Meh.

[wiliqueen]

The sentiment should be more forceful, I suppose, but at the moment it's just kinda not. Partly because I went to bed with a migraine (ETA: Aaaaaand it's back. Ow. Note to self: Get new Midrin scrip.), and thus woke up groggy and weird, and am still just kinda "meh" about everything, including the news that Lifetime will only air the last two BT

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[studiesinlight]

Journeyman fans have been promised a DVD release, though, even if the series doesn't get a second half of its first season -- which is a weird perspective thing all on its own! Remembering how people used to fight to get series with multiple seasons released.

I'm very sorry they made this decision.

I did watch the first ep of the "second season," but that's as far as I've gotten so far. I'd better watch them all up before Lifetime changes its mind about sharing them on the site. Darn it.

[studiesinlight]

By "I'm very sorry they made this decision," the decision I mean is to not air things on television, not the decision to air them online! (Obviously. But just in case that came out all wrong.)

[wiliqueen]

It was clear, but 'sokay.

It's an annoying development to be sure, but I think ultimately it's just that I've been resigned for a while to taking what I can get. I was happy to do my postcard and pimping duty, but I did my time in passionate-crusade mode long ago. ;-}

[cjmr]

So do you suppose this was partly intended as a kick in the teeth to the writers' guild?

[wiliqueen]

It's doubtful. With BT in particular, it's moot because the Canadian writers are behind the Americans on principle, but they have a very different compensation structure, already at a disadvantage on the residuals frontAs for why they're bothering to put them online -- we've known all along that it generated much more interest there. That was actually the reason they bought the back nine in the first place; they wouldn't have done it based on the traditional aired ratings alone

[maiac]

"There's also been a substantial changing of the guard at the top since they bought the back nine, let alone since they bought the show in the first place, and I have to wonder if that's the explanation for the failure to promote it."

I vaguely recall that Tanya said as much at Windycon.

[studiesinlight]

Are you suggesting that pulling the end of the filmed Journeyman episodes, but promising to release them on DVD, is strike-relevant because the writers get a measly three pennies per DVD, but not as little for a network airing? I had not thought of that! You may well be right.

But as wiliqueen wrote, it's hard to imagine them jettisoning new episodes of any stripe at this time . . . and yet they're doing it. They must really not like the show. Which is typical of my tastes versus the economic interests of network executives.