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Apr. 3rd, 2004 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holliWonderfalls has been canceled.
I'm so completely pissed off about this, maybe out of proportion of the amount of rage I ought to be feeling. It's just... I've been in fandom since I was twelve. I've spent six years of my life trying to convince people that TV isn't lowbrow, that it's not an inherently inferior medium, that it has the potential for quality writing and acting and insightful, intelligent storytelling. But the last time there's been a new network show that I really enjoyed, that was smart and well-written and different, and survived past its first season... was when Angel debuted. Almost five years ago.
And I'm starting to thinking that maybe there isn't a place for fans like me in today's TV market-- maybe quality genre is never going to be successful on any kind of large scale. In movies, yeah-- nobody's arguing that Lord of the Rings was geared toward a niche market. But TV? Is there really a market for good genre shows, or even shows that aren't either crappy sitcoms or reality shows or about solving crimes? Is there any point in even watching TV anymore, for me?
I've put a huge chunk of my life in media fandom. And I don't think that's wasted time-- I loved Buffy and Angel, and even more than that I love the connections I've made because of it, and the way I've changed as a person. But the past few years, every time I like a show, and get invested in the characters, and think that for once the network is going to think for ten seconds and not cancel a show that could be their next X-Files... it gets canceled. So I'm starting to think that there's realy not much point in watching TV anymore, because network TV clearly is directed at someone who isn't me.
Maybe it's a good thing I'm being sucked into comics fandom, huh?
I'm so completely pissed off about this, maybe out of proportion of the amount of rage I ought to be feeling. It's just... I've been in fandom since I was twelve. I've spent six years of my life trying to convince people that TV isn't lowbrow, that it's not an inherently inferior medium, that it has the potential for quality writing and acting and insightful, intelligent storytelling. But the last time there's been a new network show that I really enjoyed, that was smart and well-written and different, and survived past its first season... was when Angel debuted. Almost five years ago.
And I'm starting to thinking that maybe there isn't a place for fans like me in today's TV market-- maybe quality genre is never going to be successful on any kind of large scale. In movies, yeah-- nobody's arguing that Lord of the Rings was geared toward a niche market. But TV? Is there really a market for good genre shows, or even shows that aren't either crappy sitcoms or reality shows or about solving crimes? Is there any point in even watching TV anymore, for me?
I've put a huge chunk of my life in media fandom. And I don't think that's wasted time-- I loved Buffy and Angel, and even more than that I love the connections I've made because of it, and the way I've changed as a person. But the past few years, every time I like a show, and get invested in the characters, and think that for once the network is going to think for ten seconds and not cancel a show that could be their next X-Files... it gets canceled. So I'm starting to think that there's realy not much point in watching TV anymore, because network TV clearly is directed at someone who isn't me.
Maybe it's a good thing I'm being sucked into comics fandom, huh?
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Date: 2004-04-03 06:43 pm (UTC)I'm starting to feel this way too, Holli. I'm wondering if we're going to be ghettoized into HBO land, paying through the nose for quality TV.
Arrrgh
Date: 2004-04-03 07:05 pm (UTC)Oh bugger! How/where did you find out?
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Date: 2004-04-03 07:13 pm (UTC)Re: Arrrgh
Date: 2004-04-03 07:22 pm (UTC)Dammit. Must resist urge to kill.
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Date: 2004-04-03 09:29 pm (UTC)Eh. Has its own issues. You should see the furor over the Doom Patrol relaunch. You've never heard such kvetching.