LOL, that's awesome.

Kris | July 15, 14:43 CET

Slow reporting by the BBC Cult team. Spoiled Rotten posted that on March 26th.

Simon | July 15, 14:47 CET

Ouch. That's harsh. Not surprised though.

electricspacegirl | July 15, 14:54 CET

heh heh heh oh thats just too funny

willowzbitch | July 15, 15:01 CET

I think it's just sad, that Eliza has wasted her time on this project, she deserves better, maybe she doesn't see it, hopefully will.

SeanValen | July 15, 15:06 CET

Eh, old news. I mean, I heard about this months ago.

Personally, I like the show, but perhaps I'm the only one. :/

Amberina | July 15, 15:43 CET

Yeah, but with Jane Espenson at the writing helm now, don't you think things will get better? I think the show itself has a lot of possibilities. I am really hoping Jane will be able to turn it around.

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I have been in and out of the home office.

Tracy | July 15, 16:19 CET

Hadn't realised this was such old news. Having said that i avoid spoilers like the plague so i'm not likely to have seen it at the site in question.

I honestly can't see Tru Calling getting sufficiently better to draw in many new fans. Quite honestly none of the characters have grabbed me at all and the basic premise is far too repetitive for my taste.

Both Buffy and Angel grabbed my attention in their very first episodes and the characters immediately interested me. After half an entire season i still didn't care enough about Tru and her family and friends to stick around.

Quite truthfully if it was just a case of me not liking a show i wouldn't care but this particular show features an actress that i know deserves better. Now there is also another writer (Jane Espenson) attached to the project that is being totally wasted.

Here's hoping that the first few episodes of season two do badly and the show is cancelled early on in the season. That way both Eliza and Jane are freed up for better things.

*cough*Faith*cough* ;)

Disciple of Spike | July 15, 17:04 CET

I dont know, i'v always found the show, not sucking all that much, ok, at times a little Cheesy, but yet, Entertaining, I just hope things progress for the show and Eliza, she's a great actress who I see a great future ahead, I guess the shows you start out in anrt always so good, but like i said, Shows you start out in, she's still very young, and has time to diddle dattle, I mean, she shouldnt have to stress over a show she's working on, just cuz people dont find it in there own taste, I like the show, and im done here, cuz, i have a tendency to blab alot...

vastgirlie | July 15, 18:52 CET

Wow, that is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. A fansite giving up, saying it's crap and that it deserves to be canceled. Ouchie.

Well it's true some shows should be given the chance to grow and find their footing. I mean I always felt that BtVS really got into it's groove in the second season. But the first season should still be sufficiently good to warrant that second season at the very least.

And Tru Calling is just so bland. Plot holes and logic errors abound but even that could be forgiven if it was funny, or original and exciting or emotionally gripping. But it's just so bland and mediocre. And kind of repetitive.

And I have the impression that they don't really know where to take the concept. The Jack thing had potential, but now he's just the bad guy that Tru should beat in 'fast running through town'. How come no one ever wonders where this came from? And if we don't want to go the Joan of Arcadia way (I know I don't) then shouldn't the fact that nature produced her 'counterpart' in Jack not make her doubt everything? (Nice how they swiped that idea from 'Unbreakable' by the way) That maybe he could be right? Maybe someone she saves should have died. Maybe that person will kill a family of 5 in a car accident that wouldn't have happened had she left well enough alone. Tru and her friends should at LEAST be asking themselves those questions.

These are interesting possibilities they could go with but they haven't and I doubt they will. And THIS show gets chance after chance from Fox....it's odd. I guess it's the right kind of simplistic black&white 'wholesomeness' they're looking for these days that Firefly and Wonderfalls didn't have.

EdDantes | July 15, 22:46 CET

This is funny in a sad way. A fan site giving up on its subject (or one of) because it has lost interest and faith in it says a lot. The way that announcement was worded clearly shows how frustrated these people have become with the current state of the show. A little harsh, especially the 'it deserves to be cancelled' part but I applaud them for publicly saying that.

I watched 2 episodes of Tru Calling but they failed to catch my attention. I've not seen the rest. Everyone is different and this show just didn't interest me enough. I'll try to watch it again next season and hope that I'd find something worthwhile for me.

Silent Night | July 15, 22:58 CET

How come no one ever wonders where this came from? And if we don't want to go the Joan of Arcadia way (I know I don't) then shouldn't the fact that nature produced her 'counterpart' in Jack not make her doubt everything? (Nice how they swiped that idea from 'Unbreakable' by the way) That maybe he could be right? Maybe someone she saves should have died. Maybe that person will kill a family of 5 in a car accident that wouldn't have happened had she left well enough alone. Tru and her friends should at LEAST be asking themselves those questions.


This is exactly what I've been saying. I thought that's where they were going to take the show when Jack started bringing up these questions but they dropped the ball. They painted it all black and white with Jack getting into her father's car, someone we already knew was a bad guy, and them donning the black hats while Tru piously insists she is doing the right thing.

electricspacegirl | July 16, 00:31 CET

I have missed a few episodes, since I just didn't get into them. They're sitting on my hard drive (Downloaded since I live in the UK) but I can't be bothered to watch them. I suppose that says it all. I downloaded the latest BtVS as quickly as I could and watched it there and then, even if it was 3AM.

And the points above are spot on. It's lacking in humor, the trite "waiter drops a tray to signal we've seen a scene before" with the extremley laboured flashbacks to remind us why something is imporant since we're all as dumb as toast and could never remember that we saw something ten minutes ago by ourselves...

And with BtVS and Ats we had good people doing bad things for good reasons and vice versa. We have opposing opionions where both have valid points. There was always a sense that the story had layers, actions had consequences, characters had to live with their deeds.

All I ever saw in TC was "Someone's dead, obvious suspect wait it wasn't him after all whew saved them happy ever after NEXT"

I would love a Faith series, but I don't want Eliza to have her show cancelled. I just wish I kenw what she saw in the show in the first place.

zz9 | July 16, 02:00 CET

zz9 - I think Eliza chose the role because she wanted to play a new character and she was flattered that the creators of "Tru Calling" wrote the pilot script with her in mind for the role.

Invisible Green | July 16, 02:56 CET

They painted it all black and white with Jack getting into her father's car, someone we already knew was a bad guy, and them donning the black hats while Tru piously insists she is doing the right thing. "

Yep. Without ever even wondering about it. That was so dissappointing I felt most of the slack I had been willing to cut this young show just sorta evaporate.

"I think Eliza chose the role because she wanted to play a new character and she was flattered that the creators of "Tru Calling" wrote the pilot script with her in mind for the role. "

Yeah and that's understandable. Plus it was a bigger network, and wouldn't be seen as a second-rate Buffy. 'Cept of course to most people now it became the second-rate 'Joan of Arcadia', but...

EdDantes | July 16, 08:30 CET