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.)