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Cancelling a show without an ending is fraud!! I feel defrauded.


I started watching this because it's on Sky On Demand Box sets. And I really love it - I love sci fi, and although it's not as good as Fringe, this kind of reminded me of it and it got me hooked. So I looked it up to see how many seasons there were, and was really disappointed to find out it got cancelled!

It's so rude of abc to sell this to Sky, or to anyone, given that it's an unfinished product. It's like being in the middle of making a really nice pair of jeans, and lots of people say, wow those jeans look like they're going to be amazing, and then just making one leg, and selling that one leg to people as if it's a great pair of jeans, but then when they put them on they're half naked.

It's not fair to sell only part of a story! It's like selling people only the first 45 minutes of a movie, or only the first 20 pages of a novel because you thought it would cost you too much to make the rest of the film or print the extra pages. Even if you can't afford to make another whole season because ratings are low, at least make sure you do an extra couple of episodes to tie the story up. Otherwise you're a fraud, promising to sell people a story when you're not -every one knows that every story must have a beginning middle and end.

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I totally agree.They should be fine...It's too clear that the purpose was to make money and not bring something to the audience

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I too agree, it's such a shame that this and many other shows that have great story potential to just be cancelled and not have a proper conclusion.

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If I remember right ? Wasn't this show aired around the time of the writers strike ? If so, a lot of good shows got canceled at that time.
Flashforward was a fantastic series and its a bummer they didn't continue . ABC is notorious for killing off shows before their time.

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