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I really enjoyed Happy, and the ending was a little rushed. It's one of those classic shows that people seemed to like, but not enough people seemed to have watched to keep it going.

Alongside this, sugar versions of soft drinks in the UK. I have an intolerance to most popular artificial sweeteners, and as someone that likes fizzy sodas .y choices dropped significantly after cunting Jamie Oliver decided to ruin another thing I love.

The Stargate series. They should make Stargate Ancients.

Master and Commander should be several movies and an MMO game.

Bit of a deep cut, but Schmigadoon! was utterly brilliant and I wish they’d been given another season or three to explore more styles.

Jericho, I remember fans sent in tons of peanuts to the studio as a protest.

Carnivàle.

Anker Spirit X earphones.

For the longest time I thought a certain soda I used to drink growing up, Jones Soda, was discontinued until maybe a year or so ago. Found it in a store near where I live and am glad it still exists.

As for something that actually was discontinued/cancelled, my personal pick would probably be Batman Beyond because I really like the idea of the whole Batman of the future being a teenager who has help from an elderly Bruce Wayne and really like the show in general. I also absolutely love the theme song and animation that went with it.

PT. A horror game from Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro and from the Silent Hill series? Yes please

Camel Exotic Blend Cigarettes. Good times. cough COUGH ahhhh. Good times.

Sense8. We got a finale, but cramming 3 seasons into 2 hours showed.

The joyful wonder and whimsey that lived in my soul and twinkle that shone through my eyes, or at least I think it was there. It's now just a faint memory of a memory, something that I yearn for but unsure if I ever even tasted it.

I'm not a fast food person, but the McDonald's Arch Deluxe was amazing. I'd love to have one again. Also Pepsi Kona (coffee-flavored Pepsi) was really good.

I miss things having actual buttons instead of touchscreen - most commonly, car dashboards. But even my microwave's interface has a touchscreen feel. It's not an actual screen but the "buttons" don't need to be pressed so much as grazed, or sometimes my finger being near the button is enough to "press" it. So it ends up in a lot of false inputs that I have to clear out and start over. I have to be very deliberate which slows down my ability to use the stupid thing. And I mostly only use it as a kitchen timer, I can't imagine how annoyed I'd be if I used it more frequently!

So yeah, buttons.

10 cent Near beer, (NA beer today), available for us kids to buy on street vending machines.

Some of my best memories was being able to get into town in the evenings after all the chores were done and playing baseball with my friends on a hot summer evening. And when we were done, we would walk uptown to the one pop machine that had Hamms near beer in it. At 10 cents for a 12 oz bottle it was amazing. So cold and so refreshing.

People today would absolutely lose their minds over 9 or 10 kids standing around on a sidewalk drinking NA beer today.

Command & Conquer series as a whole, no releases in 4 years, the last new release was a mobile game in 2018, and the last proper new entry was 2012.

The fan community has (at least) two really high quality mods still undergoing active development, with an actual release in the last two years. Giving this series the Sonic Mania treatment would be incredible, and probably make EA a lot of money, but also is very unlike their usual business practices.

Raised By Wolves. Stargate Universe.

A bit of a weird one because it never actually came out, but I was really excited about the news that Michel Gondry was set to direct a film adaptation of Rudy Rucker's novel The Master of Space and Time. I really like both Gondry and Rucker, and their sensibilities would have worked really well together. The story is kind of a sci-fi three wishes fable. It's not my favorite of his--that's gotta be White Light--but it's really light-hearted and fun. And Gondry is terrific at getting bizarre, dream-like ideas onto film. I'm still bummed out that they cancelled that.

For something that actually did come out but then got cancelled, I enjoyed Disney's adaptation of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Then they threw that one down the memory hole for tax reasons, so there's no way to watch it anymore short of piracy. I feel like that shouldn't be allowed. Seems like they should add least have to provide the Library of Congress with a copy. It's weird that our cultural history can just be yanked away like that now.

The series that I really liked and wish it would have completed but ended up being canceled due to a writer strike was 'Pushing Up Daisy's' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925266/

Something I wish I'd bring back is the '90s style. Honestly so much was more interesting back then. All the colored gadgets, and the really cool ones where you could see sort of through the plastic see the components. Commercials were absolutely unhinged and wild. Things were just more fun and less formulaic. So many things today seem to have no real personality.

Hoy Fong Sriracha story is a hell of a ride, highly recommend checking out the wiki

The boondocks

Surge soda. They bring it back every once in a while but the demand isn't there.

Garbage Pail Kid cards.

The 4400 and Eureka

Stadia. It was so easy and reliable.

Jodorowsky's Dune.

The actual film, not the documentary.