ron howard and the writers were done with their story more so than fox was going to cancel it. its been said in interviews like, a thousand times.
Not exactly. They had at least one more season of ideas they wanted to do. But they had a feeling they were going to be cancelled and so they stuffed a lot of the plot points they had planned into the final episodes. That's why the third season feels so rushed.
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Okay, I rolled a 14. What's that mean? Hsu
That you're a cheater. This is a 12-sided die. Chan