The rumored Scrubs move to ABC was confirmed, which is great news for two rather evident reasons. First of all is that this is a fantastic show whose final season was botched by the writer’s strike. The network move means that it will get another chance at a last season, which is absolutely vital for a show as intelligent and emotional as this one. And I believe the entire cast is returning for the new last season, unlike, say, Smallville, where by now pretty much everybody but Superman himself has left the show, pretty much rendering it void of any purpose. Of course that show jumped the shark years ago…
Getting back on topic though, is that an even more important reason why the network shift is such great news is not only that it gets another chance at a real final season, but could actually get a real final season that the network actually cares about. NBC has pretty much been waiting for Scrubs to keel over and die. It never got terribly high ratings (does anybody know if those even matter anymore with all the Tivo-ing going on? Do Nielson figures take that into account?), so despite the obvious lack of closure, NBC was happy to drop the show at the end of this season. This included ignoring both the remainder of the planned story arc and the order of the episodes it decided to actually air. If this really was going to be the final season, there are some rather obvious flaws with this plan. ABC giving the show another chance is great, because if last week’s episode really had turned out to be the series finale, then man, did they botch that! It was a good episode, but not one to end a season on, especially not an entire series. The episode deviated from the formula seen in virtually every other episode by allowing Cox to narrate instead of JD (NOT how you send off a seven year old show), having the majority of the episode take place in a Princess Bride-style fantasy sequence (obviously not how you should end a hospital show…), and providing absolutely no closure (pretty much a problem for anything). None of that is including the continuity errors from the mismatched episode order scarring the experience as well. So with any luck, the next season will get it right, and I think ABC will actually let it get it right too.
And now for something completely different, I picked up The World Ends With You earlier this week. (First “real” post and I’m already breaking my own rules, so maybe I just won’t go with my original “one topic a day” idea… or will I?) I haven’t had time to play it yet, but I did read the instruction book and had no idea what was going on. This game’s gonna be awesome.
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