After its last-minute reanimation last season, 7th Heaven is finally getting the hell off our screens at the end of this season. And while I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic, considering that this show has already cheated death once… yaaaaay! The cancellation of a tired old show like this one means that there's one more space on the schedule for a better new show. And before you say, "But this is the CW," consider the bar that a new show would have to hurdle to be more welcome than 7th Heaven.
And as long as the CW is giving out walking papers, maybe they could nip over and hand them to Gilmore Girls as well? The show hasn't overstayed its welcome as egregiously as 7th Heaven, but it should get out now before people forget why the show was good in the first place, and I think that only the most hardcore GG fans (you can recognize them by their bejeweled, pink Razrs, with which they text their friends, "OMG LukE + LoRelAi 4 EVA!!1! & her scarf is kewl! ;)") would disagree at this point. Just let it go. It's better this way.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
7th Heaven: Hallelujah!
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Gilmore Girls: It's not me, it's you.
Well, after four good years (I didn't start watching until the second season, and last season was far from "good"), Gilmore Girls and I are finally calling it quits. We've been on the rocks for a while, ever since Rory stopped being a cool smartie and started being a whiny, boy-crazy fool. We even stopped talking when Luke's long-lost daughter popped up, turning Lorelei, one of my favorite characters on TV, into a mopey doormat.
When I heard that Amy Sherman-Palladino was leaving for sunnier climes, I thought maybe it would give me and the Girls a fresh start--a new lease on our relationship. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case. The romance is gone. Things I once found charming about Gilmore Girls - Kirk's kooky shenanigans, for example - I now find stale and vaguely annoying. The main plotlines have grown overly angsty (and the townsfolk plotlines have gone from quirky to ridiculous in an attempt to compensate), and the once-delightful characters are now weighed down with all kinds of baggage.
So long, Gilmore Girls. Maybe I'll hear great things about the rest of your new season and we'll have a torrid fling on DVD. Until then, I'll enjoy the good old times in syndication on ABC Family.
