FOX has cancelled Ally McBeal, which is one of the few shows I bother to watch. My wife is going to miss it much more than I will; I usually watched it as kind of a low-impact Twin Peaks (a show I enjoyed mostly for the shockingly goofy moments set against the dark supernatural backdrop.)
I don't know if tv just sucks or I'm just outgrowing it. The one thing that is really starting to grind me is the easy assumption that Television Will Be Tonight's Entertainment. It's like a giant excuse to kill time before passing out for the night, and I'd much rather be doing something else. Fuck, I'm not talking about going skydiving instead, I just don't want to feel like I'm wasting time watching tv simply because there's nothing else worth doing.
I also severely hate being told when tv is going to entertain me. I enjoy ER, but I hate knowing that I have to be on the couch Thursdays at 10:00pm to see it. Again, it's like tv is getting in the way of the rest of my life. I'd say that I'm ready for Tivo, but Tivo is functionally just a VCR, and I despise using the VCR. Taping shows makes me feel like I'm renting something rather than owning it... it always has a second-hand feel to me. Not to mention the terrible quality of VHS tape. Yeah, Tivo would fix the quality, but then I have to commit myself to downloading television shows, which just sounds too pathetic to be worth doing. Perhaps I'm unsatisfiable.
Eh. Goodbye Ally, it was fun. Loved Robert Downey Jr. Hated Dame Edna Everage. Loved Ling Woo. Hated the Dancing Baby. Didn't mind the phasing out of the fantasy sequences. Didn't mind Ally Junior. Loved Cage and Fish. Loved New Man in Town Billy. Hated Vonda Sheperd. Really hated Vonda Sheperd doing the PR tour and being pitched as the soul of the show. Vonda, it's back to the nightclub circuit, girl.
