I have been watching a Korean drama called Pasta, there apparently was only one season. I find myself wanting to know what the people on the show are doing now like they were real people. Did Chef and Junior Chef ever move beyond very chaste kissing? Did the chairman ever get his comeuppance, did CEO San and Chef Oh start dating? Did the Unni chefs and the italian chefs get along, did the Korean chefs learn anything in Italy and what happened when they came back… are they now italian chefs too? Did the youngest ever move up?
I know these are characters but i want to know more!
I used to hate it when good shows were cancelled after one or two seasons with lots of loose ends still floating around (e.g., “Gilligan’s Island,” “F Troop,” “ST: TOS,” the first run of “Due South”). Now I’ve come to realize that far too many shows were/have been allowed to continue well past their prime (e.g., “Bewitched,” “Mission: Impossible,” “CSI,” the second run of “Due South”). When they died, it was almost a relief.
The best shows are those who had successful runs and exited gracefully, leaving us hungry for more (e.g., “Dick Van Dyke,” “MTM,” “ST: VOYAGER,” “The Sopranos”).
I am still furious that *Popular *was cancelled, esp. when it was leaked that in the next season, Mary Cherry’s father was revealed to be Ru Paul (her mother, of course, was Cherry Cherry, played with great panache by Delta Burke).
Pushing Daisies was one I was surprised to see go so soon. It was just the right mix of fairy tale and detective comedy. The knitted pistol-cozies were awesome!
Undergrads, Clone High, and Mission Hill were three fantastic cartoons that each only had one season. They were intelligently written, and had just the right amount of silly and slapstick humor as well.
One of my favorite jokes from Clone High, though it falls more into the “silly” category:
There was supposed to be one more season to Soap, the old TV show. But it got cancelled after 4 seasons, leaving us dangling on a number of fronts.
I want to know what happened to Chester, who was preparing to kill Danny and Annie after catching them in bed; Burt who was preparing to walk into an ambush orchestrated by his political enemies; and Jessica who was about to be executed by a firing squad.
So is there another season or are you making this up? If you are gettng my hopes up with a woosh, I am going to be sooo disappointed.
I don’t know why I get so invested in some characters on a show that I have to have subtitles to understand what is going on (and even then I am not sure on some things) and not on others. Glee for instance had me hooked the first season or so that I had to see what happened next. Now not so much. Other shows I watched a couple of episodes, Breaking Bad and Burn Notice for instance, I want to like but the characters don’t stay on my mind. NCIS and Criminal Minds on the other hand do. Go figure.
That was the first thing I thought of as well. Both Pushing Daises and Arrested Development very clearly tried to wrap things up as fast as they could when they got the axe.
Freaks and Geeks and My So-Called Life are the two that I always think of with regret over their sudden departures with so much left unresolved. In anime, Haruhi Suzumiya and Rozen Maiden both left me hungry for the rest of the story.
The one killed soon that bother me still are:
John Doe
Invasion
American Gothic
and most recently, The Secret Circle
And as for not single season shows, Instant Star. Rumor has it that Jude was supposed to get back with Tommy post-tour in the unexpectedly scrapped 5th season, rather than just blithely abandon him for a world tour. sigh.