{"id":497,"date":"2008-04-10T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/reviews\/doomed-to-cancellation\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:58:16","slug":"doomed-to-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/reviews\/doomed-to-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomed to Cancellation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently one of my favorite shows, Jericho<\/a>, was pulled back from the brink of the cancellation abyss. It was one of those shows with a small loyal following, which gets canceled then comes back harder, better, faster and stronger<\/a>. Unfortunately it didn’t get to that point until two episodes before its demise and thus ended prematurely and embarrassingly unsatisfactory. There are a couple of new shows which might suffer such near-future humiliation.<\/p>\n

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New Amsterdam<\/a><\/strong> is about an immortal named John Amsterdam who currently plays the role of an NYC detective. Well, he’s not technically immortal since he was given an entrance back to mortality. In other words, someone made him immortal and they told him that when he meets his true love, he’ll become mortal again. Sounds cheesy, I know–doesn’t help that it’s on Fox either. The cool thing is that the guy has stayed in the general same area for four hundred years: New Amsterdam, aka New York<\/a>. With a series of photographs of the same area developing over time, the guy became a detective because of what They did to his city in 9\/11. With him recently having a heart attack after bumping into his future girlfriend\/doctor, he’s pretty sure he’s found the One. This is all just a long way to spell DOOMED.<\/p>\n

Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/a><\/strong> (FOX network) is also extremely excellent but I fear its demise. The robot on robot fighting sequences would be unimpressive (as in Terminator 3 unimpressive) if it weren’t for former ballerina Summer Glau. The effects in general are marginally impressive but the show gets extra points for figuring out smart ways to show violence and increase impact (at this point I would link to the season finale but that would be wrong<\/a>). The good thing about this show is that as a franchise off the movie it might have some legs and it’s sci-fi enough to possibly transition over to SciFi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miss Guided<\/a><\/strong> follows the school life of Becky Freely, a former (and current) geek and high school guidance counselor. The show is fun, chock full of 80s references, and doomed to failure with or without executive producer Ashton Kutcher<\/a>. Okay, maybe its not technically doomed since this is the same network that gave us years of Family Matters<\/a> and Full House<\/a> (MCF will love the pre-Saget Danny Tanner<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Eli Stone<\/a><\/strong> (also on ABC) tried to generate some interest by airing right after Lost. I’m not sure how successful that was but either way, I’m hooked. It’s about a lawyer who gets weird visions (George Michael has either showed up on the show<\/a> enough times or been referenced often enough<\/a> to be sainted by ABC) that help him figure out which cases to take and how to win them. His father (Tom Cavanaugh<\/a>) was cursed\/blessed with the same condition and there’s been some discussion that Eli Stone is actually a prophet except that weird tumor in his brain gives an altogether different reason for the oddities. Of course, no tumor has ever made someone know the future (or the past) and the show proceeds to mix humor and concern while tiptoeing around the Big G. If they get far enough, I wonder what they’ll do with that or if they’ll bring in an Evil Leaper<\/a>. Either way, the show is probably doomed to be canceled before then.<\/p>\n

Terminator might survive but the rest are probably doomed. We’ll see how my predictions pan out after a 2nd season (if they get that far).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently one of my favorite shows, Jericho, was pulled back from the brink of the cancellation abyss. It was one of those shows with a small loyal following, which gets canceled then comes back harder, better, faster and stronger. Unfortunately it didn’t get to that point until two episodes before its demise and thus ended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}