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Yes, the TV meme
Jun. 1st, 2010 09:45 amI'm off sick from work because I hate some bad ham yesterday. INDULGE ME.
Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
It was a toss-up between this and The Middleman, but The Middleman is sort of perfect in its tiny, self-contained run, whereas SCC ended on a game-changing cliffhanger.
In my cynical moments, I think that Sarah Connor was cancelled because it was a sci-fi/action series that was not sufficiently exploitative of its women. Which is not to say it did not make full use of the massive combined sexiness of Lena Headey, Summer Glau, Stephanie Jacobson, Shirley Manson etc, but it lacked that crucial element of underlying misogyny that makes a show successful.
Also, you know, it was quite expensive, did not break the plot down into tiny, bite-sized chunks for the hard of thinking, and dedicated three episodes in the middle of the season to exploring its main character's psyche. On Fox. Clearly it was doomed to failure.
I'm glad we got what we did, which was (among other things) a branch of the Terminator franchise that deliberately cut itself off from the post-Cameron movies and embraced the potential for alternate universes inherent in the series concept. But I do wish that cliffhanger had some resolution. And that someone would write fic where Amy Pond meets Catherine Weaver. For they are both strange Scottish gingers, aside from the bit where one is actually a liquid metal robot from the future.
Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
It was a toss-up between this and The Middleman, but The Middleman is sort of perfect in its tiny, self-contained run, whereas SCC ended on a game-changing cliffhanger.
In my cynical moments, I think that Sarah Connor was cancelled because it was a sci-fi/action series that was not sufficiently exploitative of its women. Which is not to say it did not make full use of the massive combined sexiness of Lena Headey, Summer Glau, Stephanie Jacobson, Shirley Manson etc, but it lacked that crucial element of underlying misogyny that makes a show successful.
Also, you know, it was quite expensive, did not break the plot down into tiny, bite-sized chunks for the hard of thinking, and dedicated three episodes in the middle of the season to exploring its main character's psyche. On Fox. Clearly it was doomed to failure.
I'm glad we got what we did, which was (among other things) a branch of the Terminator franchise that deliberately cut itself off from the post-Cameron movies and embraced the potential for alternate universes inherent in the series concept. But I do wish that cliffhanger had some resolution. And that someone would write fic where Amy Pond meets Catherine Weaver. For they are both strange Scottish gingers, aside from the bit where one is actually a liquid metal robot from the future.
