Abandon Ship

Yup they did it, they sank the Murdoch Mysteries ship, unfortunately instead of going down in a blaze of glory, it went down with a pitiful predictable whimper. Judging by the reaction of the fans world wide… I’m not holding out hope for a season 5, and even if there was one most of them won’t be watching.

Stupid move on TPB when you think about it, because the series may be done on Alibi, and all the European fans are up in arms and will probably have the next 9 or so months to calm down, but it has not even started airing in Canada, CityTV could not fit it in until around May 31’st .

I seriously doubt even the most die hard spoiler virgin has remained spoiler free, especially considering that the board on both Alibi’s webpage and MurdochMystery fan forums have exploded with bitter disappointment and defeat.

So to be honest if it were me I would not even bother watching it. I know I am not even slightly tempted to watch the last episode, which should tell you something. (being as I am the one that had to go through the whole Hannah crap on Bones – talk about pain and frustration--) and what is that going to do for the ratings? Bupkiss!

So this is me, standing to attention, hand firmly raised in salute, dress whites all clean and shiny. While the lone bugler plays The Last Post for the fallen shippers who are as we speak going down with that ship.  (yeah dude not me, I’m the guy in the life boat named Booth/Brennan’ Seawater does not go well with my outfit.)

As for the whole "people will loose interest in the show once they are married", yanking out that old battered and very smelly “Moonlighting Curse”. I have already given my opinion on that, however I might point out, I own all the DVD’s for Moonlighting, I watched the show at the time, I shipped the show and I have watched the re-runs, and the reason why the show died had absolutely nothing to do with the relationship and everything to do with the fact that Cybil Sheppard was pregnant with twins, Bruce Willis was hitting Hollywood movie stardom and the writers kept breaking them up or denying the relationship even existed.  The never did try and figure out how to make things work between them.

This would not have happened in MM, because there were so many avenues to explore, so many emotional moments to mine, marriage in the 1890’S was forever, there was no getting out of it, no getting a quick divorce and on to the next. 

The cultural and social differences between William and Julia would have been a huge problem for them to work through, She’d have to learn to cook (and I could just imagine the neat y incision on the Sunday roast!), he would have to learn to bend his ridged ways a lot to make her happy, and they both would have a lot of fun learning how to be a couple. What a lot of cowards the writers are that could not see the many many possibilities in that union.

So CC, you fucked up big time, see you failed to realize that the shippers are the ones that sell the show, yeah we are mostly women, but we are the ones in charge of the TV remote!! 

While our husbands/boyfriends/just friends would rather be watching how to build a supersonic toilet flusher/buttwiper or some sport channel, it’s the shippers that make them sit through another episode of Murdoch Mysteries every week.

And while you might think after 9 or 10 months to calm down we might be gung-ho for another round of torture-for-fun, I’m afraid most of us will have moved on and all that we will remember when/if the next season starts is that you let us down, worse than let us down, you kicked us in the head.

Yeah, not into masochism so not coming back for more of that.

Going to finish the fanfiction because I love my sister and do not want her to be sad. And then I’m going to look for another ship for us… The Glades might be the one!