To (Never) Be Continued...

The other day a friend of mine started complaining about how a show that had just started was already being cancelled two episodes into the season. She was bummed because now she was never going to know the ending of the various plots that were going on. She was never going to know who's baby it was or if two characters ever hooked up. It was really bothering her a lot more than I think it should. Personally, I fall in and out of TV shows pretty quickly. I couldn't take the hippies on Whale Wars for more than a couple episodes and The Colony fell out of my favor as soon as I stepped back and realised how much of it had to be staged. I just don't think you should get too attached to a TV show, especially any show on the CW.

Still, she raised a good point. Cliffhangers are a staple of television shows, but you should at least can make it through a season before they start to throw the 'To Be Continued..' at you. Also, I think it's irresponsible for a TV show that knows damn well it's not coming back (and I'm willing to bet that most of them can read the writing on the wall) to have a cliffhanger as the last episode ever. The one that has lived on best in pop-culture is from the short-lived Melrose Place spin-off, Models, Inc. The last episode of that show had one of the models kidnapped to South America, where I guess she just remained. Another one was Las Vegas, which always went way over the top with it's season-ending episodes to begin with. The last show had a plane crash, a pregnancy and three weddings hanging in the balance when it was cancelled. Anyways, I feel like if a network cancels a show they should appease the few fans that were left and show the first episode of the next season. Most of the time they start right where the previous episode ended, so everyone is already on set and the next scenes were probably already filmed to help with continuity. It seems like the least you could do.

-Am I the only one enjoying the irony of the guy being accused of secretly taping Erin Andrews through a tampered peephole and a locked door, getting pissed because there were so many camera waiting for him when he left the courtroom? What, sir, are you afraid your face could end up on the Internet?