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bop_radar ([personal profile] bop_radar) wrote2009-02-08 10:25 am
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Melodrama

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.

[identity profile] ingridmatthews.livejournal.com 2009-02-07 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] bop-radar.livejournal.com 2009-02-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Such an appropriate icon.

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

[identity profile] rap541.livejournal.com 2009-02-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
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.