30 Days of TV Meme

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Snagged from calturner.

Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled

I have to admit, I had a hard time here. Because I think the cancellation that most devastated me was Veronica Mars. And I feel like I probably shouldn't complain, because we did get three seasons out of it, and in all fairness, the show was never as good as its first season, but I LOVED IT SO. I would have watched Veronica be awesome and snarky forever, and the shipper in me wishes that Veronica and Logan's on-again, off-again relationship had been in a better place when we had to say goodbye to them. Their love is EPIC, okay?

At the time, I thought the ending was really unsatisfying. It felt unsettling, as though in almost every situation, you KNOW that things are going to be worse than they were before. But then, that's very true to the show, and to Veronica's cynical outlook, and the two-part series finale is among my favorite VM episodes. But it kind of goes to what a lot of people have been saying about Joss Whedon lately - he's very, very good at tearing down characters, and terrible at building them back up again. And I felt like just about everyone on Veronica Mars, but especially Veronica and Keith, had been torn down by the end of season 3, and I desperately wanted to see them built back up, but we never got the chance.

Honorable Mentions: I really enjoyed Life and Kings - the former lasted two seasons, the latter only one, but I'd have watched much, much more.

And the rest of the days, for those who want to play along...

Day 02 - A show 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

[angearia.livejournal.com]

And I felt like just about everyone on Veronica Mars, but especially Veronica and Keith, had been torn down by the end of season 3, and I desperately wanted to see them built back up, but we never got the chance.

YES! This is why the ending of Vmars has always been unsettling for me. A huge part of the show was Veronica battling with her cynical outlook, but Season 3 was often about her falling prey to it and being proven right. Then she becomes so convinced her cynicism is justified that she loses sight of her father's fall from grace in order to protect her. So they both fall prey to cynicism and it's just heartbreaking.

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It seemed like Veronica's cynicism paid off more in the early seasons, but by Season 3, it was more obvious that it was making her paranoid and miserable and pretty much incapable of having any sort of relationship. It would have been nice to see her learn something from that and try to overcome her cynicism (and maybe be able to trust Logan enough to get back together? y/y), but I can always imagine that this moment was the breaking point. That, having ruined her father's career, she might try to change - and I can always believe that she went on to be a better person (and she and Logan are together!) for having gone through it.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I would have watched Veronica be awesome and snarky forever, and the shipper in me wishes that Veronica and Logan's on-again, off-again relationship had been in a better place when we had to say goodbye to them. Their love is EPIC, okay? YEAH.

And yes to your paragraph about the ending: I absolutely love the ending on a meta level, the whole "full circle" thing, and Veronica and that song and the rain. But I definitely see what you mean about dragging them down.

Maybe, eventually, I'll write post-series VMars fic to fix things. Though that would involve watching the episode sin S3 that I never watched....

AND OMG I'M TOTALLY DOING THIS MEME. This is totally my kind of thing.

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YES OMG WRITE FIC!!!

And you should totally do this meme!

[urania-calliope.livejournal.com]

<--- Needs to watch 'Veronica Mars' still.

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You totally do!

[silverusagi]

Yes, more VM would have been good!

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Definitely.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Kings was one of the most underrated shows I have ever seen, ever. My dad, who only watches auto racing or switching between the news channels, was hooked because of the Biblical background, and I was getting many people at church to watch it (my pastor teases me because I've admittedly converted more people to LOST than to Christianity, so my recommending a show with Biblical resonances was "using my power for good, not evil"). The best thing about the show was Ian McShane (WHY, EMMYS, DID YOU NOT NOTICE HIM???), and now I will willingly sit through Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (did we really need another one?), just to watch him play Blackbeard.

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I think the Biblical connection is probably why a lot of people didn't watch it, but while it was an interesting dramatic interpretation of the Bible, I didn't think it was particularly preachy (or even Christian in message at all - this is very much the OT God who smites people and doesn't have much patience for humanity).

I loved it as an AU. I thought the world-building was fascinating, if incomplete, and I was very interested in the characters, both for their own stories and the ways it related to the adapted source. And yeah, Ian McShane was AWESOME.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, VM totally deserved a more satisfying (aka happy) ending. The first season was so fantastic, I really wish it had lived up to its opening potential.

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Heh, I don't even need a happy ending. Just a hopeful one. :)

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

the shipper in me wishes that Veronica and Logan's on-again, off-again relationship had been in a better place when we had to say goodbye to them. Their love is EPIC, okay?

WORD.

I love VM. I should sit down and watch it all over again because I have only seen most of season 1 and most of season 3.. I do own s1 and s3. Need to find season 2, it keeps eluding me for some reason!

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Oh, you need to watch it, if only to see the speech where Logan describes their love as EPIC: "I thought our story was epic, you know, you and me.... Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined, bloodshed. Epic. But summer's almost here, and we won't see each other at all. And then you leave town... and then it's over."

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Oh I will watch it. I just want to find season 2 first!!

That speech makes me want to cry!!

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Oh, that is from season 2! But it's from near the end...

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

See? I need season 2!!