It has to be Dark Matter for me! I had so much invested in that show, got others watching it too, only to have the Syfy channel kill it with a cliffhanger big enough to fly a space armada through.
DM was written as a 5 season story arch. At least I found some solace from the fact DM’s creator, Joe Mallozzi, engages…

Stargate Universe was the best version of Lost In Space I’ve ever seen. Including the latest Netflix one. Dr. Smith-I-mean-Rush wasn’t some maniacal, paranoid, or psychotic villain. He was single-minded, but he had reasonably good reasons for what he did. And he still got them into (and out of) trouble.

Glad to see I’m not the only one still mourning SGU :(

I think Trek largely being episodic meant cliffhangers weren’t so egregious — it’s not like it was leaving months (or years) of story up in the air, just one episode’s worth. But even then, I would argue for them to have done two-part finales rather than having a months-long break between a cliffhanger and its…

Fair enough.   At least having an ending is a place to start.

I think the trick is that we’ve got to convince creators to tell stories one season at a time wherever its possible to do so. Season 1 should tell a complete story in and of itself — that doesn’t mean everything needs to be tied up in a bow, but no cliffhangers, no major plotlines that don’t wrap up, and no explicit…

It’s time to stop trusting shows until they’re fully completed with a real finale that doesn’t suck.

Terror on the Prarie sounds like a headline Kent Brockman would read.

To be fair probably like 1% of the audience knows about that given it’s very often edited out for radio edits and so on as well. I’m not sure sure it was even in the MTV version that I saw back in the day.

What makes you think weekly releases benefit the customer? Speaking for myself - I hate them. I won’t watch a show until all of it’s season’s episodes are available because I enjoy engaging with single narratives at a time - completing one story before moving on to the next. Full season dumps accommodate tastes such…

“I think Starfleet/The Federation has a fundamental problem where almost anything is treated as “forgiven and forgotten” if there’s extenuating circumstances of alien possession, energy beings, assimilation, telepathic influence, someone switched you to evil, transporter woo-woo, time-travel, etc. It seems like…

...earning some misguided wrath thanks to the idea that going different places with Star Wars is sacrilegious.

Haven’t you beaten this dead horse enough? We get it, you love TLJ and everyone who didn’t are racists/misogynists/incels bla bla bla.

They do need new takes, though I think Star Trek is an example of where they’ve gone wrong by straying too far from the formula. There’s a reason that the best current (non-animated) Trek is SNW, while the other live-action Trek series are mediocre to awful. It’s a tricky balance.

But Rian, we want to see more of your relationship with Star Wars!

That said, the plot of what some call Avatar 2 is simple enough:

Oh. That’s good.

I get that in principle, but is the idea that sometimes different groups are too different or scary a good one at this point in time? Again, Star Trek is fiction. The writers are creating a world they want to communicate to us and I’m not sure yet what message they are intending to communicate about the Gorn. I…

I agree.

This list is suspect on the curiously high placement of Jason X alone, to say nothing of the ridiculous idea that any Friday the 13th movie is worse than Jason Takes Vancouver Manhattan.