Odyssey 5 why cancelled

He then sends consciousnesses of the five surviving crew-members back in time five years to determine what caused the catastrophe and try to stop it from happening again. Why It Stands Out: This show had a fascinating premise and an excellent cast and could have turned into a true sci fi classic if given more of a chance. One of the few great time-travel series that explored the implications of altering the past while also introducing many hard sci fi elements to its stories.

These shows took advantage of the lack of network censorship by upping the sex, violence, and bad language, but they also delivered strong writing, excellent casts, and some damn good genre entries. Odyssey 5 was heaviest on the science fiction elements and actually delivered a rare hard sci fi TV show. It also veered into cyberpunk and some interesting AI themes with the cyber aliens known as Sentients who are apparently responsible for the destruction of the Earth.

The show mixed plenty of science with its fiction, but never at the expense of the story as it delivered good drama as well. But the other three leads were more than up to the task of holding their own next to the competing pair of alpha males.

The show did start to feel like it was treading water a bit as the season progressed and would have benefited from the modern format of shorter, more-focused seasons of tens eps or so. And it did have a few leaps of logic in its story-telling, but nothing that grinds it down too much Sadly it ends with little in the way of resolution as the final episode leaves the audience on a cliffhanger with almost nothing in the way of closure.

But even knowing that, this one is worth the watch as an excellent science fiction series with a ton of potential, and one of the best to deal with time travel. Biddi biddi biddi, oh Buck! Debuting in the novella Armageddon A. I'd like to take a minute just sit right there, I'll tell you how I become the prince of a town called Bel Air. Premiering on Well looky looky, what do we have here? Premiering on August 29th , the first season of Prison Break performed exceptionally wel Great show, totally wild mind-blowing concepts.

How do you top the opener? Earth gets destroyed, a handful of humans of left in the space shuttle. Would seriously like to know what those virus-like AI nanobot things are that emerge from the moon rocks at the end of the last episode.

They seem to target the synthetic humans created by the AI. Darn shame the show never got more seasons. I like how the story gives everyone a second chance to make things right. Its interesting to consider if we go back in time would we make the same choices and what is the nature of fate. If not a full 5 seasons how about 5 Big screen movies sequenced over the next 5 years. Starting from where season 1 left off. Take a good look at the star trek franchise and how it developed.

We are living in end of days. Earth will not be destroyed but split. You choose. I still wish Manny would at least give us the story, since clearly a resumption is now going to be impossible. This show was so good :. I always thought that Dr. Okay the idea is not new, you could call Odyssey 5 the thinking mans back to the future.

And the beings that look like humans are not new either but the stories are original and we are faced with the human dilemma of knowing that something is going to happen and whether you should go along with it or change it thus altering the time line. And there are lots of human reasons why the time line is altered. Odyssey 5 is heavy while another excellent show cancelled before its time Firefly is light. Having said this both of these shows could exist together and both were worth and least three series at the very least.

I can only assume that because Star Trek had finished the powers at be decided that the public had run out of love with the sci-fi genre. Absolute rubbish, the latest Star Trek failed because they went back in time when they should have gone forward. Please how can you have the first Enterprise looking more technological than the Captain Kirk Enterprise?

Anyway back to Odyssey 5, this is a good thinking man sci-fi that does not rely on funky looking aliens that just happen to speak perfect English. Odyssey 5 has good story lines a good acting cast and should have run and run and run. I managed to get the whole series on DVD at a price that equates to 76 pence per episode and after watching 17 of the 21 episodes, this is a mega bargain!!!!.

Furthermore I will be writing to Sony television expressing my disgust that such an excellent show was cancelled. This is a great premise with shades of Planet of the Apes. I was going to criticise it for being almost exactly the same as Threshold, until I realised this came first. It's shocking that the other show is so derivative of such an unusual and central plot theme aliens reprogramming humans on a genetic level to do their bidding - now who's reprogrammed and who isn't.

Odyssey started with such fantastic promise and a real visceral scene as the Earth gets destroyed. But within minutes of that real high point, things start to fall apart. The characters discover that they have 3 hours air left - they struggle to extend that to 9 hours, then do absolutely nothing with those 9 hours. This is a perfect example of the kind of shockingly lazy writing that is only interested in getting from a to b without any care about the gaping plot holes that the journey creates.

As the only 5 people on the planet who know that it will be destroyed in 5 years, do these intrepid and reputable heroes start by trying to alert anyone?

Amazing though their story is, it's actually pretty easy to prove - all they have to do is predict a few events and people will start paying attention fast. Nope, they run around trying to figure it all out themselves, arguing with family, trying to make money by betting, and generally being a bunch of selfish idiots.

And wouldn't you know it, the gene reprogramming lab happens to be within a few minutes easy drive from their houses. And conveniently, important key events all start to happen very visibly mere days after their arrival.

This degree of laziness makes it challenging to endure, and knowing that things have not been resolved, or the earth saved by the end of the series, which was not picked up for a second season, makes watching it a pointless and uniquely frustrating experience.

The actors do a great job with a lousy, cheesy, badly written script. How I despaired when when I learnt this had been cancelled. Not just a stupid decision, but criminal in my opinion. The one and only season had more good Sci Fi concepts than many shows have over their entire run. The characters were excellent and didn't just shrug off personally devastating events, there'd be consequences for episodes to come.

There were long running story arcs, like Heroes and the new Battlestar Galactica. This was the first of the recent run of 'adult orientated' Sci Fi. There was intrigue, tertiary characters weren't always what they appeared to be. Some have been put off by the amount of swearing, but this just added to the realistic feel for me.

Come on, which is worse, cuss words or deplorable violence? Interesting and original plots, or a bunch of military types running around 'alien' woods shooting posturing bad guys with automatic weapons?

Since this is mostly set on contemporary Earth there's an X-Files feel, but Odyssey 5 is way better. X-Files is fantasy, Odyssey 5 true Science Fiction. I doubt there'll ever be anything better within the genre in my lifetime. I can't recommend this highly enough to the intelligent viewer. Get the series on DVD, but be prepared for frustration and anger over the way it ends.

Manny Coto, I salute and thank you. When I saw this one on sale at my favorite DVD shop, I did some research and found it to be a canceled and b rated to be a top of the tops show, so I found out I'd take a chance and added it to my collection.

The series hit me like a ton of bricks. For one, they actually had RUDE comments to each other and they dared using f-words! This made the dialog fresh, real and very funny.

Dialog, generally, in the show is well, was intelligent. The actors is a chapter by itself. One other thing about the show that I like is the fact that the episodes are interconnected in such a way that they tell a story, and not like, say, Star Trek Enterprise, where every episode is yet another travel in any arbitrary direction and you can see the episode totally as a standalone.

O5 is more like the later seasons of Stargate SG You'd better pay attention or you will miss something. Some guy or committee at Showtime found out that "No, we don't want this", so it got canceled after season 1 finished.

Too bad and actually for GOOD sci-fi, a disaster. Odyssey 5 was probably THE best series in this category, and they canceled it. I can only suggest that people reading this that love the show, go over to Manny Coto's fan site address on his IMDb profile and register their opinions in the forum, so that Mr. I'm astounded at the number of people who describe this as the best scifi they've ever seen - if that's the case, then god help the whole genre.

I just finished watching the "complete" series on DVD. First the good points: the characters are well written, the dialogue is thankfully excellent because it's a real let down in many shows , the cast are great, and a special mention to the incidental music.

It's one of the best scores I've heard and I think Laura Karpman is a genius. The bad points: it is not, as others might have you believe, highly original. In very general terms, the "aliens among us" type of story is one of the oldest of scifi themes, and has been around since the early 20th century.

More specifically, the show takes a great deal from "The X Files": they've just changed the shadowy secret organisation within the Government to the shadowy secret organisation within NASA, changed "aliens" to "sentients" and Mulder and Scully to the Odyssey 5 crew. But to describe it as a "complete" series is unfortunate.

The DVD release may comprise all the episodes that were filmed, but it is far from the whole story.