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Cancelled TV Show Meme
10) Alien Nation Yeah it was weird and all, but leaving the show with that ending sucked. Note to producers: Don't leave primary characters suffering from the plague!
9) Beauty and the Beast I know that many were dissatisfied when Linda Hamilton left. I wasn't one of them. I thought the series was still interesting.
8) Harsh Realm Hey, I liked it. Thought the premise was intriguing. They had just shown D.B. Sweeney's situation where, while in the game he was a healthy man, in 'real life' he was horribly mutilated and I thought that had real potential. Also the love story was just beginning to heat up. Some people complain about Firefly's launch but Harsh Realm's was worse.
7) Screensavers (with Leo) G4 took over TechTV and got rid of Leo. G4 -- you suck!
6) Dark Shadows (80's Version) Again, hey, I liked it, and I thought things were just getting interesting.
5) Another World Not so much that it was cancelled (though that was sad) but that they replaced the soap with utter CRAP! The fact that we have Passions (aka PissOnIt) on air rather than Jake and Vicky McKinnon, Cass Winthrop, and Felicia Gallant is just plain irksome.
4) Brimstone Cop kills the man who raped his wife and cop is sent to hell where the Devil sends the Cop back to earth to recapture escapees from hell (and these are REALLY bad people). Nice inversion of expectations with the Devil being on the "right" side (for ambiguous reasons, naturally). Plus, hey, the devil was just plain COOL. I really liked this show but I always figured it was doomed.
3) Cupid Piven was simply wonderful as the "Is he just crazy or could he actually be an exhiled, hedonistic god?" role. Smart, witty, romantic. The series was a gem, and it pissed me off to no end when it was cancelled.
2) Angel Okay, so it probably could have only lasted one more year. I still wasn't ready to let go quite yet.
1) Farscape The show was still in its prime. It was smart, funny, screwed up, romantic, weird, full of action and moral ambiguity. In short, I love this show. Thank god it's coming back for a mini-series because I really didn't want it ending there.
"If I were" Meme:
If I were a book, I would be written by: Douglas Adams
If I were a food, I would be: Yogurt. It's a little sour and perhaps just a little bland. But all you have to do is add a little sweetner and it's pretty good.
If I were a place, I would be: Confusing and sometimes misinterpreted by others but understood by those intimate with it. Occasionally ends up with an undeserved reputation (though every now and then the rep is deserved). Generally temperate climate, although there are thunderstorms, cold snaps, and heat waves.
If I were a taste, I would be: Salty and Sweet. . . perhaps honey roasted peanuts.
If I were a scent, I would be: Burberry of London. Smells like vanilla but really isn't. A little woodsy. A little fruity. A little floral. Complex.
If I were a religion, I would be: Well, if you take that religion quiz I always come up as a Universalist.
If I were a word, I would be: ambivalent
If I were a body part I would be: an eye.. I'm a very visual person.
If I were a facial expression I would be: arched eyebrow. I'm also quite the skeptic.
If I were a subject in school I would be: History and other useless trivia
If I were a cartoon character I would be: Brak
If I were a shape I would be: ellipse.
If I were a number I would be: 714. Beats me why.
If I were an item of clothing, I would be: strappy high heel sandals.
If I were a piece of jewelry, I would be: silver and amber celtic bracelet.
If I were a clothing accessory, I would be: sunglasses
bubonicplague :Cancelled TV Show Meme
10) Alien Nation Yeah it was weird and all, but leaving the show with that ending sucked. Note to producers: Don't leave primary characters suffering from the plague!
9) Beauty and the Beast I know that many were dissatisfied when Linda Hamilton left. I wasn't one of them. I thought the series was still interesting.
8) Harsh Realm Hey, I liked it. Thought the premise was intriguing. They had just shown D.B. Sweeney's situation where, while in the game he was a healthy man, in 'real life' he was horribly mutilated and I thought that had real potential. Also the love story was just beginning to heat up. Some people complain about Firefly's launch but Harsh Realm's was worse.
7) Screensavers (with Leo) G4 took over TechTV and got rid of Leo. G4 -- you suck!
6) Dark Shadows (80's Version) Again, hey, I liked it, and I thought things were just getting interesting.
5) Another World Not so much that it was cancelled (though that was sad) but that they replaced the soap with utter CRAP! The fact that we have Passions (aka PissOnIt) on air rather than Jake and Vicky McKinnon, Cass Winthrop, and Felicia Gallant is just plain irksome.
4) Brimstone Cop kills the man who raped his wife and cop is sent to hell where the Devil sends the Cop back to earth to recapture escapees from hell (and these are REALLY bad people). Nice inversion of expectations with the Devil being on the "right" side (for ambiguous reasons, naturally). Plus, hey, the devil was just plain COOL. I really liked this show but I always figured it was doomed.
3) Cupid Piven was simply wonderful as the "Is he just crazy or could he actually be an exhiled, hedonistic god?" role. Smart, witty, romantic. The series was a gem, and it pissed me off to no end when it was cancelled.
2) Angel Okay, so it probably could have only lasted one more year. I still wasn't ready to let go quite yet.
1) Farscape The show was still in its prime. It was smart, funny, screwed up, romantic, weird, full of action and moral ambiguity. In short, I love this show. Thank god it's coming back for a mini-series because I really didn't want it ending there.
"If I were" Meme:
If I were a book, I would be written by: Douglas Adams
If I were a food, I would be: Yogurt. It's a little sour and perhaps just a little bland. But all you have to do is add a little sweetner and it's pretty good.
If I were a place, I would be: Confusing and sometimes misinterpreted by others but understood by those intimate with it. Occasionally ends up with an undeserved reputation (though every now and then the rep is deserved). Generally temperate climate, although there are thunderstorms, cold snaps, and heat waves.
If I were a taste, I would be: Salty and Sweet. . . perhaps honey roasted peanuts.
If I were a scent, I would be: Burberry of London. Smells like vanilla but really isn't. A little woodsy. A little fruity. A little floral. Complex.
If I were a religion, I would be: Well, if you take that religion quiz I always come up as a Universalist.
If I were a word, I would be: ambivalent
If I were a body part I would be: an eye.. I'm a very visual person.
If I were a facial expression I would be: arched eyebrow. I'm also quite the skeptic.
If I were a subject in school I would be: History and other useless trivia
If I were a cartoon character I would be: Brak
If I were a shape I would be: ellipse.
If I were a number I would be: 714. Beats me why.
If I were an item of clothing, I would be: strappy high heel sandals.
If I were a piece of jewelry, I would be: silver and amber celtic bracelet.
If I were a clothing accessory, I would be: sunglasses
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Date: 2004-07-07 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-07 09:40 pm (UTC)It was based on Lt. Hobbes being sent on a secret mission. He's in the mission when he starts to realize that he's actually in a virtual reality. (It takes a while for him to realize he's in a virtual simulation of the world and not the real world). Turns out he and other soldiers have been hijacked by the millitary into a VR "war game." The actual person is comatose somewhere and their "consciousness" is trapped in the virtual world which is rather post apocalyptic.
In that world Hobbs met D.B. Sweeney's character "Pinnochio" (always thought that was a hint). Pinnochio was a rather embittered soldier (for reasons unknown).
Back in reality, Hobbes' finace is told that Hobbes has been killed in action. When she discovers that her fiance's death is a cover up she goes in search of the truth.
Only about 6 episodes ever aired. If I remember correctly in one of the final episodes that aired it was revealed that in reality Pinnochio was a quadruple amputee (and it was unclear whether or not he actually knew that. He might have because I vaguely remember his being far less eager to escape the game than Hobbes). Also in the VR Hobbes met the doppleganger of his finace unknowing that in the real world, she had been killed trying to rescue him. So the VR Sophie was the only Sophie he had left. If he escaped he wouldn't have her. . . only he didn't know that.
Brimstone Starred "Thirtysomething's" Peter Horton as the cop "Ezekiel Stone" and John Glover as "the Devil." TV Tome's summary of the series:
Detective Ezekial Stone was sent to Hell for the murder of his wife's rapist. He spends 15 years in Hell, until 113 souls managed to escape. The Devil needs someone to send them back to Hell, but can't do much on the physical plane. So he sends Ezekial after them, with the promise that if Stone recovers all 113, he'll win permanent freedom from Hell. And if he fails, he's damned for good.
All of the escapees as well as Stone are supernaturally indestructible, except they can inflict pain on each other. The only way to send someone back to Hell is to destroy their eyes, the "windows of the soul." Worse, some of the escapees spent centuries, if not millennia, in Hell and have developed great power - little of which Stone, a relatively recent prisoner, has himself.
Each week, with a little help from the Devil, Stone typically tracks down another of the escapees and sends them back to Hell. He is tattoed with the names of each one, and when he sends them back the appropriate tattoo burns itself off. Meanwhile, Stone's ex-wife still believes him dead, but Stone can't resist checking in on her from time to time.
This series only ran 13 episodes on Fox, but has a devoted cult following and is rerun from time to time on the SciFi Channel.
The interesting thing to me was always the way that the Devil was portrayed. The Devil didn't see himself as evil but as the jailer of evil. He was very much of the "rule in hell." It was HIS domain and these are HIS prisoners. Still these prisoners were really, really evil so. . .that sort of made the Devil the good guy in a way.
Found a few quotes from the series on websites:
Devil: "You know, before they invented the elevator, I had to walk all the way from hell."
Stone: "Glad to hear it."
Devil: "Second throughts, Ezekiel?"
Stone: "Can't you find someone else to torture?"
Devil: "Millions of them. They can wait. Everyone's in such a rush. I say, stop and smell the burning flesh of sinners."
* * *
Devil: "The only thing I ever loved was God. And that was a long time ago."
* * *
Devil: "Ezekiel, listen to me. If your illness prevents you from doing your job, everything we have come to mean to each other will be finished."
Ezekiel: "I love you too."
* * *
Devil: "Vanilla? Where's the waitress? I only eat Rocky Road."
* * *
Devil: "If it means anything, I'm sorry. . .Sort of. . .Well, no, I'm not."
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Date: 2004-07-07 09:51 pm (UTC)Ep 16 Stone tracks down what he THINKS is a Damned Soul, but turns out instead to be a Rogue Angel bored with heaven, desperate to taste everything life has to offer -- including Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and murder! Stone has to figure out how to trick the bad Angel into going back to Heaven -- with a little help from someone who 'aint the Devil and prompts the Devil into yelling at the Heaven's: "He's working for me, not you!"
Ep 17 Stone tracks another Damned Soul, but this time the Devil shows up and wants to tag along on Stone's investigation. This one's personal for ole' Lucifer, 'cause this is the one guy who never broke, the one guy who never begged for mercy, who did his time in Hell defiantly, always telling the Devil to F-off. Who is this tough-as-nails Damned Soul? None other than a meek, mild-mannered CLERK who looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly! Lots of darkly comic antics with Stone showing the Devil how to be a detective, etc. Also Roz begins tracking the husband she had been sure was dead.