I’ve ranted before about how much I’m a fan of Defying Gravity and the season ender (which just aired in Canada) was bloody fantastic. One character close to death (though you know they’ll survive), another is emotionally hurt, another is jailed, Cape Canaveral is flooded and under water, another is told that his one-night-stand had an abortion, a new alien turns up, a character has a baby (though the SFX were bloody awful for it) and another realises that she has blocked out sexual abuse in her background.
Oh yeah and another one told a journalist that the Venus landing was faked/covered-up.
So not a lot happened then and there wasn’t a lot that would have had long term ramifications for the show. For a show that started off slowly (so some said), it was a stormer. The odds are against it surviving (the sets have been pulled down) are as slim as some plots from Star Trek: Enterprise, but I liked it and I hope it gets the ratings abroad to justify being picked up on a cheaper scale (greenscreen sets perhaps?)
Anyway put me down for buying the DVD boxset. It was a type of show that deserved to be encouraged. A semi-realistic and serious look (with the usual dramatic conceits for fiction) at space travel with some good acting.
And now, I’m off to Contently Managed to write about how I would have done the PR for the show/PR a relaunch.
2 responses to “Defying Gravity: now that was a season cliffhanger”
I think the show is definitely hosed. According to Twitter (so it must be true):
BOO! RT @Arcane_Bimmer My MIL was at a studio garage sale today and items being sold were for DEFYING GRAVITY! It’s been quietly cancelled!
The management may hopefully find that decision taken away from them retroactively. I’ve been noticing a steady upwards ticking in the show’s unofficial Facebook group’s membership from 700+ to 900+ over the past week alone. And CTV hasn’t yet taken down their FB fan page for the show, despite shunting all Canadian attentions to their Space channel.