Just like the way that Larry Niven realized, after Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers, that there was no need to continue the series. I’m also really glad that he didn’t feel the need to turn his Known Space stories into some kind of cheesy franchise about humans fighting the Kzinti.
There were rumours that Larry was going to start co-authoring books with some guy named Steven Barnes, but I guess it never came to anything.
No, there was definitely no Star Wars Chr–
–definitely no St-- St–
ahem
There was never any Star Wars Christmas Sp-sp-special… w-with… Lumpy…
shudder
Also, William Shatner never recorded any songs. Never. Never never never. Ever. Anywhere. Just like Otis Redding never did a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
And there were never, ever, ever, ever any re-released Star Wars figures that looked like plastic steroid-pumped caricatures of He-Man physiques and Lady-Death-sized breasts and… and… L-L-Lumpy…and Itchy…
oh God
FISH
Don’t you mean 2nd movie?
Someone may have already mentioned it but there were rumors of BattleStar Galactica 1980 being made. Fortunately wild dogs ate the intestines of the person who had this bad idea. Whoever was writing this evil thing decided that two men should take a group of space boy scouts down to Earth and get involved in all sorts of hijinks. While writing this crummy story, he gave them motorbikes that could fly and the kids super human strength. For some reason he had the human forces under the control of a kid with stupid glasses and a bowl cut. It was going to be even worse because he planned on the show being preachy about things like pollution.
During the first show, he was going to send back the two men into Earth’s past to stop one of their members from helping Germany win World War 2. As they were talking about the V2 rocket, one of their group would have said, “The V2 rocket? Germany almost won the war because of those”.
Thank you supreme being that this horrible idea for a show was never put into production.
It’s a shame that Earth:Final Conflict wasn’t renewed for a new season. Apparently the producers decided to end the series rather than make all the changes the network requested.
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I heard that DC wanted Frank Miller to write a sequal to Dark Knight Returns i don’t think he would do that
I always hoped that they would make some sequels to the computer game Monkey Island 2 - I think that a quality franchise like that deserved to be raped into the ground.
And it was a shame that Paul McCartney retired in 1970. Looking at what his old partner went on to do, just imagine what he could have gone on to!!!
There are a number of misconceptions floating around concerning the life and works of Anne McCaffrey, and I’d like to take the opportunity, since this old thread has been resurrected, to clear a few of these up:
In Dragonflight, Anne resisted the temptation to drag in time travel. Instead she had the heroic and resourceful Pernese banding together behind the dragonriders to weather the storm until Benden Weyr managed to crank out enough dragons.
She later wrote a couple of enjoyable stories set in the Harper Hall to give us a look at Pern society outside the Weyrs. However, most of the so-called “sequels” and “prequels” are nothing more than rumours. There certainly was never a Moreta, which is a relief, as that could only have been dire.
The Ship Who Sang was sufficient unto itself, and everyone including McCaffrey knows this very well. You would need to be slightly deranged to imagine that she would go and write a whole series of brain-ship and brain-city stories, still less make a franchise out of them.
The Thorn Bushes of Barevi actually remained in decent obscurity as part of the Get Off The Unicorn short-story collection, rather than getting rehashed into the so-called “Catteni Series”. It serves very well as it is, as proof that A McC couldn’t really write Gor-type slave fiction.
Harking back to Star Trek, the purported existence of an episode in which Spock’s brain gets stolen has to be one of the most persistent and funny practical jokes ever perpetrated 
Beethoven wrote only odd-numbered symphonies, agreed, but by some strange mathematical quirk he operated under the illusion that 6 was actually 7 and vice versa.
William Shatner wisely resisted the lure of cashing in on his famous name by kidding himself that he could write science fiction.
Anyone know when Master of Orion 3 is coming out? I’ve really been looking forward to the sequel for a long time. There was some drek released not too long ago with a similar name, but I think that was just an attempt to cash in on the similar sounding title.
Speaking of great video games, I really think they should follow up with a sequel to Deus Ex.
Oh, and does anyone know what happened to Archie Bunker and his daughter Gloria after Edith died? It seems a shame to leave the series hanging like that.
Bart: Don’t you mean The Shining?
Willy: Shhh! Do you want to get sued?
170 posts before anyone mentioned this?!
Man, I liked that movie Robocop. It’s really about a ton more than just a robotic cop – themes like ‘who really owns you’ and ‘corporations owning people’ and ‘they spent so long wondering if they could, they never asked if they should’ are always fascinating.
Boy, am I sure glad they didn’t make two more movies and a television series which completely ignored these themes. Why, I’m even more glad they didn’t hire Frank Miller, one of the comic industry’s greatest writers, to completely embarrass himself and his craft by devising some of the worst dreck unleashed upon unsuspecting man. THAT would have been silly!
Hey, I had that same dream! It was really weird! Instead of playing drums, Lars just banged around on a bunch of pots and pans!
In a way it’s a shame that no Tom & Jerry cartoons were ever made after the 1940s, but then, how could those timeless classics ever have been done credit to by anything drawn in the Sixties, still less the present day?