Well, maybe hate’s too strong a word, but it’s pretty close to the mark.

So what inspired this confession, you ask?

Simply put, I just finished watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Seasons 1 and 2) again on Netflix streaming, and really would like to see more but some network morons decided to end the show, leaving viewers hanging.

Seriously, I’d really like to have a talk with whoever was responsible for that decision. This show was way above average for network productions and obviously building to something that would blow our socks off — a division between the terminators themselves and Skynet?! But, alas, it was canceled before we could find out the fate of Sarah and John Connor, and of humanity, in the Terminator universe.

It’s no secret that I enjoy serialized dramas, loving perhaps the greatest ever aired, Battlestar Galactica. I find epic stories with characters that actually develop realistically over the course of a series much more compelling than sitcoms (blech!) or episodic shows, with the notable exceptions of House and ER, which employs/employed story arcs that played out over an episode or two, sometimes the entire season/series. Agreed some other shows do this, too, but not nearly successfully enough for me to watch for long, much less regularly. This is probably why I rarely read single-installment books and prefer series like Frank Herbert’s Dune Chronicles and Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy.

Suffice it to say, there’s little that annoys me more as a TV viewer than to have such an epic story cut off before it reaches its conclusion, especially when I feel vested in the story and the characters in it. Honestly, I think there should be an FCC regulation that requires networks to complete such series to their natural dramatic end before they … read the rest of this entry »

Hey, fellow Edward James Olmos fans, EJO will be on CSI: New York on Friday, October 15 in the episode “Sangre Por Sangre.” Check your local listings for the airing time. I’m looking forward to this.

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