot of friends for that

How Defying Gravity would have ended

James PARRIOTT Revelations : How Defying Gravity would have progressed How Defying Gravity would have ended: the final chapter by Keith McDuffee
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Firefly
The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Better than anything after T2 imo, had some really cool scenes and a solid cast)
Dark Matter (the SyFy show, not the newer one)
Raised by Wolves
Caprica (Slow start but I really enjoyed it)

There's a few I'm missing, especially in the "fantasy" department. Seems like a running theme, although in fairness these shows are probably very expensive to make.
 
Final Space is the one that hurts the most for me.

What starts out as a goofy looking skin deep kids sci-fi turned into a completely fleshed out epic up there with the very best. It burns like ghonorhea that it ended on such a huge cliffhanger.

I cancelled netflix after that and went back to the seven seas, and refused to watch netflix shows, in particular, until they've finished the entire run. There's simply too many cancellations to bother investing time in.
 
Star Trek The Next Generation
Star Trek Voyager
Enterprise?
Babylon 5
The Expanse
Lower Decks (removal from Amazon)
Warehouse 13

New good sci-fi feels so rare these days, at least what's available on Freeview or Amazon Video.
 
Glanza said:
Man in the High Castle,
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IIRC that one did actually get an ending.

UTmaniac said:
Babylon 5
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It reached the end of the planned story, although there was a lot of mucking around and rearranging of bits of the story as it looked like it was going to be cancelled at the end of season 4, so Straczynski had to shorten some story lines/move them around so the main ones tied up in S4 (and they filmed the last episode for S4 but moved it to S5).



Personally for me it's.
Space above and Beyond
Firefly
Sarah Conner - absolutely loved that series.
Babylon 5: Crusade (that was mess with so much, apparently the studio were actively trying to force a breach of contract to justify cancelling it).
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Rome - IIRC the sets burned down or something which was part of the reason it got cancelled.
Stargate Universe - it was getting on it's feet and it was good to see a TV series where they actually tried to take the supply situation/isolation from logistics somewhat seriously, as it mean there were actual reasons some things couldn't be done one way, and they had to watch what they were were using as they couldn't just get another crate of ammo or parts.


I'm a little surprised by how many titles that were actually at the end of their planned arcs have been mentioned as cancelled :)
 
Ayahuasca said:
Rome
Raised By Wolves
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I think Rome did get the planned ending, but they did it by condensing the plotline planned for the final two seasons into one.

Agree about Raised By Wolves.

Glanza said:
Man in the High Castle,
Hand of God,
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I thought Man in the High Castle did reach the planned ending. Was there supposed to be more?

Hand of God was really annoying though. I wasn't that wowed with it to start with, but it got better as I stuck with it and by the end of the second season it really seemed to be going somewhere and had nicely set up what would presumably be the climactic third season. Then it didn't happen.


Gray2233 said:
Caprica (Slow start but I really enjoyed it)
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Agreed. As I recall another show that got better and was cancelled when it seemed to have hit it's flow and set up the robot revolution for the next season.

Malevolence said:
The Expanse
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Another one that I thought did reach the planned ending. I haven't read the books, but apparently the final one is set many years after the events covered in the previous books and the TV series.
 
Add me to the Firefly list. Still stands up however many years later and could have been great. I remember being annoyed that other things had been cancelled (of course I do, I have Netflix) but that's the only one I can think of that still stick in my memory. I didn't even watch it until long after it was cancelled anyway.

bazzabear said:
Not a series - but the cliff hanger ending of Spiderman: Across The Spiderverse was hella annoying. And are they even ever going to release the next one?
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It was delayed due to the strikes is all, it's in production now.
 
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Street said:
That's a blast from the past I'd completely forgotten about! I loved that back in the day and was gutted when it disappeared.
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It was terrible to begin with. I seem to remember the lead having no charisma at all and was emotionless and wooden. Probably just nerves.
 
I'd imagine watching it back now it was probably pretty terrible, but 12 year old me thought it was fantastic.
 
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