Top Five Train Wrecks I’m Looking Forward to This Fall *SPOILERS*
5. “Viva Laughlin”
I don’t actually intend to watch this, but I needed a fifth spot on this list. So “Viva Laughlin” gets the fifth spot on this list and my nomination for the first show to be cancelled in the 2007-2008 television season.
4. “Prison Break”
“Prison Break” is one of those shows that even at its height I was more than willing to do something else when it was on. Aside from the gimmicky nature of the show “Prison Break” didn’t have much going for it. The first season did have moments that approached great television. The second season didn’t even try. Both seasons I should add were dragged down by having plot that hinged on a government conspiracy.
So I just don’t seem myself watching the third season. The second season was a season past the natural end of “Prison Break”. Which, given the title of the show, is pretty clear.
3. “Scrubs”
For “Scrubs” to work for me this season, one thing has to happen. J.D. and Elliot getting back together as a couple must be taken off the table. While their relationship as a couple was generally well handled, having another go at it is just insane.
These two characters were never good for each other. First time around, Elliot couldn’t accept J.D. as he was as a human being. Second time around, J.D. and Elliot get together just so J.D. could tell her he doesn’t love her and then break up. All this happened in fairly short order for maximum comedic and dramatic effect. Getting them together for a third time will kill the show for me. The last straw for a creatively bankrupt show that puts its hopes into the inevitable television Hail Mary that somehow by putting together the couple who shouldn’t be together will solve the show’s rating problems. Or hell, maybe it's just something to do.
2. “Grey’s Anatomy”
Given the fallout of last season, and the departure of two main characters, “Grey’s” has a lot to do. For a show where its titular character is probably the most unpopular character on the show (Meredith personally doesn’t bother me) the ensemble cast more than makes up for any of her perceived deficiencies. An ensemble, as I've pointed out is now smaller.
Though for season three, I can buy Meredith being a little suicidal. It works. What I don’t really buy is her being deliberately obtuse for the closing of the season. She has generally faced her problems more or less directly, if acknowledging that she is not the architect of the solutions to her problems. The architects being Dr. Sheppard, who got to muddle around like a dog (not a Beagle) stuck between two bowls of food for most of the second season, and her mother.
Which reminds me. What was up with Meredith's fake mom? That was unnessesary. A little too much drama in storyline that should have only been driven by the characters involved. Estranged father and daughter building up a relationship of sorts. It didn't need the false drama, just quiet conversations between people who don't really know each other very well.
I also hated the season three finale. I like Dr. Burke and Christina as a couple. They were a hard couple. They struggled at every step building their relationship. I just don’t buy Burke throwing it all away with hardly another word (Okay, this is probably Isaiah Washington’s fault but it still could have been done more gracefully).
Overall the fourth season has to have some happy endings, and happy endings that make sense. Not those happy endings that get tossed in just to have a happy ending. Or just as good, unhappy endings. But unhappy endings that make sense.
1. “Lost”
I personally didn’t like the last season’s finale. Or I should say I didn’t like the big twist with the “flashback.” This doesn’t strike me so much as throwing the audience a bone, as “Lost” is just throwing in another question which they will be long in not answering. Needless to say something amazing will have to happen with the opening of the fourth season for me to stay on board. Once a television show starts messing around with its natural end, it doesn’t bode well with me.
I don’t actually intend to watch this, but I needed a fifth spot on this list. So “Viva Laughlin” gets the fifth spot on this list and my nomination for the first show to be cancelled in the 2007-2008 television season.
4. “Prison Break”
“Prison Break” is one of those shows that even at its height I was more than willing to do something else when it was on. Aside from the gimmicky nature of the show “Prison Break” didn’t have much going for it. The first season did have moments that approached great television. The second season didn’t even try. Both seasons I should add were dragged down by having plot that hinged on a government conspiracy.
So I just don’t seem myself watching the third season. The second season was a season past the natural end of “Prison Break”. Which, given the title of the show, is pretty clear.
3. “Scrubs”
For “Scrubs” to work for me this season, one thing has to happen. J.D. and Elliot getting back together as a couple must be taken off the table. While their relationship as a couple was generally well handled, having another go at it is just insane.
These two characters were never good for each other. First time around, Elliot couldn’t accept J.D. as he was as a human being. Second time around, J.D. and Elliot get together just so J.D. could tell her he doesn’t love her and then break up. All this happened in fairly short order for maximum comedic and dramatic effect. Getting them together for a third time will kill the show for me. The last straw for a creatively bankrupt show that puts its hopes into the inevitable television Hail Mary that somehow by putting together the couple who shouldn’t be together will solve the show’s rating problems. Or hell, maybe it's just something to do.
2. “Grey’s Anatomy”
Given the fallout of last season, and the departure of two main characters, “Grey’s” has a lot to do. For a show where its titular character is probably the most unpopular character on the show (Meredith personally doesn’t bother me) the ensemble cast more than makes up for any of her perceived deficiencies. An ensemble, as I've pointed out is now smaller.
Though for season three, I can buy Meredith being a little suicidal. It works. What I don’t really buy is her being deliberately obtuse for the closing of the season. She has generally faced her problems more or less directly, if acknowledging that she is not the architect of the solutions to her problems. The architects being Dr. Sheppard, who got to muddle around like a dog (not a Beagle) stuck between two bowls of food for most of the second season, and her mother.
Which reminds me. What was up with Meredith's fake mom? That was unnessesary. A little too much drama in storyline that should have only been driven by the characters involved. Estranged father and daughter building up a relationship of sorts. It didn't need the false drama, just quiet conversations between people who don't really know each other very well.
I also hated the season three finale. I like Dr. Burke and Christina as a couple. They were a hard couple. They struggled at every step building their relationship. I just don’t buy Burke throwing it all away with hardly another word (Okay, this is probably Isaiah Washington’s fault but it still could have been done more gracefully).
Overall the fourth season has to have some happy endings, and happy endings that make sense. Not those happy endings that get tossed in just to have a happy ending. Or just as good, unhappy endings. But unhappy endings that make sense.
1. “Lost”
I personally didn’t like the last season’s finale. Or I should say I didn’t like the big twist with the “flashback.” This doesn’t strike me so much as throwing the audience a bone, as “Lost” is just throwing in another question which they will be long in not answering. Needless to say something amazing will have to happen with the opening of the fourth season for me to stay on board. Once a television show starts messing around with its natural end, it doesn’t bode well with me.