Willow ,'Beneath You'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Aw Tim. I really liked this week's episode. The others were good too, but not as great as the last one. Nevertheless, The Inside was on my TiVo Season Pass list (and Dacing with the B-Listers is nowhere to be found there).
Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to get at is keep making new shows, and I'll keep showing up to watch them.
Happy Independence Day!
Allyson/Kristen Buffista commentary
Podcast.
Sorry about the news. I thought the last episode was really good.
So hoping that there's a sudden and unexplainable mini-boom among the viewers during the next few weeks and that the Inside will be back with a second season next summer is both really naïve and a self-tortureish thing to wish for?
Damn.
Tim, I've really enjoyed following you from hard-drinking space western to a hard-drinking whimsical comedy to a hard-drinking abyss-peering noir. Unfortunately, the inability of good shows to stay on television may just lead me to hard drinking. I hope you get a new project soon, mostly so I can watch it. It's all about me.
I'm just numb. I continue to faithfully watch and pimp each new Minear show, but unfortunately I'm not at all surprised at this news. I like that Tim thinks about it as BBC-type miniseries DVD box sets. And I hate the masses.
The unwashed masses.
With their endless CSIs and L&Os. And their insipid reality shows. And their brainless laugh-tracked formulaic half-hour comedies.
Wow, this is making me bitter.
Ginger and Wolfram, thanks both. I do think good shows can stay on television. But they have to be launched. And it can be done. It's a network's job to bring the audience, it's our job to keep that audience and grow it. I've just had more bad launches than the space shuttle program. And re-entry is a bitch.
With their endless CSIs
Hey now, don't hate the player, hate the game.
You know, I'm very frustrated by the British short series ... except I do cheris the 13 disc sets of good shows that failed in the US. It's not as satisfying as running forever (and still rocking), but thank DOG we ehave the market and the technology to get these out.
And bless, Tim, for arcing with that in mind. Sure, it hurts to not have a show you enjoy, but that awful hanging feeling is a bit mitigated. And it makes it easier to pretend the network would have ruined it with notes later. Also sad to think that the writers you like don't have their show, but, hey, bring on the next one. One'll stick, or more'll come. I want to stay attached to that.