The Happy News thread

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

^ Oh my Gosh??!! KTR you bought all of Earth 2?

Well, it ran for just one season...

Guess who played Devon Adair's son?

Um, some kid actor? What, did he grow up to be famous or something?

[TPoptarts]

I got my Amazon gift certificate now what should I buy with it.

[Emberchyld]

Yay Earth 2!

It's sad that it ran for only one season, but when I found out the reason for the cancellation, I was glad. At least the show's writers/producers cared enough about the show to have it killed rather than turn it into a farce.

And I'm curious about the who played Uli, too!

[TPoptarts]

And I'm curious about the who played Uli, too!

Some dude named Joey Zimmerman

Never seen Earth 2.

[CX]

Why did they cancel it? I just thought it wasn't pulling in the ratings. I started watching back when it first aired, but to be honest I didn't find it all that interesting.

[JadziaKathryn]

I got my Amazon gift certificate now what should I buy with it.

That is happy news. As for what to buy, I don't know exactly, but if you buy used stuff it stretches the money.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Yay Earth 2!

It's sad that it ran for only one season, but when I found out the reason for the cancellation, I was glad. At least the show's writers/producers cared enough about the show to have it killed rather than turn it into a farce.

What was the reason? What farce?

To be honest, I think Earth 2 had a lot more potential than it delivered on. It was fairly enjoyable, but they should've done a lot more about how the new colony was created. Now they just kept wandering around.

Hey, there's an idea for a new science fiction show. A fairly realistic portrayal of how a human colony on a new planet is founded, grows and all their difficulties. It could even span many years, say a decade each season or something.

[Emberchyld]

E2 was cancelled because the execs at NBC wanted to take season 2 and totally mess up the premise... make it "better". Characters would have been added, characters would have been revamped, and their overall plans were bad. It wasn't cool/sexy enough. It forced people to thing. So they wanted to change it up, kind of like what they did to season 3 SeaQuest (because no one killed that show rather than let it turn into the blah that it became). E2 had okay ratings (and a fairly vocal fan base), so it was slated to continue, but NBC was riding high on their "Friends" success and thought that they could do no wrong.

I remember being really angry about it all until I found out the real reason for cancellation... and then I just got mad at NBC Dummies.

[evcake]

new beads from Ghana

[evcake]

:drool:

I'll send some in your Christmas package.

[TPoptarts]

[justTripn]

Hey, there's an idea for a new science fiction show. A fairly realistic portrayal of how a human colony on a new planet is founded, grows and all their difficulties. It could even span many years, say a decade each season or something.

Cool. I'd watch.

[evcake]

How about a Vulcan-Human colony? Linda can head up the writing team.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

E2 was cancelled because the execs at NBC wanted to take season 2 and totally mess up the premise... make it "better". Characters would have been added, characters would have been revamped, and their overall plans were bad. It wasn't cool/sexy enough. It forced people to thing. So they wanted to change it up, kind of like what they did to season 3 SeaQuest (because no one killed that show rather than let it turn into the blah that it became). E2 had okay ratings (and a fairly vocal fan base), so it was slated to continue, but NBC was riding high on their "Friends" success and thought that they could do no wrong.

I remember being really angry about it all until I found out the real reason for cancellation... and then I just got mad at NBC Dummies.

Gah! That sounds awful!

I got the DVDs today and just watched the pilot. It was better than I remembered it.

Some online searches told me that the actress who played the young girl died when she was around 20 or so! That's sad! And then the episodes on the DVDs are in a strange order, the same strange order as when the show original ran. Luckily I found a proper episode order list.

And I had almost forgotten that it had some pretty hot women too. Jessica Steen, Debrah Farentino, Rebecca Gayheart... I recall having a thing for Jessica Steen back then. She was also on some weird sci-fi show about future soldiers. I think it was one of J. Michael Straczynski's first attempts and it featured some early CGI. And Farentino is now on Eureka. She's aged extremely well...

[evcake]

I got my Amazon gift certificate now what should I buy with it.

Don't buy ENT season 2 - Santa has an extra. (Not wishing to be too familiar, but it would be nice to giveit a good home.)