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posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 12:42am on 12/09/2004 under
the thing about watching sports night is that it's so fucking brilliant and it makes me terribly sad, because at the end of the second season, it was hitting its stride and really just singing, every single episode, and you watch natalie in the hallway calling for the first team in the studio, right at the end of "quo vadimus", and things are so good for the first time in the whole series, and ...

i think the third season would have been amazing. i think we would have met lisa, who i'm desperate to know more about, and i think it would have been raw and funny and lovely and brilliant and witty, and the fact that the networks didn't give it half a chance just pisses me off.

i love the jossverse amazing amounts, but the fact of the matter is, there isn't another television show i love the way i love sports night.

i have to go read "where have you gone, tom glavine" now, i think.
Mood:: 'disappointed' disappointed
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posted by [identity profile] calendae.livejournal.com at 10:57pm on 11/09/2004
I'm watching "A Girl Named Pixley" this very second. And yeah, totally agree. A third season would have been spectacular.

Why the heck don't I have a Sports Night icon?
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:12am on 12/09/2004
Why the heck don't I have a Sports Night icon?
Because good caps are really hard to come by? Someday I am going to cap the whole damn series and make an archive, but I'm much too lazy to do it at the moment.

[livejournal.com profile] insidian and I are watching the whole series in order right now; she's seen episodes here and there, because I make her watch them, but not in order. "A Girl Named Pixley" is next up in our lineup. :)
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posted by [identity profile] mcee.livejournal.com at 11:54pm on 11/09/2004
WORD. to everything. i get chest pains every time i get to quo vadimus.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:15am on 12/09/2004
it makes me so angry, when I get to the end, because I want to know what happened, and there isn't anything, and it just seems so unfair.

at least most of the fic is really high quality. that helps some.
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posted by [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com at 01:48am on 12/09/2004
But! It might have jumped the shark. Soooooooo hugely. That it would have ruined everything that had come before. And we would never even be able to watch the first two seasons. Or read any more fan fiction. Or write it.

"And that's the most positive you can come up with, yes, Hilary?"

"Um ... yup ...?"

"And why the broken-up sentences?"

*Shuffle* *Mumble* "Dunno ..."
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:16am on 12/09/2004
That's true, of course, because West Wing certainly did, but since we don't know what happened, I prefer to believe that it would have been transcedent television and changed the face of the half hour drama forever, because I am a hopeless optimist about fandom, if nothing else. :)
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posted by [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com at 10:05am on 12/09/2004
Ahh, and now I'm sad about West Wing; I'm not even bothering to watch the fifth season, that's currently being shown here. I got bored with the storylines long ago, and when I found I wasn't even liking the characters any more, there seemed no point.

Eh, well, there's Firefly - no, wait a minute, no there isn't! Damn. What is there??
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posted by [identity profile] meganberrieh.livejournal.com at 09:52am on 13/09/2004
Well, The West Wing totally jumped the shark, but the fact that it started sucking too much for me to watch it every week even before Teh Sorkin left does not detract *at all* from the wonder of the first two seasons.
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posted by [identity profile] meganberrieh.livejournal.com at 09:54am on 13/09/2004
I bought the DVDs largely because you and [livejournal.com profile] offscreen love it so much (I saw a few episodes when it aired, but was never hooked). I was immediately and irrevocably drawn into its web. I stayed up hours past my bedtime because I could not stop watching it.

That was, what, July? I stopped after five DVDs, because it's so horrid to know that all the angst is never resolved.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 10:01am on 13/09/2004
You have to watch the sixth disc, though, because the episodes that build up to the end of that season - regardless of the fact that there aren't anymore - are just so absolutely flawless. Especially the season finale, "Quo Vadimus". God. Just gorgeous.
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posted by [identity profile] meganberrieh.livejournal.com at 10:02am on 13/09/2004
Interestingly, I saw 'Quo Vadimus' when the show aired. It is an amazing 22 minutes of television.
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