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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: an0n on May 31, 2004, 10:15:08 am
It's gotta have come to an abrupt, violent and untimely end. No 'It only got five seasons' nonsense.

And because I know people are gonna be all "I can't decide", list yer top 3:

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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: phreak on May 31, 2004, 10:17:10 am
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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Stunaep on May 31, 2004, 10:27:22 am
I expect this thread to be filled with Firefly fanboys.

Firefly
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on May 31, 2004, 10:37:23 am
Duckman
Mission Hill
Undergrads

well actualy Duckman lasted for a while, but its still should have gone on longer. And the other two only got like 15 episodes each or so, then the corporate monkies canned 'em.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Ghostavo on May 31, 2004, 11:01:48 am
I can believe no one put

1 - Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers!!! :eek2:

2 - Space: Above and Beyond
3 - Farscape (it has an abrupt, violent ending :nervous: )
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: aldo_14 on May 31, 2004, 11:05:47 am
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Originally posted by PhReAk
[list=1]
  • Family Guy
  • Family Guy
  • Family Guy

:nod:
Altho it's not cancelled any more....

Also Futurama, and a failry obscure channel 4 show called ultraviolet which only lasted 1 season.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: an0n on May 31, 2004, 11:07:32 am
Ultraviolet started getting boring.

And Farscape doesn't count. Four seasons is a pretty good run.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kasperl on May 31, 2004, 11:09:01 am
1) S:AAB.
2) S:AAB
3) S:AAB

Really, that show was bloody brilliant.
Farscape, well, it's fun to watch if you're bored/having the flue.
B5, well, I never got in to the universe due to the damn Dutch TV company's.
Firefly, the same as Farscape, really. Both in what I have to say about it as in general plot and style
Rosswell, I assume you mean the high school thingy? Never really liked it.
Family Guy, twas nice, but not really good.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Ghostavo on May 31, 2004, 11:09:27 am
:(

And futurama had how many seasons? :p
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kasperl on May 31, 2004, 11:10:01 am
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Originally posted by aldo_14

Also Futurama, and a failry obscure channel 4 show called ultraviolet which only lasted 1 season.


Futurama got canceled???

I thought it was just the Dutch TV idiots not showing more.....
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on May 31, 2004, 11:11:28 am
futurama got canceled? oh man, this makes me wonder what else I'm behind on...

say, take a peek out your window. Its not all snowy and radiocative is it? if futurama getting canned slipped by me, who's to say that global thermonuclear war couldn't?
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kasperl on May 31, 2004, 11:13:12 am
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Originally posted by Rictor
say, take a peek out your window. Its not all snowy and radiocative is it? if futurama getting canned slipped by me, who's to say that global thermonuclear war couldn't?


Nope, just rainy and covered in clouds.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Tiara on May 31, 2004, 11:18:08 am
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
1 - Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers!!! :eek2:

Sorry, LotR wasa piece of crap not worthy of carrying the name 'Babylon 5'. :ick:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Turnsky on May 31, 2004, 11:19:03 am
lessee
S:AAB
Farscape
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Martinus on May 31, 2004, 11:23:22 am
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Originally posted by Tiara

Sorry, LotR wasa piece of crap not worthy of carrying the name 'Babylon 5'. :ick:

[color=66ff00]Agreed, B5:Crusade was a far worthier show.

Anyhow, I still have to get around to watching firefly, it's got quite a favourable vibe to it. :nod:
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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Dough with Fish on May 31, 2004, 11:52:18 am
1. Exo-Squad

2. Space: Above and Beyond

3. The Tick. (Not the cartoon, but the live action series)
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on May 31, 2004, 12:49:12 pm
1: Firefly
2: Futurama
3: Family Guy

They should rot in hell for cancelling these shows
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Hollewanderer on May 31, 2004, 12:56:59 pm
1.Invader Zim, of course. Why it has waited so long for the mention? It was even denied actual end that creators wanted to make, as "it could get ressurected". And what came out of this? Nothing. Hell, many *finished* episodes weren't even aired.

The rest I don't really care about, to be honest, as Poland is horribly deprived of Sci-Fi shows, and I had to download IZ to watch it at all. There was Babylon 5 that ended recently and was shown so early that I had to wake up earlier to even get a chance to watch it, and the final episode was shown even earlier, so I missed it. And there is Star Trek, too, but I don't like it.

So, as a token nominations, I'll say Babylon 5: Crusade [AFAIK, it was going to be better when JMS pulled the plug] and S:AAB, as IIRC it was shown in Poland a long time ago, and so it deserves at least a bit of recognition.
Title: Re: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Knight Templar on May 31, 2004, 01:03:28 pm
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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 31, 2004, 01:20:07 pm
S:AAB
Knightmare
Crystal Maze
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Taristin on May 31, 2004, 01:30:03 pm
Futurama... although it did start getting quite stupid in later seasons... especially once they changed the theme song...
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: an0n on May 31, 2004, 01:31:22 pm
Knightmare? Are you stoned?
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: karajorma on May 31, 2004, 01:49:53 pm
B5 Crusade. Season 1 was just setting the scene. There was going to be all kinds of interesting stuff in later seasons.

Space Above and Beyond

I'd nominate Farscape but apparently it's been saved. So I'll add Dark Skies. How it got cancelled while X-Files survived I'll never know.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: an0n on May 31, 2004, 01:54:06 pm
Dark Skies started getting really ****ing stupid.

It was a kickass idea, but they soured it some then started playing it at stupid times.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Corsair on May 31, 2004, 02:31:10 pm
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Originally posted by PhReAk
[list=1]
  • Family Guy
  • Family Guy
  • Family Guy
Although it's coming back! :)
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Ace on May 31, 2004, 02:31:28 pm
1. Futurama (I haven't seen any of the later ones, so maybe it deserved to die)
2. B5: Crusade
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: castor on May 31, 2004, 04:02:53 pm
B5: Crusade

Haven't actively watched any TV-shows since.. and that was years ago already :nervous:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kode on May 31, 2004, 04:19:03 pm
Dark Angel is the one I think of first. can't remember any others right now. uh, maybe witchblade too.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Taristin on May 31, 2004, 07:26:12 pm
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Originally posted by Ace
1. Futurama (I haven't seen any of the later ones, so maybe it deserved to die)
 


Well... after the Professor cloned himself the show went downhill. And by bringing in Herme's son, it made it even worse. :doubt:

But 'The Farsnworth Paradox' is hillarious. As is 'Roswell that ends well'
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Carl on May 31, 2004, 07:29:43 pm
1. Special Unit 2
2. Futurama
3. Invader Zim

DWF: Live action The Tick was horrible.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Mr. Vega on May 31, 2004, 09:28:53 pm
Farscape
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Bobboau on May 31, 2004, 10:03:30 pm
zim
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: jdjtcagle on May 31, 2004, 10:05:52 pm
ZIM!!! and Firefly
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Bobboau on May 31, 2004, 10:09:16 pm
just got the DVD :D
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: neo_hermes on May 31, 2004, 10:42:57 pm
1. Invader Zim
2. Farscape
3. ST: DS9
4. S:AAB
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Knight Templar on May 31, 2004, 10:50:19 pm
:wtf: DS9 didn't get cancelled.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Bobboau on May 31, 2004, 10:54:39 pm
oh, come on it only got  _seven_ seasons!
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Turnsky on May 31, 2004, 10:55:24 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
oh, come on it only got  _seven_ seasons!


:lol:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Ghostavo on June 01, 2004, 01:56:44 am
Friends :D :lol:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 01, 2004, 01:59:14 am
1) Family Guy
2) Futurama
3) There is no 3.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Bobboau on June 01, 2004, 02:03:17 am
what about Zim?
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Turnsky on June 01, 2004, 02:06:44 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
what about Zim?


i've never seen it.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: neo_hermes on June 01, 2004, 02:09:19 am
in my insignificant little speck of country it was canceled...or it was moved...can't remember..as it was years ago.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on June 01, 2004, 02:25:30 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky


i've never seen it.


ditto
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Setekh on June 01, 2004, 02:50:13 am
I might as well say SG-1, because no Australian channel has showed it for more than a year. :(
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Bobboau on June 01, 2004, 03:02:15 am
those of you who have not seen zim...
go watch it already...
you Rictor, I am beond certan that if you watch it it will become your favorite show, I said the same thing to Nico and I was right, you can get it from suprnova I'm sure, also on share reactor and a great many sites across the internet, the only thing is you need a good internet conection to get them becase most sets are like 4 gigs total
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Splinter on June 01, 2004, 03:40:53 am
Quote
Originally posted by Ghostavo
Friends :D :lol:


:eek2:

FFS 10 seasons wasnt enough (or was it 9?)

they were funny and all but towords the end they were just getting plain stupid.

1. Futurama
2. Futurama
3. Futurama :yes:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Bobboau on June 01, 2004, 03:56:22 am
I think he was being sarcastic, you know considering that the show was on for a decade, he posted it with smilies, right after someone laughed at my makeing a joke that DS9 was cut down in the prime of it's seventh season...

but maybe I'm wrong:)
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: IPAndrews on June 01, 2004, 04:23:47 am
1. Pinky and the Brain

Effectively cancelled when they dumped the original formula and brought in Elmira. In what other children's cartoon would you see a character reading Joan Collins' "The *****" and angrily proclaim "I preferred The Stud!"?

2. Twin Peaks

Felt like it was going somewhere when it got canned. Leaving Agent Cooper trapped forever in the black lodge. This seems to happen a lot. Same thing happened to Sapphire and Steel at the end of their series. Anyone remember the Ring-like scene with Bob climbing over a sofa?

3. American Gothic

Twin Peaks rip off. Gary Cole was great. He got cancelled as the lead villain. Later he got cancelled as the lead hero in Crusade. Proving he isn't a one trick pony.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Nico on June 01, 2004, 04:24:40 am
1) S:AAB I guess
2) Starship Troopers chronicles: Roughnecks
3) mmh, Zim, I suppose, because the plot had been written up to the end of the story, it's not like it would have dragged for "random number" more seasons, becoming less and less funy.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kasperl on June 01, 2004, 08:22:27 am
Oh yes, I forgot Roughnecks, great thing, that.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Ransom on June 01, 2004, 08:37:42 am
1) Futurama
2) Farscape
3) Muh... don't watch enough TV for a 3rd one.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: diamondgeezer on June 01, 2004, 11:16:17 am
Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Knightmare? Are you stoned?

:wtf:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Dark_4ce on June 01, 2004, 01:31:14 pm
Space: Above and Beyond
Brisco County Jr.
Tales of the Golden Monkey
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: RandomTiger on June 01, 2004, 04:56:18 pm
Babylon 5 (they changed their minds but by that time JMS had compressed the plot of two seasons into one spoiling both)
Family guy
American Gothic
Dark Skys
Angel
Futurama (apparently)
Anything I watch
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Knight Templar on June 01, 2004, 06:11:59 pm
Oh yeah, Roughnecks. And Beastwars with that. Beastwars was the ****.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: karajorma on June 01, 2004, 06:21:29 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
Oh yeah, Roughnecks. And Beastwars with that. Beastwars was the ****.


I thought Beast Wars ended rather than being cancelled.

How could I have forgotten Twin Peaks! Still Lynch did have an option to explain everything but decided to make a prequel instead.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Knight Templar on June 01, 2004, 06:22:41 pm
I don't know. I was young and pissed off when they stopped being Beastwars and turned into Beastwars transmetalix or sommat.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Martinus on June 01, 2004, 06:54:36 pm
[color=66ff00]Starwars; they made three great films and then some idiot called Lucas came along and replaced all the goodness with total nonsense...
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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on June 01, 2004, 07:02:05 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
those of you who have not seen zim...
go watch it already...
you Rictor, I am beond certan that if you watch it it will become your favorite show, I said the same thing to Nico and I was right, you can get it from suprnova I'm sure, also on share reactor and a great many sites across the internet, the only thing is you need a good internet conection to get them becase most sets are like 4 gigs total


yup, there are several eps on Supernova, as well as the first three seasons all packaged up (though thankfully, they're seperate, comming in at about 1-1.5 gigs each)

I'll check it out. I've heard alot of about Zim, and it looks really cool, so I'l grab some of the eps and see for myself. Thanks for the advice.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 01, 2004, 07:12:39 pm
Bob: Is this legal?? :eek: just curious

and how do you download, all I see is text
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on June 01, 2004, 07:14:14 pm
strictly speaking, yes. Suprnova doesn't actually link to any illegal files, and no one here is even linking to supernova, only discussing it.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 01, 2004, 07:16:16 pm
how do you download, all I see is text
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on June 01, 2004, 07:46:33 pm
you need to have bit torrent installed. just google for it, or you can download shad0w's client here: http://bittornado.com/ , which is a better client than the default.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 01, 2004, 07:47:26 pm
Thanks :yes:
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Nico on June 02, 2004, 01:58:30 am
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Starwars; they made three great films and then some idiot called Lucas came along and replaced all the goodness with total nonsense...
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Well yeah, but since "they" and "some idiot" are actually the same person.. :p
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: an0n on June 02, 2004, 02:02:25 am
"This is George Lucas' brain. This is George Lucas' brain ON DRUGS!!![/u][/i]"
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Martinus on June 02, 2004, 09:19:56 am
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Originally posted by Nico


Well yeah, but since "they" and "some idiot" are actually the same person.. :p

[color=66ff00]Not true, Irvin Kershner did an excellent job on Empire and Richard Marquand did Jedi so 'they' are much more than Lucas.


Oh yeah. :p
:D
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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kasperl on June 02, 2004, 09:28:42 am
Well, if you call Angel canceled, then, well, offf course.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: ZylonBane on June 02, 2004, 10:16:17 am
Uh, Angel was in fact cancelled. A shame too, since now we don't really have anything decent in the tongue-in-cheek-heroes-fighting-monsters genre.  Xena, Hercules, Buffy, and now Angel... alas.

Anyway, I agree with a lot of what's been listed so far-- Futurama, Duckman, Zim, The Tick (animated), Brisco County Jr., etc.  Great stuff. Now for some more obscure ones. Most of these fall in the "ahead of their time" category.

1. Max Headroom. Alas, too geeky and dystopian for American audiences.
1. Doctor Doctor. A proto-Scrubs starring Matt Frewer (see above).
2. FM. A proto-Newsradio starring Robert Hays (Airplane!).
3. Quark (http://www.tvparty.com/recquark.html). The adventures of the crew of a space garbage scow. Sci-fi spoofery a full decade before Red Dwarf hit the airwaves.
4. Police Squad. Sad that so many people don't even realize the movies were based on this short-lived series.
5. Get a Life! Starred Chris Elliot. Too surreal to live. The only series you'll see where the star encounters an ET-like alien, accidentally kills him, and eats him.
6. Liquid Television. MTV's last good animation show. Well, that and...
7. Daria. This is how highschool would have been for me if I'd been female. At least this series got a proper sendoff. Its cancellation officially ended any reason for me to ever tune in to MTV.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: karajorma on June 02, 2004, 10:48:11 am
Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
4. Police Squad. Sad that so many people don't even realize the movies were based on this short-lived series.


I know. Sad really as the shows were great. I especially loved the way the guest star was always dead before the titles were over. :D
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: ZylonBane on June 02, 2004, 11:18:29 am
And in case anyone is wondering what a space garbage scow looks like:
(http://users.snowcrest.net/fox/quark/galery1/quark21.jpg)
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: adwight on June 02, 2004, 11:21:32 am
Space Above and Beyond, that show kicked complete and total ass.

Roughnecks:  The Starship Troopers Chronicles, sadly it ended after one season, I wanted to see what happened to Earth and stuff.  I do have all the episodes on tape somewheres.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Nico on June 02, 2004, 02:05:28 pm
Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
And in case anyone is wondering what a space garbage scow looks like:[ugly thing pic]


Pfwaaa.
Toybox:
(http://www.planet-es.net/TECHNORA/archive/img/img_arc002.gif)

Toybox 2:
(http://www.planet-es.net/TECHNORA/archive/img/arc018.jpg)
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Dough with Fish on June 02, 2004, 02:52:33 pm
Gah, how could I forget about the Roughneck Chronicles. (For all you other RC fans, here is an excellent site http://www.roughneckchronicles.com/ )

And, yeah, Beast Wars was never cancelled, it had an official end, then they decided to do Beast Machines which got cancelled, IIRC. I liked Beast Machines, a lot of others didn't, but I think it had potential.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: kasperl on June 02, 2004, 02:58:07 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Dough with Fish
Gah, how could I forget about the Roughneck Chronicles. (For all you other RC fans, here is an excellent site http://www.roughneckchronicles.com/ )


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that was the home page, after the intro.
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: ZylonBane on June 02, 2004, 04:31:03 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Nico
Pfwaaa.
Toybox: [irrelevant thing pics]
You're missing the point. The space garbage scow in Quark is supposed to be ugly. It's also supposed to vaguely resemble the old Star Trek style of ships (which actually weren't so old at the time!).
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Nico on June 02, 2004, 04:51:15 pm
Well the toybox are ugly too, but in a cool way. Your thing is ugly in a ridiculous way. Honestly, that's out of thunderbird, right? :p
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: ZylonBane on June 02, 2004, 04:59:39 pm
Sigh. Anyone remember the days when people would actually read threads before responding to them?
Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Martinus on June 02, 2004, 05:10:48 pm
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
Sigh. Anyone remember the days when people would actually read threads before responding to them?

[color=66ff00][David Attenborough whispering]Now watch as the lone poster stalks the unwitting thread, he dominantly pounces, oblivious to the fact that the thread has taken a different direction...[/David Attenborough whispering]
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Title: What's Your Favourite Cancelled TV Show
Post by: Rictor on June 02, 2004, 07:38:07 pm
Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Sigh. Anyone remember the days when people would actually read threads before responding to them?


Honestly; no.