'Resident Alien' Canceled Ahead of Season 4 Finale

Son of a bitch.

This is some bullshit.

Syfy must just have the worst sales team of all time.

This show just became available to stream legally in Canada.

Eureka and Waterhouse 13 are only available to buy from Apple, no streaming.

Battlestar Galactica also not available to stream in Canada and hasn't been for a long ass time.

Like, what are they even doing? This is free money they are just leaving on the table for no decernable reason.

Syfy headquarters: Yeah but that's canadian dollars, it's not real money, right ?

That’s three more seasons than I thought it would get. I’m sure it’s a fine show, but SyFy is on its last legs.

SyFy is on its last legs.
People have been saying that since the '00s.
- They've been right. I'm surprised there's any scifi on the channel at all now. It's been primary wrestling for years
It's all right. I fell off it after one too many comedy "animal accidentally gets killed" scenes for me, which hurt what was otherwise a fun, feel-good sitcom. Tudyk is excellent as always and the supporting cast of small-town weirdos are mostly likeable. It's not for me but I can understand people loving it.

Damnit! This was such a good show.

Tv producers have to get off to making people disappointed

Too many people are starting to.enjoy the show? NOW we take it off air.

bummer, it is such a great vehicle for Alan Tudyk shenanigans. in the last few episodes it felt like the various storylines were nearing a conclusion anyway, i just hope it doesn’t end on a major cliffhanger.

I watched the first episode, thought: "they really aren't subtle about this being about autism huh", then checked some comments online to see it was actually not meant to be that at all.

Só I guess... props to the author for making the most relatable character I've ever seen completely on accident.

Damn, the only thing I really enjoy other than wrestling on SyFy/USA Network.

In the words of Harry, This is some Bullshit.

Of course, why make a good show when you can churn out more slop?

Didn't realize Season 4 had dropped. Know what I'm doing this weekend.

They made more than 1 season? Damn! I missed the boat on that one. I loved it and wished there was more of it…

Kind of annoying when a service that so often puts “new episodes” banners on things just slips it mannerless into your recommends like it was a rewatch. And you only find out once it’s been cancelled.

If you stopped at the end of season 1, you stopped at a good time. It's not great beyond that.
I have on good authority that Jellyfin does not do this

That's that zombie game right

No no no, you're thinking of Silent Rise. This one's about how you rebuild your grandfather's run down farm in a small town.

The show isnt that great, I enjoyed it but its a 7/10 and has gotten worse in some ways every season, while introducing some cool things, the characters feel stagnant and like they hate the audience idk how to describe it, idk every episode I feel less and less like the target audience so I stopped watching it while it aired and discussing it

Ugh. I haven't even started watching season 4 yet. So much cancellation.

Be prepared for quite a shock as they've either drastically cut the makeup department or half the cast got major plastic surgery/filler between S03 and S04. I've been pretty disappointed with the story this season as well as it seems a bit aimless.
- Ugh. I want to finish what remains, but this is disappointing to hear.
  What's it take for executives to be willing to finish out a show properly? Sheesh

I watched the first 3 seasons. It was ok, though the writing / direction of the show often felt disjointed to me, I'm not too surprised it was cancelled. Disjointed as in it'd try and do more adult type bits / to be more serious at times, but then it also had a "Mork" like comedy relief thing with the alien protagonist, doing the stupid sounding pronunciations and so on.

They also tended to pander pretty heavily to topics that are not popular in the states at present, and which are seeing increased pushback in other countries too. Like the muslim girl kid character, who was basically portrayed as a super intelligent loudly outspoken and independent feminist, who had a character foil of an utterly stupid, incompetent cis white boy kid. Or with the adult characters, where almost every cis white character was a fuck up. Town whore was white, town drunk girl was white, trailer park deadbeat dad guy was white, evil assassin doctor was white as was the corrupt doctor he killed -- only remotely positive cis white guy would've been the mayor I think, but he was shown to be basically a sub to his wife (which is why people were so shocked that it was implied he was the dom in the bedroom, it was totally out of step with his normal on-screen persona). The town sheriff was a comic relief black guy, but even he was shown to be incompetent compared to his over-weight white female deputy, and compared to the Indian sheriff from one town over who was "dating down" to be with a "lovable moron". The First Nations people were all portrayed positively / as competent -- the older dad cafe owner / elder who suddenly became a rock star in his old age, the competent town Nurse female lead, the reserve being the 'safe haven', the "good boyfriend/man" that the town drunk pines after is a FN guy, etc.

With that sort of backdrop, and the political climate in the states these days, it's really not too surprising....

So you think the show should have portrayed white men as superior to minorities? Or you think there's not enough representation for white men? Or you think every. single. show should be for white men? Do you have crap opinions on Dark Winds as well?
- Haven't seen dark winds, so I can't really comment on that one.
  All I was pointing out is that the gender/racial depictions on the show are fairly clearly politically charged in today's climate. A more even representation would've had some competent men on the show, may've had some more nuance to the representation of minorities too. Instead you have whole episodes dedicated to things like "the women of the town rising up for fair pay" in very heavy-handed virtue signalling style.
  The writing got progressively more and more entrenched in that sort of stuff, as the series went on. I'm sorry if you feel bad that I'm pointing it out, and noting that the cancellation wasn't really all that surprising to me?