Season Finales
This week has demonstrated for me exactly why I hate TV so much.
On Monday we had the finale of Heroes, and man was it nice. I like how they ended it like a good comic book story. The story is finished…there is no real cliff hanger or anything like that, but they still leave enough open and foreshadowed for the next season to keep your interest. Similarly, last night we had the season finale of Lost, and FUCK was that good. I didn’t get into Lost when it first started…it wasn’t until my friend NamantH let me borrow his season 1 DVDs that I got hooked. But now…damn!
So here’s the first point of why I hate TV - if it is a good serialized series they punish you by making you wait for the next season. At one point the little woman (and for those who don’t get the reference I call her that because of one of my favorite Daffy cartoons) didn’t let us watch the finale for Las Vegas until just before the start of the next season. I should have done that with both Heroes and Lost.
So what’s the other thing? Well, there are a lot of shows I start to like but get yanked for who knows what reason. Hell…I can’t express how happy we were when they announced that Studio 60 was coming back. I don’t know why but I really like the show. Shit…I know one of the reasons…I like the nice contest of faith v/ faithlessness between Matt and Harriet (if I remember the names correctly). Why? Well, it’s kind of my thing I guess.
So anyway, if you haven’t been watching either Heroes or Lost I’d recommend it. Ignore what most of the fucknauts have been saying about them since as we all know that a lot of negative criticism on the net is written by attention seeking dorks, and not by people who actually try to enjoy their entertainment. We can of course reference the fine article by my illustrious office-mate, Mike about that one (that and I want to give him a trackback to see what happens).