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Touched by Angel Fans A Worldwide Outcry Over a Show's Demise

Thanks to WB's cancellation of Angel, I now have an amazing postcard collection: at last count, 1100 from unhappy fans in nearly every state, all over Canada and England, plus 20 other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Brazil, Poland, Italy and Germany.

I'm not sure if any are written in blood, but they certainly show a lot of heart. As cult followings go, Angel's is pretty awesome.

Several Internet-driven fan campaigns, hoping to persuade WB (against the odds) to cancel the cancellation, have raised money to buy ads in trade papers and hire a billboard truck to canvass Hollywood with the message "We'll follow Angel to hell... or another network." There have been rallies, even - appropriate for a show about a noble vampire - blood drives.

These creative protests come at a time when creativity is an endangered TV commodity, with contrived reality trumping the most inspired fantasies.

Much of the mail I've received expresses fear that the networks have given up on shows that stimulate the imagination. That's why these people are so forcefully mourning the end of Joss Whedon's wild world of apocalypse and redemption that began with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

On April 14, Angel returns with the first of its final six episodes. The story is full of action, humor and surprise, while also confronting big themes of humanity and heroism. As I watched, I was entertained, moved - but saddened. Like any fan, I'll miss Angel, too.

Roush Rant What could be worse, I have often asked myself rhetorically, than yet another season of the soul-numbing Big Brother? Now I know: "A reality show without an end," which is how Fox touts its tawdry new time waster, Forever Eden (Thursdays, 9 pm/ET). Forever may be a relative term, given the lousy ratings so far for this open-ended series about a bunch of shameless, foulmouthed slackers who do little but drink, flirt and beg not to be banished from a tropical resort. Like anyone would notice. Contestants come and go, leaving barely a ripple in their scummy, boring wake. Eden is the most rotten of apples in reality TV's overstuffed garden.
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So true, but who wrote it?

And to complete drag the topic down to the gutter, anyone else get some kind of dodgy meaning out of the title?
 
AshSan said:
So true, but who wrote it?

And to complete drag the topic down to the gutter, anyone else get some kind of dodgy meaning out of the title?
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AshSan...you perv! (If your even thinking what i thought after you said that) no lol. Just kidding. I would also really like to know who wrote it...
 
Thank you for posting that Magui. I not only completely agree with that but it's exactly what I've been ranting around my house since I heard they planned on giving Angel the axe...it's just not right that they are canning such a great show for the mindless garbage the WB wishes to keep it's network NEW and FRESH with...stupid F#*$%@$.....
 
Rayne said:
Thank you for posting that Magui. I not only completely agree with that but it's exactly what I've been ranting around my house since I heard they planned on giving Angel the axe...it's just not right that they are canning such a great show for the mindless garbage the WB wishes to keep it's network NEW and FRESH with...stupid F#*$%@$.....
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What kills me is that the folks at the WB said that they wanted to keep things, as you said, new and fresh. Then later they said that they needed to open time slots so it can air repeats of the shows they own. How are repeats new and fresh? Explain please. WB exec logic apparently doen't resemble our Earth logic.

Also note that coming to the WB are remakes of... get this... Dark Shadows (a series that's been done twice and cancelled quickly twice) and Lost in Space (made into a series and remade into a movie already). Do they actually have any grasp of what new and fresh mean?

WB executives -> ::drool:: ::dk:: ??? :: jack :: :: wacko :
 
Happy said:
Do they actually have any grasp of what new and fresh mean?
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The WB dictionary:
new-means old, repeated, or already done...
fresh- means old, stale, or otherwise not new...
entertainment- means mindless television they call reality TV

My dictionary in no way resembles theirs....do I have a defective dictonary here?
 
Thanks for posting Magui! Matt is so great! He is a big fan of the show so it's always nice to hear from him🙂
 
Thanks for that. I agree with every last point to it. Poor WB networks. They are going to lose millions of viewers.
 
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