TV Meme: Day 01

[moonshayde]

All right. I'm play. I haven't done a meme in ages. Let's see if I can finish this one...

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

This one is a tie for me for two different reasons.



Firefly: This show was pretty awesome when it first aired. Shows usually take a while to hook me, and I was hooked on Firefly after 2 episodes. Sadly, there were only 13 episodes total and some weren't even shown on Fox. heck, Fox had a hard enough time showing Firefly in its normal timeslot.

Really, this show didn't deserve to go when it did. It could have been something amazing, though I guess maybe it was a blessing in disguise. I'm not a big Whedon fan and I cringe to think what he might have done to my fave characters after a few seasons.

Dark Angel: I just only watched this show a couple of years ago on DVD. I didn't get into it when it aired on TV, mainly do to my irrational hate of James Cameron. But I was super impressed with S1 and think this show had amazing potential. S2 was pretty much junk in the plot department, but the new characters of Joshua and Alec were pretty darn awesome. I wish it hadn't been canceled because I held out hope that maybe S3 would have gone back to the family/gritty roots of S1 and left the...I don't even know WHAT to call whatever S2 was. So I keep wondering where it could have gone because so much character growth potential was there.

Comments

[purpleshrub.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I agree with you on both of those. I think I maybe trust Whedon a little more than you-not that his choices on shows are always my choices, but I think he usually has reasons for what he does and plans more than the schizophrenia of a lot of shows.

I never saw season two of Dark Angel. A part of me wants to, for Jenson Ackles. But I'd heard somewhere that season two ruined the show for some people, and thought "why risk it?" What I always liked about that show was one of the leads in a wheelchair. That maybe sounds bad, but it's just something different and I think the media tends to portray people with disabilities as almost asexual, and definitely marginalized. I'm not sure Max was as strong a character as she was meant to be-too sexualized for me. But the show did seem to have promise.

[shardsofblu.livejournal.com]

Well that reminds me that I *must* finish watching Firefly some time. :p I've only watched 4 episodes so far, and I really like what I've seen so far although I'm lacking in actual motivation to continue watching the series. I feel the same way with Farscape, which I've stopped at S1.

Granted, I haven't watched that much TV but most of the time I feel like it's almost better for them to be canceled or have as few seasons as possible. They're always better that way, the creators shape up and are focused on their stories, and they all go out with a bang-up finale or an absolutely crazy cliffhanger. Sure I'd be sad and all, but I'd rather have that a million times than to be continually frustrated when they start to drag things out.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Good shows! DA was just getting interesting to me and FF - that was just crap that it got cancelled! I was so pissed!

*hugs*

[vanae.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how I felt about Dark Angel. I think that what I always enjoyed most about that show was its potential. I only ever caught a few episodes when it was on TV… of season two. I didn’t like anything about it but this cute guy riding a bike, who turned out to be this lovable character named Alec. Anyway, caught it on dvd an really enjoyed the idea of these transgenic super soldiers escaping from Manticore, the family aspect of it, the futuristic environment etc. It could have been so good and it sorta was for most of season one (hell, I even liked Max). I dug the premise. Season two was a clusterfuck of awfulness. I'm not even sure what it was about and ended up not really caring much either. I only managed to get through it because of my love for Alec, Joshua and Original Cindy... and, I suppose, the hope that it would turn at some point :(

I'm with you on Firefly too. One of the few shows that I've loved right away.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

And do you know how they canceled Dark Angel? Let me tell you!

The show had been on the bubble. I was very much hoping they would use s3 to straighten out the mess s2 had been, capitalize on the two good characters they'd introduced in s2, and make it a stronger show. It was probably not going to be renewed . . . and then came the announcement that it had been! They'd ordered a third season of DA!

This was followed within a couple of days by, "Whoops, changed our minds!" The brain trust at Fox had been looking at a pilot that they thought had promise, but they didn't think it was quite ready. So they had the writer rewrite part of it, which he did on a plane. When they got it, they picked it up and canceled DA to make room in the schedule. Of course, the guy was Joss Whedon, and the show was Firefly.

Then Fox decided they really didn't like his show all that much after all. They started it in the summer, shunted that pilot that they really liked to a later slot in the season, and started with a random episode that began with a bar fight. We got no further than the bar fight before turning it off. It was only after several people insisted we get the DVDs that we put it on a Christmas list and got into it.

Fox killed DA so that they could take a show they then never gave a chance.

[clockwork-sky.livejournal.com]

Who would hate a man who can beat his own previous blockbuster with a film about Green(tm), sexualized and athletic smurfs?

How's that irrational?

[vella-amor-dm.livejournal.com]

so much love for DA!