Dear American TV...

By Wreybies · May 24, 2018 · ·
  1. Stop serving us garbage and maybe good shows would actually last to their finish. Maybe audiences would actually watch the shows, on the platforms you provide, which would let you know what's actually being watched, and we would remain faithful, not look for other venues, like PirateBay.

    Just found out you canceled The Expanse. No surprise there! You aired the show on SyFy in the U.S. as its first run. You gave us all the build-up and teasers and all that good jazz that left us drooling. You gave us decent actors (Some better than decent. Shohreh Aghdashloo, you are a goddess!) You gave us great production values. You actually stuck to the story from the books pretty well, all things considered.

    And after spending all that money and hype, you fucking boned it by giving us a painfully obvious "Edited for Content" version of the show.

    What the entire fuck?

    From the first example of a voiceover to turn a fuck into a frig, I knew we were being served the sanitized version, and if you had to sanitize it, that meant there was an unsanitized version to be had. So yes, of course I went looking for the Canadian version that airs on Space instead of your SyFy kindergarten version. Of course I did. And apparently, so did every other person who liked the show. Bad enough you stuck a fucking bar of soap into Chrisjen Avasarala's mouth, but the few times you actually let her speak the way her character actually speaks in the books, which is a HUGE part of her character, you bleach even that to the fucking bone.

    Wake the fuck up and smell the mother-fucking coffee already. Who the fuck are you even pandering too? The troggs watching Rosanne, masturbating themselves bloody to the meaningless, pointless fake nostalgia?

    This is why I'm this close to simply canceling regular cable altogether and just going with online providers like Netflix, who don't treat me like a 9 year-old boy growing up in some ridiculous household where a simple Fuck! because of a coffee-table-banged-toe is a fucking felony.

Comments

  1. obsidian_cicatrix
    Telly has gone the way of the dodo. The last vestiges serve those who couldn't get on board with rapidly advancing technology, older folks who need their grandkids to set up their recording devices and show them what the 'Source' button on their clicker is for, the generation above us who have far less in common with ourselves than we do with those below. The same people who think The Pirate Bay is a Disney attraction. People to whom the utterance of the word 'cunt' simply won't do, nor viewing naked bits and bobs for that matter.

    In this day and age tv panders to them, not us.

    I (along with the rest of adult householders in the U.K.) was threatened and coerced into paying a licence fee for years, ostensibly for the 'privilege' of watching crap shows and biased reporting. Six and a half grand (in U.S.D.) I've paid out. Three years ago I called a halt to it after seriously questioning, for the first time, the validity of such a licence, such was their conditioning. If Netflix had been around when I became a householder at 16, that figure would easily have paid for my subscription from then til now.

    Tv can fuck right off!
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  2. Iain Aschendale
    The Expanse has been canceled? This is good news, I'll actually get to watch it. My cable company's English program is entirely composed of Fox and various shell stations, and the only thing they buy other than NCIS/CSI is shows that have been cancelled. Ask me about Powers. Ask me about Invasion. Ask me about Pan Am. Ask me about anything that didn't last past the first season, it's been advertised and hyped to death here, only for me to hit up Wikipedia and tell Mrs. A that the first thirteen episodes are going to be good, but they're the only ones.
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  3. Wreybies
    Supposedly Amazon is in talks to pick it up.
  4. Iain Aschendale
    And it's not like they buy them when they're new and end up getting canceled. They come to our screens a year or more after US cancellation and get a full media blitz here as a "New American TV Drama!!!"

    Jean Claude Van Damme's movie Legionnaire went straight to video in February of 1999 in the USA. In June of 2001, it was a big-screen release in Japan.
  5. obsidian_cicatrix
    I just got put off a show on Netflix. I checked the blurb and reviews and it seemed something that would appeal to me, but almost every review mentioned that, having been cancelled at the end of its first season, the promising plot never got a chance to build up full steam which then made me question whether I'd be happy with a slice, since I'm partial to gobbling up the whole bloody cake. Ah well... back to the search button.
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