On Vox: TV Fairy Meme
Taken from mylittleredgirl:
The story: A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.
Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!
You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! The rest of the series(es) will not be altered. What do you choose?
Angel, "A Hole in the World" - even if the rest of the series can't be altered, this was a giant plot contrivance and blatant manipulation of the Wes/Fred shippers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Seeing Red" - the scene with the attempted rape was just atrociously handled, and spawned endless wankery.
Lost, "Stranger In a Strange Land" - it may just be recency effect, but this was an awful episode that served no purpose.
You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history!* *CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
Firefly. A cliche choice, but I'd pick it over John Doe and Century City.
To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can weild your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
I'd cancel Sliders after season four, before they replace Jerry O'Connell. What is it about sci-fi shows in the 90s and godawful final seasons?
LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
Resurrect: John Winchester, Supernatural
Kill off: Lana Lang, Smallville
Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Removed plot arc: The "Circle of the Black Thorn" plot arc at the end of Angel.
Plug in: A decent resolution to either John Doe or Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Send the fairy to some other DVRs:
Anyone that does fandom stuff - not sure who does and who doesn't.
Originally posted on jeffpack.vox.com