Wrapping myself in a blanket of cynicism

[grammarwoman]

Well, here's a list of TV I was watching in the fall:

Chuck
T:TSCC
(postponing Gossip Girl and HIMYM/TBBT because of timeslot overload)
Heroes
Pushing Daisies
SGA
BSG

I added Dollhouse, Reaper, Castle, and My Boys when those were available.

PD and SGA were summarily canceled, BSG ended, and the future of Chuck, T:TSCC, Dollhouse, and Reaper have been in question almost since the beginning of the season.

So please don't shoot me when I mention that it's almost officially certain that T:TSCC has been canceled as well.

Honestly? At this point, I'm only pulling for Chuck out of what's left on my list, and wondering what happened to the geek renaissance on TV as the sci-fi/fantasy shows fall left and right. With each new show that comes on, I find it easier to just not care.

Comments

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

somehow, I wonder if joss would do better if he marketed his shows to the sci-fi channel rather than going back to fox again and again. Perhaps he makes more in the short term than he would in the long-term in sci-fi, but it sure would make us fans happier.

[grammarwoman]

I've read many critics calling for Joss to move to HBO or similar environments. Imagine a show with the funding and support (or merely lack of network interference) of Deadwood or Rome, written by Joss. It might only last a season or two, but the run would be spectacular.

[miniglik.livejournal.com]

There was a geek renaissance? Mostly, what I noticed was big networks taking scifi ideas and making them so mainstream as to bore the shit out of me (Lost, Heroes, etc... even TSCC took Terminator and somehow made "Lorelei Gilmore and her pretty boy teenager fight robots and angst over relationships" way more often than it should have.)

I'll feel like there's a geek renaissance someday when there's a bunch of Little Geek Shows that Could being awesome on non- network channels with no need to cater to the mainstream, you know? (Like Buffy and X-Files and Farscape and even VM. The shows that built up their audiences and truly made a difference in the genre, you know?)

Sorry.. that was more ranty than I thought it would be.

[grammarwoman]

Hey, my LJ is a rant-friendly zone, you know that. *grin*

I agree that there were some brilliant ideas out there that were never really allowed to come to full fruition. As I said above, I'd love see a Joss show (or Bryan Fuller, or someone similar) on HBO or some other non-network channel.