A Crime Against Television - RTOTD #837

Day 837

Do you know what was a travesty? When In Living Color went off the air. That show was fucking AWESOME. And what did we get to replace it? A couple seasons of MAD TV (which was complete shit) and the typical up and down Saturday Night Live that is good for about 2 seasons before the entire cast quits to become movie and sitcom stars, and a replacement cast that sucks for 5 years until they get good for 2 before all quitting again. Fuck That Shit. Homie The Clown, Firemarshall Bill, the motherfucking Jackalope. Yeah. That show was just filled with awesome.

So what brings up a topic:

Excluding Firefly (which was brilliant but is always mentioned), which show was it a borderline crime to remove from the air that you would take back in a heartbeat?

I'll go first:

Twin Peaks - It was great and I really wish we would have gotten a 3rd season at least to deal with the cliffhanger ending to season 2. I don't consider Fire Walk With Me to be a resolution to the end of that show.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Dude, John Connor ended up in the future war without a fucking clue what was going on and nobody knew who he was becaue he disappeared from the past when he was like 16 and never became "John Connor: Leader Of The Resistance" general guy. Plus, there was 2 Skynets and one was good and trying to stop the war and side with the humans? And the chick from Garbage was a good T-1000 kinda sorta? There was so much awesome world-building in this show that it is a crime that it went off the air.

Dollhouse - Just because I wanted to see how the weird future brain war thing happened and how the world got better or if it got better and how you deal with tech that is that out of control to prevent it from happening again. It's like gun control where you can't really put the genie back in the bottle and how do you stop people from hijacking brains and shit in the future even if you save the world now? The tech exists. The ways to make the tech exists. How do you deal with that?

Headbangers Ball - Because well... MTV showing music? MTV showing (mostly) good music? Yeah. How did this not happen yet? Because MTV doesn't give a fuck about music, that's why. But I know I'm not really being even remotely original at this point.

Any tv show ever (other than Hee Haw) that prevents us from getting another bullshit reality TV show with obnoxious people that I want to stab in the face.