Comments | caarianna: Petition for THE GLADES

caarianna

Petition for THE GLADES

Sep 03, 2013 18:04

This is a link to sign a petition to encourage the network to either renew the series (not much hope) or at least do a 2 hour tv movie or 2-3 mini series to wrap this show up. It could have had the perfect ending but the producers let it wrap with a hideous cliffhanger that will now never be resolved. This is casual cruelty for the show's cast ( Read more... )

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starwatcher307 September 4 2013, 02:03:56 UTC

I'm sorry they twisted their fans' hearts like that; I know how upsetting it is. I never got into "Glades", but I did sign for you, and wrote ( ... )

caarianna September 4 2013, 03:07:57 UTC

Thanks, Linda. This wasn’t the best show on tv and not my favourite. But they had interesting twists to their mysteries each week, the actors all delivered consistently, so that we came to care about the characters and the production values were very high. They had a ‘continuing’ romance that began in the first ep and which would have culminated beautifully with the wedding in the last ep. Instead, they chose in literally the final seconds of the ep, while the beautiful bride waited for her groom, and he was strewing rose petals in the house he’d just bought to surprise her, the house she’d dreamed of living in since childhood - so a poignantly beautiful act - in these last seconds, they chose to gun him down ( ... )

bluewolf458 September 4 2013, 06:43:51 UTC

I've always loathed end-of-season cliffhangers (two-part eps and serials); so often the resolution is a total cop-out. So often when the next episode rolls around you discover it wasn't a cliff-hanger after all, you see the scene again from a different angle and discover that the 'drama' never actually existed, it was a 'line of sight' thing.

And with end-of-season, what's the point? To encourage viewers to watch the next season? Keen viewers will watch anyway; casual viewers aren't going to care if a main character is left apparently bleeding to death. Even if it's renewed, half the time casual viewers will have forgotten the cliff-hanger before the next season hits their screens. Don't producers know networks will drop anything to make room for the next shiny? Networks aren't going to care about cliff-hangers! If I know the last ep of a season is part one of a two-parter, I record it but don't watch it until just before part two is due to be aired... like the hour before ( ... )