[barend]

I'll tell you which show was show "killed by running too long"...

the US version of 'Life On Mars'

It ran about 5 minutes too long. It wasn't as good as the English original, but it was awesome in it's own way with a different perspective. I really got into it. Then they fucked it completely with that asbsurd ending that they stuck in there only because they got cancelled. A stupid Twlight Zone ending that made the 17 episodes leading up it a complete waste of time.

Just fuck!

The Simpsons reached the height of their popularity in the early 90's, the movie came out way too late. I think Fox would have cancelled the series by now, but are just letting the series wane gradually as to try to save face.

and yet they killed off 'futurama'

[TruJade]

I'll tell you which show was show "killed by running too long"...

the US version of 'Life On Mars'

It ran about 5 minutes too long. It wasn't as good as the English original, but it was awesome in it's own way with a different perspective. I really got into it. Then they fucked it completely with that asbsurd ending that they stuck in there only because they got cancelled. A stupid Twlight Zone ending that made the 17 episodes leading up it a complete waste of time.

Just fuck!

I saw the last few episodes of Life On Mars
i was remarkably shocked at
how easy they were willing to give up

I guess if they had die hard fans
the show may have squeaked into a second season
(like Terminator Sarah Conner Chronicles)

Perhaps even the writers knew
the show was ultimately doomed
seriously how long could that premise of being

in the past really last. . . so sad or not
i can't really tell

[Icey]

In Heroes defense, they lost the part of the creative team that made the show good, namely Bryan Fuller over to Pushing Daisies. They've spent most of Season 3 trying to make up for that clusterfork and didn't really start making real motions towards it until Bryan Fuller got back on board and proceeded to ignore almost all of Season 2, because he and most other people just bloody hated what happened to it. That's why Nathan died because having characters that can survive anything and everything for infinity is stupid and lazy.

I'm hoping Season 4 is going to be a bit more of the magic that made the first season so good.

[Dr Lecter]

Yeah it was kind of piss annoying that they made a big deal about how they were killing off two of the leads in all those trailers, only to bring one back from the dead and bring the other back as her own twin sister.

I'm kinda torn on Heroes, on one side it's kind of alright. On the other side, there is just too many black and white. I just don't feel like there's middle ground. What you got? Serial killer, mass murderers, and all kinds of evil asshole on one side, and a bunch of purer than driven snow good guys who are so self-less they make Gandhi look like Hitler. The closest you got was Nathan not being sure if he wanted to be a mass murderer or not in the first season. It gets worse when the fact is that most of them are just evil for the pure sake of being evil, sometimes they have a world domination card to play, but more often than not they just are being evil for the sake of it.

It's basically like X-Men and Watchmen without the anti-heroes. In fact... if they call Season 4: Anti-Heroes (like Villains). Then it'll be a massive improvement.