Fannish Five

[neadods]

What Five Series Would You Resurrect if You Could?

This list pretty much doubles as my WHY IS THIS NOT ON DVD YET? list too.

1 - Max Headroom

2 - She Wolf of London/Love and Curses. Either version. Both. Have them live in LA and occasionally travel back to England; I'd be in heaven.

3 - Brimstone. They canceled it just as it took off and then Skiffy added insult to injury by running an extremely cliched and crappy knockoff.

4 - The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. It would be a bit hard to do this without one of the major heroes (goodbye, Julius, you're missed) but it was also cut down just as it was gearing up. (Okay, this is on DVD at least.)

5 - Beyond Reality. The first season was incredibly lame. The second season - alas, not on DVD, was really brilliant.

And as a bonus, these two cartoons should have run forever: Men in Black (so much more adventurous than the sequel movie) and Real Ghostbusters. Nobody says good writing is reserved for live action...

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I'm both surprised and pleased to see this list not include Firefly (which I've come to think doesn't suck, but isn't the awesomeness that Browncoats claim it to be).

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr would have been lovely to see continued and developed. But at least it didn't end on a cliffhanger.

My one vote for something missing from this list is Alien Nation, which did end on a cliffhanger, and whose subsequent movies were simply not sufficient.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Between thee and me, Firefly doesn't do a damn thing for me, never has.

I seriously thought about putting Alien Nation on the list, but decided that the movies had helped, as opposed to the shows that just up and disappeared one day.