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No, I'm not talking about Lost. I tried to watch it during the first season, but lost interest and never gave it a second thought. Nay, the end has come for Law and Order. Tomorrow's episode will serve as both the 20th season finale and the series finale.
The thing that sucks about it is that no one knew it was the end. The actors, the producers, the writers, no one. NBC just arbitrarily decided that it was over a week ago. 20 years, and then poof. No last hurrah, no lovingly crafted climactic sendoff, no tear-jerking final fade to black, nothing. That's a pretty low blow to everyone who worked so hard on this show for so long. Yeah, there's a new spinoff (Law and Order: Los Angeles) coming in the fall, but with the core series suddenly declared dead they could call it "Random New Crime Drama" if they wanted to.
Maybe NBC doesn't want people to watch anymore. They've always had a habit of killing off good shows in favor of stupid crap or a new show no one will watch anyway, but this just seems inexcusable and, frankly, really fucking prickish. Lost has been on for six seasons and the series finale has been constantly promoted for months. In the meantime, some of us practically grew up on Law and Order and we get nothing whatsoever? Not to mention the fact that its cancellation has already been so grossly overshadowed by the media frenzy surrounding Lost that I'm betting most people won't even know about it until they notice it not on the schedule in the fall.
The thing that sucks about it is that no one knew it was the end. The actors, the producers, the writers, no one. NBC just arbitrarily decided that it was over a week ago. 20 years, and then poof. No last hurrah, no lovingly crafted climactic sendoff, no tear-jerking final fade to black, nothing. That's a pretty low blow to everyone who worked so hard on this show for so long. Yeah, there's a new spinoff (Law and Order: Los Angeles) coming in the fall, but with the core series suddenly declared dead they could call it "Random New Crime Drama" if they wanted to.
Maybe NBC doesn't want people to watch anymore. They've always had a habit of killing off good shows in favor of stupid crap or a new show no one will watch anyway, but this just seems inexcusable and, frankly, really fucking prickish. Lost has been on for six seasons and the series finale has been constantly promoted for months. In the meantime, some of us practically grew up on Law and Order and we get nothing whatsoever? Not to mention the fact that its cancellation has already been so grossly overshadowed by the media frenzy surrounding Lost that I'm betting most people won't even know about it until they notice it not on the schedule in the fall.
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