Friday, February 27, 2004

So Angel was cancelled a couple weeks back. It's history repeating itself. For the second time, The WB loses interest in a Joss Whedon show just as it gets ready to turn five.

As a television viewer, this saddens me greatly. With The West Wing now Sorkin-less and fluctuating randomly between solid and unwatchable from week to week, Angel has been my undisputed favorite show this year. It's been a great season, with three of the last four episodes being outstanding. The odd man out, "Why We Fight," was merely very, very good.

Naturally, there's a movement afoot to try to save the show, either by convincing The WB to reconsider, or by getting another network (most likely UPN) to pick it up. I'd love to see this happen, but I'm highly doubtful it will. I can't say for sure why. I just have a bad feeling about it. Angel's co-exec producer shares my sentiment.

With that in mind, I've been doing my best to just enjoy Angel while I've got it to watch. I'm also hitting my DVD collections of Whedon's other shows, Buffy and Firefly, pretty hard.

And next year, maybe I'll just end up watching less TV, which wouldn't exactly be the worst thing in the world. But I will miss the weekly exploits of Angel and crew. And no, The WB's new vampire show, Dark Shadows, will not fill that hole in my TiVo Season Pass list.

Posted @ 1:19 PM

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