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osprey_archer ([personal profile] osprey_archer) wrote2013-06-16 12:02 am

Resurrected TV Shows

Have been watching Arrested Development’s new season on Netflix. So far I’ve been enjoying it, although inevitably - Arrested Development being Arrested Development - there are moments that make me cringe. I found the whole first episode painful: Michael living in his son George Michael’s dorm room, apparently unable to understand that his son might not like this invasion of his privacy, and George Michael, who is used to shouldering his father’s emotional needs, unable to tell him.

It gets less painful and more funny after that, but it’s a rough first episode.

But I have to say, for me the most exciting thing about Netflix's resurrection of Arrested Development is the hope that they'll pick up other much-loved and maliciously-canceled TV shows. Veronica Mars, season 4, using the movie as a jumping off point for grown-up Veronica!

Not sure about this, on second thought. A reunion is the perfect excuse to get all our favorite characters back together for a movie, but there’s really no easy way to get most of them in town for a whole new TV season. Unless, like, they’re all still in Neptune. And I kind of hope Veronica has escaped Neptune by now. Maybe she, Logan, Mac, and Wallace have an apartment in...San Francisco or something?

(Speaking of the movie! My brother - we went halfsies on the kickstarter, so he gets all the newest VM news - says they’ve definitely signed Mac & Wallace. Yesssss.)

But back to Netflix shows: they could bring back everyone's favorite unjustly canceled show, Firefly! Though it's hard to know where it would go now that the big overarching mystery has been tied up in a bow. Although if we get to see Inara get it through to Mal that no really, you need to respect my boundaries, I have a cattle prod, that would be something.

And finally, in cloud-cuckoo land I would want a Wonderfalls resurrection- it deserves at least a proper ending! But I suspect that's too obscure and also has been off the air too long for its resurrection to be realistic. But maybe Pushing Daisies...that was only canceled a couple years ago, and it ran a respectable two seasons. The further adventures of Ned and Chuck (and Olive and Emerson) - that might be a possibility.
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[personal profile] silverusagi 2013-06-16 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Even though it only got two seasons, Pushing Daisies had a pretty nice ending.

I've been meaning to watch Wonderfalls.

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2013-06-16 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I like Wonderfalls a lot! Jaye, the main character, took a couple episodes to grow on me, because she can be very abrasive, but by the end I adored her.

[identity profile] entwashian.livejournal.com 2013-06-16 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
SOOO MANY PEOPLE ARE COMING BACK FOR VERONICA MARS.

V, Logan, Wallace, Dick, Weevil, Mac, Papa Mars, Piz, Cliff, Madison, Corny, Deputy Sacks, Luke & Sean (09ers from S1).

You can check out the announcement videos that some of the main cast members did on the VMmovie YouTube account (https://www.youtube.com/user/veronicamarsmovie). Doooon't miss Ryan Hansen's (http://youtu.be/ADKKZA5twgI).

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
OMG IT'S DICK CASABLANCAS, ROCK STAR.

Actually, that seems scarily like a career move Dick would actually make. He's already got the partying down!

[identity profile] entwashian.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
ALSO GIA. How could I forget Gia?!

A total Dick move. XD OMG one time Ryan Hansen did a backflip on the stage at Comic Con, and then at a different event, I had him autograph a print of a photo I'd taken @ Comic Con, and he told me he was worried he'd fall off the stage during, and I just.... IF THAT IS AT ALL A CONCERN, PLEASE DON'T DO THE BACK FLIP!!!!