From Cynopsis, a trade e-mail publication:
I never saw Dead Zone, and I gave up on *The 4400 * after the third season. Still, they were a nice alternative to network reality TV crap.
Fare the well. We’ll see you on the DVD shelves.
I think they both ended on an okay note for a finale. Johnny finally ended up with Sara and JJ, and I don’t really see how 4400 could have been completely wrapped up.
Sucks about the Dead Zone. I liked that show.
I lost track of TDZ when the schedule was kept in extreme flux and I never knew when new eps were being broadcast. Did Stillson finally get popped by Johnny or somesuch?
I stopped watching The Dead Zone after the bloodbath (seriously - you’re getting rid of EVERY secondary character? In one episode?). Please, please, please, tell me it ended with the death of JJ. I hated that character.
Oh man, first Journey man, now this?! What the hell am I going to watch between seasons of Lost?
Sorry Lambo, but JJ is alive and well, and living with his parents (he calls Johnny “dad” in the finale) and sister.
Everyone finds out the truth about him, and we also learn that Johnny’s father has been alive the whole time, and thinks Stillson is his son. Eventually, Sara confronts Stillson, he grabs her, then knocks JJ to the ground when he gets in the middle. Sara tells him to leave, and IIRC, that’s the last we see of him.
They got a new kid to play JJ, who wasn’t nearly as annoying as the original…
Dammit! I LOVED the 4400! I couldn’t wait for next season to see how they handled the Promicin-plague result on the cops and paramedics. Maybe Sci-Fi will pick it up.
It didn’t, not by a longshot. Let me just state for the record: FUCK!
So that’s Lost and 4400 gone. We know Battlestar has only one season left. There’s no new Star Trek (on TV), Journeyman’s gone, Invasion and Surface never made it out of their first seasons, and Stargate SG-1 ended last year … is Stargate Atlantis the only SF on TV these days?
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Don’t forget Doctor Who and Torchwood.
Does Bionic Woman count as SF? Or was that cancelled?
And how about Sarah Connor Chronicles?
What about Heroes? And Supernatural? And Reaper? And Smallville?
And Lost still has three seasons left, it’s hardly “gone” even if we know when it’ll end.
Lost isn’t gone…it’s coming back Jan 31.
I’m not too sad to see The Dead Zone go away; it really shouldn’t have had this last season, anyway. First they handwave away the apocalypse, get rid of most of the secondary characters, and then they had that episode which was nothing more than an ad for a credit card. Good riddance, I say.
However, The 4400 consistently managed to surprise me by being better than it seemed to have any right to be. They also managed to have some nice “holy shit” season finales. I’ll definitely miss it.
So how am I supposed to get my Nicole De Boer fix now?
Doubtful. USA and Sci-Fi are both owned by NBC Universal. And I know USA has picked up new episodes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent from NBC for first run, but that show is produced by Universal and is still a money-maker despite weak ratings on NBC. The 4400 was produced by CBS Paramount, so it’s less likely to move from one Universal network to another.
Yeah, I really liked 4400, but I was okay with the way it ended. Things would have to have started getting kinda over the top if they continued.
Never ever watched an episode of Dead Zone. Maybe I’ll add that to my list of things to watch during the writers’ strike.
I guess I forgot about Heroes and Bionic Woman. I’m starting to like BW more, with the last few episodes. It’s not about to be cancelled, is it… ?
And Stargate SG-1 has a direct to DVD movie coming out soon, so that’s good.
Fortunately, the beeb is still churning out U.K. SciFi. Doctor Who and Torchwood, as Lute Skywatcher mentioned, and Primeval is supposed to come back as well. Maybe there’ll be another season of Jekyll…
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