Well, fuck

[yendi]

I was going to post a nice recap of a fun night spent gaming at jet_li_wannabe's, with lots of fun people, a good game of A2A, Trivial Pursuit, watching of the NCAA games, and a rant about being the only person in the room who remembered the Sister Souljah situation.

But then I got home and found out that Wonderfalls was cancelled.

Fuck.

God fucking forbid that we should watch a fucking smart TV show. God fucking forbid that Fox should even give a show a chance.

Comments

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

Fuck fox.. fuck Fox with a rusty two by four.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Not too surprising, though, is it? I seem to remember people looking at this even before it aired, saying 'Clever, interesting... won't last half a season.' *sigh*

TV broke my heart for good when Farscape got it in the spinal cord. Battered before that; now it's hard for me to care about any of them.

Damn

[nishar.livejournal.com]

Damn... trust Fox to cancel the best show on that network.

[tablesaw]

Why are they even approving these shows in the first place?

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Good question. I'm feeling really jerked around right now. I just managed to watch a freakin' episode of this thing and I really like it!

Oh well. They'll release it on DVD in a few months, I'm sure. Complete with unaired episodes.

Fox sux cox.

[gev.livejournal.com]

what morons.
I have to jump on the "I knew it" train, too.
fuck.

[wakingdreaming.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that you liked The Family Guy. I've heard they are currently making 22 new episodes and it will be returning to television in January. If Fox decides they don't want it, the new episodes will be going directly to Cartoon Network.

[redcrowstudio.livejournal.com]

Score one more for Fox incompetence! I hope the Firefly movie hits big, and causes some real pain over there.

On the other hand, there have been some rumours that Fox could pick up Angel. An attempt at redemption?

[dindin.livejournal.com]

The fuck, man? It's been on for what, three episodes? That's just fucking wrong.

Grrrrrrr....

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

Dude, unclench. It's just a TV show.

[sistermaryeris.livejournal.com]

But I just started watching that show last week! And it was good! What the crap.

[fmh.livejournal.com]

Its always like that. Any show with a bit of intelligence that dares to not be formulaic and we're lucky if we get to see a whole season.

thebaronofmspg

[thebaronofmspg.livejournal.com]

I guess that's proof that the two words "You're FIRED!" is in fact most mighty. Sorry man. FWIW, I watched it with anexstacy last week on your recommendation. I liked it. I wasn't sure at first, but it really was pretty cool. "Get off your *ASS*!" Sigh.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid it was doomed the moment Fox became involved.

They started out as the "fledgling fourth network", and that forced them to be innovative and cutting edge. They had to take huge risks and air things that no one else would ever dream of. It was either that or fail completely.

Now they've become just another network, and it seems, at this point, that they want very much to APPEAR to be edgy and "out there", but only if they can do it while actually playing it safe.

I think that's why they keep launching these new and interesting series and then going into a panic if the shows aren't immediately huge popular successes.

If they don't eventually take a chance and ride one of these shows out for at least a season, I only see two possible futures for Fox: (1) They just fade away. They'll never get anywhere showing 10 episodes (or less) of a series and then starting up a new one. (2) They become the "reality TV network".

My fear is that the second scenario is the more likely of the two. Reality shows are so cheap that the network can make a profit even if the ratings are much lower. Sadly, more and more networks seem to be realising this, and more and more reality shows are being scheduled as a result.

Besides the fact that I loathe reality shows in general (I suppose there could be an exception or two, but very few, if any), I really believe this is extremely short-sighted and is never going to pan out in the long run.

Either way though, I don't really care what happened to Fox any more. I may shed a tear or two over the future of television in general, if this reality trend keeps up, but I don't plan on getting lured in by Fox's next "oh look at us how hip and daring we are" routine, when they launch some other interesting-sounding series that has a half-life shorter than Strontium-89.

the solution to our woes

[galoot.livejournal.com]

we hold a gathering of LJ users who have a brain and a heart. we pool all our resources and launch our own interactive tv station. this way we get to ignore the formulaic vomitousness of regular tv, have live stats to show our advertisers how many people are watching (ergo why we charge them more for this show vs. wrestling reruns) and we have 6 channels via one frequency for selection.
Quality programming - this does not necessarily mean FAMILY programming (i.e. - Angel and such) -, choice, live stats, .....

wait, won't work. we'd have to teach people to use aerials and their brains again. free tv with choice and interactivity. won't sell.
sorry for using your time.
; )