# Joan of Arcadia is coming back! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544 "2008-07-07T12:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/1 "2008-07-07T12:40:30Z")
[Sci-Fi Channel is re-running the series, starting Friday at 8pm](http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=11-JUL-2008&feed_req=), which is the original airtime of the show. I won’t comment on the topic of putting a show about God on the Sci-Fi Channel. But Adam and Grace and Luke and Joan…they’re coming back! SQUEEEEE!!! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/2 "2008-07-07T13:24:34Z")
It’s as much about God as _Reaper_ is about the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/3 "2008-07-07T13:36:14Z")
YAY! I have the first season on DVD, but not the second. My DVR will be ready. Although it’s almost worth it to buy it so I don’t have to watch painful edits to add extra commercials. StG ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/4 "2008-07-07T13:56:30Z")
That’s really funny - I was just thinking about this show over the weekend! I was thinking about buying the Dvds, but now perhaps I will delay… ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/5 "2008-07-07T15:10:16Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] [Sci-Fi Channel is re-running the series, starting Friday at 8pm](http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=11-JUL-2008&feed_req=), which is the original airtime of the show. [/QUOTE] HDNet has been re-running it for several years now, in all its hi-def glory. IIRC, they run two episodes back-to-back every morning, so getting caught up should be pretty easy if you have a DVR. Unfortunately, HDNet just bumped Enterprise from their schedule; I’d started watching it when it debuted several years ago, and they went well into (but not completely through) season 4. I know SciFi shows Enterprise, but they still seem to be in seasons 1 & 2, so I’ll have to wait a while for them to catch up. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/6 "2008-07-07T16:29:49Z")
I don’t have HDNet, or an HDTV, so I haven’t been able to catch it. Do you remember that episode of _Scrubs_ where Eliot runs into her old college fried, played by Kerri Russell, and they start screaming like a pair of banshees when they see each other? That was my daughter and me when we saw the SciFi bug. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/7 "2008-07-07T21:06:44Z")
I watched both seasons during the original run. I thought the season finale for the first season pretty effectively ended the series’ story. The second season seemed superfluous and ended in a cliffhanger which, of course, was never to be resolved. They shoulda’ left well enough alone. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-is-coming-back/455544/8 "2008-07-08T00:14:21Z")
I think they ended season 2 they way they did because they weren’t sure if CBS was going to pick them up for a season 3, so they were trying to have it both ways, with Joan facing a new challenge yet realizing her friends were around to help. I have boycotted Fridays at 8pm on CBS ever since. Bastards.