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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 18, 2023 5:07:04 GMT -5
And just kept going?
Whether good or bad.
Remember when I started watching bones, it was the third season and were in their groove as far of chemistry and villain of the week. I watched the reruns and was surprised that it originally had a mystery of who killed Bones parents. Oddly enough they solved that mystery by season 2 or 3. Not only did they find out, the dad was still alive. Also, she oddly kept her fake name when it was discovered her identity was fake. At least they had a season long villain each year.
Similar with Castle (another police officer teams with mystery writer). Detective Becket finds out her killed her mother, why, and gets revenge. Then it keeps going on for a couple years as a murder of the week show. Still good, I like it. Just odd that the rest of the series didn’t have a big story to focus on anymore.
I remember the mentalist killed Red John finally, and just kept going another season or two. I think it w as a scrubs like situation where the wanted make a new series but the network wanted the same name and it stayed The Mentalist why the promos kept calling it Mentalist: a new beginning. Not to mention they wrote off some of the regular characters.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Dec 18, 2023 5:35:10 GMT -5
The Blacklist literally did this every season, I guess James Spader put a "No job" clause in his contract before signing on to do the series. (Something he obviously didn't do with Age of Ultron.)
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Post by thechase on Dec 18, 2023 5:53:34 GMT -5
Twin Peaks is one of the more vintage examples of this.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 18, 2023 5:59:21 GMT -5
If the Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade had continued they would have fixed the main conflict, the Drakh plague, in the middle of the second season.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 18, 2023 10:34:12 GMT -5
Burn Notice basically wrapped up everything about the whole "who 'burned' Michael Weston?", why and clearing his name by around mid-season six. That didn't stop them from having a season seven.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Dec 18, 2023 10:47:25 GMT -5
Not quite what the OP said but there was a police detective show called Taggart about a detective called Taggart. The actor died but the show continued without Taggart. Still called Taggart. Even went longer without him than it did with him.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Dec 18, 2023 11:45:54 GMT -5
The Wire did this and was just as good
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 18, 2023 12:40:59 GMT -5
Stargate SG-1 effectively ended the Goa'uld as the show's primary villains in season 8 and continued for another two seasons with the Ori.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Dec 18, 2023 12:54:13 GMT -5
Burn Notice basically wrapped up everything about the whole "who 'burned' Michael Weston?", why and clearing his name by around mid-season six. That didn't stop them from having a season seven. Came in to say this. Though to their credit season seven was pretty great and a good cap on the show. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Dec 18, 2023 12:54:46 GMT -5
Babylon 5 saw the Shadows and Vorlons dealt with and spent seasons and a spin-off dealing with the aftermath.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 18, 2023 12:59:23 GMT -5
Burn Notice basically wrapped up everything about the whole "who 'burned' Michael Weston?", why and clearing his name by around mid-season six. That didn't stop them from having a season seven. Came in to say this. Though to their credit season seven was pretty great and a good cap on the show. Meh, agree to disagree on that. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 18, 2023 13:26:38 GMT -5
Twin Peaks is one of the more vintage examples of this. That was the first one that I thought of. Lynch didn't want to ever solve who killed Laura Palmer. But ABC forced him to. And after the reveal ratings started to drop. |
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Dec 18, 2023 15:12:55 GMT -5
Twin Peaks is one of the more vintage examples of this. Despite David Lynch's wishes I don't know how long he thought the show could last without eventually solving it. Cooper just hanging out and chilling in Twin Peaks for 3-10 years without solving the crime he was sent there for would just make him look like a terrible Investigator |
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Dec 18, 2023 15:28:30 GMT -5
Stargate SG-1 effectively ended the Goa'uld as the show's primary villains in season 8 and continued for another two seasons with the Ori. that was probably down to "this will be our last season" "we just got renewed." they seemed to go through for a chunk of time until all three stargate shows got ended in quick succession. |
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Post by peaches1 on Dec 18, 2023 15:31:32 GMT -5
X-Files would seemingly resolve the alien conspiracy storyline every couple of seasons, only to bring it back with increasingly diminishing returns
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Post by xCompackx on Dec 18, 2023 15:36:53 GMT -5
Prison Break not ending when they break out of prison. And then they have to break out of another prison. And then... Whatever season 4 was.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 18, 2023 15:51:00 GMT -5
Twin Peaks is one of the more vintage examples of this. Despite David Lynch's wishes I don't know how long he thought the show could last without eventually solving it. Cooper just hanging out and chilling in Twin Peaks for 3-10 years without solving the crime he was sent there for would just make him look like a terrible Investigator It'd be a pretty realistic investigation if it went on for years. Most never get solved and sometimes it's incompetence, but it's also just timeliness and luck when investigations go cold. I think he hoped the quirkiness of the town would give the show legs. I'm not sure it did, but if he was able to do what he did for Twin Peaks: The Return, then it could have worked. |
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Post by mystermystery on Dec 18, 2023 17:04:54 GMT -5
The Mentalist literally spends the majority of the series tracking down the man who murdered his wife, chokes said man to death with his bare hands, and moves on to solving mysteries for the CIA or some other acronym organization in the next season.
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Post by chrom on Dec 18, 2023 17:21:06 GMT -5
Orochimaru is dead, Pein is defeated, Naruto has finally earned the title of Hero and the admiration he's worked his life for. We're at the climax right?
Nope, we got about six more years of terrible arcs and bad writing to go through.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 18, 2023 19:29:46 GMT -5
Orochimaru is dead, Pein is defeated, Naruto has finally earned the title of Hero and the admiration he's worked his life for. We're at the climax right? Nope, we got about six more years of terrible arcs and bad writing to go through. I came here to say this. Naruto just kept manufacturing Big Bads to keep the story going. First “Madara” (Obito) to resurrected Madara, to an alien princess that saw the climax cut away from the final battle to focus on a flashback within a flashback within a non-existent world. |
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