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Seth Is there an argument for the joeyxrachael relationship on friends, they were an item during the final ep on a season but broke up between seasons. I always thought that was because the Rossx Rachel shippers hated it.
Whogus The Whatsler: Joey and Rachel didn't break up between seasons. They kissed at the end of season nine, then at the beginning of season ten they decided they'd see how Ross felt and then go for it. Then when they went for it they found their was no real sexual chemistry. So it was a surprisingly quick, three-episode dispatch of a sexual tension which had been hanging around for like a season and a half, but it was hardly between seasons.
(Yeah, I know the plot that well. I loathe myself. Whoops, that last sentence was a Chandler quote! I need help!)
Ayalaof Borg: The Sliders "example" isn't. They didn't actually reach the future, they simply slid into a world that had a higher technology than our / their world(s). Think the Tollan on Star Gate SG-1. The next season then talked about Quinn and Maggie sliding to n worlds, before being able to fix the timer. And no, I don't know whether I'll bother buying the fourth season or not, having the previous three. Neither is the Charmed one. The Gathering storm referred to the Avatars.
Listen 2 Reason: I believe this example is incorrect. "The entire massive space war that the series had been building up to for the past three and a half years was suddenly truncated to a few battles, a "Get the hell out of our galaxy", and a "last" episode of Flash Forwards when the series was prematurely ended... and then it was Uncanceled and we got a fifth season of exciting postwar cleanups and filler." If you read some of the books published about Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski wasn't really interested in going on and on with a huge war. One thing I recall him saying (I need to go back and find specific references for this) was "It was always about the building to the war, the war, and the aftermath of the war". He was rather disdainful of people who wanted to see CG ships blowing each other up; he wanted to get the war out of the way so he could do other interesting stuff. So, while in a sense everything had led up to the war, it wasn't like the entire POINT of the series was to get to this one event and milk it. It was just one more stop along the entire journey of the series. And about the rest...It's true that the final episode of the fourth season was rushed because of the canceling/uncanceling, but personally I wouldn't say anything was truly "aborted" there.
Bring The Noise - Cut:
- Doyle in Angel handing over his psychic episode-generating abilities to Cordelia when the actor left the show is another example of a reassigned aborted arc.
Josiah Rowe: Is the example from The X-Files — I Want to Believe really an example of this trope? It seems to me like that's more a case in which a) the story takes an unexpected left turn, and b) the trailers and publicity were somewhat misleading. (There are probably TV Tropes names for these cases, but since I'm fairly new here I don't know what they are.) As I understand it, this trope is supposed to be about cases in which authorial plans were abandoned for whatever reason; I haven't heard that Chris Carter intended the movie to focus more on the Father Joe character than it eventually did. (Now, it's possible that he did indeed intend that, and I just haven't heard about it; but in that case, the trope should probably explain why he moved away from that plan.)
