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MERRYK

Sunday, October 5, 2008 3:25 PM

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As for TTSCC, darkness is okay when balanced with humor, as Joss likes to say. But TTSCC has no humor. Or sex. Or nudity. OD on adrenaline, subclinical level of natural opiates = bum trip.

Hey, I love the humor in TSCC! I think that's what makes it better than the most dramas—certainly what makes it more enjoyable. It's nice and dark humor, too, so fitting to the situation, but it still has me giggling.

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"My way of being polite, or however...well, it's the only way I have of showing you that I like you. Of showing respect." Simon Tam, Jaynestown

LWAVES

Sunday, October 5, 2008 10:59 PM

Well if it is cancelled then that really will suck big time. I know there are people that don't like the show for whatever reason but surely that applies to all shows. And I'll assume that with it going up against a sport that that will have the same impact as it does here in the UK. The sport will win, always. Sports seem to have a guarranteed audience whatever else may be on.

I keep reading of these Neilsen ratings you have in the US and it seems to me, as an outsider, that they are pretty much useless if they don't take into account the many ways of viewing a show. I would imagine that more people record a show these days than watch it live. Especially with DVR's where you can start watching after the show has started. Do they get counted? I doubt it.

Fingers crossed that it'll keep going.

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

JOLLY

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:38 AM

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Originally posted by lwaves:

I keep reading of these Neilsen ratings you have in the US and it seems to me, as an outsider, that they are pretty much useless if they don't take into account the many ways of viewing a show. I would imagine that more people record a show these days than watch it live. Especially with DVR's where you can start watching after the show has started. Do they get counted? I doubt it.

I dunno. When I watch shows on my DVR, I FF through the commercials. Seems to me that it's pretty hard to convince advertisers that DVR viewership is meaningful. The reality is that American TV is revenue based. Broadcast rights aren't worth much if there is no revenue.

'Course if viewers were like me, there probably wouldn't be any new shows. I almost never pick up shows until they reach syndication (this is true of all Whedon's work to date). Only recent exceptions are House and BSG.

XRAFTERMANX

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 4:50 AM

I DVR everything and FF through it all but tonight I watched the beginning and Dodge stated it was limited commercial interruption. So I started watching and low and behold they were limited and the commercials were actually decent at least for me. Teams of guys throwing Ram trucks around... who wouldn't want to do that. It was like watching stunts done right. Of course there was a lot of product placement with Dodge and the new Ram and it's new features but it didn't detract from the story. Hopefully this will be a taste of things to come. It's not too much to ask to be entertained while be informed of new products. Totally beats all the Political ads.

You gotta job, we can do it, don't much care what it is. ~Detroit Browncoats~

SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 5:59 AM

I thought that having the "Queen" from 300 and Summer would make T:SCC an instant kick-ass hit.
Watched a few episodes and then thought "what a waste of talent". Now here the writing is truly stunted and mundane.

Step 1: Sarah and John fight over whatever
Step 2: Other Terminators come close to finding John
Step 3: Cameron comes in and kicks ass. BTW these "action" scenes are quite stilted. There is no real drama here, just a lot of things getting "blowed up real good".

It's not the actors fault, the writers need to be fired. This show needs to be overhauled. If I need a dose of Terminator action I pull out T2 and remember how good we had it. There were a couple of times, in the pilot, when i thought they were going to allow Summer to act by having her behave like a normal teenager in school with John. But then they just let that go by the wayside and reverted back to her being a robot - boring. I said it before they have totally wasted Summer's acting talent for her "action" talent. I'm all for Summer kicking butt, but she is an amazing talent as a dramatic actor and should be showcased in that light.

I think the producers caught her act in the BDM's Maidenhead Bar scene and began salavating over how great she was in that action sequence that they forgot completely about her acting chops.
I fear that the last episode of her showing those chops may be too little too late.

How many would like to see her in Joss' Dollhouse?
Raise your hands! (excuse me while I clean up my drool).

Shiny! Let's be bad guys!

PEULSAR5

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:44 PM

I think being on the same night as Heroes isn't helping either.

ZEEK

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:17 PM

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It's not the actors fault, the writers need to be fired. This show needs to be overhauled.

Totally agree. The writing has been pretty poor since the start. There have been a few episodes where something intriguing will happen. They're too few and too far between though. Pretty much the only interesting plot point they have is what kind of terminator Cameron really is and what her real mission is. That doesn't have much to it though. How much can you dance around the answer before just answering it? After it gets answered will there be anything interesting left on a show where you know John and Sarah will live through anything?

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 9:25 PM

Need much more of this:

Not so much of this?

"Respect your parents. Especially when they carry a gun."
-Deputy Josefina Lupo, Eureka, Duck Duck Goose

WHOZIT

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 9:37 PM

Lastnight at the end they said new episode in 2 weeks, do'nt panic yet.

DIGIFICWRITER

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 9:58 PM

I'm sorry, but this 'news' is a bunch of crap. No official announcement has been made concerning the series' future at this time. Last week's huge drop in the ratings prompted a bunch of cancellation scare rumors, but the ratings bounced back this week (yes, they're still down from last year, but so are the ratings for several other sophomore series).

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