Back on the Blog
Long time no write! I blame this primarily on the mass cancelling of 6 of my favourite shows which rendered me into a state of shock, anger and despair. Now that a few weeks have passed and I have had time to mourn extensively and also have taken up some new hopefully long-lasting series I know that life will go on. Summer and herewith the dreaded hiatus for most of the shows has begun. Apart from that my job has kept me exhausted and incapable of writing anything apart from company emails. In order to cope with stress and to balance out all the hours I am sitting at my desk I have taken up running again. This is part of my plan for 2007 to achieve extreme hotness.
I try to run 20 kilometres per week. And results can be seen already. I’m actually thinking about running my first mini marathons by fall of this year. Also, running keeps me calm and I was therefore able to reduce the fights that I have picked with my partner to about 1 per week which is impressive. So much has happened and so much time has passed that I don’t even know where to start. Maybe I will start with a few phrases regarding every show that had its series finale early this summer listed from the intensity that I will miss it downwards, oh and I will not count The. O.C. since I have already dealt with it earlier and will come to speak about it again anyway when I talk about “Hidden Palms”.
The Sopranos: 9 episodes were announced and 9 episodes were aired. Brilliant ones, memorable and spectacularly written, characters were whacked like there was no tomorrow and in the end we were presented with maybe one of the most remarkable series finale’s in TV history. In the end nobody will know for sure whether or not Tony and /or his family were killed in the diner munching onion rings except maybe for David Chase. I read that he had this ending figured out in his head for the last three years. Anyway the Sopranos will not be forgotten (I’m actually rewatching all seasons presently). Something good has ended and the writers were able to end the show on their terms and give every character a farewell storyline even if it was merely to get whacked. I heard there was a new series from the same producers with Glen Close? Might be worth watching.
Veronica Mars: Now this was and still is devastating. I wasn’t really aware that they were planning to cancel the show when the finale aired but I caught up pretty fast and had to learn that the show wasn’t getting enough viewers and therefore had to give its place to “Who’s gonna be the next Pussy Cat doll” or something??? I read in a lot of forums that Dawn Ostroff was to blame but then a few weeks ago I read this article about Ostroff and her career and it became clear that she really isn’t the one to blame for this debacle but the whole structure of the CW and that it would only make profits when producing low budget reality shows that generate a lot of viewers while producing far less costs then normal tv shows. I like how USA’s slogan “characters welcome” fits in here. Unfortunately a lot of viewers love these reality shows.
Gilmore Girls: We knew it was coming and the ending was somewhat predictable. But….at least Dave Rosenthal and his crew managed to give the show a relatively honourable ending. Everybody knows that the show wasn’t the same after A.SP. left and although I guess every fan was sad and emotional while watching the finale episode it still wasn’t so unbearable to see it go.
7th Heaven: Yeah, I had already said farewell last year so it wasn’t so hard. But still it will be missed. It gave me a feeling of security and moreover consistency. It was sort of like Mc Donald’s. You might not want to eat the food all the time but you know it’s there just in case.
The King of Queens: Here we were sort of prepared also due to the totally long (was it 5 months??) hiatus between the first and the last episodes. Bye Doug and Carrie!
Okay gotta find myself some food. I will write about all the new as well as the returning shows when I get back. Yes there’s still hope.
(Picture source: www.HBO.com )
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:41 am
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June 22nd, 2007 at 7:42 am
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