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Originally Posted by Kester Pelagius
I don't mean just series that aired a few episodes and were cancelled like:
Mercy Point - Got cancelled after only 3 or 4 episodes.
Space Rangers - Cancelled after 6 episodes.
Otherworld - Bounced around the dial and never really given the chance to get an audience. Got cancelled mid-way through season.
GENESIS II/PLANET EARTH - Gene Roddenberry's failed attempt to bring a post Star Trek SF series to TV. Ironicly it was a post-apocalypse series, which may be why it never got green lit.
THE OSIRIS CHRONICLES (aka Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy) - Had potetial. I actually reviewed this one a while ago ( http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-qzcEL...UA-?cq=1&p=164). Made it to air as a UPN movie. It's a post fall galactic civilization space opera that obviously inspired whoever did the retooling of the GENESIS II concept into ANDROMEDA.
ISLAND CITY - At least I think that's what it was called. The actor from Will and Grace was in this. He played a number of different CLONES. Alas this is yet another failed post-apoc series. The pilot made it to air as a UPN movie. |
KP -
I actually liked
Otherworld - it had it's good moments, but like all TV series, it had some weak ones as well. I always felt that it somewhat felt similar to
Fantastic Journey, which I also enjoyed. I wouldn't have minded either series getting more screen time to develop.
I never saw
Mercy Point or
Space Rangers - those shows were probably scheduled against something I already watched, by the time I got to them, they'd already been dropped.
Like you, I enjoyed the
Genesis II &
Planet Earth pilots - they seemed share a lot of Trek-isms in terms of story structure and characters, but I thought that they had potential. Too bad they never got that chance. I was actually disappointed when those concepts and characters were retooled in
Andromeda to a degree, which I just never latched onto.
I never saw the
Osiris Chronicles or
Island City, so I can't comment on those, but I'll have to see if there's anything of them to take a look at.
Bryan
