Great Show, now gone... RIP

[Hugh Casey]

Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Fox has cancelled The Tick.

Damn. It never had a chance.



Hugh...

"Arthur, you're on a first name basis with lucidity, while I have to call him, "Mr. Lucidity"!"

--The Tick

[Captain Zymmer]

AARRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Why don't the mundanes get this show?

First we lost the cartoon and now we lose this one...crap.

Captain Liberty: Batmanuel must you always hide behind sex?

Batmanuel: I can't help it, it's so big.

sigh

[Phantom]

Guess I must be a mundane . Don't get it, never will. I caught about 5 min of the live action Tick about 2 months ago, it was all I could stand...Couldn't turn the channel fast enough.

The only good thing I have to say was the "acting" in the cartoon was better.

[Don Mappin]

Ditto.

Watched two full episodes.

Wish I had an address to request a refund of my time back. Will admit that I found Batmanuel pretty funny, though!

[Sawyer]

Well, I will admit, in public, that I enjoyed the Tick and am sorry to hear of its cancellation. I thought the humor was very funny. The very idea of superheroes going around in public having real lives was an interesting concept.

At least it wasn't some other so-called reality TV show. (gag)

[Liquidator Queeg]

That show couldn't die fast enough for me. My wife loves the Tick -- and enduring that tripe was real torture for me.

Steve

P.S. No particular offence intended to Tick fans.

[Owen E Oulton]

Seeing one still of the characters and finding out that they'd changed Die Fliedermaus to "Batmanuel" convinced me that the people who made this puppy were the ones who didn't get it. Not that I was really all that big a fan of the Tick in the first place - I mean, superheroes are so inherently silly in the first place that parodies lose some of their punch.

[Capt.Hunter]

"SPOON!!!"

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Loved the cartoon - never seen the live action.

[Captain Zymmer]

Originally posted by Owen E Oulton
Seeing one still of the characters and finding out that they'd changed Die Fliedermaus to "Batmanuel" convinced me that the people who made this puppy were the ones who didn't get it. Not that I was really all that big a fan of the Tick in the first place - I mean, superheroes are so inherently silly in the first place that parodies lose some of their punch.

Actually Ben Edlund was the creator, he couldn't use Die Fliedermaus and American Maid since they (and other characters from the cartoon) were owned by the company who made the cartoon and they wanted too much for the rights to the names.

It's a shame, the Terror was not one of them and was going to be in an upcoming episode.

It's just like the aborted Buckaroo Banzai series...Fox sees good ideas and then abandons them when they don't generate huge ratings or buzz.

Oh well.

54 channels and nothing on...

Andromeda, Earth Final Conflict and shows of that nature manage to survive when networks would have cancelled them. Syndicated TV is the only bastion of abundant "genre" programing.

There are always exceptions, like Buffy and Angel, but in the end most networks aren't willing to put a long range comitment into shows, to give them the time to find their audience...

Here's to hoping Smallville lasts...

[Sarge]

Oh, geez! I was just watching my Tick tapes last night. The writing was so over-the-top, it blew my mind. I have no idea how Patrick Warburton kept a straight face saying those lines.

"I am the sterling silver ladel of justice, pouring the creamy white of righteousness over the freshly picked juicy strawberries of crime."

[Owen E Oulton]

"I have no idea how Patrick Warburton kept a straight face saying those lines."

Like any other actor (well, except for Harvey Korman, who never bothered to keep a straight face...) - he just thinks of all those "0"'s on his paycheque.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Captain Zymmer

Andromeda, Earth Final Conflict and shows of that nature manage to survive when networks would have cancelled them. Syndicated TV is the only bastion of abundant "genre" programing.

Hey! I like Andromeda. However, you are right about Final Conflict.

I'm sorry, but what I saw of the Tick it was just too BAD to survive. Shudder.

[Atlirith]

EFC is an unfortunate example of what happens when producers lose track of the original point of a genre show. By the current season, EFC is so far removed from where it was going in season one that i remember reading in one of the sci-fi zines that even majel rodenbery walked away from the show. sadly for every EFC there are a dozen other genre shows that never get the chance to develop into something more than a pilot and perhaps six shows before they get axed for survivor: africa and weakest link.

Then again, shows with the trek title often last much longer than they should have -- voyager ran out of steam long before season seven and if it had been anything other than trek, would have been cancelled as early as season two, if it had made it that far. x-files, ugh, duchovny looked so bored even a year or two ago that i thought they he'd fall asleep on screen. the problem with that show is that carter never really knew where he wanted to go with the show, good lord, it's been years and years, just invade already! then again, if they did that x-files would become Dark Skies and look how long that one lasted....

some of the best genre series have been of very short duration or had a focused goal and ending already in mind -- the Prisoner, Babylon 5, the Dominion War arc in DS9...that's one of the things that worries me about Enterprise, seems that Braga and company really have no idea where they're going with the show, even to the point of not knowing who the factions of the temporal cold war are....ugh......

[Phantom]

Forgive my ignorance, but EFC???

[Atlirith]

EFC= Earth Final Conflict.