I just hope that ratings drop badly after Promise.
And I'm not impressed with their excuses either on the network pushing things on them. You can't have the courage of your convictions when you're the highest rated show on the CW, and tell the network to back off? Of course they could have done that! I do sympathie when Steven DeKnight mentioned showrunners obscuring the path because obviously the Goughlar are his bosses, and he has to do what they they say. But Al and Miles have no testicles whatsoever to do this after they practically danced on Clana's grave last season, and how it was "over forever". Well even before that, after season 3 there was this interview in Dreamwatch:
"Clark and Lana just went from the couple that made you think God I hope they get together to the couple that left you asking yourself God, why are we still talking about them".
Al Gough, 2004
So I don't believe for a second that they wanted this. I think they just fall in line with whatever the network requests, and how can I care about a show like that. At least when Buffy and Angel frustrated me, I still had the sense of there being someone with an overall creative vision for the show. All SV has is network bosses thinking what will bring in the most advertising money
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Date: 2007-03-16 02:04 pm (UTC)And I'm not impressed with their excuses either on the network pushing things on them. You can't have the courage of your convictions when you're the highest rated show on the CW, and tell the network to back off? Of course they could have done that! I do sympathie when Steven DeKnight mentioned showrunners obscuring the path because obviously the Goughlar are his bosses, and he has to do what they they say. But Al and Miles have no testicles whatsoever to do this after they practically danced on Clana's grave last season, and how it was "over forever". Well even before that, after season 3 there was this interview in Dreamwatch:
"Clark and Lana just went from the couple that made you think God I hope they get together to the couple that left you asking yourself God, why are we still talking about them".
Al Gough, 2004
So I don't believe for a second that they wanted this. I think they just fall in line with whatever the network requests, and how can I care about a show like that. At least when Buffy and Angel frustrated me, I still had the sense of there being someone with an overall creative vision for the show. All SV has is network bosses thinking what will bring in the most advertising money