28 Nov 2007, Posted by Cat in News, 17 Comments. Tagged surface, tv
SURFACE
Watched the last episode of Surface last night. By ‘last’ I mean the last episode made and screened rather than the final episode planned because the damn show was cancelled before it was done. Man, does this habit of canning quality shows mid run ever shit me off. Surface rocked. It ticked a whole bunch of boxes: drama, action, interesting characters, cool spfx, giant aquatic lizards… can somebody tell me what was not to like about it? We were watching it in blocks – several episodes a night, which we never do, because it was so damn riveting. And just when the apocalypse kicks in… Whoever threw the switch on this show… I’d just like to tell you that I hate your guts.
17 Comments
November 27, 2007 10:45 pm
murasaki_1966
Whoever cancelled it was probably the moron that pulled the plug on Deadwood.
November 27 2007 23:00 pm
Cat @
Yeah, maybe
November 27 2007 23:39 pm
jack_ryder @
Completely different network.
Surface came out at the same time as Invasion (as part of the Lost clones) and suffered the same fate.
Both Surface and Invasion tried for season long arcs, only to suffer low ratings and get cancelled.
Deadwood was on a cable network (hence the wall-to-wall profanity) and at least got to a third season.
November 27 2007 23:50 pm
angriest @
Deadwood got the plug pulled because it was too expensive. Surface got the plug pulled because nobody watched it.
November 27, 2007 11:50 pm
nick_kaufmann
I canceled it! Mwahahahahahaha!
Invasion, mentioned above, wasn’t bad, and at least it lasted a full season so there was some semblance of closure.
November 27 2007 23:52 pm
Cat @
Yeah, I suspected it was your fault somehow. You bastard!
November 27, 2007 11:57 pm
angriest
I adored Surface, and was so annoyed that it didn’t find a mainstream audience. It was like watching a weekly serialised Spielberg movie.
November 28 2007 00:00 am
Cat @
Agreed. It kept on surprising me.It was so much better than I expected.
November 28, 2007 6:08 am
strangedave
Surface was nifty.
I wish networks would plan to give the viewer at least some sense of closure when they know they are likely to cancel a show.
Posting your comment...
Leave A Comment