Bring Back your Favorite TV Show (Potential Spoilers for Past TV shows previous to 2015)
Ok. so you have access to a time machine and all the money in the world. You are allowed to bring back your favorite TV show after it finished/cancelled but there are some rules. (Beware of potential spoilers from past TV shows!)
1. You can go to any time you want and as long as the actor/actress did not die they would return to your show. So as an example you could go back to 1997 and give Married with Children a 12th season and the entire cast would return.
2. You cannot "undo" anything. That means you cannot remove an ending, character death, entire season, etc. Whatever has happened is official and in stone.
With those two rules what do you choose? Do you try and give Breaking Bad another season given what happened at the end? Do you want to continue on with your favorite characters even if they had a great sendoff? Or do you try to revive something else that may not be as beloved but has more potential in more seasons? Do you go for something like Jericho or the Black Donnellys where maybe not the greatest show in the world but was cancelled too early? Do you go for Nostalgia and bring back a childhood favorite? What TV show do you choose and why?
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Also, that Jon-Erik Hexum was dreamy (don't tell my wife).
I really adored Wonderfalls, which was a mid-2000s BryanFuller show about a girl who starts talking to inanimate objects. It was hilarious and clever and I would have loved more than 14 episodes of it. But then Bryan Fuller might not have gone on to do Hannibal and that would have been a great tragedy, so I don’t know.
Also I wish Veronica Mars had gotten a fourth season. The movie was not enough.
Yes, it was a shitshow for a long time. But, once they were cancelled in their final season, they just must have said "fuck it" and made some great episodes about terrorism on Vulcan and Brent Spiner as Arik Soong and a cool mirror universe arc. It was quite good.
I considered doing the Vulcan terrorism arc as my commissioned podcast. I still might.
I would bring back the Dallas revival that just got cancelled last winter. That was good stuff (piggy back this admission into thhe "guilty pleasure thread" lol!)
Curb is such a good show. Larry David needs to get back at it!
Lost could tell a thousand different stories from different points of view.
What about old school Saturday morning cartoons!?
Creature double feature (was this a local WB type channel show, or did everyone have it? Saturday's 12-4ish, two b-horror movies in a row!!)
Knight Rider. No explanation necessary.
Cheers. I loved it!
... Was I only supposed to choose one? Out of all of these I'll choose Saturday morning cartoons. I loved Saturday mornings
Side note: looney tunes has new episodes on boomerang. It's really good!
Also, I would undo Serenity; this is a movie, not technically part of the show, so I'm not cheating
Voyagers!
Awesome choice. Loved that as a kid.
But I have to go with Firefly, even if we can't bring back Wash.
Yeah, I'm with you on Dead Like Me. That was a really great show and that movie was such a disgrace. I would love to have had more of the show.
I'm still reeling a bit from losing Parks and Recreation and Justified so close together. I do feel like Parks said everything that they needed to say and there is such re-watchability in that show that I have made my peace. Justified though, they wrapped everything up really, really nicely but I still want more. I don't really know how it works, maybe it would be best suited for a movie or a focused short run plot but I need more Raylan Givens and more of that amazing Justified writing in my life.
Given a time machine, Freaks and Geeks season 2 feels like a no-brainer to me as well. Those characters were so great and there were so many possibilities. I get that it was kind of a perfect season, but there was so much that they could have done.