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Mar 10 03: the end is near
Apparently tonight the BBC aired the last episode of Farscape. We have two weeks to go here in the States; I am sad nonetheless. I’m going to try to get this out of my system now, rather than sitting on it for two more weeks. And it’s my blog, so I can if I wanna, no matter how pathetic it may appear. So here goes: Despite an outcry from a fanatical viewership; despite critical acclaim—hell, a roomful of TV critics actually heckled a SciFi exec at a wintertime press conference until she agreed to discuss the cancellation of the show; despite…oh, my wishing it were otherwise and hoping really really hard; despite it all, the show is really going off the air.
Here’s an interesting analysis of what happened, but I’m not in a mood to be so even-handed. I’m just a narrative junkie. I can’t help it. And this particular narrative had it all: fresh ideas, good scripts, talented actors, inventive visuals. And now it’s been axed, four-fifths of the way through its Big Story. The creative team behind it says to think of it as a vacation; that one way or another they’ll find a way to finish it off, it just may take a year or two to accomplish. Well, that all sounds lovely and all, but in the meantime, fie upon the dumb suits who made the call. Fie upon the folks who decided that dream-analysis talk shows and candid-camera-meets-horror-movie reality shows and yet-another-alien-conspiracy dramas were preferable ways to spend their money.
Fie. It was cool, and you killed it. I cast my despite in thy teeth.
Onward, then: anybody know a network exec who’s looking to fill a hole in the schedule? Because hope springs eternal, and geeks are patient folk.