It's that time of year again, folks.

[rogueslayer452]

Yep, it's that time of year where announcements for the cancellation/renewal of shows, and some are more disappointing than others. Unfortunately, Agent Carter and Galavant have been cancelled. The latter I'm not surprised, considering I think even they were surprised that it gained a lot of popularity after the first season (which I thought was going to be more of a limited series rather than something ongoing), and even had a meta song in the finale. So even though I'll miss how fun and hilariously entertaining it was, the show was wrapped up quite nicely. Agent Carter, on the other hand, deserved a third season because I was hoping they would get into more about Peggy developing SHIELD and everything in relation to that. In addition to that, Marvel's Most Wanted, the Agents of Shield spin-off focusing on Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter, has also not been picked up to go to series. It's ridiculous considering that they keep flip-flopping on it, since it was first announced earlier last year before being vetoed by the network, but then they took back their initial statement and it was a go, so much that this season of Agents of Shield they gave the characters an emotional sendoff, only for their spin-off to be cancelled before it even began. I guess they'll have to bring them back somehow.

Supergirl has officially been renewed for a second season, however it'll be moving from CBS to the CW. I'm on the fence of this decision, considering that this news means that there will be budget cuts and possibly actors/characters being cut as well, and I'm wary about how CW handles their shows. However, someone wrote a very good analysis on this particular decision and the overall aspect of television networks in general, which I found rather interesting.

Castle has been cancelled, which would be sad but due to the behind-the-scenes mess it's actually more of a relief. It's kind of awkwardly sad to admit, but you know, they dug their own graves by doing what they did. Though unfortunately, Sleepy Hollow didn't learn their lesson since it has been renewed for a fourth season. Just, the sheer audacity of them thinking that the show is worth anything without Abbie Mills, who was the main character and co-lead.

And apparently, CBS passed on the updated Nancy Drew series (with Sarah Shahi) because, guess what? It had too many women in it. Sexism at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.

Comments

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

That is true, and the link I shared above does explain how this move can actually be more beneficial than if it remained on CBS, since the CW pretty much renewed all of their programs earlier this year. I guess sometimes when they do that, though, it allows shows that have declined in quality (writing and direction-wise) to continue on when it should have stopped at some point, and I don't want that to happen with Supergirl. But if the showrunner/producers of the show are careful, they won't let that happen.

I stopped watching Sleepy Hollow early in the second season, and I'm thankful I did because hearing about how they continually sidelined and mistreated Abbie (the main freaking character) to the point where the actress wanted to leave due to such disrespect, I was officially done. The show held much promise in the beginning, but after the creator/showrunner and a good chunk of the writers left after the first season the show went downhill so fast, completely missing the point of why people loved and watched the show and why it was initially praised. They took all of that away. :/

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

IMO this season was actually pretty good--in some ways I enjoyed it even more than season 1! Abby and Jenny have a great storyline with her dad for instance. But then again I was never suuuuper into season 1 aside from towards the end. (The history aspect really irked me--yes, it is fiction, but when so many jokes are premised on Crane correcting people on their history it doesn't really work to have things be so wildly inaccurate. And I don't mean the supernatural elements, I mean things like placing the Boston Tea Party, probably the most famous protest leading up to the war IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAR or having people in a 16th century colony speak Old English, aka what they had spoken 4-5 centuries before -- though strangely they were able to later quote Shakespeare despite him having had to speak ~Old English~ in this universe as well! /rant)