• justhach@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I wish the answer here was “Westworld”.

    That first season was perfect television. And that season finale? My god. I was so excited to watch season 2 and it… just fell short on all fronts. It has its moments, but ultimately failed to measure up to that first season.

    Which would have been okay, but then season 3 and 4 happened, and diluted the overall quality of the show to a point where I stopped recommending the show to anyone and just tell them to stick to S1.

    I want to live in a timeline where we left off on that S1 ending wondering what could have been.

  • Ben@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is very difficult… and we must be very careful indeed…

    You shouldn’t ask for MORE simply because you enjoyed it.

    Friends already seemed to go on endlessly - but most shows are rightly put to bed and overshadowed by newer and better ideas.

    Now I’m watching Blue Light and don’t miss NYPD blue… I still watch Kojak occasionally, but I sure wouldn’t want any MORE.

    Gentleman Jack

    • Awesome stuff

    • HBO sucks and I hate them (but Band of Brothers was almost perfect, except that it was a little bit too restricted/condensed/reduced).

    Black Mirror

    'Nuff said.

    • Given that this is a collection of stories, and that I started READING stories a lot more recently (currently just finished Harrison Bergeron - the second story in “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse” written by Kurt Vonnegut. These stories are brilliant ideas put into short form - perfect.
    Quantum Leap
    • was almost as good, but a little more formulaic - so I’d vote for Black Mirror to take the flag forward for interesting short stories.

    Talking about Black Mirror…

    The OA

    • Going back in history…

    Firefly

    Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    • Anything of that time with Summer Glau looking incredibly gorgeous. Sure, you know I’m right - even when it’s bad, it’s just really good.

    Scarborough (2019)

    • lovely, and took me back to some childhood holidays.

    Victoria (2016-19)

    • certainly died too early (I love Jenna Coleman).

    Tom and Jerry (original style, painted on glass, with no fear of being politically correct or educational).

    Pink Panther

    • I know, they DID do more, a lot more Tom and Jerry - but most of that just sucks and I don’t know why people even liked the continuation once the original atmosphere was lost. HD brought nothing to Tom n Jerry for sure.

    • Pink Panther owes 90% of it’s success to bad drawing, amazing music, and sheer atmosphere surrounding mostly not amazing stories if the truth be told… but it worked so well. Hours of endless fun with just one bucket of blue, and another of pink paint… yes, you know what I’m talking about.

    I still have a ‘random cartoon’ habit with Pink Panther/Tom n Jerry

    There isn’t much room for anything else in there.

    I just wish there had been MORE of them.

    • illi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Expanse ended on a good point. We would probably need at least 2 seasons to finish up the final trilogy. If one extra season would be all we got, I’d not want it tbh.

      • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They could finish the series with a final season if you cut out the politics after the time jump. Really just take the last book and maybe a few parts from 7 and 8 and you could make a complete story.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The VM of the original series or the VM of the movies and reboot? I think her character changes so much and I’m not sure i would want to follow her down her new, dark path.

      OK, who am I kidding, I would totally watch another season.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Heavens Lost Property, by AIC who animated the first two seasons.

    The “Eternal My Master” movie didn’t follow source material and had a totally different art style. Was not well regarded.

  • Salad_Fries@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I would love another season of scrubs!

    I know the last season (med school) was wildly unpopular, but i actually started warming up to it near the end. I feel like another season would have actually been pretty good

  • SweetAIBelle@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    The Owl House. Though, given that it was cancelled and season 3 compressed to three double length episodes, I’d make the extra season a replacement season 3, and rework those episodes into part of the new season. There were definitely montages in those episodes where you could feel them practically saying “and here’s several episodes we could have written, if we had time”.

    (Not to mention the infamous dialog about “maybe if we had time for 20 more adventures” near the end of season 2…)