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I'm forever wondering why they didn't renew it and just change the show's budget. idek network's logic.

Yeah, it's honestly super ridiculous some of the excuses given, because most times it makes no sense. Granted, I know that it's more complicated behind closed doors with negotiating and making deals and whatnot, sometimes both sides can't come to a compromise, etc. But when Netflix cancelled Sense8, for example, there was no reason given aside from the fact that the CEO decided that it was time to purge some of their shows because none of them were getting cancelled yet. As if that is ever a logical reason to cancel something, just because none of their shows have been cancelled yet. You'd think that would be a good thing. It was the stupidest thing, especially since Sense8 was considered a huge sensational hit when it premiered. True, it probably was expensive to produce, since they go all over the shoot scenes in different countries and whatnot, but they could have just lessened the budget and still make it work instead of outright cancelling the show, like, a week after the second season premiered.

Also, I'll never understand why networks in general never bother to tell the shows ahead of time that they might be in danger of being cancelled so they can have time to wrap up their season in a finalized kind of way. No major cliffhangers, nothing. I always hate it when a show is cancelled and left completely unfinished. It happens more often that not, and it's like, just allow them to finish it? Even if it's quickly wrapped up, let there be a conclusion at least.

It's really sad that my initial worries about Supergirl being picked up by The CW became reality though. I really did love that show back in season one.

Same. I was worried it would turn into a melodramatic mess, and guess what? It did. S1 was perfection and I adored it, but I haven't even bothered continuing watching after that knowing some of the shit that has happened and continue to happen. I don't know whether it was because of the move that did it, since I do wonder if it had remained on CBS would it have gone in the direction is has gone now, or are the showrunners just always like this. We'll just never know. The CW may not cancel many of their shows due to operating differently than most networks, but they still have a shitty way of having certain expectations of how shows on their networks should be like. Not all of their shows are riddled with it, though, but the majority of them are which is disappointing.