Thirty Days of TV: Day One

[selenak]

Found via network. It's been a whle since I did a thirty days meme, so here we go:

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled

Oh, several, but the one whose cancellation is still making me wail at the injustice of it all is The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Because it was smart and did inventive things with pop and older myths, was full of interesting characters both female and male, was gorgeously filmed and one of the few shows with a "the few trying to save the world" narrative at its center that never, ever lost sight of the "civilians" and kept them in sight, real and three dimensional instead of making them a bystanding crowd to either be saved or to hinder. This was a show where we spent an entire episode on the aftermath of the deaths of redshirts whereas when one of the regulars got killed, because of the lives they lead, not even the other regulars had time to do anything but run. IT WAS AWESOME.



Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.

Comments

[goodbyebird]

God I miss this show.

[selenak]

So do I. It was so very, very good.

[goodbyebird]

I'll be rewatching the whole shebang now due to tightpresent, so looking forward to that at least!

[weewarrior]

I miss the show very much.

[selenak]

I recently rewatched an episode and was wailing WHY at the end of it. So good!

[blueswan]

...the one whose cancellation is still making me wail at the injustice of it all is The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

This. Yes. So much this. I miss this show so much.

[selenak]

It was fannish perfection to me.

[likeadeuce]

Seriously, I miss that show. And where it ended kills me.

[selenak]

The ending was admittedly a gift for fanfiction, but that's not the same.:(

[raincitygirl]

Damn, I still miss that show. It was cancelled several years ago, so you'd think I wouldn't miss it so much anymore, but I do. Thanks for the write-up.

P.S. I nearly came to blows with my brother when I lent it to him and he handed it back to me a few weeks later saying it just wasn't his kind of thing. I wanted to DISOWN him!

[selenak]

I hear you, I hear you! I think if it had gotten several seasons more, a full life, then I wouldn't mind people dismissing it so much, but as it is, every time I see someone trashing it as part of trashing the post T2 Terminator franchise, as if SCC is remotely comparable to the later films, I just...

[thuviaptarth]

What you said.