Rachel Nichols is now on Alias

Oh if only I could get your approval, then my life would be complete.

Oh I hope that isn't true. That would be so sad for you. :-(

I wasn't trying to chide anyone else’s taste. Merely pointing out that you did not get the show.

BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO GET. I understand what they were trying to do. I also understand, as did most critics, and nearly all viewers, that they failed miserably.

I watched several episodes, or tried to. I seem to recall that you think somebody can't decide if they like a show or not until they've watched every single episode that ever airs of it. ;)

Those are all quality shows, although I can't speak for Deadwood I don't have HBO in Canada.

Well, the first season is on DVD. It outsold Firefly's DVD by a huge margin.

I like The Inside, and Firefly primarily because they entertain me.

So? Some people like "The King of Queens" or "American Idol" because those shows entertain them. I'm not telling you or anybody else what to be entertained by. I'm just telling you to stop pretending you're watching anything more than disposable, rather ordinary entertainment, that just didn't happen to catch on. And to stop taking it personally when a show that got critically slammed, and ignored by audiences gets the axe. What on earth are you missing? What did this show do that hadn't been done better in movies you could rent on DVD anytime you wanted?

And they do that by providing me with interesting characters and good writing. I like the West Wing, Alias and 24 for the same reasons.

I used to like Alias, but that show is just dead to me now--the characters have been ruined. West Wing has had its ups and downs, but I was drawn back into it by the Santos arc. Those were much better shows than The Inside, but they could be ten times as good, and it still wouldn't be a crime against art if they were canceled.

You are free not to like them, or disagree with my choices, but I really think you are missing the mark with the derivative pablum comment.

Well, you're free to think that. But I sat there, knowing that this show was being made by people whose talents I admire, and after a short time I was shaking my head in disbelief, because it was HORRIBLE. I get this subgenre. I watched Millennium. I even watched Profiler sometimes, even though it was never much good--still twice as good as The Inside.

Personally, I don't like Bob Dylan, but I would never consider him to be a hack songwriter.

Well, that's mighty big of you. :-\

You do get that I wasn't calling any of the people working on The Inside hacks, right? Good writers can do bad work.

The point is, I can distinguish between what I don't like and what is of poor quality.

I honestly see no evidence of that. I think you and I mean different things by the word "quality".

I think you have yet to learn that difference. Firefly, in particular, was highly praised for its writing by many people, including the likes of Mercedes Lackey. But maybe we're all wrong and you are right.

What do you mean "We're all wrong"? The people who think Firefly was great constitute a tiny minority of television viewers, and most critics ranged from lukewarm to loathing about it. You're not wrong because you're the minority, but you could at least acknowledge you ARE a minority. That lots of people who love Whedon, and love space opera, HATED Firefly. We didn't cancel it. We just didn't watch it, because it held no appeal for us. We didn't reject it for any reason other than that we found the premise and the characters unconvincing and uninteresting.

Casablanca, Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane would all make lousy TV Shows.

There actually was a TV show based on Casablanca, you know. It was pretty lousy, or so I've heard, but beside the point much? ;)

Hill Street Blues wouldn't work as short story. TV, movies, novels, epic poems, haiku, and opera all different styles, so what if what works in one doesn't work in the other?

Or in the case of Firefly, something that doesn't work in ANY medium.

And jimguy, do you think maybe we can just stop with the personal remarks? I'm honestly not interested in what kind of a weekend you had. And you are just coming across as insincere when you pretend you care what kind of weekend I had. I went out and did stuff. I hope you did the same. Nuff said.

Olive branch? Are we at war?

Seems to me the war is over.

;)

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