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<blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 165537" data-attributes="member: 606">Revenge had so many great characters, plots &amp; arcs but was the victim of execs being far too full of themselves. Instead of a planned run of 3 short seasons, it&#039;s early ratings success made execs turn it into a show that ran for 6 months rather than 10 weeks, to the extend that creator Mike Kelley walked away and plunged the show into non direction and ultimately lost fans.Season 1 was epic, season 2 had no direction what-so-ever and was hugely frustrating, season 3 tried to be clever again but generally failed. It should really have ended there, but hey, we got season 4 anyway, ending the show on a whimper.That said, over the 4 seasons there were some brilliant twists and turns, how wonderful it would have been without all those added episodes of padding.I&#039;d certainly love to see Mike Kelley&#039;s Revenge as originally intended - 3 10 episode seasons with a solid story, full character arcs and ending.Again - the execs screw it all up because they think money whereas the creators/writers think story.I also like the idea of an anthology series, that could be fun as I love Slasher and AHS etc.Would also love to see that cast back together again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pete lashmar, post: 165537, member: 606"] Revenge had so many great characters, plots & arcs but was the victim of execs being far too full of themselves. Instead of a planned run of 3 short seasons, it's early ratings success made execs turn it into a show that ran for 6 months rather than 10 weeks, to the extend that creator Mike Kelley walked away and plunged the show into non direction and ultimately lost fans. Season 1 was epic, season 2 had no direction what-so-ever and was hugely frustrating, season 3 tried to be clever again but generally failed. It should really have ended there, but hey, we got season 4 anyway, ending the show on a whimper. That said, over the 4 seasons there were some brilliant twists and turns, how wonderful it would have been without all those added episodes of padding. I'd certainly love to see Mike Kelley's Revenge as originally intended - 3 10 episode seasons with a solid story, full character arcs and ending. Again - the execs screw it all up because they think money whereas the creators/writers think story. I also like the idea of an anthology series, that could be fun as I love Slasher and AHS etc. Would also love to see that cast back together again. [/QUOTE]

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