I'm not big on meta, but it was you so I read this and I'm glad I did. Of course, I read it through my SGA goggles, and this passage hit home:
Where it gets dicey is when the PTB decide to cut that tie and make the show for themselves, or for a different audience. They're perfectly within their rights to do this, of course; the whole matter isn't actually binding, and they can walk away at any time. The problem is, we're then perfectly within our rights to think this approach is crap, and to say so. We can walk away, too.
Oh yes. See me walking? I am walking away from the SG universe (that's a pun! I made a pun!) even though SG: Universe might be good (HA!) because I'm furious at how terribly SG: Atlantis was treated: the concept, the characters, and the actors.
CoE: I have seen it and, though it broke my heart, I understand why everything was done. I doubt I'll watch any future series of Torchwood but I don't feel the anger at the show and its producers and writers that I do at SGA. Partly because I wasn't as invested, true, but also because I understood why they did what they did. (Trying not to be spoilery here is awkward.)
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Where it gets dicey is when the PTB decide to cut that tie and make the show for themselves, or for a different audience. They're perfectly within their rights to do this, of course; the whole matter isn't actually binding, and they can walk away at any time. The problem is, we're then perfectly within our rights to think this approach is crap, and to say so. We can walk away, too.
Oh yes. See me walking? I am walking away from the SG universe (that's a pun! I made a pun!) even though SG: Universe might be good (HA!) because I'm furious at how terribly SG: Atlantis was treated: the concept, the characters, and the actors.
CoE: I have seen it and, though it broke my heart, I understand why everything was done. I doubt I'll watch any future series of Torchwood but I don't feel the anger at the show and its producers and writers that I do at SGA. Partly because I wasn't as invested, true, but also because I understood why they did what they did. (Trying not to be spoilery here is awkward.)
Anyway. Well done. I agree.