Conversation

Poll: Which is worse? (1) The show gets canceled before the story's done and the final season ends on a cliffhanger. (2) The show is planning to wrap up at the end of a season, but then they get extended so the season ends weird and then the entire next season is foot-dragging

(1) is worse
44.1%
(2) is worse
55.9%

687 votesFinal results

This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more

Replying to

and

I don't think that fits into (2). They largely wrapped things up in season 8 because they weren't sure if the show would be continued. I think that's less odd than their usual approach of ending on a cliffhanger and wrapping it up in the first 1-3 episodes of the next season.

This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more

Replying to

and

It's not unusual for a show to keep being extended, especially when it's not a show where things were planned out much in advance. It's from a different era of TV. The seasons have more than 20 episodes and it's largely episodic content. It literally has recap clip show episodes.

Replying to

and

Season 8 was the only time where they didn't really have enough notice to set things up to be continued in the next season. It's one reason for season 8 feeling like the conclusion of the original show and seasons 9 / 10 being a different show. I don't think it's the main reason.

12:40 AM · Oct 17, 2021Twitter Web App

Replying to

and

Richard Dean Anderson moving to LA to be with his daughter, Don S. Davis moving on and Farscape being cancelled led to the major cast changes. Combined with how they'd wrapped things up in season 8, they just decided they wanted to do things differently as basically a new show.

Replying to

and

I don't think it qualifies as (2) because they wrapped things up nicely and then decided to produce what was essentially a spin-off series as the last 2 seasons. Most of the fans liked it and there's not much they could do about the fan favorite actor choosing family over work.