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OK, so it's a year old (05-06) and canceled. But I found it at the video store this week, and although it started slow, I am rather seriously hooked. I'm in the next to last episode, and it's almost so tense I can't watch it. I also can't stop watching it.
I think it works because they *do* give more info each episode (more than Lost, way more than X-Files), and because the people who are different aren't assimilating monsters like the Body Snatchers, but still people. Just not people you'd feel quite safe having in your house. Too bad they live there.
Don't know how I'll calm down enough to sleep tonight -- considering that I *know* they'll end the season on a cliffhanger, with Muriel and Russell and Dave and the entire town of Homestead on the brink of disaster.
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One of the stars is on 24 this year and when I saw her I screamed "Don't trust her! She's a HYBRID!"
I'm really bummed this show was canceled. I *liked* the slow build up, but I guess no one else did cuz it got killed... So we'll never know what happens with the cliff hanger...
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I'm not watching new TV shows anymore. I'll wait to see if they get picked up for a full season then I'll check them out. I hate getting hooked on a great show only to see the network cancel it after six episodes.
I waste my time, my effort, and get jerked around. Obviously TV execs don't care about their viewers, who are the people that keep them in business, so I've decided not to care about them.
I think TV in general needs a huge revamping. FIrst of all, why do I have to pay a ton of money to get like 500 channels when I only watch maybe a dozen of them? Digital cable in Detroit gets me something like 500 channels, but the only channel I watch on it is the special discovery channel and the military channel. So I considered cancelling it for regular cable, but I found that regular cable cuts off at channel 70, which means no sci-fi channel. The difference in price is like 10 dollars.
So I considered cancelling cable all together. I watch USA, Bravo, SPIKE, and Lifetime (only once and awhile, and History Channel, Comedy Central, Fox Sports Network, the Discovery Channel and ESPN fairly often. I just don't get why I have to pay for 500 channels when I watch less than a dozen of them with any regularity. I should be able to pick just the channels I want, a la carte, and pay for those. If there are channels out there that really suck, and can't survive without being subsidized, then they shouldn't be on the air. Isn't that what the free market is all about?
Furthermore, I am sick of them cancelling great shows. For shows that only have like six and seven million viewers, why not put them online and charge a dollar for them? If seven million people pay a dollar to watch a show, that has to add up, and you don't have to bump anything on TV for it, you don't have to worry about FCC regulation, you don't have to worry about a lot of things. It would be a bonus. I'd actually prefer it that way. I would gladly pay a dollar, maybe even two, to watch a bunch of shows that I love that would be commercial free. At the end of the season I'll have paid 20 dollars, and I'll probably have to pay 20 more to actually buy the DVDs, so they actually get to double dip really.
I just hate the way television works these days. I wasn't even thinking about it when I started watching Raines and The Black Donnellys. Both are pretty damned good, and I bet both are cancelled after an eight episode run due to poor ratings.
TV is committing mass suicide, and I think I'm content to let it die.
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