shoulda stayed on the street

Sarah Strange is in Men In Trees. That's a good show set in Elmo Alaska.

Considering the crap they've got in their line-up, I'd call that a given.

Of course, if Da Vinci hadn't become mayor, an eighth season never would have happened. It was Haddock's last-ditch attempt to get another year of DVI out of CBC. So, blame them for the change.

My biggest problem with it was the lack of character development and the fact that not only did *none* of the storylines get resolved, but that played-out storylines just kept going...and going...and going... Rhymes with "Dom and Bill and Charlie and Jan..."

That said, I, too, was really getting into it when it got cancelled and with the exception of Intelligence and the DVI reruns (which they have no nixed, as well), I now have no reason to watch CBC.

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Well, story lines were rarely wrapped up in Inquest either. If they were it usually happened many episodes down the line. Perhaps the same would have happened with City Hall had it been given more time. But I always felt every episode of Inquest should have ended with "To Be Continued...."

I think they often did the samt slice thing in DVI. I loved it (still do). I record from WGN every morning and watch when I can. Some episodes I've seen three times now. I sure would like a chance to form my own opinion on DV Mayor. Any news on this?

Yes, brilliant!

I think DVCH basically tanked due to poor publicity. With the way CBC didn't promote it, the entire cast could have performed buck naked in frequent sexual congress with farm animals all season and I doubt the ratings would have been any better.

Rewatching it, I think the the biggest problem was that they focused way too much on the police corruption shenanigans without giving the characters involved in it any redeeming values. Considering recent political events in Vancouver, I understand why they pursued that storyline. But Bill and Charlie and the union reps were far too one-dimensional to be sympathetic, so their scenes wound up being very dull (they were also on screen far too often. Several scenes every single episode was too much). The actresses who played the young gang of constables (especially the one playing the lesbian officer) were godawful and completely unbelievable as cops. But worst of all, we never got enough of a look into *why* the police structure was the way that it was. How did it all end up so bad that you had a "street crew" of South-American-style thugs and a sociopath and pedophile like Brian Curtis was allowed to continue his murderous shenanigans for over a decade and counting? I found that very frustrating. If you're going to set up a political mystery like that, solve it already!

I'm on the fence about the last three episodes of the season. On the one hand, it was wonderful to see Mick save the day. On the other hand, it was less wonderful to see Mick's fantastic pedophile-hunting storyline (the one that *should* have dominated the season and ended up connected to everything else) totally sabotaged and shoved aside so that Mick could play deus ex machine for Dom. Yuck.

But on the whole, I don't think that any of those things had much at all to do with the cancellation. The show had to move on at some point, there was a lot of good stuff there (if only they had ever stopped neglecting the older characters and got around to developing the new ones) and it got higher ratings than "Intelligence" which, frankly, worked better in its freshman season as a season. Pity DVCH didn't get a second season, though it's good to at least get a new movie. Lots of cancelled shows don't get even that.


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