I am Matt in regards to Point Pleasant.

Me too! Me too!

I mean ... the premise isn't flawed (although I think it's tricky). But the writing lacked tension and the performances uniformly without charisma.

I tried to watch Point Pleasant. There were excessively pretty people who spent a lot of time in skimpy swimwear. There was even Richard Burgi, whom I've had the hots for since The Sentinel. There was evil. There was the devil's daughter, whose curse appeared to be that she was born with no facial expressions. After watching three episodes, I just couldn't bring myself to watch any more.

That's about where it lost me, too, Ginger. I tried to like it, but it failed to Charm(ed). Which, at least, I can actually watch when I accidentally catch reruns on TNT.

I suppose it could work in a meta context, if we take the motif of the End of the World coming in the form of a vapid teenage girl with the inner emotional life of a cucumber.

Loyalty to Marti only kept me for the first ten minutes, despite not being as generally unhappy with her, as it seems folks are here (if we remove PP from the equation, that is). I couldn't turn the channel away from PP quickly enough.

I am one of the ones who is unhappy with Marti, and honestly, I think she brought a lot of the Point Pleasant-esque stuff to Buffy, which often is what made me unhappy with her. However, that said, I watch Point Pleasant. It's TERRIBLE. But I watch it all the same, and enjoy doing so, for the same reasons that my roommate enjoys watching Passions. Point Pleasant, though, is prettier than Passions, so I think I win. And I think Elisabeth Harnois and Grant Show are the best actors on there, so I think it's unfair to critique her harshly. There are way worthier targets. So, it kind of makes me sad when people wish for it to be cancelled. I mean, they could just not watch, and I'd totally understand, but actively wishing it were cancelled makes me sad, because I'd lose a few laughs a week. I mean, I'd get over it, but still.

I don't think I've ever actively wished a show would get canned--not since I found fandom, and probably not even before. Another World? Homicide? Freaks and Geeks? (I still have a huge hate-on for NBC). They were mine, long before active participation in fandom, and they hurt more than either Firefly or Freaks and Geeks (although it may have been time for Homicide to go, I wasn't ready for it).

I lied. The Swan. The Swan and many of the more exploitative reality shows. I have not only wished but nearly prayed for them to get the ax.

The Swan is perfectly understandable, Cindy, and the exception to the rule.

prayed for them to get the ax.

Wouldn't help. The show went under the knife over and over again and it couldn't even have the decency to bleed to death.