# \#1 On Your Wish List Of 'Things That Will Never Happen' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340 "2009-06-19T22:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/21 "2009-06-20T22:37:53Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > That HBO produces more seasons of Carnivale. Yes, I know one could consider it ‘finished’ if you skip the last 5 minutes or so of the final show, but there are still those unanswered questions…what about Alamagordo? Does Ben become the new “Management” or does he recover? I agree. I really wanted to see where they were going with that. Apparently there was supposed to be 4 more seasons and HBO killed it. I’d also like to see more Firefly. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/22 "2009-06-20T23:05:35Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > A Grateful Dead reunion, called: _“Grateful Resurrected.”_ That would be the Ungrateful Undead, surely? > [@](#): > > Or how about Beethoven’s Tenth? [Been there, done that](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._10_(Beethoven/Cooper)). ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/23 "2009-06-21T00:58:21Z")
> [@](#): > > a Flashman novel dealing with his exploits in the US civil war Second that!! Phooey on completely portable free and nonpolluting energy sources… Give me Flashman! ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/24 "2009-06-21T01:07:58Z")
Pauly Shore wins Oscar for Best Actor. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/25 "2009-06-21T02:42:33Z")
Time travel. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/26 "2009-06-21T03:36:07Z")
I’d like my family to stop worrying about who is marrying outside of their class and social level and stop knowing what’s “best” for each other and just get along and love each other unconditionally like family is supposed to. No? Gimme that fucking Bugati Veyron, please. Free. And someone else to pay for the insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Myrrajh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Myrrajh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrrajh)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/27 "2009-06-21T06:30:49Z")
Give birth. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/28 "2009-06-21T11:03:50Z")
An actual release of Smile. No, not the one that **Brian Wilson** produced in 2004, forty years after his prime. An actual 1968 recording. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/29 "2009-06-21T16:13:43Z")
A Star Trek movie that takes place after Nemesis without rebooting the series. The TNG crew should hand it over to the next crew. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/30 "2009-06-21T16:29:31Z")
Mastery of time and space. Otherwise, veto power for any idea oozing from the skull of Michael Bay or his writers. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/31 "2009-06-21T21:56:25Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > The current director of the **Harry Potter** movies totally gives into his obvious Harry/Hermione shipperness and has them end up together at the end of the **Deathly Hollows** instead of Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. Or, conversely, replacing the director with a Harry/Ginny shipper. It’s canon, dammit! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/32 "2009-06-21T22:10:09Z")
Sorry about my last post. I don’t mean to rekindle the Harry Potter shipping wars, it’s just that I agree with canon in this case because I like it when the quiet girl gets the guy she has loved for years. It’s the same reason I ship Naruto/Hinata rather than Naruto/Sakura, which seems to be more popular. Actually, #1 on my list is a _Ranma 1/2_ series finale that shows the final chapter of the manga, except that it would show Ranma and Akane actually getting together, not just walking to school together in a slightly more friendly way. Unfortunately, Rumiko Takahashi seems incapable of ending her manga in a definitive way. (I haven’t seen the end of _Inuyasha_, so I don’t know whether she’s gotten over that or not.) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/33 "2009-06-22T00:02:19Z")
In terms of art? Michael Bay is dragged before the world court for crimes against humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/34 "2009-06-22T11:12:03Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > 3 more Discworld novels ☹ Poor Pterry. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/35 "2009-06-22T14:02:06Z")
The next Song of Ice and Fire book. Then the remaining couple to follow on quickly after that. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/36 "2009-06-22T14:22:13Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > A Star Trek movie that takes place after Nemesis without rebooting the series. The TNG crew should hand it over to the next crew. This, and the concluding volumes to Martin’s _A Song of Ice and Fire_ series, as **Snickers** wrote. Then Martin should write a kickass sequel to _Tuf Voyaging_ (as he’s said he’d like to). I’d also like to see sequels to _True Lies_ and _The Incredibles_. Movies of Heinlein’s _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Space Cadet, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Glory Road_ and _Time for the Stars_ would be awfully nice. And _Starship Troopers_, but with powered armor, dammit. One last good _Alien_ movie with Sigourney Weaver that satisfactorily wrapped up the franchise. All of this contingent on them being well-done and true to the spirit of the originals, of course. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/37 "2009-06-22T14:24:30Z")
A 100 part miniseries of Neal Stephenson’s _The Baroque Cycle_, with a followup 20 part mini-miniseries of _Cryptonomicon_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/38 "2009-06-22T15:24:14Z")
Any of the following actors playing _Hamlet_: Vin Diesel, Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Steven Segal, Jeane Claude Van Damme. _Scientology Today_ - the talk show. Roseanne Barr’s soft-core porn series on Cinemax. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/39 "2009-06-22T16:08:59Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > A TV show about the early years of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian directed by Joss Whedon. Ooooh, baby. I’d settle for _any_ new SW stuff that approached the level of quality of Empire Strikes Back. Or, at least, didn’t suck as badly as the Prequel Trilogy did. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/40 "2009-06-22T16:11:23Z")
A reunion of **The Smiths**. Morrissey has said farily recently that he’d eat meat before he ever shared a stage with Johnny Marr again. And he’s a pretty strict vegetarian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340.md?page=3)