30 Days of TV - Day 16

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Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
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

I don't watch many guilty pleasure shows, but oh, once upon a time, there was Jericho. It started out promising - a nuclear attack has devastated the United States, and it's the story of a small Kansas town trying to survive in what's basically a post-apocalyptic world (which, as you know, is my kink). But it was so laughably bad that it was impossible to take it seriously. The insane troll logic on that show tended to make Joss Whedon plots look like works of sheer brilliance. I have to admit, the brief second season showed some promise, and that might've been a show I could watch unironically. But honestly, the best part was watching Jake and Awesome Hawkins being awesome, while everyone else acted like bumbling idiots.

It still cracks me up that, with all the brilliant-but-canceled shows out there, this is the one that gets saved by a fan campaign. I was half hoping that the second season would end on a cliffhanger, too, just to see the fans (all twelve of them) go nuts (heh) again.

Honorable Mention: 24 started out as a real favorite show, but now it's just so ridiculous that it's also impossible to take seriously.

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

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

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How, all this time, have I missed the fact that post-apocalyptic scenarios are your kink? penny_lane_42 and I talk about them all the time, but I had no idea you shared the enthusiasm.

It begs the question: why've you never written one?

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Because I'm not good at them, lol. I think post-apocalyptic fics work best when the apocalypse is only hinted at rather than described in detail, you know? Where you get little tidbits of information that suggest epicness, and you use your imagination to fill in the rest. (liz_marcs is particularly good at this, as I noted when I read the fic of hers that I just recced.) I'm not good at that kind of writing.

[snickfic]

Ooh! Ooh ooh ooh! Have you read deird1's Come Crashing Down? It's 1500 words of exactly what you're talking about: brief lines that suggest whole apocalyptic landscapes. It's got character death and other really angsty things and is not the thing to read when you're feeling down, but I think it may be the post-apocalyptic fic of my year.

(Also, there's now a remix fic of it, Otherwise a Perfect Sky, which is less hinty but does an interesting job of totally reinterpreting Deird's story.)

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I don't think I have, but I will definitely check them both out. Thanks!

ETA: Ah, just kidding, I have read Deird's fic, just didn't remember the title. But I'm looking forward to the remix.

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

I saw some episodes of that show a while back. It did look completely ridiculous. I can't believe they managed to get a second season...

Finished d/l season 3 of Chuck today. *\o/*

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OMG it was hilarious. They canceled the show on a cliffhanger, and so the fanbase went INSANE and mailed twenty tons of nuts to CBS. So CBS was like, "OMG STOP SENDING US PEANUTS! We'll put your damn show back on. Just please, PLEASE, we're begging you, NO MORE NUTS." They made a 7-episode second season, and it got canceled. Again. But this time they made TWO endings, one that was a cliffhanger (in case it got renewed) and one that tied everything up (in case it didn't).

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Yeah I read about that yesterday... I was telling my friend Heather about the Chuck/Subway thing and googled it and found this (http://www.tvguide.com/news/subway-save-chuck-1005397.aspx) about the other fan led campaigns to save a show. *g*