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sisabetHey. I don't know if you guys have heard about this or not - but the frickin' dumbasses at WB have cancelled Angel. This means a lot of things, but the most important thing is that Angel ending takes away the only current TV show I am currently obsessed with.
Yeah, I like Smallville - but mainly for its potential and the fanfic. In actual airtime the show seems to miss so many boats. But, hope springs eternal and all that jazz and I do think there is huge potential for something BIG to crop up. It just hasn't as of yet. There is a new season of QaF US to look forward to and I do - but that is becoming more and more Dawn's show and more and more my summer-time fling that followed me back to high school from the Australian beach.
::mentally pictures Brian Kinney singing Hopelessly Devoted to You::
You know - that analogy sucks. Brian is so much more Rizzo, dontcha think?
::mentally pictures Brian singing Look At Me; I'm Sandra Dee::
My point is: right before a new episode of Angel airs, I get butterflies in my stomach. This is the only show on television at this time that does that to me. I have been a fan and been around enough to know this kinda reaction is pretty damn special.
I'm not sad that the fandom is ending and camp is over and gee, I will mean to write to you all everyday! but then real life gets in the way and we will drift apart. That happens, whether or not the fandom is currently airing or solely in reruns. I am not freaking out that I will never ever see kita or TBQ again, cause -um- they are still here. And yeah - eventually there will be other fandoms for those guys and for whoever is reading this now and that is just cause we are fannish people by nature and eventually something obsess worthy will float on down the pike. Hey - I might like that same thing too and then we can sit back and be all wise and veteran-y and talk about the good-ole Jossverse Days and remember when Kita slashed a paper cup? Or was that TBQ? Ah, good times and bondage. Sigh.
I'm not sad that there will no longer be great vids made of this show. Hell, no. We have five years of gorgeous, layered and deep footage and the vids will be there.
I'm not sad that no one will write fanfic for Angel anymore. That won't happen. Yeah - there will probably be less as time goes by - but with the show airing in syndication and with again - the layers and deepness - people are always gonna want to expound upon that.
I'm sad because I wanna watch my goddamned show - motherfuckers! I want another season and there is another season of stories to tell and they can tell it so fucking well it will make your fucking head hurt to think about them not being given that opportunity. This is not like Buffy. Buffy did not get the ax. If ME and SMG had stepped up - there would have been an 8th season. There really didn't need to be an 8th season. Angel needs and deserves one more year. I need it. And what I need reigns absolute and number one here in the special and sacred place that is my LJ. Because this is the one thing in the world that is ALL ABOUT ME.
Normally, I would be in denial right now. But - that probably is not the best reaction. Instead I am getting off my ass and sending in some postcards because in the past - that has worked. This might seem kinda like wasted energy to some people - and yeah there is probably a lot of other things that would be much more beneficial to society that I could be doing instead of trying to show the WB the enormity of the fan support for a season six. Frankly, though - I wasn't planning on doing any of those things so the world itself is not any worse off than it was before I went out and bought card stock to print post-cards on. Well, actually, it is better off since the paper I bought supports the economy. Although I don't know if the trees used to make the paper were ecologically sound. Hmm. Let's just say the world came out Even-Steven's on this one and one day I will I'll go and read to the deaf or the blind or something like that, kay?
You know, pardon me for being a bad citizen, but Cagney and Lacey and Party of Five and even goddamned Roswell got renewed/reversed cancelled based on fanbased support and the last time my personal wants and needs played in role in what goes down on Capital Hill - well, there has been no last time. So if I want to try to keep the one thing on TV that I like, still on TV - well then I will. Plus - I really dislike my congressman.
If you are interested in letting the WB know how you feel - try here -http://www.livejournal.com/users/_green_/289045.html - and the only thing I am pushing for is a sixth season. If you want a B/A or B/S or Lorne/Clem ending then I am gonna have to say - suck it up. No one is getting what they want here - either you want the show to continue or you don't. Oh yeah, and if you don't? I don't want to hear it. Yeah - that is right. I don't give a shit and I don't want to hear your bitching about my show. And I normally say to each her own and opinions and discussion are great, but if you are dancing on the grave of my show then I reserve the right to decide that you are fucking tacky and I don't want to read you and I don't really want to hear your opinion.
This post is a bit more strident than I get outside of private entries, but dammit - I ain't happy and I feel it is fairly accurate of how I feel right now. And if you can't remove people from an FList because of hurt feelings following a television show's unjust cancellation, well than what is the point of even having a list?
Yeah, I like Smallville - but mainly for its potential and the fanfic. In actual airtime the show seems to miss so many boats. But, hope springs eternal and all that jazz and I do think there is huge potential for something BIG to crop up. It just hasn't as of yet. There is a new season of QaF US to look forward to and I do - but that is becoming more and more Dawn's show and more and more my summer-time fling that followed me back to high school from the Australian beach.
::mentally pictures Brian Kinney singing Hopelessly Devoted to You::
You know - that analogy sucks. Brian is so much more Rizzo, dontcha think?
::mentally pictures Brian singing Look At Me; I'm Sandra Dee::
My point is: right before a new episode of Angel airs, I get butterflies in my stomach. This is the only show on television at this time that does that to me. I have been a fan and been around enough to know this kinda reaction is pretty damn special.
I'm not sad that the fandom is ending and camp is over and gee, I will mean to write to you all everyday! but then real life gets in the way and we will drift apart. That happens, whether or not the fandom is currently airing or solely in reruns. I am not freaking out that I will never ever see kita or TBQ again, cause -um- they are still here. And yeah - eventually there will be other fandoms for those guys and for whoever is reading this now and that is just cause we are fannish people by nature and eventually something obsess worthy will float on down the pike. Hey - I might like that same thing too and then we can sit back and be all wise and veteran-y and talk about the good-ole Jossverse Days and remember when Kita slashed a paper cup? Or was that TBQ? Ah, good times and bondage. Sigh.
I'm not sad that there will no longer be great vids made of this show. Hell, no. We have five years of gorgeous, layered and deep footage and the vids will be there.
I'm not sad that no one will write fanfic for Angel anymore. That won't happen. Yeah - there will probably be less as time goes by - but with the show airing in syndication and with again - the layers and deepness - people are always gonna want to expound upon that.
I'm sad because I wanna watch my goddamned show - motherfuckers! I want another season and there is another season of stories to tell and they can tell it so fucking well it will make your fucking head hurt to think about them not being given that opportunity. This is not like Buffy. Buffy did not get the ax. If ME and SMG had stepped up - there would have been an 8th season. There really didn't need to be an 8th season. Angel needs and deserves one more year. I need it. And what I need reigns absolute and number one here in the special and sacred place that is my LJ. Because this is the one thing in the world that is ALL ABOUT ME.
Normally, I would be in denial right now. But - that probably is not the best reaction. Instead I am getting off my ass and sending in some postcards because in the past - that has worked. This might seem kinda like wasted energy to some people - and yeah there is probably a lot of other things that would be much more beneficial to society that I could be doing instead of trying to show the WB the enormity of the fan support for a season six. Frankly, though - I wasn't planning on doing any of those things so the world itself is not any worse off than it was before I went out and bought card stock to print post-cards on. Well, actually, it is better off since the paper I bought supports the economy. Although I don't know if the trees used to make the paper were ecologically sound. Hmm. Let's just say the world came out Even-Steven's on this one and one day I will I'll go and read to the deaf or the blind or something like that, kay?
You know, pardon me for being a bad citizen, but Cagney and Lacey and Party of Five and even goddamned Roswell got renewed/reversed cancelled based on fanbased support and the last time my personal wants and needs played in role in what goes down on Capital Hill - well, there has been no last time. So if I want to try to keep the one thing on TV that I like, still on TV - well then I will. Plus - I really dislike my congressman.
If you are interested in letting the WB know how you feel - try here -http://www.livejournal.com/users/_green_/289045.html - and the only thing I am pushing for is a sixth season. If you want a B/A or B/S or Lorne/Clem ending then I am gonna have to say - suck it up. No one is getting what they want here - either you want the show to continue or you don't. Oh yeah, and if you don't? I don't want to hear it. Yeah - that is right. I don't give a shit and I don't want to hear your bitching about my show. And I normally say to each her own and opinions and discussion are great, but if you are dancing on the grave of my show then I reserve the right to decide that you are fucking tacky and I don't want to read you and I don't really want to hear your opinion.
This post is a bit more strident than I get outside of private entries, but dammit - I ain't happy and I feel it is fairly accurate of how I feel right now. And if you can't remove people from an FList because of hurt feelings following a television show's unjust cancellation, well than what is the point of even having a list?
