Are we really that surprised that Ugly Betty has been cancelled?I

I mean…really? When we think about it?

I watched the first season, maybe the second, and it was cuteish, but in a small doses, cloying, sugar high sort of way. And it was kind of vaguely culturally relevant (as part of that short-lived Devil Wears Prada-inspired national fascination with fashion “journalism”), even. But fundamentally it was just a shiny bauble and can we really be that surprised that we’ve since been distracted by newer, shinier (and less saccharine) baubles?

I know this is hella late, but can we talk about 24 and how Rene straight up cut that man's hand off?!??

kiamatthews:

That was beyond gangsta.

Bitch is cray cray.

She is without a doubt the best thing that’s happened to 24 in years. I want to see her replace Jack when Kiefer Sutherland decides he’s had enough, which is, according to most sources, at the end of this season.

mikedressel:

A U.S. version of “Torchwood”? TERRIBLE IDEA.  Oh, but produced by Russell Davies and possibly starring John Barrowman?  Then that is promising!  Wait but it’s being developed by Fox?  Now I don’t know what to feel.

I think that really the only way this could work and not be an utter abomination would be if they extended the existing series and Fox co-produced with the BBC, rather than create an alternate American version while maintaining the current British version (because it is continuing, at least for another season series). If Barrowman signs on, it seems ridiculous to split the canon/franchise.

I do like the idea of a more global Torchwood, like the article suggested. I think that was actually one of the strengths of Children of Earth (in that it got out of Cardiff (which..really, I do love that it’s so Welsh! really!), not that it left the UK), because it made everything seem more intense and urgent. This could easily extend to the US, or wherever. The rest of Torchwood just seemed incredibly trivial? Like, “Oh, there’s a weevil, we should catch it maybe?”

I don’t know. I liked Children of Earth a lot because it was relatively short and self-contained, so the story was tight and there wasn’t a lot of room for Davies’ ego (though it did prompt John Barrowman’s ego to storm through the press expressing his disappointment) to run wild (although it did rear its nasty head), and I’d really like to see Torchwood stick to that (because the first two series? absolutely nothing memorable about them). An American version would clearly not be this.

But a co-production could be totally interesting! And kind of even wonderfully precedent-setting! Except that’s totally utopian, especially when it comes to Fox and science fiction.