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January 16

Discontinued series with cliff hangers endings

I mean it can be all of entertainment.

I for one I still don't just get it why this happens more and more over this past decade and half. With the advent of beyond either of of competition, copykat, and reality tv. Especially, I'm referring to ones that beyond either got cancelled for network having lack of money (in all forms of it) and exces of the network not liking it for whatever reason.--Jessica A Bruno (waybeyondfedup) 03:03, 16 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessicaabrunowaybeyondfedup (talk • contribs)

The most obvious explanation is that they filmed the final show hoping there would be another season, but there wasn't one. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:38, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I asked a similar question on this topic a couple of years ago, which elicited some interesting responses. You can read the discussion here. --Viennese Waltz 13:37, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

They might still hope to revive it in the future, if only as a webcast, etc. Another potential issue is if they just couldn't resolve all the convoluted plot lines satisfactorily. Many would argue that Lost (TV series) would have been better left open than with the way they tried to end it. StuRat (talk) 18:50, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Lost was left open. All of the important questions were unanswered. What is the island? Where did the original inhabitants come from? How did the lighthouse work? Who built it? Who built all the Egyptian stuff? Why did the statue have four toes? What made the numbers so important? etc... There used to be a wiki of questions that would get answered as the series went on. It ended with more open questions than answered ones. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 13:31, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Are you describing Lost or Gilligan's Island? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:34, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

The original writer dies and it is not believed that the replacement writers can do it justice. Even makes for a good conspiracy theory when it happens in a spy series, see The Sandbaggers#Series creator. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 13:36, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

MK Legacy

I think I've seen a subtitle in the Scorpion/Sub-Zero episode from Mortal Kombat: Legacy saying its plot is set in the 13th century (1200s), but after watching can't find such an indication. Am I confusing something or just missed it somewhere? Brandmeister^talk 18:18, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't see anything in our article either way, but our list of episodes has summaries for each show and I see the first episode contains a reference to a robotics shipment. Given our article's frequent mentions that this series is meant to look and feel more like the real-world than a fantasy one, its hard to reconcile the word "robotics" with anything earlier than the 20th century. The machine guns in the article's infobox are also kind of a giveaway. Why not just re-watch the episode confusing you and confirm what you thought you read? Matt Deres (talk) 13:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

digression about another MK
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Due to today's date, I assume I'm not the only one who assumed from the title of this section that this was about a different MK's legacy. †dismas†|(talk) 18:41, 16 January 2017 (UTC) Well, today it's not January 15, but January 16 already. Brandmeistertalk 18:54, 16 January 2017 (UTC) This year, MLK Day is the 16th. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:16, 16 January 2017 (UTC) That's MLK day, Observed. StuRat (talk) 20:04, 16 January 2017 (UTC) As described in Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:12, 16 January 2017 (UTC) What is the significance of the word "observed" in the name of the day? --Viennese Waltz 15:37, 17 January 2017 (UTC) It means it's the day his birthday is observed in the US. Since it's the third Monday in January and his birthday was on January 15, in some cases the holiday will coincide with his actually birthday like next year, but other times like this year it will not. See our article linked above for more details. This isn't uncommon with holidays marking birthdays. Perhaps the confusion arises because the day is generally called MLK day, but as our article says the official name for the federal holiday is "Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr." and it's intended to mark his birthday. Nil Einne (talk) 15:48, 17 January 2017 (UTC) Thanks, I read the article but didn't see anything on the exact question of why the word "observed" has to be tacked onto the end. Why not just call it Martin Luther King Day? --Viennese Waltz 15:51, 17 January 2017 (UTC) The "Observed" means it's the legal holiday, as opposed to the actual day of the event, which may still be commemorated in other ways. For example, should Christmas fall on a weekend, the nearest weekday is "Christmas Observed", but we still open presents on December 25th. StuRat (talk) 16:15, 17 January 2017 (UTC) But it should be clear that when we say "Martin Luther King Day" we are talking about the legal holiday, not his actual birthday. --Viennese Waltz 16:19, 17 January 2017 (UTC) We could refer to one as "MLK's birthday", and the other as "MLK Day", but how is that better than "MLK Day" and "MLK Day, Observed" ? StuRat (talk) 16:45, 17 January 2017 (UTC) Because "MLK Day" doesn't mean "MLK's birthday", so the first part of the second option doesn't work. --Viennese Waltz 20:52, 17 January 2017 (UTC) See Uniform Monday Holiday Act prior to 1968, most Federal holidays in the U.S. were observed on the day they fell. --Jayron32 16:41, 17 January 2017 (UTC) Actually it does, as per the article: "Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.)" ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:34, 17 January 2017 (UTC) This really bothers me when a user comes to the Reference Desk with a specific question and editors use it in a completely irresponsible way. Do any of you have the answer for Brandmeister? At first sight from the undue weight of misdirected conversations, no editor visiting this page will answer the original question. Maineartists (talk) 17:39, 17 January 2017 (UTC) Yeah, that's a huge offtopic by now unfortunately. Looks like nobody knows... Brandmeistertalk 18:18, 17 January 2017 (UTC) I added a subhead to make it perhaps a bit easier to put in answers to the question and distinguish them from the clutter. —Tamfang (talk) 08:36, 18 January 2017 (UTC) And I've hatted it. Matt Deres (talk) 13:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)