SyFy bringing Eureka to an end

Am I reading correctly that there is going to be another 13 episode season and then 6 additional episodes after that? If that is the case, I can live with that. We've had Eureka longer than I was expecting to, and I'd rather shows go out while they're still good.

Sometimes shows just end, Zenkitty. Nothing lasts forever. I know it's trendy to blame showrunners and networks for everything under the sun, but sometimes shit just happens.

I wasn't blaming anyone (okay, except stupid SyFy), and I do know that shows end. I'm just surprised. Eureka is really good, it does well and it doesn't seem to be losing viewers, and I can't understand the decision to end something that's doing well.

However, that was before I read that there will be another season of 13 episodes after this one, and then a 6th season of 6 episodes, if I'm understanding this correctly, so it's not the abrupt plug-pulling I initially understood it to be.

A blog post on Tiger Beatdown that pretty much well articulates the discomfort I've had with Moffet's Doctor Who.

I do not hate Rory as much as some of the commenters seem to, though.

Oh my god how can anyone hate Rory?

Oh my god how can anyone hate Rory?

Seriously! Without him, I don't care that much for Amy!

the show did not become truly amazing until Steven Moffat took over as lead writer and producer at the beginning of the fifth season, the same time that Matt Smith became the new Doctor.

Clearly, we don't hang in the same circles. I was super thrilled for Moffat and tired of RTD's maudlin attitude (that extended goodbye sequence in Tennant's final ep? Hurt my poor rolling eyeballs, even if there were parts I liked). And yet, Moffat has not lived up to my expectations.

[Martha] ended up married to Rose’s ex-boyfriend Mickey

Wait, what? Did this happen on TW? And didn't Mickey end up in the alt-universe? I'm so confused.

Can we all take a moment here to agree, unequivocally, that “feisty” is the single most condescending adjective in the English language, ranking even above “articulate” in its ability to convey disdain?

Hell no, I'd give that to "cute." Call me "feisty" and I might growl. Call me "cute" and I'm kicking you in the nads (present virtual company excepted). Tell me I'm "cute when I'm angry" and I will shoot laserbeams FROM MY EYEBALLS.

A small white room that bore a remarkable resemblance to a refrigerator.

Oh, damn. That is... a connection I had not made.

A woman who exists to bring a baby into the world (so that it can grow up and make out with Matt Smith) might as well be made of cardboard.

Excuse me, THAT'S her offhand summary of River Song? I get that this is an article about Amy Pond, but if you're complaining about how a female character is written while dismissing another fascinating female character, I feel like it weakens your argument.

I don't know. Reading all that, I can see why she might be annoyed, but it seems overly harsh to me. I mean, Rory has had many moments of insecurity, but if my best girl was super close with someone as charismatic as the Doctor, I'd be a little unsure, too.

OMG I generally love Sady Doyle but I do not get her hate-on for Rory. At. ALL. He's emasculated? Really? IDK.

Ack. Having a hard time separating meta- and intra-textual analysis. Tired.

But really, all that love for Donna and no bitterness over her fate? The shittiest fate possible for a companion and for her in particular, to forget that she'd ever been awesome or special or traveled the universe? And there was that ep where the writers had a chance to fix it, to have her remember, but no.

I'm probably not able to be objective about this, and I did watch Who back in the day, and remember the damsel-in-distressedness of previous companions, and I don't think Amy is all that bad. I also watch other contemporary tv shows who don't serve their characters as well. And while I'm at it, let me bring up Cordelia. TWO demon pregnancies and a season spent in a coma, thx.

::sigh:: tl; dr. Sorry for being all rantycakes. I do not intend to suggest that Who is not problematic, that Moffat is not capable of doing a better job of crafting storylines, that Pond would not be a better character with more agency. See my link in Press on enjoying problematic media.

But wait, there's MORE.

On River Song - I *like* that she knows things the Doctor doesn't. I don't find her two-dimensional at all. Who knows, maybe they'll fuck up everything now that mysteries are coming clear, but I'm finding the hints we find out interesting.

I just don't trust River with Moffet. I think a lot of her awesomeness is Alex Kingston, actually.

I read the interview (from 2004) with Moffet that was linked in the comments, and have placed him in the Scott Adams pile of artists.

Sady is bananas a lot, and I definitely rolled my eyes at her takedown of Rory in the comments, but I agreed with much of the original blog post (not written by Sady). I've had a lot of uneasiness about the past 2 seasons which I haven't been able to articulate, because something just felt so weird and off.

I think RTD definitely had issues with women too (which made the Donna ending so fucking awful), but Moffet's brought it to a whole new level. Just IMO. I mean, when the showrunner says shit like this:

So, post-New Man, post-Lad, where does the male of the species stand now? "Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male."

it just makes me sigh.

(ps- I less than three debating with smonster's spicy brains! I apologize that I'm actually not mentally up to the task right now though.)

So, post-New Man, post-Lad, where does the male of the species stand now? "Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male."

Oh, fucking A wut. I did not see the article link. I'll have to read it, and I suspect it will make me cry/wanna barf/come to loathe Moffat as well. ::sigh::