Damn it.
They could still bring Nathan Stark back, because they haven’t established that he died in this timeline, have they?
Good science fiction or fantasy, sadly, does not seem to be a great money maker on commercial TV. And let’s be honest here…SyFy doesn’t have the budget to try to do something similar to Game of Thrones. What we get is decent to good budget science fiction, plus lots of cheap to produce shows and movies which are done on less of a budget than a single episode of Two and a Half Men.
I’m both a wrestling fan and a science fiction fan, and I would love more series like Firefly, Eureka, Farscape, and maybe a few fantasy series thrown in. Personally, I could do without the movies, but different strokes and all that. Sadly, people like you and I aren’t plentiful enough to support that many series. [I also don’t care which of NBC Universal’s channels wrestling ends up on, I just don’t decry its current placement.]
That’s what killed Farscape. And Married with Children. Ratings aren’t everything. Profitability counts too.
Yup. The same thing happened with House. Albeit on a different network, House is also distributed by Universal Media Studios, which is owned by Comcast and demanded substantial budget cuts, including salary cuts for most of the cast save Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, and Olivia Wilde. Lisa Edelstein declined to sign a new contract for season 8.
Yeah, and that’s as strong a reason as Siffy’s executive decisions for my frustration, that sci-fi alone is not a profitable venture.
This. That’s it for them.
On the other hand, I can’t see any particular reason to keep the show going. Of five seasons, they’ve already done four complete resets of the characters (at the start of each new season after the first), so it’s not like we’re really ever going to see something new. The best we’ll ever get is a gentle decline into shark jumping territory. Why get there?
I’m not upset so much that the show is ending but that they didn’t give the writers a chance to give it an ending. They SAID there would be six more episodes, which would have provided a coda. Then they said “Oh no, sorry, no six episodes.”
They were still filming during Comic-Con which wasn’t too long ago. They even tried to call one of the actresses still on set during their panel. So unless they’ve fully finished season 5 since then (doubtful), they have ample opportunity to give Eureka an ending. This is more than they gave Farscape, which was cancelled after all filming was done.
Theyre still in Season 4. Season 5 has yet to air, and will have 14 episodes airing in 2012. That seems to be enough time to bring the series to a resolution.
They haven’t fully finished Season 5, but they only have [del]one[/del] two episodes to go. (The deletion came when I checked Twitter. Jaime Paglia (the show runner) just tweeted that the production company has given them the go-ahead for one additional episode to wrap things up.
That’s good. I was worried they’d leave things at a cliffhanger or some such bullshit.
Between wrestling and the below grade-Z movies they keep cranking out I’m so wanting to delete SyFy off of our cable channels but the hubby would pitch a fit.
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Well, 99% anyway. I believe they were on the last day of the season and the producer went to talk to Sci-fi. He expected to tell the cast and crew that, indeed, Sci-fi had ordered a sixth season. They had already agreed to a fifth.
Instead, they told him that they were taking an "out’ in the contract and not ordering a fifth and it was over.
In fact, that was the first time that Sci-fi did the whole “Season finale” scam at the mid-season point. They were trying to convince the home audience that the back half of season 4 was season 5.
That was the start of the end for the network. Bonnie Hammer, I believe, played a major role.
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siffy, you have pissed me off to the max. cancel eureka but leave wrestling? really? :mad:
Of course if the writing is going to be as bad as it was last night (and the episode was written by Paglia of all people!) they might be right.
Come on. Bev/Allison is about to escape. Jo appears carrying a BFG and orders her to stop. Bev/Al calls her bluff. Jo shoots Bev/Al with a pulse gun.
Why didn’t she blast a round through the tail rotor? That way she could capture all three of the Bad Guys. As it was two of them escaped.
I stopped watching with the whole timeline reset. I’m never pleased when a show throws away some of its character development, and James Callis was too annoying for words. I loved the first few seasons, but I won’t miss it now.
I spent the whole episode with my finger on the “skip forward” button. it was just bad.
I was thinking the same, but to play Devil’s Advocate, maybe Jo was afraid of injuring Alison’s body with flying shrapnel had she shot anywhere on the helicopter. A throwaway line to that effect would have been nice. Otherwise, Jo just keeps getting further emasculated (or whatever the proper word to use here is).