The Aerie
Man, is 2008 going to suck: specifically autumn of 2008. Never mind that the presidential campaigns will be in full swing: the campaigns never seemed to end after the last one anyway. No, that will be bad enough, but by autumn of 2008, they'll all be gone...
First, of course, the Harry Potter series. Well, okay, that's ending in just a couple of months: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on the 21st of July, and despite the lag in movies appearing, the story will be done. All that will be left will be a memory of a decade during which the story unfolded, book by book.
Second to go will be Doctor Who,, which loss will not be greatly softened by the appearance of Kylie Minogue on the program. The show has been toying with the affections of the gay community for a couple of years now, so this can only help boost viewership. Hopefully they won't do anything stupid with 'Torchwood,' the spinoff series set in Cardiff...
Finally and, to me at least, most dreadfully, Battlestar Galactica will wrap up at the end of the 2008 season. While I respect ending the program before it gets stale (some might argue 'stalER'), and I like that they will actually conclude the quest, still it's going suck losing the program.
Good science fiction and fantasy are hard to find: great SF&F is as rare as a unicorn. So to lose three exemplary works of science fiction and fantasy in a row like this... sigh. One can only hope that something fills the vacuum... maybe something I write!
Posted by Albatross at June 1, 2007 4:12 PM | TrackBack