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It seems I'm fairly bright tonight. A certified, bona fide and qualified rocket scientist on all available scales, except the ones that exist in the real world.

First I start reading my friends page while Gmail loads. Then I check my email. That prompts an entry and a meme. Then, I continue through my friends page, hither and thither delivering pearls of commenty wisdom. And then, then, I go on to read through the next page of flist.

(un)Surprisingly, all the entries have moved down a spot. Interesting, I think; I wonder who would've just posted. I'll go back and read that in a m-

[beat]

Oh, right, says Sense, suddenly weighing in. That'd be me.

Desk, head, I believe you've met before.

Dear flistees

Or, more specifically...

Dear australian flistees,

the last ever episode of the Glass House airs at 9:00 pm. So, in four hours, you'll all be watching the ABC, won't you? Won't you? Good.

Unless you're in Queensland; there, it's five hours. Or six in WA. And... um... everyone else can just read their clocks to know when it'll be 9:00. Really, you should anyway, because I don't know when you'll read this entry.

So, yes. 9:00. ABC. Last episode ever. Watch it. According to all sources (or, really, because it's made by GNWtv) there will be confetti and funny.

That is all.

Love,
active_apathy

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

I've been reatching some BSG in the last few days, which is probably why that phrase sprang to mind when I considered some kind of entry post-Glass House. And then, once it did, the rest pretty much just came all at once.

Some quite shiny words have been said for the Glass House here; ryttu3k has said all I'd think to and more besides, and I'm far more content to poke people that way than to take some kind of vague stab at doing the same.

Instead, this is more of an observation - and that's where the subject line comes in. There's been a steady stream of shows where there's been a last episode ever and that's kind of ok, because they've been working up to it and you know it's coming. The difference is when something with potential, a concept that still has something to offer, an idea that's still fresh and exciting is sent to a premature demise. Even then, you go happily to watch the last episode because what you have is that utterly fantastic, and then a short while later there's no more to be had.

It seems, in a way, a little silly to feel anything for the end of a TV show, let alone the sadness and loss that Glass House fans are feeling at the moment. But then, this isn't a new feeling - it's one that I've had before, most notably with another TV show that was cut down well before its time. Last week's Glass House episode and tonight's Sekken Awards for Eksalince work out to be very much like the feeling you get after The Message and Objects in Space.

So, for those who watch the Glass House but don't get the Firefly fandom: this is how it feels when they can make you care about something and then they take it away from you. Flans... well, you know how this bit goes. And while I'm sure there's many other examples, these are the ones that stand out to me.

I'm given to wondering if the folk who made the Glass House follow something like Joss's philosophy: preferring the show that a hundred people have to see to the one that a thousand people want to see. Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter.

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

And again.

And again, until - one day - the people who decide what goes on the TV decide that what we want does matter. I, for one, hope that's a day that comes sooner rather than later.