The June Something - Season 03 Episode 14
Jun. 14th, 2021 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elderwittyDay 14: What fandom broke your heart?
I was gonna say 'None', but then I read other people's answers and realized...'Yup'.
Stargate: Atlantis - (stopped watching after it was killed by Mallozi, Wright, et al)
It wasn't just that Atlantis was on Earth, that John was odd man out in the relationship stakes, that Teyla was separated by two galaxies from her family, that Ronon was fine and dandy after his recent untimely death and resurrection, that Keller was so very WRONG for Rodney (fucking writer self-insert, ugh).
The fact that the showrunners obviously stopped giving a fuck - flying or otherwise - about our beloved space adventure/comedy/drama, but were too fucking selfish to turn it over to other showrunners really chapped my ass.
Hang on a mo. According to a comment by helenkacan on on this article, they traded SGA Season 6 away for a shit show to be canceled later.
After the cancellation of SGA (which supposedly had "nothing" to do with the greenlighting of SGU), TPTB finally admitted that they'd been offered a guaranteed choice: 1 final season of SGA and 1 season of SGU OR only 2 seasons of SGU). Well, we know what they chose.
Ctrl-F 'TPTB finally admitted' to see the whole comment:
How shortsighted and stupid do you have to be to throw away a money-making show that's getting some of the best ratings in its history?
Pretty gorram stupid, as evidenced by their belief that they didn't need the [older skewing, mostly female, gross] fans to support their dark, Battlestar Galactica shaky-cam wannabe, demo boy baiting new series - - and also their bitter accusations that the lack of those self-same rejected viewers caused the execrable show to fail after its initial order (remember, SciFi ordered two full seasons based on the franchise's previous successes and the trade-in on SGA Season 6).
Hawaii Five-0 - (stopped after Chin's niece was rescued from a stupid plotline in Mexico)
The whole no-homo fear that made them drop the bromance and have Steve and Danny endlessly snipe at each other instead.
The utter disrespect shown to Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park by adding all those new characters 'to give Alex and Scott a break'. WRITE FOR THE OTHER TWO MAIN CHARACTERS, ASSHOLES!!!
The utter disrespect shown to Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park during salary negotiations.
Danny cheating with his ex-wife, who'd done nothing but denigrate him and try to keep him from his daughter.
Danny's the cop, so why the fuck is Steve pontificating about procedures and shit?
Wo Fat was apparently born on Krypton, since he should have died at least three or four times before he finally did.
NCIS - (stopped when Tony's sendoff was straight out of badfic)
The white hat hero is a murderer, conspirator to murder (both before and after the fact), a lazy ass who takes eleventy coffee runs a day, and the world's worst supervisor who uses both verbal and physical abuse as he blithely pretends that the chain of command stops at him.
The smart as a whip, cool goth science chick turns into a giant whiny toddler who'll throw any tantrum she has to in order to stay 'the favorite'.
The 'best young agent I've ever worked with' turns into a feckless clown who needs help to find his ass with both hands. And then apparently decides to fuck the Israeli spy who's verbally and physically abused him for years (when she isn't ignoring his orders and fucking up their conviction rate with her illegal goings on).
And let's not talk about the suspect she killed in the elevator.
I was gonna say 'None', but then I read other people's answers and realized...'Yup'.
Stargate: Atlantis - (stopped watching after it was killed by Mallozi, Wright, et al)
It wasn't just that Atlantis was on Earth, that John was odd man out in the relationship stakes, that Teyla was separated by two galaxies from her family, that Ronon was fine and dandy after his recent untimely death and resurrection, that Keller was so very WRONG for Rodney (fucking writer self-insert, ugh).
The fact that the showrunners obviously stopped giving a fuck - flying or otherwise - about our beloved space adventure/comedy/drama, but were too fucking selfish to turn it over to other showrunners really chapped my ass.
Hang on a mo. According to a comment by helenkacan on on this article, they traded SGA Season 6 away for a shit show to be canceled later.
After the cancellation of SGA (which supposedly had "nothing" to do with the greenlighting of SGU), TPTB finally admitted that they'd been offered a guaranteed choice: 1 final season of SGA and 1 season of SGU OR only 2 seasons of SGU). Well, we know what they chose.
Ctrl-F 'TPTB finally admitted' to see the whole comment:
How shortsighted and stupid do you have to be to throw away a money-making show that's getting some of the best ratings in its history?
Pretty gorram stupid, as evidenced by their belief that they didn't need the [older skewing, mostly female, gross] fans to support their dark, Battlestar Galactica shaky-cam wannabe, demo boy baiting new series - - and also their bitter accusations that the lack of those self-same rejected viewers caused the execrable show to fail after its initial order (remember, SciFi ordered two full seasons based on the franchise's previous successes and the trade-in on SGA Season 6).
Hawaii Five-0 - (stopped after Chin's niece was rescued from a stupid plotline in Mexico)
The whole no-homo fear that made them drop the bromance and have Steve and Danny endlessly snipe at each other instead.
The utter disrespect shown to Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park by adding all those new characters 'to give Alex and Scott a break'. WRITE FOR THE OTHER TWO MAIN CHARACTERS, ASSHOLES!!!
The utter disrespect shown to Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park during salary negotiations.
Danny cheating with his ex-wife, who'd done nothing but denigrate him and try to keep him from his daughter.
Danny's the cop, so why the fuck is Steve pontificating about procedures and shit?
Wo Fat was apparently born on Krypton, since he should have died at least three or four times before he finally did.
NCIS - (stopped when Tony's sendoff was straight out of badfic)
The white hat hero is a murderer, conspirator to murder (both before and after the fact), a lazy ass who takes eleventy coffee runs a day, and the world's worst supervisor who uses both verbal and physical abuse as he blithely pretends that the chain of command stops at him.
The smart as a whip, cool goth science chick turns into a giant whiny toddler who'll throw any tantrum she has to in order to stay 'the favorite'.
The 'best young agent I've ever worked with' turns into a feckless clown who needs help to find his ass with both hands. And then apparently decides to fuck the Israeli spy who's verbally and physically abused him for years (when she isn't ignoring his orders and fucking up their conviction rate with her illegal goings on).
And let's not talk about the suspect she killed in the elevator.
