What a great decision! Finally a TV show that is not going to piss me off. See, for those of us that follow the shows that are clear genius but no one else watches because they don’t have time or they don’t like the storyline, we know that our show is always in danger of being bumped off so we make sure that we constantly watch the new episodes as soon as we can so the ratings don’t go down. And with the social media network nowadays, we also speak up and tell everyone we can about the show so that way we make sure that they get watched. But what bugs me to no end is the fact that when writers and producers of the show know that they’re probably going to get cancelled or they’ve already heard the sound off, they always let the season/series end with a huge cliffhanger making you pissed off for the rest of your days because you never get to know what happens next. Shows that do that always upset me and I’m mad at the ending because I want more and I want…no I NEED to know what happens next but the station made a final decision already and that’s that.
Shows that have left me hanging are shows like:
· Heroes—Clair exposes them to the world in the season/series finale by jumping off a Ferris wheel in front of cameras. They had already set up an X-Men like theme with the carnival people wanting to be better than normal humans so why end it there!? Here’s hoping that another writer’s strike doesn’t “ruin” Touch. But I liked Heroes all the way until the ending, except for volume Four: Fugitives when Nathan acts like a punk. But Heroes and Touch were both created by Tim Kring and they’re both fantastic shows. Many people believed that the writers’ strike ‘ruined’ Heroes but I don’t believe that. But here’s to hoping another strike doesn’t happen.
· Flashforward—OH MY GOSH! For those of you that watched the show you know that it had a lot of questions and when another blackout happens at the ending while Mark is trying to run out of the FBI building that’s about to explode and his daughter years later is saying “They found him” you’re like, WTF!? But no, they’re cancelled so you don’t get to know where the world is going from there after seeing their futures’ again.
· V—Seriously I don’t even need to say much about this, Anna almost dies and the little hybrid girl is somehow able to bliss all the humans in the world, Lisa watches as her replacement sleeps and kills the boy she loves and Erica is the only human not blissed as more ships appear to enslave the human race…and that’s it! FAIL! You don’t end with a cliffhanger like that, it’s just cruel. So. Many. Questions!
· No Ordinary Family—It finishes with them finally figuring out how they got their powers, the quick Cancer killing of Dr. King, and the next experiment releases a bunch of now super powered dangerous criminals into the world. “Sidekick” George may finally have some powers himself because he was accidently on the plane that carried the formula. The Government shows up to the Powell house letting them know they know who the family is and what they can do and the government needs their help. Setting it up for a more action packed season two and they dropped it. It was totally a live action Incredibles but as usual people want the crap that’s filled with sex and not the good wholesome family stuff. (sigh) Oh well.
· Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior—Pssssh, that season/series finale was just as explosive as all the Criminal Minds’ season enders are, and this one was just as surprising as the one when Garcia got shot. You don’t know if they made it in time or what!?
· Sym-bionic Titan—Ended with Octus coming back and them showing the world they’re here to help. Made Octus tell Kimmy he’d be home soon but that was it. Tartakovsky had ten more episodes but Cartoon Network didn’t pick them up, and they should have been because all the other shows on CN suck, besides Young Justice.
It’s terrible that shows a lot of the times will just leave it up to you to decide how the story ends and it’s horrible. I’m a writer, but sometimes a story that belongs to another writer I would like to see them finish it because they know the characters better than me. I’m not someone who likes the season-comics they have after the show ends like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer or the Angel: After the Fall or Smallville comics. But what I do like is this:
Fringe has decided to shoot two finales to this season’s ender depending on if they get picked up or not.
Lance Reddick who plays Agent/Colonel Broyles let it slip that they had shot the two different finales. “‘Something happens at the very, very end of the season finale,’ he said. ‘It may or may not stay; I don’t know. It could open up an entire new season.’ Reddick continued, ‘It could be a cliffhanger, but the thing that’s beautiful about the way that the season ends is that it seems to answer almost all the questions that started in Season 1… except for that one story’” (Slashfilm.com). Whatever “that one story” could be I have no idea. But the fact that they created two different ends excites me.
Many of you may freak out because you think everyone is counting them out, but I don’t. Because if anything this gives Fox a better chance at seeing what they want to do with Fringe. “Reddick let it slip to Zap2It that they’ve shot two different endings — one a proper series finale, one a more cliffhanger-y setup for Season 5” (Slashfilm.com). Depending on how they go Fox can either say, “Ooh, this next story looks exciting, we’ll give it a shot,” or they’ll say, “Alright, I think it can end here.” They’re going to see the episodes before anyone else does which will allow them to make an informative decision because they’ll have enough information to choose right because too many time shows get cancelled just because of the ratings are low. Much like when Josh Whedon tried to force WB to renew Angel and they decided to cancel them.
People aren’t going to agree with the show all the time, not all stories are going to make you feel all warm and tingly inside so when a writer takes it some place, take the ride as well until they get the chance to go back to where they were trying to take you and where you started. It’s like my mom not wanting to continue to watch the old episodes of Angel just because of the fact Wesley isn’t part of the group right now. Guess what mom, not watching the episodes isn’t going to change the fact Wesley isn’t on the team, but here’s a shocker, watching them will! If you want a show to get back to what you want it to be then go ahead and b***h about it all you want, maybe the writers and producers will hear you somehow; but still watch it so that way they can get there. Geesh! Don’t just say, “Well, screw them!” and leave it all alone not even giving them a chance. Everyone deserves to be redeemed, even TV’s and Movies.
But I’m excited mostly because if they do decided to go ahead and end Fringe which I hope they don’t, it’s a fantastic show and we need more shows that have drama but don’t melt your brain at the same time like ABC’s Scandal or NBC’s The Playboy Club; we’ll get to see a proper ending not an “Oops, we messed up sorry, we should have known have done something else just in case.” If anything if they haven’t made the decision by May 11th and they cancel them ex post facto, then on the season four DVD and Blu-Ray they’ll at least release the alternate ending for people to see.
So here’s to hoping they make a decision at least before May 11th so I’m not pissed for several months. Although, Slashfilm.com says, “But Fringe fans shouldn’t take the producers preparedness as a bad sign. In fact, Zap2It says it’s ‘likely’ the series will get a final, 13-episode fifth season to wrap things up.” Even that’s not good enough to me; I want Fringe to end on its own terms like Smallville or Scrubs the first time before they did Med School.
With tonight’s episode about the Observers enslaving the human race I’m just geeking out and I can’t believe that Fox is even considering cancelling the show; but until we hear what the answer is, According to Michael III, this just shows how intelligent the writers of Fringe are. They’re getting prepared!
—Michael III
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