I've had conversations with people where we all agreed that the only acceptable solution to the varied annoyances of TV (canceled shows, commercials, eps kicked off for sporting events, cliffhangers, you name it) is to just wait until a show runs its course and comes out on DVD. I haven't been able to stick to this resolution, however, having seen a few episodes of BSG and then stumbling across the awesomely beautiful Pushing Daisies. (Candy-colored. Pretty.) It's just, you know, I've been hurt, as have we all.
I probably would have been caught up in Buffy, originally, but circumstances (toddler with late bedtime) conspired to keep it from me until two years ago. Now, I can't imagine watching it any other way, but obsessively and repeating as necessary. I do think that the bathroom scene would have been impossible to take, with a Canine Crunchies advert stuck in the middle. Unforgivable.
I tend to think that a serialized work, such as a TV show, is not necessarily the "finished" product. Filthy lucre gets in the way, and artists have to eat, so Charles Dickens, Anita Loos, Armistead Maupin, and Joss Whedon are able to create sweeping, rich canvases, but reveal them in little postage-stamp bits as they go along. Not unlike multi-chapter fanfics. Then, at the end, the finished novel is released, with author's notes and what-all. The serialization (and resulting feedback) probably lead to choices that might not have been made in a long stint in a garret, but it's what was produced. Now, it's in the hands of the academics. And us.
I've gone off point, here. Yes, two very different experiences. Right you are.
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I probably would have been caught up in Buffy, originally, but circumstances (toddler with late bedtime) conspired to keep it from me until two years ago. Now, I can't imagine watching it any other way, but obsessively and repeating as necessary. I do think that the bathroom scene would have been impossible to take, with a Canine Crunchies advert stuck in the middle. Unforgivable.
I tend to think that a serialized work, such as a TV show, is not necessarily the "finished" product. Filthy lucre gets in the way, and artists have to eat, so Charles Dickens, Anita Loos, Armistead Maupin, and Joss Whedon are able to create sweeping, rich canvases, but reveal them in little postage-stamp bits as they go along. Not unlike multi-chapter fanfics. Then, at the end, the finished novel is released, with author's notes and what-all. The serialization (and resulting feedback) probably lead to choices that might not have been made in a long stint in a garret, but it's what was produced. Now, it's in the hands of the academics. And us.
I've gone off point, here. Yes, two very different experiences. Right you are.