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Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?

Hard mode: no The Walking Dead

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[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The expanse (the novels). Time jumps in sci-fi are hard to do right. The show had the good sense to end it before the time jump, but they still had to put in admiral Duterte and MCR II (Laconia) in the final season with little to no follow-up because that was in the books

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I know it will probably never happen but I find it fun to think they could do a time jump IRL, do a new season after years so everyone is literally older

[–] exscape@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] wjrii@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Without adding any details, the last three jump ~30, ~5, and ~1. The thirty makes the world-building they wanted to do more sensible, and underlines that this is the start of something pretty different and final, but contrary to @nxfsi, I think it was handled fairly well.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Between book 6 and 7 is 28 years.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time jumps in sci-fi are hard to do right.

Haven't read The Expanse, but I know a lot of people who read Dune bailed when God Emperor jumped ahead over three thousand years.

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was confused as hell and then I realized you were talking about a different series.

Yeah, Dune series is insane. Tho, only God Emperor got that absurd time jump (3500 years with the prequel and 1500 years with the sequel). The other parts only got a few decades at most in between.

The games Nier Replicant and Nier Automata got about nine thousand years between each other.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Nier Replicant got prologue set in the year 2050s, and the main part in 3400s. Nier Automata is set on 12000s.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ah. I was trying to make an over 9000 meme reference.