Thursday DE: Should’ve Done That

[bjornwilde]

What is a canon you wish had continued? 

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[bjornwilde]

Obviously, I wish Iron Fist and the other Netflix Defenders shows were continuing.

I wish "Tomorrow People" had more seasons. That cliffhanger made it all to evident they expected a third season.

With the reveal from the Avatar writer online a few days ago about Azula getting a redemption arc in a planned fourth season of A:tLA, I weep for what could have been.

I wish I had a Spider-Woman solo series, but I am happy she's in "Captain Marvel" and is doing spy things in the current "Captain America" story arc.

I wish "One Day At A Time" hadn't been canceled. That show is amazing.

I wish "Knights of Sidonia" had one more season and I wish "Tokyo Ravens" had another season as well. I think both could wrap up.

[splash_of_blue]

Well, there's the obvious answer... which is Firefly. (I occasionally play Zoe over at panfandomsandbox.)

In terms of the MCU, obviously there's no lack of canon there (or continuity!), but I do wish we could have had an Avengers movie with a stable team before Civil War. I loved CW and thought it got everything right that the comics got wrong, but I do think it would have had a lot more emotional weight if we'd had the chance to get attached to the Avengers team that it starts with before breaking them apart.

(I also want one - just one - movie in which Steve and Bucky get to be friends all the way through. Without either getting killed off. *sighs*)

Nextwave, though. (Again, I play Elsa Bloodstone in PFSB occasionally.) Goddamn, I wish we had more of that thing. <3

This is also an occupational hazard with almost any canon based on a British TV show (that isn't a soap). Short and sweet, sweet sorrow, basically.

Overall, though, I've been pretty lucky - most of my canons which stopped abruptly, like Bletchley Circle or Runaways, have eventually been continued in some form or other.

[bjornwilde]

Oh man, I'd love another volume of NExtwave, even if it wasn't canon to the rest of Earth 616.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

It would have been nice if there had been a Knights of the Old Republic III. I've seen people try to claim that The Old Republic functions as the third game in the series, but it doesn't -- it's really its own thing, that just happens to be set in the same general era. It's a thing I enjoy, although my attempts to play it were cut short by my computer's lack of processing power, but I would also like a single-player sequel to the KOTOR games.

(There is next to no chance of that happening, given how EA has been screwing up with both the Star Wars license and with Bioware.)

I occasionally get a pang of sorrow that Almost Human never got a second series. It wasn't the best show on television, but I liked it nonetheless.

Similarly, it's a little sad that Psycho-Pass never got a second series! Because it didn't. It didn't get a second series. It didn't. I can see why, because it was kind of a standalone story, but still, it's a shame that it never, ever got a second series. Maybe Psycho-Pass S2 would've been really good! But we'll never know, because it does not exist.

For a slightly odd one, in that it is getting a continuation but it's also sort of not: Digimon Adventure Tri. It is getting a sequel, Digimon Adventure 04 is meant to come out next year, but 04 doesn't look like it's going to try to wrap up any of the plot threads left dangling by Tri, even though several of them -- Evil Gennai, for starters, and what his plans are with Demon and Diablomon -- rather pressingly need wrapping up in some form.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

OH I ALMOST FORGOT

Final Fantasy XV. In theory, should've been complete on release. It wasn't, and there was a roadmap for completing it in DLCs -- which then got unceremoniously cut short just over halfway through when the lead developer resigned. I would kill to see that actually completed in the format it was intended to be in.

[omgplsstop]

Sif’s run of Journey into Mystery getting cancelled was a crime. Everything about it was lovely, but it wasn’t brining in Loki numbers so it only lasted a few months.

[bjornwilde]

Was that the one where Sif was teamed up with Beta-Ray and they were questing in space or something?

[I've always loved Sif with Beta-Ray, much better than Sif & Thor]

[cottoncandypink]

That was a plotline in the run, yeah. It was only like, two or three issues though.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name. The creator didn't drop off the face of the earth like a lot of 2000s webcomic creators who stopped updating, but he's long since moved on to other projects so I'm not holding out any hope of it coming back.

[childofrebellion]

Diana Wynne Jones' Magid series, I wanted to know more of what happened to Nick and Maree.

Leverage, the ending was great, that was a show that ended on a great note. They pretty much treated every season end as if it might be the series end, but oh what a fantastic world.

I kind of wish that Mercedes Lackey had focused more on different characters in her Elemental Masters series as it went from an interesting world to magical Sherlock Holmes series.

[irish_vagabond]

Just announced today that Preacher is ending with its fourth season this year. So now, technically, I wish it could continue. There is SO much source material to draw from, two or three seasons more, and I don't know how they'll wrap it up in only ten episodes. I'm disappointed and a little heartbroken at the moment because I've come to really love the TV incarnation of these characters. Especially Cassidy, obviously. And if we don't get his origin story, I will be sorely disappointed.