Divorcing TV.

[ashinae]

NYmag.com asks, What show are you getting divorced from?"

Boy did that ever get my brain moving from one place to the next.

For me, it's not so much divorcing shows so much as divorcing networks. I gave up on House, finally, this year and won't be carrying on with season eight, which means I'm breaking up with Fox. Finally, after so many years of crawling back to it. They fucked over Joss Whedon twice. The cancellation of Dollhouse was kind of the final nail in the coffin--I said to myself (and I think out loud at least once) that as soon as House was over, I was over Fox.

It's happened sooner than expected.

And, oh, NBC.

I had stopped watching Chuck halfway through this past season, as the delightfully silly show had suddenly become a parody of itself. But it's getting a final send-off, so I've started rewatching season 4, and dammit all--I still love the characters. However, once it's done? I'm divorcing NBC with extreme prejudice. They had a great thing with the first season of Heroes and just drove it deeper and deeper into the ground, which means Adrian Pasdar isn't on my screen weekly, and soon enough neither will Zachary Levi and Adam Baldwin, so NBC's bags are so gonna be packed and thrown on the front lawn soon enough.

Also, did any of their new shows from the 2010-2011 season get picked up for a second season?

Also also--I have realised, to my own horror, that I have only one science fiction show left. I have Doctor Who. I could not get into SGU, and now that's gone. Otherwise, I am left with Castle, The Mentalist, White Collar, one more season of Chuck, and maybe Leverage, which linden_jay gave me and I intend to watch this summer.

It started with Star Trek: The Next Generation. I was five when it premiered, and I watched that at the same time I was watching cartoons and live-action kids shows like The Elephant Show and The Polka-Dot Door and Today's Special. When TNG was wrapping up, Babylon 5 was just getting off the ground. I did a quick IMDb check for the years that my genre shows ran (as I have to include Xena, all things considered, in amongst all the actual sci-fi) and I always had at least two genre shows to watch.

Maybe I have to give Merlin a second chance, though that's as much sci-fi as Xena was. I sure as hell am never watching Torchwood again.

I am the girl who grew up, literally, on Star Trek: The Next Generation. All of my sci-fi shows, thankfully, overlapped through the years, but with the cancellation of SGA and then Heroes--the latter of which, I know, had a very tenuous grasp on the genre anyway--I am down to one show. One brilliant show! But one. Just one.

What's a nerd to do?

(I have, actually, just this past spring, finally watched all of Heroes. I gave up on Heroes roughly the same time I threw my hands in the air and largely gave up fandom, I think, early on in season 3. That was all inextricably linked and... whatever. Anyway, as I was saying, just before my birthday I made my way through all of Heroes in one go, and you know what? It was frustrating as hell, but overall wasn't quite as bad as everyone said it was. But it was frustrating. as. hell. Why? They had some amazing talent behind some great characters, and just squandered it. Plus there was the loss of Greg Beeman behind the scenes, because he, if no one else, understood the characters--namely, the Petrellis, Mohinder, and the Bennets, and mahybe even, dare I say it, Sylar. Those were the characters and actors I fell in love with early on, those were the ones who kept me coming back, and once he was gone, TPTB didn't know what to do. NBC, being the network behind everything, gets a lot of the blame for that.)

Comments

[creatrix]

With Heroes, I think I'm in the minority in that I actually liked the carnival plot line. At least at the start.

For all its faults, I do still miss Heroes. I think the show focussed way too much on Claire, and Sylar was allowed to have far too many abilities (as was Peter, at times), but there were lovely moments of brilliance on that show too.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

I miss Heroes desperately. I didn't hate the carnival storyline, to be honest. There was so much potential in everything and they just... there were things that went on too long... and maybe too many blonds. Watched all in one go, though not necessarily one sitting, it was a lot more bearable, I think.

But goddamn it all I miss my Petrellis.

[http://users.livejournal.com/selina_/]

You need to start watching Fringe!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_xanthia/]

Seconding the Fringe movement. I would still be watching it were it not for the fact my country's tv networks kept changing what time it was without clear advertising and yeah... have lost track of it and am deliberately avoiding spoilerific talk online.

Another sci-fi show that I don't know if it's still running or exactly how good it is, called Sanctuary which has Amanda Tapping from SG-1... with brown hair. Think it's got the whole humans with mutant abilities thing.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

I really can't do Fringe. I find it too creepy. I'm a HUGE wimp. (And yes, I watch Doctor Who, but it has given me nightmares, and I can only handle one nightmare-inducing show.)

I haven't really heard much about Sanctuary, but that's only because I haven't asked. Also, Amanda Tapping is pretty!

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh I have tried!

But I'm a wimp and find it skeery. :(

(Edited because I so totally used the wrong icon...)