Like NBC cancelling Heroes and replacing it with "The Event" which was total garbage.
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Réponse de YouShouldKnow
le 5 octobre 2018 à 18h06
Heroes was absolute trash halfway through seaon 2 and after. They should've put us all out of our misery after the second season.
Réponse de Jacinto Cupboard
le 11 mai 2021 à 09h50
I thought the same first time around, but after re-watching the whole thing recently it has a lot of faults that probably lost a lot of viewers.
Don't get me wrong. The idea is interesting and I still managed to enjoy it second time around. But there's a sloppiness to this show, particularly in how the story arc was developed, that probably lost everyone but the most invested in the story along the way.
Réponse de Jacinto Cupboard
le 11 mai 2021 à 21h40
While you are right, I still get annoyed about Lost. :-)
The OP alluded to a phenomenon that was happening in the noughties where a slew of SF mysteries got cancelled without resolution. Surface was another, but there were more of them.
It is said that one of the reasons this happened is that these programs were made in the days before official online streaming platforms but people were able to pirate them easily online. And the SF nerd demographic was quick onto this practice, so the shows lost ad revenue over time. Hence cancellation.
Even so, the SF Mystery, altho not new as a genre, really became a thing about 20 years ago. Balancing the elements that go into that seems to be difficult for writers even now. Back then they really struggled to get it right.
It was also a period of transition for drama generally. Historically you could watch a show episodically and even out of order. It doesn't matter for example what order you watch any of the old Star Trek shows, even if they have a general story arc. You can't do that with Star Trek: Discovery. Miss an episode and you won't have a clue what is happening. In the noughties it was a little of both: episodes were stand alone in many senses but required continuity in others. The net effect of that is a jerky progression of the story arc and an often confused assembly of individual stories that go nowhere.
TLDNR: Flashforward wasn't as good as we thought.