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Stumbled on a TV show from 2011 that only got 1 season on Syfy
Honestly I was scrolling through old streaming lists last week and found this show called Alphas. It was about people with superpowers but not like superheroes, more like brain stuff and sensory things. I binged all 11 episodes in like 3 days. The problem was it ended on this huge cliffhanger about a character named Stanton and I got so mad because there was zero closure. I went down a rabbit hole and found out the creator posted a 3 page outline online for season 2 that they never got to film. That little trick of searching for writer interviews actually worked for me. Has anyone else found hidden season plans for a canceled show that way?
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max_ramirez4820d ago
That's funny you mention the writer interviews thing because I tried that with Terra Nova after it got canned and found out the showrunner wanted season 2 to be about the kids from the future coming back to warn everyone about some bigger threat. But the real kicker was reading a random podcast transcript where one of the producers mentioned they had already built a full set for a second time travel gate that never got used. Syfy just didn't want to pay for the special effects budget since the pilot cost like 4 million dollars or something. It's wild how much stuff gets planned out months before the network even decides to pull the plug.
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oliver_anderson20d ago
That 4 million dollar pilot set still haunts my DVR.
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jesse29020d ago
Yeah, that 4 million dollar set thing is basically Syfy's way of saying "we changed our minds" while the showrunners are left holding a very expensive receipt. Finding that podcast transcript must have been like discovering buried treasure, except the treasure is a blueprint for a show that got murdered before it could walk. At least we know now that the second time travel gate was probably more expensive than the network's entire caffeine budget for the month.
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