VM Cancelled

[shipperx]

Sounds like Veronica Mars has been cancelled

'K, I have nothing to say to that. Never was a fan anyway.

I will say that earlier today I read the "shows on the bubble" thing on Entertainment Weekly, and I will be upset if 30 Rock is cancelled, because that show has been getting better and better every week and could be a great long running comedy. And, naturally, I don't want Friday Night Lights to be cancelled. Although, if it happens to be (no!!!), I won't blame NBC or rend my clothes. As quality a show as I think FNL is, I realize it has really crappy ratings. I'm just happy we've had a freaking fantastic season of great writing.

ETA: Okay, while I may have no comment regarding whether or not VM has been cancelled, I will say that this sounds as stupid as hell.

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[swsa.livejournal.com]

I realize I don't really know the man, but um, is it just me who thinks this sounds like he's lost his mind? Because so far it sounds like everyone is confirming the cancellation except RT, who's apparently convinced he can get them to pick up Veronica Mars: FBI Trainee. I don't know, but logic is telling me that if Kristin got it from six different sources, and one of the actor's reps is confirming it, then it's probably cancelled and the showrunner just isn't ready to admit it. It's strangely fascinating.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I have to think this is RT delusion desperation talking.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

An FBI agent? Seriously? This is like the good old days of Buffy foilers!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It does sound like "Buffy dusts Spike before she runs after Riley's helicopter"... It's like, really bad idea + press = fandom freakout. Hee!

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Ha, Wrongda jumped the gun, and I think she was told it was cancelled but wasn't given leave to spread the news.

And yeah -- leaping forward four years sounds ludicrous and also like some sort of hair-brained last-ditch effort to make it more palatable to the teeming masses who love procedurals. Rob Thomas is such a tool.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's like... Slayer School! Heh.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Hah! My thought exactly. I hope the CW reacts to this great notion as UPN reacted to Whedon's.

Thomas announced that whatever the fate of VM, he was going to write a season finale, not a series finale. Matt Roush of TV Guide said that this smacked of "chutzpah, if not hubris." Heh. As I said, Thomas is a tool.

[ladycat713.livejournal.com]

It is possible that RT wasn't told they were cancelled. I found out the store I was managing was closed when the mall manager started showing the room to rent.They didn't tell us jack.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

The workings of business in Hollywood is always mystifying. But I'll be mystified even more if they actually go through with "four years into the future" as a way to salvage the show.

Has a major restructuring a series into a different location with a different cast save for the star of a several years old ratings challenged series ever substantially improved ratings?

[sp23.livejournal.com]

I watched the first two season of VM on DVD (no UPN) and loved it. I started to watch the third season and then, um, kept forgetting to watch it. So, I have no dog in this hunt, at all, but really, VM: FBI Trainee sounds lame to the 'nth degree. Jumping four years and having VM be a full-time PI with her dad? Yeah. This lame idea? No.

And this from Kristin:

"And pardon me while I hop on my soapbox and advise the CW: Canceling Veronica Mars would be a mistake of epic proportions. It is by far the best thing going on the Green Net, and one of the most addictive, smart, funny and well-written series ever to air. The fans would not take its demise lightly."

No. And no. And no. As long as Supernatural in on the CW, VM is not the best show on the network.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

This is one of my primary issues with VM. The VM fandom as a whole seems to have little in the way of perspective. They're always insisting it's the best show ever! If you don't love it it's because
A)you've never watched it
B)you're stupid
C)you don't support feminism


What about D, it doesn't appeal to you?

I understand loving a show. I understand believing it's a wonderful show. I understand believing that a low rated show is of great quality and wanting more people to love it. I've felt this way about many shows. Farscape, for example. I consider it to be a brilliant show. I wish more people had loved it, and I will forever cherish the seasons of it I watched. However, I'm also not blind to the fact that it was never a show that would appeal to everyone. It was a show that never had great ratings. That doesn't diminish my love for the show or my feeling that it was a really great quality show. It just means that I have realistic perspective that it was never the only quality show on television or that it was ever going to be universally loved, cuddled and praised. It wasn't going to be everyone's favorite.

I feel the same way about FNL. I think it is the most smart funny and well written series currently on air. However, the ratings tell me that not everyone feels that way. And I realize given its subject matter it really isn't going to appeal to a lot of fans and it doesn't make them stupid if it doesn't appeal to them. Nothing appeals to everything.

The VM fen seem to love the show to death... to the point that the overthetop adoration sometimes makes me uncomfortable. People are allowed to not watch it, not like it, or just be bored by it and it doesn't mean they're misogynists or stupid cretins.

And, they really should admit that the show has been given several chances to gain audience and its ratings still suck. Deal with it. It doesn't mean they have to love their show less. I love Farscape despite crap-ass ratings. But it is acknowledging reality. The CW cancelling VM wouldn't be a mistake of epic proportions. It would be sad for its fandom, but --geez! they've given the show several breaks and it's almost certainly losing them money.

Like I said, I would really like FNL to be renewed, if it's not, I'm not going to blame NBC. I'd be sad, but I wouldn't call it a mistake of epic proportions. It's a ratings challenged series and television is a business, people get that.

Love shows, but it's irritating when fandoms lose their collective minds.