User blog:Buckmana/Why Elite Force was not as good as it should have been

I was quite excited to discover Elite Force was combining Lab Rats and Mighty Med, because the previous crossover had been well done and the idea of a show continuing that concept on a weekly basis should have been great.

Sadly, it was not. My personal impression is that the production crew were only putting in a token effort on a limited budget and that low level of quality caused the show to be cancelled with only half of season 1's episodes produced.

For example, the thing I wanted to see most was Bree and Skylar's shared bedroom, just to get an idea of how they were cohabitating together, mainly to see how their asthethic tastes combined to decorate the room together. And also the technical difficulties involved in a bionic teen living with a depowered superteen from another planet.

Plus, I wanted to see more Bree/Skylar interaction, since they're technically sisters now, it would have been nice to see that more often. The closest we come is Skylar and Bree having a dispute over how to take of care of Naomi when they're left in charge of babysitting her.

Skylar was the next disappointing issue, my favorite thing about her was that she was super despite being depowered. And I would have preferred that to continue, having to rely on her skills, intelligence and the natural Calderan abilities to fight evil instead of using powers. Plus, I don't like that they kept making up stuff for cheap laughs, like spitting acid in her sleep for example. And there were other inconsistencies, such as stating she has three hearts when Mighty Med established that's not the internal organ she has three of.

I also didn't like the idea of Bree getting powers, she should have stayed as she was. If they wanted her to use a protonic disk for example, they should have made it via a tech device, so she didn't have the power all the time.

But I could have tolerated all of those missteps if they'd just kept the series going. Sadly, because they didn't put in 178% effort, it caused the show to be cancelled early and we'll never see the conclusion of the story. Considering this has happened to me many times before Elite Force was cancelled and several times afterwards, I hate it everytime it happens.

It's actually gotten to the point now where I refuse to start watching any Disney or Nickelodeon sci-fi shows until I'm certain they finish the storyline. And it's had the secondary effect of causing me to give up on the serious sci-fi shows forever.