Sometimes you have to wonder
Mar. 18th, 2007 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swehMany a TV series is killed mid-season because the TV company decides it's not doing well enough. Firefly fans will moan at Fox. I, personally, thought Threshold should have had a better chance. Sometimes a complete season is made, but never returns... and sometimes the story needs to be continued via made-for-TV movies (eg Alien Nation).
And sometimes you have to wonder just just WTF people were thinking. One of the bonus features on the "Sliders Season 3" disks was "Cleopatra 2525"; the first episode from 2000. WTF? The premiss of the story appears to be that an exotic dancer ("OK, a stripper") goes for a boob job in 2001, but something goes wrong so she's cryo-frozen until the year 2525 where the world has been taken over by evil alien robots and she teams up with two other big-boobed women (warriers), to fight for mankinds freedom. The level of depth shown in the opening episode can be measured in microns. Each episode is 30 minutes long (including ad-breaks) and it went for 2 seasons of 14 episodes.
Whuh?!
How the hell can 2 seasons of something as tripe as that be made, but Firely or Threshold be cancelled mid-season and Alien Nation after one season? Yeesh, even Earth 2 (the other bonus programme on the disk) deserved better than Cleopatra 2525 but it was cancelled after 1 season (despite a lot of potential, it failed to engage me when it was broadcast in the UK).
Sometimes you have to wonder what TV execs are smoking... and is it legal?!
And sometimes you have to wonder just just WTF people were thinking. One of the bonus features on the "Sliders Season 3" disks was "Cleopatra 2525"; the first episode from 2000. WTF? The premiss of the story appears to be that an exotic dancer ("OK, a stripper") goes for a boob job in 2001, but something goes wrong so she's cryo-frozen until the year 2525 where the world has been taken over by evil alien robots and she teams up with two other big-boobed women (warriers), to fight for mankinds freedom. The level of depth shown in the opening episode can be measured in microns. Each episode is 30 minutes long (including ad-breaks) and it went for 2 seasons of 14 episodes.
Whuh?!
How the hell can 2 seasons of something as tripe as that be made, but Firely or Threshold be cancelled mid-season and Alien Nation after one season? Yeesh, even Earth 2 (the other bonus programme on the disk) deserved better than Cleopatra 2525 but it was cancelled after 1 season (despite a lot of potential, it failed to engage me when it was broadcast in the UK).
Sometimes you have to wonder what TV execs are smoking... and is it legal?!
