But now it's gone, the heroine on death's door in the hospital, a million loose ends, and the promise of some answers to the questions that have been haunting us all season just one more episode away. It's like reading a book and just as you are really getting into the story some big bully in a dark suit comes in and yanks it away from you without any explanation leaving you to wonder forever how it would turn out. Now imagine that happening every year over and over to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You see, I'm cursed. I pick show after show to watch that gets cancelled. Television is generally boring. I don't want to watch another sitcom with a dunder head husband, or a boring investigative cops show (there are about 40 of these), or a show about doctors or lawyers behaving badly behind the scenes of their actual jobs. So when something comes along that is different and entertaining it sucks me right in. Flashforward, Space Above and Beyond, Firefly, Dead Like Me, Star Gate Universe, Better Off Ted, Homicide, Caprica, Jericho, and Pushing Daisies were all ripped away without any remorse by the evil studio executives who make those decisions. Aside from Firefly which got a movie to wrap things up the others were just suddenly gone leaving holes in my conciousness. Even today for some of these shows that have been gone for years I still think about the characters and wonder what is going on in their lives. Silly? Yes it is but didn't the networks want me to get emotionally involved with their shows so I would keep watching them week after week and buy the products advertised in multiple 30 second ads throughout? Silly me for actually caring about the characters in your show as intended!!!
Is it too much to ask to give us one more episode to have some closure???? Just put it on the internet for goodness sake! Then at least I wouldn't be so angry at the network for pulling the plug. Instead of anger, I would then be able to say, "I understand the ratings were low and it had to go but they at least finished the story with that one last episode so it's ok". But that never happens. They just yank it and it's like a part of me is ripped away forever!
I'm not one to advocate for new laws and think there are too many laws already but if I could pass one law tomorrow it would require that any show that gets cancelled gets to film one more episode to wrap up the story line. At least then we would know what happened and would be able to go on with life not wondering what happened to our favorite characters.
Of course, maybe my real problem is my addiction to television......
