Sunday three: Dr. House can't save SNL (but Beck rocks); ciao Studio 60; no show, big fic?

[tzikeh]

1) Saturday Night Live: the sorrow and the pity.

This marks the first time I've ever fast-forwarded through something with Hugh Laurie in it. And I don't mean fast-forwarding through the stuff he wasn't in to get to the stuff he was in - I mean fast-forwarding *through sketches with Hugh Laurie in them* because it was just. too. painful.

None of the sketches were funny, not even the ones Hugh was in (though he did get a true laugh when he couldn't get a pair of prop glasses on his face, and said "Good thing they're just an affectation, really" or something like that, and discarded them). He was in a double bind: the sketches were so bad he couldn't save them, and when he made his own jokes they were to smart for the room.

At least the people at SNL were smart enough to give him a solo act besides the opening monologue (something they generally don't do for the host). He played the guitar and harmonica and sang a protest song of his own composition. It was funnier than everything else in the show put together.

Beck was AWESOME.

I'm going to find a torrent for two reasons - a) the interstitial cards they made of Hugh are so much going to be lj icons for me, and b) Beck's performance of "Clap Hands" was worth tuni... okay, no, it wasn't. But I'm glad I saw it and I want to keep a copy of it.

(NB: for those of you with the "guy with long legs in heels" kink, you may want to find the torrent because there is a sketch in which Hugh wears a micro-mini and heels. While he spends most of the sketch sitting, he does stand up at the end and is very tall and leggy. I couldn't tell you what the sketch was about because the opening lines were SO PAINFUL that I had to fast-forward.)

Oh, and of course NBC cut away from the "goodbye" shot the *second* Borat went down on his knees to blow Hugh.

2) Bye-bye, Studio 60.

I wanted to *love* it. I really, really did. But now, IMO, good riddance to bad rubbish (and quite frankly, let Aaron Sorkin go have his cyclonic self-destructo-meltdown somewhere besides in front of eight million people per week). I went in with nothing but high hopes and... well, as Tom Servo said to Crow T. Robot - "You take everything good and... you RIP MY HEART OUT!"

BUT!

Because the Matt and Danny pairing has taken off like crazy, I ask of you all this question -

3) Which, do you think, is the biggest fandom out there for a show something with the *smallest* aired episodes amount of canon? (Edited because duh, Phantom Menace)

Can anyone think of a program which aired for no more than five or six episodes, yet has a thriving fandom with thousands of pieces of fanfiction? My guess is that Studio 60 is about to become that fandom, and I'm wondering if there even exists a niche to be conquered. Are there massive fanfiction archives for shows which were cancelled this early into their runs?

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:nod: It's sad. I wanted so much from it. Alas.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I know, me too. What Aaron needs is a good show-runner, someone to tell him when he has his head up his ass. Alas, it's the one thing that he'll never accept.

[randomblade.livejournal.com]

Jumping on that bandwagon. Much like Lucas, so much better when forced to work to the exacting standards of... ANYONE OTHER THAN THE GINORMOUS EGO.