Bring Back Life

The NBC show Life has been cancelled. This is a tragedy in a television landscape that is populated with reality tv or gratuitous cop drama (and we all know which franchises they are). Don’t get me wrong. I love reality television. But there is more than enough of it. What there is also more than enough of is cop shows that need to shock the audience with gratuitous scenes of internal body parts, maggot infested corpses and violence against women. We can’t celebrate nudity on tv, but we can be subjected to these sorts of things. But that’s a whole different topic for when I feel like a rant.

Life is a refreshing drama about Detective Charlie Crews, sentenced to life for a crime he didn’t commit. He’s been acquitted and the continuing story arc throughout the show is his search for the people that framed him. Detective Dani Reese is his long-suffering partner who puts up with his fruit fetish and zen philosophies. It is these quirks that make the storyline so entertaining and his zen sayings each week are highly amusing.

I desperately want one of the US networks to pick up Life. Shows are arbitratily axed these days without giving them time to settle in. Of course the networks don’t give them time to settle in as they constantly change the time and day they air a show so that viewers don’t know when to watch.

There is a Twitter campaign to save Life that encourages USA Network to pick it up. Right behind the fiasco that saw Firefly pulled is this if it doens’t get renewed somewhere, somehow.

The online frontier

Ten years ago I wondered what online gaming was all about so I had a dabble and learnt that, for some, it was an addiction. I met a few people there though and ten years later we are still friends. For me an addiction? No. But I HAD to log on and see what my friends were up to on a daily basis.

Then came My Space. A network for the next generation. Well, it certainly wasn’t for my generation that’s for sure so I never logged on. But I was active in forums all over the place. I love them. I needed to give my opinion about everyday subjects for the world at large to look at and oggle over. Because they are, aren’t they?

Then Facebook emerged as the new ‘big thing’ and I jumped in, tentatively at the time. Now I’m splashing about willingly and wondered how I lived without the ability to know what, not only my friends, but complete strangers are doing right at this moment.

An now Twitter is here. Okay so it’s been around for while and I’ve studiously ignored it because I admit I don’t know what it does. But everybody’s using it so it must be great! Mustn’t it?

So I’m blogging now about my own ignorance and, yes, even somewhat lack of desire to get involved in another individualist pasttime that joins you to the anonymous masses.

But Dot is on Twitter now so that’s good enough for me!