lirazel: Lix Storm from The Hour works on film ([tv] got no bloody film)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2023-10-13 08:46 am

Fannish Friday: Unfinished Stories

As a general rule, I am Against revivals of TV shows, unnecessary* sequels, etc. I do not watch revivals of anything, I am So Very Over the way franchises rule film right now, etc.

* By which I mean: sequels that were not planned from the beginning. If something is a long story that is broken up into several parts, like, say, LotR or a book series that was planned to be a certain length, then that's just fine with me! I'm talking about the kind of thing where the story is over but the writer/creator decides to add more to it for no apparently reason.


But! There are sometimes stories that genuinely need to be continued! The ultimate example for me is The Hour, only of my all-time favorite shows that ended on a horrible, horrible cliffhanger. If the show hadn't been as good as it was, that ending would probably have ruined it for me. That's how bad the cliffhanger was.

That show needed to be revived, although I think it's probably too late for that now. But I would have given a great deal for it to be continued, even with one single episode.


What about y'all? Is there a story you love that you think needed more? Not that this is not "The ending was bad" but "That should not have been the ending." The distinction is important.
goodbyebird: Buffy: Close crop of Buffy, "This is not mom hair." (BtVS this is not mom hair)

[personal profile] goodbyebird 2023-10-13 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This will always be The Sarah Connor Chronicles for me. (though Santa Clarita Diet I think has had the worst cliffhanger ending I've experienced)
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[personal profile] gryfndor_godess 2023-10-14 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
For what it's worth, I absolutely adore SCD, and I don't hate the cliffhanger ending. It's unfortunate, and Netflix sucks for canceling it, but it was the kind of cliffhanger where it was spring-boarding off a new plot for S4 rather than leaving open a bunch of plot threads from S3. Of course YMMV, but I'd still really recommend it.
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[personal profile] skygiants 2023-10-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
SAME (re: SCC)
goodbyebird: SCC: Sarah makes PB&J while Derek watches. (SCC peanut butter and jelly)

[personal profile] goodbyebird 2023-10-16 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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