This must be what going mad feels like.
Who has two thumbs and has finally decided to do the Thirty-Day TV Meme?
This moi!
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
So here's the thing: I think most canceled shows deserve what they get, more or less. Even of the ones I love--Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies--I generally see the networks' point.
But I often wonder whether anybody at FOX realizes, now, exactly how wrong-headed it was to cancel Firefly at particular moment--a show with a pedigree, a distinct and focused narrative, and a growing and (heaven knows) vocal fandom. I think it could have been an enormous success for them, had it been given a little oxygen. It certainly could have been an enormous success for lots of other people, including but not limited to people who like sci-fi, people who like westerns, people who like genre-bending, people who like Nathan Fillion, people who like Adam Baldwin, people who like accusing Joss of racism, people who like funny things, people who like sad things, people who have hearts, people who like brown coats, people who like ass-kicking crazy girls, and people who like cunning hats.
(I also wonder what Firefly might have been for Joss, had it lived--certainly, the way things went down were not all downside for him, as there's a certain amount of martyr glory that follows him to this day, but having now seen like seventeen percent of Buffy, I now feel totally, inappropriately confident in saying that Firefly was a more mature work from him. I'm interested in the trajectory of his creativity--i.e., would Dollhouse have been better if Firefly hadn't been cut short?)
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
In any case, I went to the internship meeting this morning, which convinced me that this project will at least be a) fun and b) probably not that time-consuming, if also not exactly c) organized in any recognizable way. There are three other interns, all of whom I liked; Jamie, the filmmaker, is nice and passionate and has all manner of ideas (and, to be fair, has already made one movie for PBS), and I think (probably wisely) brought us in to impose some semblance of order on his own overwhelming vision/lack of an existing to-do list. He didn't exactly have tasks for us, but we're supposed to e-mail him this week with some tasks we think we could/should do--which I think is probably par for the course on this project. In a nice way.
Documentaries, yay?
Maybe I could be the new Christiane Amanpour.
This moi!
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
So here's the thing: I think most canceled shows deserve what they get, more or less. Even of the ones I love--Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies--I generally see the networks' point.
But I often wonder whether anybody at FOX realizes, now, exactly how wrong-headed it was to cancel Firefly at particular moment--a show with a pedigree, a distinct and focused narrative, and a growing and (heaven knows) vocal fandom. I think it could have been an enormous success for them, had it been given a little oxygen. It certainly could have been an enormous success for lots of other people, including but not limited to people who like sci-fi, people who like westerns, people who like genre-bending, people who like Nathan Fillion, people who like Adam Baldwin, people who like accusing Joss of racism, people who like funny things, people who like sad things, people who have hearts, people who like brown coats, people who like ass-kicking crazy girls, and people who like cunning hats.
(I also wonder what Firefly might have been for Joss, had it lived--certainly, the way things went down were not all downside for him, as there's a certain amount of martyr glory that follows him to this day, but having now seen like seventeen percent of Buffy, I now feel totally, inappropriately confident in saying that Firefly was a more mature work from him. I'm interested in the trajectory of his creativity--i.e., would Dollhouse have been better if Firefly hadn't been cut short?)
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
In any case, I went to the internship meeting this morning, which convinced me that this project will at least be a) fun and b) probably not that time-consuming, if also not exactly c) organized in any recognizable way. There are three other interns, all of whom I liked; Jamie, the filmmaker, is nice and passionate and has all manner of ideas (and, to be fair, has already made one movie for PBS), and I think (probably wisely) brought us in to impose some semblance of order on his own overwhelming vision/lack of an existing to-do list. He didn't exactly have tasks for us, but we're supposed to e-mail him this week with some tasks we think we could/should do--which I think is probably par for the course on this project. In a nice way.
Documentaries, yay?
Maybe I could be the new Christiane Amanpour.