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I loved the show. The reason it was cancelled was Yancy's issues with substance abuse, which led to performance issues, etc.

The first season was very well written. If you started watching a Witchblade marathon - you didn't want to stop watching...one story linked to the next...it really was well done.

I re-discovered comics in the early 90s. Probably a nostalgia thing. One of the things that really blew me away was the art quality and adult story lines that were in evidence. The one that REALLY got me was Witchblade. This wasn't the Marvel/DC I grew up with, that's certain. After being entertained for a few years with the developing stories, they start talking about a TV series. TV series??!! Cool! I wait with anticipation while the lawyers figure out how much money everyone will make. I wanted to like this series. Then I get to see the pilot. Not bad. Yancy Butler evidently could be had cheap, 'cause she sure can't act. Partner gets killed-Yancy reacts with bug-eyed sorrow. Learns about the Witchblade's powers-Yancy reacts with bug-eyed astonishment. Gets an Irish folkie boyfriend with evidently a large blade of his own-Yancy reacts with...well, you see what I mean. Still...I hung on for the first season and found many things to like about the show. Everyone acted their parts very convincingly and took it seriously. Except for Roger Daltry. What a travesty. The only thing stiffer than Daltry was Irish Boyfriend's hoo-hah. Anyhoo, I keep the faith until the very end. And what do I get for my loyalty? A do-over. What a foul way to cheat the show's audience. The second season was vile and the show died a deserved death. Too bad. There was promise here.

The show was great, even the first seasons final episode, but what the writers made up after that was just BS. Honestly I liked the first seasons final a lot, because it was just so cool to have the chance to do something like that (just imagine)... but the second season was a real disappointment. Story line was boring and mid-season it stopped existing - every episode was just a hunt for a new "monster" in town.

I liked the high-budget, cinematic nature of this show, in its early episodes. The use of the U2 song (about "she moves in mysterious ways"); the time she was looking out the window while the night-time traffic was speeded up into a blur; the first battle in the abandoned movie theater, seen in glimpses and silhouette. (Yancy Butler was also good in the X-Files episode "The Field Where I Died".) But I agree with the comments above, that the show was ruined after the first year and the time reversal.

The minute Sarah reset time and the entire first season was retroactively erased. Now, to be fair, this wasn't really the fault of the writers. That finale was great and would have been the perfect final episode. But then TNT decided to renew the series (this is the first original TNT program that went beyond one season, cancellation was always looming) and they were stuck. Babylon 5 suffered the same fate (ironically also in its TNT incarnation). Now they had all these plot developments they couldn't do anything with. Was Sarah's blonde partner still a fed, or just a rookie again? What her dead Irish lover, the White Bulls, her dad's crooked (also dead) partner? Were we just supposed to assume these things never happened and start fresh, or did they still exist in some sort of strange plot nether-world? I don't know how they handled it, as I only watched the show sporadically after that. You have to admire Witchblade for wanting to go out in a blaze of glory. Unfortunately, that blaze torched any potential the second season had. I like you Danny, but you should've stayed dead.

Specifically eyebrows. She has thicker eyebrows and a deeper voice than I do and that says a lot.

I was pleased with this show over all. Sure the adaptation wasnt 100%, but I can live with that. Now that it's been cancelled, or "not renewed" I am pretty bummed.

The appearance of the twin sister not only ruined the show, but it ruined another key character in the show. Ian Nottingham is seen in both the comic, and the show (up until this episode) as mysterious, murderous, but chivalrous Black Knight. Now, he's just seen as some simpering puppy going after a Sara clone. For the love of god, would someone please knock some sense into this series writers??!! Besides ruining Ian, what real point was there to this TWIN? It was a boring plot, so some daft writers decided to perk things up with the typical Evil Twin bullshit. It ruined the idea behind the Witchblade, it ruined a character, and there was no reason for any of it!!!

Monday, August 19, at about 8:45 p.m. CST, when we found our heroine leaning over her lover's hospital bed while her nemesis consorted with her evil twin. At that point, we switched to the preseason game between SF and Denver -- not a lot more interesting, but at least not an insult to our intelligence!

They took an awesome comic book and cheapened it! If they can't create the weapon as razor sharp tentacles, then they shouldn't bother to make Witchblade into a TV show.

Awesome comic with brutally fantastic artwork, it's a shame that the TV series can't compare; the make-up budget alone would be enormous. Prosthetics are a necessity for Witchblade, and especially for the Witchlance battle at the beginning of season two. The comics depict Sara and Irons literally covered in steel tendrils as both possessed blades clash and shred everything around them. It's too bad the series creators don't want to spend anything on effects or martial arts talent; the transformations and fighting sequences show the overall cheapness of the series.

2002 season premiere. i'm sure im not the first person to realise this as a seperate, but all important category, but whoever the hacks are that write this show need to eat a bullet. the series premier was a -complete- ripoff of the academy award winning movie training day; oh yea, with a comic book super hero witch in it. i heard many good things about this show, and decided to check out the series premiere, they always put lots of money in this one to gain more viewers, right???? well this F&#%er got so much air when it jumped, that i got wet from the splash landing. it's a show based on a comic book, and they can't come up an original idea for a script???????? please!

When they pulled the "Bobby Ewing" in the final episode of season one.Maybe they found out at the last minute it was renewed by TNT.If one thing Ralph Hemecker should have learned while working on The X-Files.You don't kill off characters that can be useful throughout the lifetime of a series,for convenience.

Obviously the person who responded above is watching the first season in its replay and did not catch it the first time around (last summer). It's not that they killed off Danny or that he came back as a ghost. Wait until you see the final episode from season 1 before they start season 2 this summer. Then you will understand why it jumped the shark with that final show.

Roger Daltrey as Satan. And she fights him hand to hand -- and wins!!!