I'm just sad. And maybe a teeny bit depressed. At first I was really mad at Sci-Fi, more so for the unceremoniously way they dumped the very first show they purchased for their network. If they decided not to air it again, so be it, but could they have shown a bit more respect for the fans? How exactly would it have killed them to do a final-day marathon of the last 18 episodes? Would their ratings have crashed to the floor and advertisers abandoned them if they didn't do hour after hour of Hercules or Knight Rider? I'm sure millions of fans were taking an entire day off of work, or setting VCR's all over their houses to watch those marathons. Yeah, right.
So now I'm no longer mad. Just sad. It's gone. If SoapNet picks it up, it won't do me any good since my cable (even the version where you get a gazillion music channels) doesn't carry it. If the proposed Horror Channel actually makes it in October 2004, there's no guarantee my cruddy cable provider will pick it up (we don't have things like the Cartoon Network, or TCM, or the Food Network, or the Travel Network, et. al., but we do have the Golf Channel - for cryin' out loud, who the h-e-double-toothpicks here watches that?), and if it does, there's no guarantee that the new network will get and/or carry DS.
In a way, I was kinda glad that I got really busy just before the holidays, as well as during, so I didn't have time to check in here as much as I always do because I just needed to be alone in my misery. I'm of the variety that when I'm sick, or recuperating from something, I just wanna be alone until I'm over it. I make a really bad patient.
And now it's gone. There are worse things that can happen. But I'm grateful that, for the past ten years, at least I was able to relive a part of my childhood that brought such pleasure. Not too many people can have that.
Gerard