# Tru Calling cancelled?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 28, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676 "2004-10-28T15:18:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/1 "2004-10-28T15:18:50Z")
Grrr…
Dang it. I LIKED this show.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/2 "2004-10-28T15:52:45Z")
Link?
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/3 "2004-10-28T16:25:51Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#):
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> Link?
[http://www.supporttrucalling.com/news.html](http://www.supporttrucalling.com/news.html)
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/4 "2004-10-28T17:02:48Z")
Damn, too bad.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/5 "2004-10-28T17:39:20Z")
Toward the end, that show had promise. Wow, I’m bummed they canceled it.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/6 "2004-10-28T17:53:03Z")
It would be nice to see the 5 or 6 episodes they filmed.
Tho instead, I’d like a “wrap up loose threads” movie.
At the very least a written description of what was going on.
Does this open up the possibility of a “Faith” cenetered Buffy spinfoff?
> **[X3!! SUPERMAN!! ANGEL!! FAITH!! SERENITY!! Herc Reports On The Whedon Kerry...](http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/18679)**
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> Just got back from the big “High Stakes: Whedon Fans For Kerry-Edwards" rally in Hollywood, with bits of exciting and less-than-exciting news: \* Joss told the world he will not be writing and directing “X3." “After looking deep...
Brian
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/7 "2004-10-28T18:05:02Z")
> [@N9IWP](#):
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> Does this open up the possibility of a “Faith” cenetered Buffy spinfoff?
> [http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18679](http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18679)
Not unless Whedon changes his mind about doing [television](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20041024/va_tv_ne/whedon_wants_out_of_tv_1) in the near future. Alas.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/8 "2004-10-28T18:10:47Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#):
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> Not unless Whedon changes his mind about doing [television](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20041024/va_tv_ne/whedon_wants_out_of_tv_1) in the near future. Alas.
Which, now that I’ve read both our links (well, re-read mine), I realize they may not conflict. I’d be _very_ excited if he decides to do a Faith spin-off.
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/9 "2004-10-28T19:36:01Z")
It’s Fox
It’s a vaguely Sci-Fi show
It’s got good visuals and is mildy appealing
This is a shock HOW?
Please reference: Dark Angel, John Doe, Firefly…
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/10 "2004-10-28T19:55:40Z")
Weird. Wonder why they cancelled it after six shows where in the can? I guess it’s possible that the episodes were pretty bad. But it’s not like Fox has a bullpen full of strong relievers waiting to take the mound.
I will say that unlike many shows that Fox has cancelled, I did have a lot of trouble sitting through an episode of this one. Far too many repetitions of the stuttering “I’m here to help you but I can’t tell you why.” scene. But it did get better towards the end with the concept of a nemesis .
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### Author:  [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/11 "2004-10-28T22:29:46Z")
Pretty weak show, IMO. But I like Eliza Dushku and hope she gets a better one.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/12 "2004-10-29T00:15:19Z")
> [@Finagle](#):
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> Far too many repetitions of the stuttering “I’m here to help you but I can’t tell you why.” scene. But it did get better towards the end with the concept of a nemesis .
Exactly! Once they got away from the weekly blah-we’ve-done-this-plot-last-week format, it actually got interesting. By that time, it was the end of the season.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/13 "2004-10-29T00:47:40Z")
I liked Tru… was looking forward to at least part of a second season. Oh well.
I never did get to see the season finale, and I skimmed through a lot of the ones with Jason in them actually. Maybe I’ll rent all the DVDs and catch up.
I have to say, I wondered if they were ever going to do a big reveal on what the origin of ‘the calling’ was – if there was a specific entity who had called her for this, and why.
My own pet theory was that the calling was completely not-altruistic in its origin, a variation on the notion of ‘gods playing dice with the lives of men.’ You give one girl a chance to replay a day, with the clear goal of saving the lives of one or two individuals – will she be able to change history? After giving her a few months to get the hang of it, you introduce an adversary. Supernatural creatures are betting on the outcome. (On that basis, Tru definitely performed well. I can’t remember any episode where she did worse than a split decision - given two lives at stake, saving one and losing one.)
I do think it was funny how long it took her to stop jumping to conclusions though, especially when most of her first guesses always turn out wrong. But I guess that was just how they stretched out the episodes.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/14 "2004-10-29T05:33:00Z")
I liked the show and sorry to see it (may) be cancelled.
It was, however, sometimes tiring to have to sit through the same thing twice every hour, and how many times was she going to have to save her dumbass brother again and again and again?
Still, it was perking up towards the end of the season.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/15 "2004-10-29T12:30:35Z")
> [@DMark](#):
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> I liked the show and sorry to see it (may) be cancelled.
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> It was, however, sometimes tiring to have to sit through the same thing twice every hour, and how many times was she going to have to save her dumbass brother again and again and again?
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> Still, it was perking up towards the end of the season.
Yes, if there was a weakness to the show it was definitely that it was too formulaic.
My pet peeve was an example of this… practically EVERY TIME the ‘way-back effect’ hit at the exact same part of the episode, around fifteen minutes after the hour, just before the end of the first act after the teaser. It’s like somebody decided that was the perfect mix of pre-time travel info gathering and ‘rerun.’
The only time I can remember that they didn’t follow that pattern precisely was… The episode where the guy had the daughter who needed the heart transplant – that time they did the wayback effect several times, including the usual one as the second time tru got rewound, because it took several times for her to realize that she wasn’t trying to save the guy’s life, or stop him from killing anybody, but to make sure he died in such a way that his daughter could get his heart.
They tried to mix up the formula in several ways, but a lot of them seemed far too cosmetic, not really changing anything fundamental.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/16 "2004-10-29T13:52:52Z")
Ah damn… the show had promise. It may have been formulaic, but that also could have been the writers feeling their way around for the beginning. But it’s FOX, why should I have expected different? You wonder who decides this programming stuff? I wonder why they haven’t been fired for letting The Family Guy get away.
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/17 "2004-10-29T14:06:34Z")
I’m surprised Fox let it live for one whole season, considering how crummy it was when it started.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tru-calling-cancelled/271676/18 "2004-10-29T14:29:31Z")
> [@chrisk](#):
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> My own pet theory was that the calling was completely not-altruistic in its origin, a variation on the notion of ‘gods playing dice with the lives of men.’ You give one girl a chance to replay a day, with the clear goal of saving the lives of one or two individuals – will she be able to change history? After giving her a few months to get the hang of it, you introduce an adversary. Supernatural creatures are betting on the outcome.
20 quatloos on Tru 🙂
Brian