What happened to John Doe?

[StakiraSlave]

Whatever happened to that great John Doe show? All I remember seeing was the season finale (which was a HUGE cliffhanger), and never heard from it again.

I only bring it up because there was a thread about great TV shows and I know that someone else here has seen the show!

[vhsiv]

It was cancelled last Season, shortly after 'Firefly'.

Sorry...

[NYPinTA]

I liked that show at the beginning, then it got boring, then it got really interesting again... so of course they cancelled it. :pissed:
I remember one of the NetExecs or one of the writers/producers... (or someone!) telling the press just who John Doe was. Of course, I can not remember now.

[ang3l]

If I remember correctly it was reported in SFX that he had fallen off a boat on a fishing trip and had a near death experience at which point for no apparent reason you learn everything about everything and again for no apparent reason he alone happened to remember it all when he woke up.

In a way I'm glad it got canned. Can you imagine following the show for five years and that being the climax?!?

[General]

I wouldn't mind having it on DVD if it becomes available.

[vhsiv]

I just did a quick Google search with the above term, and came up with some interesting results.

First of all, Fox produced 21 episodes and an unaired Pilot of 'John Doe', and like many other series, we in the U.S. only saw about half of them - or at least, I only saw about half of them...

Anyway, there was apparently an interview with one of the FOX executives, and she revealed the following:LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - If you're a die-hard fan of the late FOX series "John Doe" and hold out any hope of it being picked up by another network, don't read the rest of this story.

FOX Entertainment President Gail Berman offered up the story Thursday (July 17) following her Q-and-A session at the TV Critics Association press tour. The series, which starred Dominic Purcell as a man who knew everything about the world but not his own identity, built a fairly complex mythology over last season but not a big enough audience to be renewed.
Central to the story was a question of who or what Doe was. Popular assumptions included that the was some kind of cyborg or alien or a man who had been subjected to some sort of government experiment.

None of those are true, according to Berman, who discussed "Doe's" underlying premise with creators Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson. She says Doe was just a regular guy. Now, here comes the big revelation:

"[According to the show], when you're very close to death, when you're seeing the white light, God or a higher being gives you all the information of life to carry on to the next life," Berman says. Doe was about to die, but for whatever reason -- Berman didn't say why Thursday -- he lived after being imparted with that knowledge.

The shadowy people who were after Doe knew what happened to him and were trying to keep him from discovering it himself, Berman says.

Berman's after-the-fact revelation came in response to questions from a couple of critics about how FOX has handled on-the-bubble series that have significant story arcs. In the case of "John Doe," the network couldn't give the producers a definite answer on a second season when production wrapped because it wasn't sure how its pilot development for the coming season would end up.

Sandy Grushow, chairman of FOX and Berman's boss, says the network has in the past considered doing a two-hour movie to wrap up a show's storyline.

"Clearly, it did not come to pass this year with 'John Doe,' but I actually think it's a pretty interesting idea," Grushow says. "But it's a big investment, and you have to believe there's enough gas in the tank to make it worth your while."

from http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C82358%7C1%7C,00.html
Hmmm... sort of creates more questions than it answers, no? Those creepy operatives really seemed to be about more than that, eh? And Digger's sudden reversal in the last episode didn't help matters either.

BTW - The 'John Doe' messageboard is miraculously still up on the Fox site - here's a link: http://forums.prospero.com/foxjohndoe/messages/

[StakiraSlave]

How bizzare! I always thought him to be a fallen angel, imparted with divine knowledge but with not the brain to comprehend it al at once. If he was just a guy that fell off a boat, I don't get why there was a giant burn spot where he awoke. Ah well...

You're right ang3l, waiting five or more years to find out who he is would've been very frustratiing!

[Scaper_S]

Originally posted by General
I wouldn't mind having it on DVD if it becomes available.

Me too, even though I was disappointed when I found out what had happened to him. I, too, thought he was a fallen angel as my first choice, clone gone wrong as my second.