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Slowly making my way through the television series finales. Watched Vampire Diaries and Justified series finales this week. The two series aren't comparable.
Justified
Blown away by the season finale. The final scene sent a shiver up my spine - which happens when a work of art hits all the right chords in me - like I'm a violin and the artist oh so gently played their hand across my strings. It was beautiful yet also chillingly sad.
( spoilers )
Vampire Diaries
Sorry, no snark here. Not in the mood. ;-)
It occurs to me this morning thinking it over what the theme of this season to a degree was...and what the writers are playing with thematically here. And it is a rather intriguing one. It's about the futility of noble sacrifice. That the noble sacrifice which on the surface appears saintly and self-less is in truth the opposite and often makes everything worse. Far worse. Putting the lives of one's nearest and dearest over everyone and everything else...often does not end well. It is in a way another comment on a similar theme in Justified, which was about the futility of vengeance and how it just makes everything worse. There's something to be said for that line - change the things you can change, accept the things you can't change, and have the wisdom to know the difference. Or know what you can control.
( Vampire Diaries spoilers )
On next year's tv pilots...they've released the pickups from CBS and NBC. Oddly CBS didn't pick up Ringer, the new SMG drama, instead the CW did. Which doesn't bode that well for Gellar's career - she's stuck on the cult teen channel again. That's why ABC pulled out of developing it. Although I get why CBS stuck it there over placing it on CBS. Demos are different. CBS demo skews older, while CW skews younger. (ie. CBS =35-70 while CW =18-34, according to the evil marketing people that rule the world. We all know that's not true - since there's several people online who are above the age of 34 and watching the CW and can't stand most of the shows on CBS and vice versa. Data and statistics lie? Shocking!) NBC did not pick up Wonder Woman (which surprised me) nor did it pick up 17th Precinct. Instead it went with yet another remake of Prime Suspect (we had one in the 1980s/1990s as well...can't accuse NBC of playing it safe and repeating itself can we?). Actually from the pickup orders looks like most of them are playing it safe with tried and true formulas, just a few risks here and there.
Justified
Blown away by the season finale. The final scene sent a shiver up my spine - which happens when a work of art hits all the right chords in me - like I'm a violin and the artist oh so gently played their hand across my strings. It was beautiful yet also chillingly sad.
( spoilers )
Vampire Diaries
Sorry, no snark here. Not in the mood. ;-)
It occurs to me this morning thinking it over what the theme of this season to a degree was...and what the writers are playing with thematically here. And it is a rather intriguing one. It's about the futility of noble sacrifice. That the noble sacrifice which on the surface appears saintly and self-less is in truth the opposite and often makes everything worse. Far worse. Putting the lives of one's nearest and dearest over everyone and everything else...often does not end well. It is in a way another comment on a similar theme in Justified, which was about the futility of vengeance and how it just makes everything worse. There's something to be said for that line - change the things you can change, accept the things you can't change, and have the wisdom to know the difference. Or know what you can control.
( Vampire Diaries spoilers )
On next year's tv pilots...they've released the pickups from CBS and NBC. Oddly CBS didn't pick up Ringer, the new SMG drama, instead the CW did. Which doesn't bode that well for Gellar's career - she's stuck on the cult teen channel again. That's why ABC pulled out of developing it. Although I get why CBS stuck it there over placing it on CBS. Demos are different. CBS demo skews older, while CW skews younger. (ie. CBS =35-70 while CW =18-34, according to the evil marketing people that rule the world. We all know that's not true - since there's several people online who are above the age of 34 and watching the CW and can't stand most of the shows on CBS and vice versa. Data and statistics lie? Shocking!) NBC did not pick up Wonder Woman (which surprised me) nor did it pick up 17th Precinct. Instead it went with yet another remake of Prime Suspect (we had one in the 1980s/1990s as well...can't accuse NBC of playing it safe and repeating itself can we?). Actually from the pickup orders looks like most of them are playing it safe with tried and true formulas, just a few risks here and there.