Mr. Carter, you got some s'plainin' to do.

[ebonlock]

Ok, I'm going to start by saying that lots of nice things happened this weekend. Really, I would say I enjoyed 99.9% of the time. The Rosicrucian Museum is utterly cool and I must take one of my sisters there when she comes to visit. The Gypsy Baron was a lot of fun, though I kept losing site of Tamago as she often ended up near the back of the crowd while on our side of the stage. Aside from that and the rather wooden lead (I was trying to figure out if there was some significance to his right hand outstretched versus left hand outstretched gesture, which seemed to be the extend of his acting ability), it was a complete joy and I loved every minute.

And dinner with the ladies beforehand was a delight, Jakejr's friend is a lot of fun. It's too bad she lives in Arizona, she'd fit right in here with the gang.

Now I feel the need to rant a bit, so everyone who would rather not hear me bitch or doesn't want to be spoiled regarding XFiles last evening

Chris Carter, you bastard.

Ok, so does anybody else feel like they got anally raped last night or was it just me? I remember turning to my roommate before the episode came on and muttering darkly, "If he kills off the Gunmen I'm not going to watch any more episodes this season." I now have
absolutely no problem carrying through with that promise and Chris Carter can kiss my furry pink butt (as Morris put it last night).

Why, oh why, do American t.v. geniuses have to turn into money-grubbing assholes who feel the need to screw the fans who put them in their position in the first place? Why couldn't just one or two take a cue from the Brits and actually conceive of a series, beginning to end, and then just stop? Why do they have to keep milking their dead cash cow? Have they no souls?

Yes, that paragraph was rhetorical.

So now I've lost Xena (in a very similar manner actually), Buffy (which has been sucking mightily this season and a good portion of last), and XFiles. I'm getting as jaded about watching new shows as I am about romance. I've been hurt too much in the past to give my heart away to another series. It just hurts too much when a show dies a slow, horrible death, especially when just a few seasons ago it was vibrant and brilliant.

Gunmen, you deserved better than the ignomius end you received. At least CC stole from the best and gave a nod to "Wrath of Khan", but leached the moment of any and all emotional impact. And of course the plot holes were big enough to sail cruise ships through, the contrivances painful in the extreme. Oh and why did those terrorist guys agree to carry said deadly virus and give up their lives for "the cause"? What the hell was "the cause" anyway? And wouldn't it just have been easier to say put the cartiledge in oh, a dog or some other animal (rats? mice?) and free them than to do that with living human beings? I mean there was a time on XFiles when they at least tried to think through the plots, they'd give us something to work with, but now...

Ugh, I can't watch this show any longer, even to find out how CC is planning to end the series. Knowing him he'll kill off Mulder and Scully next, maybe Skinner too. Can you imagine the only ones left standing, Moronica, Dog-Boy and Dread Pirate Brad? Oh gods, I have to stop now before I start heaving or sobbing uncontrollably.

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[centerfire.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait.

He killed the Gunmen?

That fucker.

This show has gone from really enjoyable to unmitigated pustulence in less than three seasons. It's a testimony to one man's ego.

I say we book a flight to Hollywood and beat the everliving crap out of Carter.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Oh he killed 'em all right, killed 'em dead. And they died in such a patently stupid and contrived way that I couldn't even get myself worked up enough to care. But I think we're going to have to get in line to kick Chris Carter's ass, the Cancerman and Krycek folks should get first dibbs. It's only fair.

[ex-lucianus799.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not sure when X-Files jumped the shark (http://www.jumptheshark.com), but I lost interest just about the time Lucy Lawless started guest starring. Sad but true. Lost interest in Buffy just as it seemed she was getting less angsty (though I guess that turned around again). Losing faith in Angel.

More time for real life, I guess. :)