or another show Lexie invested her heart in DIED

Originally this post was going to be about all the books I’m looking forward to at the end of this month during Book Expo America (aka: Heaven is a place called BEA), however something occurred this evening (May 9th, 2011) that I can not allow to pass without mentioning.

Stargate Universe ended its two year run on SciFi SyFy.

I cried. I cried because the ending was…heartbreaking. I don’t want to say what happened, but if it was the end of the season I’d be desperately searching for spoilers. As the end of the series it put one of my favorite characters in a horrific position and I have no idea if that person gets out of it or not. And since I’m an obsessive sort I follow the producers/cast blogs, twitter and facebook accounts and news isn’t good. It seems SciFi SyFy decided to shelve the franchise for the time being and if it comes back, they’ll ‘reboot it’. There’s not even any talk of novels.

Sadly I’m used to this. And since misery loves company I’m bringing out the scifi/fantasy series that left me hanging, but in no particular order to the amount of heartbreak I received (I promise you, it was all significant though).

1) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (3 seasons, 1999-2002)

Oh this show…it has so little to do with the novel its based on it would be criminal, except I like it better then the novel because Roxton isn’t a jerk, Malone isn’t useless and Marguerite is awesome. Back in the day I wasn’t as internet savvy as I am now, so if a show wasn’t coming back I had no idea. And syndicated shows sucked even harder because they didn’t air on normal seasonal schedules–mostly during the summer months–so I’d have to wait a YEAR to find out, maybe longer.

For whatever financial reasoning the show didn’t come back for the fourth season – leaving everyone in the audience to wonder whether or not Veronica’s magical stone saved the day or not. Fortunately the producers/writers/creators were kind enough to publish a rough outline of several pages detailing their future plans for Season 4/5 via the internet.

2) The Tribe (5 seasons, 1999-2003)

This is an Aussie show, so I’ll forgive anyone who doesn’t know what the frak this is. It was my senior year obsession, culminating in spending a few thousand to attend Dragon*Con in 2003 to meet part of the cast. Its hokey and dramatic and campy at times, but utterly ridiculous fun. All the adults in the world are dead thanks to a virus so the teens of the land (Australia) go rather feral and begin to form ‘Tribes’. In which they wear silly clothing, make up and weird hair styles. The show focused on the ‘Mall Rats’ endeavours to bring peace and civilization back to the world.

The last episode had our intrepid heroes taking a boat to escape the crazies and hopefully find their lost friends. It was supposed to come back. And considering how I obsessively checked the message boards on the official site every single day and it never came back I’m justifiably upset.

3) Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman (4 seasons, 1993-1997)

Let me make something clear, from episode 1 till halfway through season 4 the only way I experienced this show was through my radio tuned to ABC. I listened to it like it was a radio drama in the 40’s. ‘Cause it was on past my bedtime. So I had no idea what anyone looked like. Or that they replaced Jimmy Olsen from season 2 onwards until I bought the DVD sets some eight or so years later.

They ended the series by tossing a baby on the doorstep for Lois and Clark to, presumably, raise. A baby wrapped in the S-Shield. It’s unknown if the baby is male or female, but I’d lay odds its female and that they name her Kara.

4) Legend of the Seeker (2 seasons, 2008-2010)

I suppose there’s a chance this will come back. And it technically didn’t end in a way that didn’t tie up most loose ends, but bear with me. Sword and sorcery fantasy epics based on books I never want to see (or read) again with hot guys in hot leather pants. Plus it was from the same creative minds of Xena and Hercules, I was in love.

So imagine my surprise when it wasn’t renewed! Frakking syndicated shows. And oh my it was a happy ending! Until Zeddicus the Depressingly Negative Wizard (of the First Order) ruined the happy sunny moment by saying that something even more evil was likely brewing and resting on their laurels was a bad idea. Cause heroes can’t be happy. Ever.

5) Witchblade (2 seasons, 2001-2002)

OH its on. Look, I wasn’t allowed to read this comic as a teen. My dad would buy it (and most other Michael Turner drawn comics) for me, but I was too young for the raciness of that outfit. So this show? Totally my only gateway to the bada$$ that is Sara Pezzini. Forgetting the ret-con job they did on the second season, because they backed themselves into a corner at the end of the first, this show had half its actors either dead, comatose or possessed at the end of season 2. The other half, who weren’t, were nearly worse then useless.

So of course the main star had a substance abuse problem and they couldn’t continue filming till she got help, which she didn’t until like a couple years ago so I’ll-never-get-more-of-this-show and I’m not bitter or anything, just don’t look under my bed where I may have a shoebox of angry letters streaked with tears.

I purposely didn’t include the following: Caprica, Farscape, or Firefly for two reasons 1) all three still cause me to sob. 2) There isn’t much I could say about any of those shows that hasn’t already been said in triplicate.