and Britannia just got removed from my "to watch" queue.

These tv producers still don't seem to get it. Cancelling a show on a cliffhanger absolutely guts future streaming value. Nobody is going to want to start watching a show that they know ends with "hey audience, fuck you for watching".

The solution is not just easy, it's trivial. Don't write goddamn cliffhanger season finales. it's literally that easy. Or, if you literally don't know how to not do that because your writers are pretentious hacks, then commit to at least one wrap up episode.

Or just turn your entire production into a sunk cost and write it all off, whatever I dont' care. But when you wonder "why doesnt' our amazing new show get more viewers?" THIS is why. people are waiting to see if you fuck it up before investing their time in it

"Dragons of Winter" apparently...

Jordan was cancelled, the books just went with him

American Dad "Yule. Tide. Repeat."

Tales of the Walking Dead episode “Blair, Gina,” 

It put a fresh and thoughtful look at the 'groundhog day' premise. I felt like I was watching the idea for the first time, and it seamlessly meshed into established Walking Dead canon.

And that's all bullshit. It was a "hey let's do groundhog day" with no concern for making sense, explaining why, no concern for the utter rejection of established universe, nope... It was basically a "very special episode of Blossom" where Blossom gets pregnant, had an abortion, and it's just never mentioned again.

Boyega has a legitimate complaint... I've never seen a character start as a primary protagonist, and then slowly get sidelined into irrelevance

I'll watch anything with Francis Conroy, I absolutely love her.

Music has changed so much in the recent decades.

You used to be able to expect a new album from a popular artist every year or so. two albums in a calendar year was not uncommon at all...they wrote, they recorded.

Now 5 years or more between albums is just normal. it sucks.

Yes, I think that is obvious. Did you think someone thought robots were wandering around crawling down random people's throats?

this is obviously a big advance in medical science, but I'd be lying if I said I was totally comfortable with the idea of a robot with chopping blades shawshanking its way down my esophagus

article author was confused when someone said "Dr Higgs is a surgical machine"

Someone should colorize the photo...what with there apparently being no color photography in the 1980's

any SciFi fan is cheating themselves if they haven't read the Golden Age authors; Arthur C Clark, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein

there's plenty more than are considered Golden Age, but these are the holy trinity.

He and Ken Jeong should do a show together.

Hey, that is him.

I just learned this fact too:

> LaPaglia graduated from Rostrevor College, and then from the University of Adelaide with a MBBS medical degree in 1991. He worked three years as an emergency ward physician in Adelaide, Sydney and London.  

If things didn't work out, he'd just straight up murder people.

I swear you and I were the only people that watched that show.

Nobody else remembers it.

Space above and beyond was my favorite show at the time.

It sucks that it got cut off at the knees. Same with Earth 2. It had great possibilities, but instead turned into a waste of viewing time

It's funny how Hill Street Blues pioneered the "gritty cop drama" genre, and today it's quaint and semi comedy

The last scene of the first episode just said "this isn't what you are used to" in a big way

Top 10 premier episode, top 2 finale

The Shield gets my vote.

The pilot spends the entire episode setting up Vic Mackey as a hard nose cop, trying to balance keeping drugs of the streets with being a good father, then hits you in the face with another side of the coin at the end

Back in the old days you had one chance to watch an episode, and once more in summer reruns... Then it was gone forever.

And before VCR's, you literally had to plan your ass to be in front of the TV at air time.

I thought that was the one stand out message that Clarkston beat the drum on over and over, how unrealistically burdened farmers are with bureaucracy and regulations. And how shockingly little return there is in the investment.

He even said something like "if I can barely make a go with Grand Tour money, what hope does any farmer have?". The show is basically a love letter to the British farmers

Ok, but how big of a chump would we have to be to believe THIS time he means it?

He's made promises over and over and failed to deliver.

Specifically the first book "dragon wing" focused on the floating islands world.