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Which TV shows have you seen end up being cancelled with unresolved subplots? Cancellation (nord.pub)
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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Westworld, Infinity Train, Firefly, Caprica.

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    • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Santa Clarita Diet

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    • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    1899 comes to mind in a big way.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    This does my head in. It was one of the most popular shows on Netflix at release, yet they cancelled it. What are Netflix hoping for? They've ended up with a catalog of shows that started and never finished, so nobody is going to bother watching them now. What a waste.

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    • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I will never forgive them for cancelling Inside Job after renewing it for another season. Or for cancelling The Owl House, but that at least had time for a 3 episode wrap up season.

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My Name is Earl ended on cliff hanger but at least the creator explained his plans on an interview

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    • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Carnivàle hinted at a grand multi-season arch during season 2. There was no season 3.

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    • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Glow

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    • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Dark Matter from SyFy is my out there recommendation.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    People of Earth

    This is a very fun show, I wish they went 1 more season.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    How I Met Your Father never told us who the father was lol

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The Expanse.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Archive 81.

    Yet another victim of Netflix.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Archive 81

    It was such an interesting premise.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Brave New World, Warrior, The Peripheral, Constellation, 1983, 1989. Too many.

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    Babylon 5, Firefly, Stargate Universe, and Limitless. Not even just subplots, but the main one as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The problem with Babylon 5 is they shouldn't have made that spin off series.

    Babylon 5 was always supposed to be 5 seasons. that's it. no more. But for whatever reason TNT were like "ok, lets do a spin-off post B5" which just wasn't that great to begin with. B5 itself wrapped up nicely IMHO. Crusade was...yeah I'm sorry but I don't think it needed to happen. They could have dealt with the Drakh stuff in another movie. Plus there was conflicts with that show before it even got off the ground. TNT wanted a show with more "sex and violence" while JMS didn't. TNT also wasn't thrilled with actually making it since they said people who watched B5 didn't watch anything else on TNT and people who watched TNT on the regular didn't watch B5.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    there was a spinoff???

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    yeah, Crusade.

    So at the end of Babylon 5 there's a race that was allied with the Shadows called the Drakh. they used the last Shadow planet killer ship to attack earth which was defended by the ISA and two new ships that were joint Earth and Minbari projects (think really big White Stars) called Excalibur and Victory. they all defend the Earth but lose the Victory in the process. before the Drakh are defeated they release a virus into Earth's atmosphere that will activate and kill everything after 5 years. So the whole main plot for Crusade was to take the last Earth/Minbari ship, the Excalibur, and go out into the universe to find a cure within 5 years (JMS really likes his 5 year storylines). there's some side plots too like the psychic civil war on earth between Psi-Corp and random telepaths, Mars getting it's indipendence, and random other races finding Shadow tech.

    It only lasted 13 episodes before getting cancelled and IMHO wasn't anywhere near as good as Babylon 5.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    American Gods is one that always trips me out, they just kind of left the main character hanging out on a limb so to speak.

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Lost, but it wasn't cancelled. jj abrams just sucks at explaining all the mystery boxes that he likes to set up. What the fuck is up with the smoke monster?

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    copper and star-crossed.

    NOT THAT I'M STILL BITTER ABOUT THEM BEING CANCELLED >_<

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