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WHY TF ARE THEY CANCELING THE SHOWWWW
Because Freeform’s too dang stupid to know not to bite the hand that feeds it, that’s why!
These articles (X X) are giving me ulcers. I can’t believe this is happening. I just can’t. They’re cancelling my show. We won’t get Season 4.
They’re stopping Season 3B at City of Heavenly Fire, and not adapting the other books. So does this mean no Malec adopting their sons? No Malec proposal? No Malec wedding? Are y’all serious right now?
They had the nerve to push back the airing of Season 3B – Todd & co. had originally said that it would air this August, but that tweet was deleted hella fast, and now they’re saying 3B won’t air till Spring 2019! JESUS! O_O First that long hiatus waiting for 3A, and now this!? Waiting a whole year for a show that’s gonna be cancelled right after 3B finally airs!? WTF!?
So, what am I supposed to do – sit here and stew in my depression!?
This is hell.
This is LITERAL HELL, people.
I’m so mad at Freeform & Netflix, I don’t even have the words. It’s corporate shenanigans and power plays, plain and simple. Netflix didn’t get what they wanted, Freeform couldn’t see a good deal staring them right in the frikkin face, so the whole thing blew up with the show being cancelled over sheer pettiness and greed.
We had SO MUCH MORE to look forward to! And now they’re gonna squeeze everything into 3B and call it done!? Cassandra Clare is still writing! We got 2 new big bads in the Shadow World to look forward to, with Malcolm Fade and the Unseelie King! That was gonna be AWESOME! And Cassie’s releasing an entire book about Malec! THE MATERIAL~~~! U_U
Why can’t Freeform just fork over the licensing rights and give the show over to a company that actually wants to work with it?!
Freeform didn’t promote Shadowhunters at all. I can’t tell y’all how many ads I’ve passed by every day while riding the train to for their new show Cloak & Dagger – I kept mistaking the white-haired girl in the photos for Danaerys Targaryen (which I know they’re doing on purpose, effing click bait). I saw a few for Siren, too. But in all these years though I have NOT ONCE seen a single ad for Shadowhunters while walking around in NYC. NOT ONE.
Apparently Netflix & some other networks I think were advertising the show internationally (where the bulk of the fanbase is located), and kudos to them or whatever, but at this point, I don’t even want Netflix to pick up Shadowhunters; they’re the petty arsewipes who pulled the funding in the first place! I’d prefer some other network like Hulu, The CW, or MTV get it, tbh.
People were speculating that maybe HBO or SyFy could take it, but I don’t really think either of those are viable options. I mean…lbr SyFy’s not exactly known for making that many very good original shows…. >_>
Shadowhunters started off real crunchy in Season 1 (everything from the CG to the directing/writing to the acting was very amateur), and idek if SyFy could keep up the upward momentum and higher quality that Season 2 and especially S03A delivered. And on that same note, I doubt HBO would want it, not when they’ve got powerhouses like Game of Thrones over there doing The Most and making that bookoo money.
But at this point, I don’t even care. Networks save the shows they want to save. Even if a zillion fans scream and shout bloody murder, if the showrunners & co don’t get those coins rolling in, the show will be dropped like a hot potato. Gold. Just thrown down the drain. They don’t care about anyone but themselves.
Burke said the network is at peace with the decision …
“They delivered what the fans wanted…I remember being at
Comic-Con and seeing the excitement for the show and thinking, ‘This
could be our Supernatural,‘” referring to the genre staple that the CW just renewed for its 14th season.
Yeah, YOU THOUGHT. Supernatural’s on it’s 666th frikkin season, meanwhile Freeform couldn’t find its own arse with both hands in broad daylight to do anything to keep promoting the show and get the funds and support to renew it for Season 4!
This all just blows my mind though. Shadowhunters is THE most popular (and frankly, only RELEVANT) show on Freeform. It’s been carrying the network this whole time! How do they not have the money!? Malec literally singlehandedly won them a dang GLAAD award!
And you know what KILLS ME is that not only are they taking away the show, but
they’re depriving me of one of my all-time favorite fictional characters
EVER.
My beautiful, freewheeling bisexual Asian High Warlock of Brooklyn. That
flawless bish, that sexy beast, that campy queen, that quite magical wonderful beautiful waking
dream of a man.
Harry’s portrayal of Magnus
is just dripping in charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent; I can’t.
And to be BRUTALLY honest, Magnus is the only reason I kept watching the show. Harry Shum Jr was holding it down
in Season 1 – if it wasn’t for him acting the roof off
in every single scene, I wouldn’t have kept watching at all. Season
1 wasn’t that good, and that’s the T.
I didn’t like most of the other characters. I hated every single Shadowhunter – including Alec (Izzy was hot though), and if Valentine wasn’t a racist bigot I’d be on his side and be like: just kill all these Shadowhunters, girl, bye~~!
So it just shocks me to my core that Freeform would make a move like
this. Malec carried that whole show. No one cares about Clace. Climon
was anathema. Sia’s cute and all, but lbr everyone’s sitting on pins
& needles just waiting for Sizzy to rise. Only reason I even heard
of this show was because a bunch of the fanfic authors & fan-artists
I’m subscribed to at AO3 started writing Malec fics, which I was skipping over at first, but then the fandom blogs I
follow here on Tumblr kept reblogging The Wedding scene, and I was like WTF IS THIS.
The most iconic episode of
Shadowhunters was literally titled MALEC! XD
Freeform, you had GOLD! DIAMONDS. Recognition. Representation. Stupid.
This whole cancellation controversy smells like network stunts and shows. They’re doing this on purpose. And during PRIDE MONTH, no less. WOW. How skeevy can y’all get?
I’m thoroughly disgusted.
So, yeah. That’s the state of things right now. I’M VENTING.
I’m just very upset, because Malec is one of my top favorite ships. But regardless of whether the show is killed off for good or not, I’m gonna keep posting my TS3 Malec Gameplays, the same way I do for my Nagron Gameplays (Spartacus ended in like 2013, and I’m still here, so…. 😛 ).
I’m just apologizing in advance to all my followers both here and at my Personal blog and Wishes blog – I’m gonna be reblogging a lot of posts, to do my part in keeping #SaveShadowhunters trending as much as I can during this year effing long hiatus. So if those who follow me don’t care about all this…oh well.
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