Day 11 of 30 Days of TV Shows

Day 11 – A show that disappointed you

I don’t often get excited about TV shows. See all the business in the previous entries about not being a huge fan of TV in general, but there are a few that I have anticipated eagerly. Star Trek: The Next Generation, for instance. Firefly. Deep Space Nine. I’m trying to think of something not science fiction and pretty much failing. Anyway, the point is, if I don’t get that excited, it’s hard to be disappointed. I just shrug and move on.

But there are a couple. I wish Heroes had been better after the first season. My personal theory is that they shot themselves in the foot at the end of the first season by not doing something definitive with Sylar and opening the playing field up a bit more for new antagonists. I felt pretty early in the second season that he would just sort of hang over the whole enterprise, and I didn’t like that, so I stopped watching. Apparently, for my reasons and others, I wasn’t wrong to do so.

The biggest, I think, though had to be Stargate: Atlantis. I really… really wanted that to be better. And mostly it just sucked. Starting with a character who was created to be the opposite of Samantha Carter (who is rightly beloved by many if, strangely, not all) in Rodney McKay, and making his whiny, egotistical, cowardly self part of the focus of the show. Move on through the decision to give most of the characters those dumbass, quasi-Star Trek uniforms (which I notice are nowhere to be seen on Stargate: Universe, hooray), and carry on through a host of seriously questionable choices by the characters that are, at times, meant to be heroic.

And seriously? What is it with this franchise and black Marines? First there’s Lt. Johnson in the fourth episode of the first season of SG1, where he’s the first one to succumb to the evolutionary-regression silliness, then there’s Lt. Ford in Atlantis, who has to get abducted by the bad guys at the end of the first season and turned into some mega asshole drug addict barely-a-guest-star, and then there’s MSgt. Greer on SGU, who is introduced to the audience in lock-up. Seriously? What the fuck?

Anyway, for those reasons, and really so many more, I think SGA is and maybe always will be my biggest disappointment.

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More Detroit 1-8-7

Boy, am I talking a lot about TV or what?

Anyway. This past weekend, the Detroit Free Press had interviews with Michael Imperioli and Erin Cummings, two stars of the upcoming cop drama series. I realize that the kind of things they’re saying in the interview are the kinds of things they would be saying about just about any town at the launch of a new location-produced show, but it is such a big deal for Detroit, that I think it’s cool that ABC is obviously making an effort to appeal to the people of Metro Detroit. The city has gone through so much, it’s kind of neat to see a couple of actors say that they want to keep the show alive and keep working in the area through the long haul.

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