It makes it sadder we'll never see it. From the writer himself:
Season 3 would have tied a number of things together. We would have discovered that the aliens who crash-landed in "Memory" were actually trying to contact Fi, but because they were seen, they had to erase the town's memory and leave. They returned in "Listen", where she heard them speak telepathically (because of the wheat from the crop circles), and were seen a third time in "Roswell", where Fi got her hands on an alien-English translator, and where Molly had a prescient dream about Rick being connected to the aliens. (Many of Molly's lyrics, such as those in "In The Darkness" also would have turned out to be premonitions of things to come.) In the fourth alien episode, an alien would appear to Fi, and they would touch fingers, as Molly foresaw in "Roswell". The alien would then start speaking, and Fi would run get her alien-English translator, which would work imperfectly, but well enough. The alien would explain that it, too, was a teenager, and had lost a parent, as she lost Rick. It would tell her that the same thing was happening on every planet in the universe that had sentient life on it -- Evil, in other words, is invading the entire universe -- and that she is the destined leader in that fight against Evil. The alien then has to leave, and Fi asks how she can contact it. The alien points at her web browser -- the Star.Dot.Star Universal Gateway -- and tells her to upgrade.
In a later episode, Fi then goes to find Tad Raxall, and tells him she needs him to turn the Universal Gateway browser into a REAL universal gateway. He harnesses SETI, making it into a transmitter instead of a receiver, and works in the translator, so that Fi can email the aliens for information. (This is made possible by using the 4th dimension as the "internet" of the universe.)
Well, you get the idea. Turns out Rick and Molly were destined to get together and have Fi, and Jack was destined to be Fi's protector. Fi fights the force of Evil, wins, and -- if we could get away with it -- manages to pull her father back from the afterlife, as compensation for the fact that he was killed before his time. And if there were MORE seasons, it went on from there!
Rick was investigating a war in the spirit world between good and evil and was pulled from his body by the forces of evil, before his time. Rick was investigating a war in the spirit world between good and evil and was pulled from his body by the forces of evil, before his time as he would tip the balance for Good. But it was all predestined; Molly -- the latest in a long line of witches that included Fi (in a small way -- usually just a sixth sense that we showed occasionally, as when she sensed Rebecca's appearance before looking around) -- was always destined to meet Rick, the crusader, and have Fi, the child who would be the key to the battle between Good and Evil.
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Reply by tmdb43737777
on July 21, 2017 at 8:34 PM
Did I mention that Jack was a knight (in a previous life) who had volunteered to be reincarnated as Fi's older brother, to protect her -- so she wouldn't be killed before her, as her father would be? That was the source of his Arthurian value system, seen most sweetly in his pure love of the girl from "Angel" (a long distance relationship they sadly abandoned in the third season). If you watch the intercut in "Banshee" when Fi walks down the castle hallway, you'll see that the editor dissolves from the suit of armor to Jack, searching for Fi.
That was the real purpose in bringing Rebecca back -- in the episode that got killed by the network -- Jack was to start having past-life visions in the third season, of a castle back in Arthurian times (the same castle Fi saw in Banshee). Fi tracks down a castle that seems to be the one Jack is remembering, but it's in ruins, so there's no way to verify if what Jack is seeing is real or just a dream (Jack is skeptical, obviously). So Fi contacts Rebecca, and it turns out Rebecca was in Wales with her parents when she was only a few hundred years old, and met the knight who would later be Jack -- not a coincidence, just more predestination. Rebecca herself was always destined to be in Molly's life, even though Molly wouldn't be born till centuries later.
Did I mention that we DID plan for Fi to bring Rick back into this world, in the 65th episode (or later, if the series ran longer)? The lyrics to "In The Darkness" were to be a prescient vision (by Molly) of what Fi would literally have to go through -- demons, etc. In other words, Fi would have to go to Hell to bring her father back into our dimension. That was the reason to keep Molly from ever getting together with any other man; perhaps she was prescient about that, too, somehow knowing deep inside she'd see her husband again.