I don’t do this, I really don’t.
You can look at my rather bare Tumblr page and realise easily that I’m more a lurker of Tumblr fan-pages than anything else.
I apologise for this rant, but I’m not going to take it back, I’m not going to regret speaking my mind about this.
This thing with IMDb? This continuous issue we are having with it? It honestly makes me more angry than the finale did and for entirely different reasons.
The season finale wasn’t, perhaps, what anyone wanted, but honestly? That’s how shows go since the writers can not and are unable to make everyone happy with their decisions.
Personally, I have several problems with the finale, but I am not and will not go on IMDb and completely tank the stars on it because I didn’t like it.
911 is in a very perilously position, ladies, gentlemen and other gentle-beings of various gender identities. Fox has dropped them, cancelled them, and it’s only because ABC is willing to pick it up, move it over to their network that we will be having a season seven at all.
However, that doesn’t mean 911 is safe right now, not with the writers’ strike and it being in a limbo right now; not yet ABC’s yet no longer Fox’s, and we need to keep that in our minds.
Why would ABC invest thousands or millions of dollars into a show that’s last episode tanks so horribly? Why should they go through with a season seven when its die-hard fans are tanking it? Why should they go through with all that and give a complete season seven with hope for more seasons if this is the reaction every time they do something we don’t like?
Those are the questions we need to keep in mind as we react to the season finale.
Because I’m so worried about the possibility of 911 being cancelled all out, I went to IMDb and I awarded the episode 9 stars.
Do I think the episode deserved nine stars? No, but I don’t regret giving it nine stars because I don’t want it axed.
Am I happy about the episode? No, not completely. There were things I really liked, little sparks of joy, and there were other things which soured it for me and made me angry.
Will I ever consider it a favourite? No, no it isn’t and will not be a favourite of mine, but that’s my issue, that’s my business, and that’s my opinion.
Do I think it would have worked better, be paced better, if they split it into two episodes like the did with the Lightning Strike and Buck’s coma? Yes, but again, that’s my opinion.
But I’m not going to risk 911 being cancelled because I’m unhappy.
If you are not happy about the finale, that’s fine. But if you want to complain about it? Do it these ways;
Write your fix-it fics, your spite fics, throw yourself back into your favourite AU fics and pretend it didn’t happen.
Hell, go on Twitter and do whatever they do over on that Hellscape because I honestly do not know nor understand that site.
Write discourse about it, write your meta, break down why you didn’t like, what you would like to see in your fandom servers and on Tumblr.
Discuss it with your friends, voice your complaints to them or talk it out to your uninterested family member yet emotionally captured audience.
What you shouldn’t do, what you should never do, is take your issues out on the writers, directors, actors and crew for doing their work, for doing something they should be proud of doing, something they built and made for us to enjoy.
And don’t, just don’t, do anything which could cause ABC to back out, to second-guess their decision of taking on 911 and giving us a season seven and maybe more seasons in the future.
Because if ABC backs out? If ABC decides to drop it? Then that episode you hate? The season finale you are raging about in a way which made them drop it? That’s the only ending we will ever get. There will be no season seven to expand on that ending, to fix it or give it a chance to make sense for us as die-hard fans. And that? That will be your fault; it will be our fault.
