how come this mini series didnt become a full tv series?
i recently just watched it and i loved it and this has so much potenual to become a tv series why didnt they turn it into a full series it could have easily lasted 2 to 3 seasons.
shareHow could it last as a TV series? A story like this has to have an immediate end.
"The truth will set you free but first it's gonna piss you off!"
-My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
You have to be kidding right? Everything about this show, and the way it concluded is designed for it to be an ongoing series. There are one hundred Objects with powers just waiting to be revealed, there are shadowy cabals, one of which is now being led by a paradigm-shifting 'prophet', the main character now has mysterious powers, just waiting to be discovered, he is also on the run from the cabals. The room has revealed that it cannot be locked away and now the key is sitting there in the most frequently visited abandoned desert hotel in the universe, just waiting to be found.
Basically the only way this could have an ending is if one group or another eventually gets all the items back into the room and we find out what the result would actually be, or more likely the finale ep would involve finding a way to negate or destroy all the objects.
In conclusion, this show would have rocked, and rocked hard and could have lasted at least 2 or 3 seasons.
Not kidding. All the objects attract each other. A hunt for each would be pretty boring. Maybe it could have be prolonged to for a few more episodes before it
becomes a redundant gimmick but that's it.
It was conceived and made with a end and it was a satisfactory conclusion. No need to make any more episodes.
"The truth will set you free but first it's gonna piss you off!"
-My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
there was to many questions left unanswered it needs a series
shareI completely agree with you this should have been a full blown series. The goal (most series seem to have them)? Put all the objects back into the room. The result, time and the room reset. The room goes back to the exact moment it disappeared the occupant gets his life (and wife) back, and all the bad things that happened, don't.
shareThat would've been the most unimaginative ending to this show, if they made more series. That's even worse then the Battlestar Galactica ending!
I thought this was a good series and a nice ending. Not everything has to have everything explained and a closed ending.
Battlestar's ending was perfect.
shareThe goal of the show was never to find all the objects. Well not the goal of the main character that is. He was only trying to find his daughter, which he did at the end of the show. So why continue the show after he's found what he was looking for. Especially after it shows him closing the door with the key in the room to rid himself of it. They could have made some spinoff bs but those pretty much never turn out good.
shareI seriously doubt the series would've been about just collecting the objects, were it to continue. Joe's goal (as well as Jennifer's) would be to nullify the objects. The most likely way to do that would be to determine what the initial creation event was and try to undo that. Everyone was so focused on reattempting the Collector's experiment, but what they failed to comment on was; how did the Collector's know which objects to use? I suspect that would've been the first thing a continuing series would've focused on.
The earlier poster was quite accurate, this entire mini-series was designed to pilot a regular show. The ending was absolutely not an ending. It was only a chapter. Gruber's situation alone clearly states the intent of it's creators. Personally, I think it could've made for a brilliant planned run series (like how Lost was only supposed to run 5 seasons from the beginning).
The less a man makes declarative statements the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.
There's nothing to suggest that this was some epic failed TV pilot. That ending with the open door was just to make audiences think that there may not be any end in sight.
The protagonist's journey is over and let the rest of the world kill themselves trying to collect the objects.
Hey j-j-jaded
You got your mama's style but you're yesterday's child to me
So jaded
You'll notice I didn't even mention the open door to room 8. I don't think that was meant to literally indicate the room reopened right there, only that it would reopen somewhere and/or the key would find it's way back to someone.
But regardless, you're actually contradicting yourself. If Joe is now an object, and by extension objects are attracted to him, his journey is far from over. He saved his daughter, but their lives would still be forever affected by the room, the objects and other collectors. Either he's free, and his journey over, or he's an object with all that entails, and there's your series of 'boring' continuing stories.
You can ignore the entire last 10 minutes of the movie and it still doesn't change the fact that they clearly intended to either make a series, or have a follow-up mini series. Gruber's comment to Lee, as he left the hospital with Margaret, confirms that.
The less a man makes declarative statements the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.
To answer the initial question, this miniseries never became a full-blown TV series because it was always intended as that-a miniseries.
I forgot the comment but I doubt it was anything to suggest that the story-at least for the protagonist-is over.
Hey j-j-jaded
You got your mama's style but you're yesterday's child to me
So jaded
It was clearly intended as a backdoor pilot. If you watch is as an exercise in story development, you'll see what I mean.
What if a squirrel wants a sausage?
Whatever you say...
There's only one party worse than this: the Donner party-and they had better food!
Well, it's pretty much what everyone is saying, not just me, but thanks for the credit.
What if a squirrel wants a sausage?
Well a lot of people once said the Earth was flat so that really doesn't mean much. Especially when all you have to say is that it was 'clearly intended' as a backdoor pilot for no substantial reason.
There's only one party worse than this: the Donner party-and they had better food!
There's more substance to the reasoning behind this being a backdoor pilot than the substance to your reasoning it wasn't. Agree to differ.
What if a squirrel wants a sausage?
I don't see why at all but in the end, it doesn't really matter what any if us think now after all this time.
There's only one party worse than this: the Donner party-and they had better food!
Well a lot of people once said the Earth was flat so that really doesn't mean much.
Lol, what?!!!
I guess you've run out of a proper comeback.
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exactly, still cant figure what happened, probably something with or finance or producers, some kind of internal problem occurred....this tv show is classic example of potential to see 10 seasons easy, new objects, new rooms, new problems etc etc
shareSo much potential...
In a way, maybe it's better that it ended like it this, no dragging around like Prison Break after season 2... but I'd love to know what was the Event? What caused the Event? What do the other objects do? Some more back story on the collectors, the cabal, the legion, the occupant... easily enough material for one solid season, maybe two.