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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?
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Date: 2004-02-14 04:02 pm (UTC)That is all.
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Date: 2004-02-14 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-14 04:19 pm (UTC)and
If you want a B/A or B/S or Lorne/Clem ending then I am gonna have to say - suck it up.
and
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.
Yeah. And yeah. And yeah. I'm also feeling this very touchy reaction to people either announcing their lack of trauma or making even slightly derogatory comments about the show, its cancellation, or Mutant Enemy in any capacity. You've nailed the way in which that feels intrusive and insulting at this moment. If it doesn't affect you and/or you don't care, then talk the fuck about something else in your life; don't insert yourself into the fannish drama to say you feel no drama. Sure, people can think and say whatever the hell they want, but my Little Miss Fannish Perspective instincts just aren't firing and I'll continue to be pissed as hell at any perceived slight to my show or its producers. Because this fucking sucks.
Yeah, okay, I didn't mean to rant back at you there. You I adore.
Also, please tell me which episodes of DLM I'm bringing for you. I'm leaving in the morning, so I want to burn the disks tonight. As best I can make out, you need "The Bicycle Thief," "Vacation," and "Rest in Peace"? Thank you. 3 days. <small cheer>
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Date: 2004-02-14 04:21 pm (UTC)My earnest sympathies to you and other Angel fans. Anything (legal) in the world of entertainment that builds an audience of hardcore fans is probably okay by me. (Except LOTR -- all of you are wrong.)
In the past I just liked getting on your case about David Boreanaz and how old he looks. Also, I never mentioned this before, but he kind of has this nasally, pipsqueak voice. Um, anyway, my anti-Angel stance was mostly for the teasing.
From what I've gleaned about the show through LJ, it seems like this is a show that can (and has) gone in numerous directions and likely had a lot of life left in it. So in a way I'm vicariously sad, especially with the knowledge earlier this month that Charmed will see a season 7. (Side note: this tells me that the WB is more forgiving toward shows that exhibit female flesh, and maybe that Fred chick was too skinny.)
So I support you, from afar, in your grassroots efforts to raise Angel from the dead. The wrap-up TV movie idea the WB suggests would never work. Well, no one watched the one for The Pretender, the X-Files one is an idea at best, and they're still trying to get a Quantum Leap one off the ground.
If only there was a way to blame Dawson.
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Date: 2004-02-14 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-14 04:43 pm (UTC)Sorry to quote so much, but grrrr. I honestly had a hard time believing that in the same initial moments that the news was making its rounds, there were already people out there pushing (hard) for a Spuffy ending, or a whatever ending. And I liked Spuffy. Tacky doesn't even begin to describe how that rankled me. And then to be throwing things in like, it sucked so this was bound to happen, or it's happening because they screwed up the ending of Buffy....gah!
Just--::growls gurgly::
Anyway, like everyone else said--word. I've never written a postcard, but you can believe I plan on doing it now. This whole situation is just wrong. And reading Joss's response over on
Sorry for the repost--I spelled Lum's LJ name wrong and it bugged me...
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Date: 2004-02-14 04:46 pm (UTC)See, that's my problem. Without Buffy and Angel I am butterfly-less. The only other shows that even begin to approach butterflies is QaF or Dead Like Me. But I'm not really interested in joining those fandoms.
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Date: 2004-02-14 04:55 pm (UTC)You were one of the first people I thought of when I heard the news.
And I love you.
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Date: 2004-02-14 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-14 05:51 pm (UTC)*hugs you*
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Date: 2004-02-14 06:12 pm (UTC)... you hurt me so.
But not as much as WB hurts me. We'll make it, I know, but damn this sucks. It even sucks for Joss.
*holds up lighter and sways with you*
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Date: 2004-02-14 06:18 pm (UTC)I need The Bicycle Thief, I have Nighthawks and then the rest of the season I do not have. Also - THANK YOU.
And I forgot that I watch DLM. I totally forgot. This makes George sad so I will use my sad George icon.
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Date: 2004-02-14 06:43 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-14 08:05 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-14 08:08 pm (UTC)DVDs in May!
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Date: 2004-02-14 08:29 pm (UTC)Yay!
*does the dance of Rube!Love*
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Date: 2004-02-14 08:42 pm (UTC)Re: why we fight (for renewal)
Date: 2004-02-14 08:44 pm (UTC)If only there was a way to blame Dawson.
Somehow this is all Dawson's fault. Unless it is Joey Potter's fault. Maybe it is a conspiracy involving them both.
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Date: 2004-02-14 11:59 pm (UTC)Fuckin' WORD.
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Date: 2004-02-15 12:44 am (UTC)I love my show. I love my show. I love my show.
And I will always love those boys.
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.
*nods and cries*
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Date: 2004-02-16 06:59 pm (UTC)And you already knew all of that. Now, I'm off to be upset all by myself.
Re: why we fight (for renewal)
Date: 2004-02-17 05:57 pm (UTC)sorry about all of the "ANGEL is old" jokes. I know I hate it when series do not have satisfying endings. The X-Files even had like an extra year to plan it and still had a sucky ending. Moonlighting..ended badly. Quantum Leap..stupid ending. It's pretty painful to watch a show you love die. I haven't had one snatched away from me that wasn't already flailing a bit. I can't imagine how shitty it would feel. Blame Joey Potter, UB always does.