March 4th, 2006
Dead Series Society (Part 2)
This post follows Dead Series Society (Part 1).
I’d like to take some time to talk about an other show that was lost. It starred Domic Purcell as John Doe, a guy that has complete amnesia about who he is but knows everything else there is to know, litteraly everything you could study in school he
knows. The show was based on police investigation of different crimes and
John Doe was the lead expert on everything. But that was only half of the story, the show introduced clues on how could Mr. Doe know everything and the supernatural quickly came in order (or at least science-fiction). The show never was able to find it’s right place on Fox and was not renewed leaving all the viewers with a cliff hanger to kill all cliff hangers. As referred in the previous article, some shows like Firefly got the opportunity to rise from their ashes and come to the big screen. Some other show have the opportunity to make a mini-series to close up the show in an orderly fashion (not the case of John Doe). So by talking about those two “dead” shows I’ve realized that they are not really wasted. You have to consider that Scifi channel has/is airing those shows and they have decent ratings for re-runs.
The Internet is a beautiful medium that started to change our lives a decade ago, but the changes in the services and products we are used to getting will dramaticly change. You can start thinking about VoIP phone services that are way cheaper than regular phone.
I might of drifted away from the main subject but one thing I’ll settle on is that I will not judge the value of a show, a song, an artist or a movie from it’s ratings or it’s popularity. There are some movies that are rated 35% on rottentoamoes.com that I still like, and no matter what some critics may say I’ll still love it. Whenever you get the chance make yourself an idea using your own head. Thanks to the marvels of the Internet I can do that…
**Sorry for the delay before this post was finally published**