Flash Gordan (May Contain Spoliers)

Geekyfanboy · August 17, 2007, 10:17:09 PM

Sorry about that.. I added Spolier tag to this thread.. but if a new episode aired today.. why would you click on the thread if you haven't seen it yet? :confused

Locutus · August 18, 2007, 01:48:23 AM

I learned it from YOU, DAD! OK, I learned it from YOU!

darthcooley · August 19, 2007, 02:21:52 PM

I don't think I can bring my self to watch episode 2 after the first was so lame. I really wanted to enjoy this show

Dan M · August 19, 2007, 04:13:10 PM

I think I'm with darthcooley. My wife and I watched the premiere episode last night and I didn't like it at all.

Geekyfanboy · August 19, 2007, 06:51:21 PM

You also got to remember it was the pilot... pilots are shot months and months before the series gets the go ahead.. characters change, stories are refined... I would watch the second episode and if you don't like it.. then give it up.

Rico · August 20, 2007, 04:47:49 AM

I watched episode 2. Still not the greatest show but it has a campy appeal. I'll watch a few more.

billybob476 · August 20, 2007, 05:24:52 AM

Quote from: StarTrekFanatic5 on August 19, 2007, 06:51:21 PM
You also got to remember it was the pilot... pilots are shot months and months before the series gets the go ahead.. characters change, stories are refined... I would watch the second episode and if you don't like it.. then give it up.

Still first impressions are important. Most people don't have a lot of free time so if a show doesn't capture them right away it's hard to give them a second chance. I didn't get a chance to see the show but now I'm not horribly motivated to see it.

Geekyfanboy · March 31, 2008, 08:03:59 AM

Well this is the first time that I'm actually happy that a network cancelled a tv series.. even a sci fi one.

A FLASH in the Pan!

Written by: Tim J. Mapes (SoSF Contributor)

Finally, it looks like everyone can say goodbye to what some critics have called one of the worst SF television shows to come along in quite so time. SCI FI Channel's "Flash Gordon" is history, according to Variety.

While no formal announcement has come from the NBC Universal owned cable franchise, Flash is nowhere to be found on the network's upcoming schedule now or in the distant future.

SCI FI Channel president David Howe told trade publication Variety back on March 21 that the network didn't treat the character of "Flash Gordon" the way he should've been treated, and the network may try to do it again sometime ... just not right now,".... which reading between the lines means that "Flash Gordon" is no longer on the schedule.

Even with the introduction of Howe to SCI FI Channel viewers, who reports to longtime chief Bonnie Hammer, it appears that the network still doesn't seem to think it's worth giving the official announcement on different shows in its program lineup.

Exactly the same kind if dismissal occured with fan favorite "The Dresden Files." One minute fans get the official announcement that the show is changing shooting locations in Canada to help defer production costs, and the next thing they know, the show is gone from SCI FI's schedule. Even after month's of a letter and drumstick campaign no progress has been made on getting that show back, and it was a good one....so for the few fans of the "Flash Gordon" series? Fo-getta-bout-it! Since SCIFI's abrupt and rude decision to cancel "Dresden," Paul Blackthorne, the star of the series, has moved on to other projects.

SyFy Portal reported through sources last September that "Flash Gordon" was on the chopping block. However, the SCI FI Channel responded officially to the online site that the series was not in trouble, and that while ratings were below expectations, the show's production was a lot cheaper than many of its other scripted series and that it didn't need to generate as much advertising revenue as shows like "Battlestar Galactica," "Eureka" and "Stargate: Atlantis" needed.

A month later, SCI FI Channel offered a conference call to reporters, with executive producer Peter Hume, who admitted that some storyline changes were taking place, including more action on Mongo instead of Earth, but that the cast and crew were confident that the SCI FI Channel was standing behind the series.

"You can't compare us to 'Battlestar Galactica.' That's not fair," Hume said at the time. "It's not fair because you're going to judge a show on the show. And so you could compare us to 'Chuck' [on NBC], but what we're doing is with so much less than they have. I'm not asking for that as an excuse. I'm just saying that there's a reality of what we have to operate in and there's only so much visual effects we can do."

"Flash Gordon" starred Eric Johnson as the title character, John Ralston, Gina Holden, Jody Racicot and fan favorite Karen Cliche. It was filmed in Aldergrove, British Columbia, just south of Vancouver where the SCI FI Channel films many of its other series including "Battlestar Galactica" and "Stargate: Atlantis," and where its new backdoor pilot "Caprica" will be filmed this summer.

sheldor · March 31, 2008, 08:21:34 AM

And the peasants...rejoice.

X · March 31, 2008, 08:45:21 AM

WOW! I am so upset right now! This was one of the best shows on television and yet again they just pull the rug from under us. My wife and I have watched this show faithfully since it first debuted and loved every moment of it.

How dare they cancel it! How dare they take away the sci-fi joy that is ... umm ... this isn't the 4400 thread is it?

Sorry ...

Wrong righteous fury ...

Flash Gordon? Umm I'm glad they finally put it out of its misery. Worst Show Ever. It was like that took everything that made BSG good and tossed it out of an airlock and then focused on the things that didn't work on any show that was ever shown.

Locutus · March 31, 2008, 10:47:47 AM

I watched the first two episodes.

I think you can see by my comments above that I called this one pretty early on.

Worst.
Show.
Ever.

Rico · March 31, 2008, 11:24:50 AM

Was this still even on?