Melodrama

[bop_radar]

If my shows are allowed to have cheap melodrama, why can't I?

I'm so upset you guys! Two shows. MY TWO FAVOURITE SHOWS. At once. Destroying everything I love and hold dear about them. I am so upset I could cry. At first I was numb and snarky and bitter, and then I found humour briefly, but then I went back into rage, and now I think I'm reaching depression...

I'm halfway through a measured response to 'Requiem' to explain why I think it's the death of Smallville, but I keep getting distracted by the badness on Battlestar...

IT'S TOO MUCH!

They were both so amazing. Why did they have to throw it away? With SV I can rationalise that Al and Miles left... but with Battlestar? It's hard to understand how RDM could create this universe and then destroy it. Also, I feel way more alone in BSG because so many fans are clinging to hope still. At least in SV, we've more or less all been smacked in the face.

I mean, don't get me wrong, Requiem was TEN TIMES AS DREADFUL as BSG this week, but the BSG decline is more drawn out. Which is better? I don't know! *flails*

It's days like today it really sucks to be a completionist.

ETA: I don't normally quote TWOP. But it occurs to me that this sums up my position on both shows: So if you've ever loved the show and thought it was building to a fitting end for some of its major characters, congratulations. You got played. Go watch Friday Night Lights instead.

Comments

[ingridmatthews.livejournal.com]

I hear you. BSG was my rebound from SV. IS MY LUCK GOOD OR WHAT??!

I just have to either turn off my brain for the rest of my fannish life or just give up all together. I can't decide which.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

It's SO BAD. I just... I keep losing all power of speech in the face of the OVERWHELMING DREADFUL.

You can be thankful you stopped watching SV though... really.

And hey, Morgana icon! I adore her. *happy sigh* Pity I find the show terrible though... I feel like I am destined to unhappiness in Merlin fandom due to my Out of Control CRAZY love for Morgana. That can't end well...

[ingridmatthews.livejournal.com]

I have no expectations of Merlin except to be entertained. And that Morgana will be smokin' hot and smolder all dark magically and crazycakes and will have inappropriate UST with Uther.

And that Merlin will never learn. And that IT MIGHT BE CAUSED BY SOMETHING MAGICAL! Once the unicorns show up, it can only be filled with SPARKLES.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Hee. It's lucky you don't have expectations. I do. I want Merlin to be showed up for the stupid little squirt he is, and Morgana acknowledged for the amazing compassionate leader she has the potential to be. HAAAA. I didn't want to end up wanting that, but Merlin annoyed me SO much, and Morgana delighted me SO much, and... *helpless*

[ciaan]

I like Morgana a lot, and she is so awesome, and I do worry they will turn her EVOL in a dumb dumb dumb way.

[rap541.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I am pretty curious to see how the show gets trashed.

Because there's really nothing about the ellen storyline that sounds good.

Bop has called it. You know my prediction and Bop makes the point as well... RDM is trashing the show on it's way down

[ingridmatthews.livejournal.com]

I wonder why he just didn't let them cancel it at the end of 4.0 and do a movie. *shrug* The ratings have been abysmal long enough.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Such an appropriate icon.

I have no clue. He clearly wants to be getting on to his lameass movies...

[rap541.livejournal.com]

You checked out the downward curve, I take it?

I assume you get paid more for ten episodes vs a three hour movie. But honestly - if you start at the beginning of season four... there's been a fuckload of filler.