CID going off air - Article link in Topic

Originally posted by: Metis

 

You know a few years ago I would take offence to that, but honestly let them do that. And I have a few reasons for it:

1. If the PH is informed, they'll try to give CID a proper closure. Given the recent history, there is about a 75% chance that they'll fail and do something that'll make the finale a laughingstock. I would rather it just quietly disappears, then that ever happening.
2. Saying goodbye is the hardest thing possible. When avid fans find out that CID is going to end on xyz date, there will be petitions, rants, messages to the PH, messages to the actors, messages to the channel, and so on and so forth. I would rather that fans of CID be known as those who let CID go quietly and with it just being taken off air one day, there will be less of this, as I see it, than if there was an actual end date.
3. Sony has not been kind to CID. The PH shoots an episode expecting it to go on air next weekend and Sony just decides not to air it. I don't want a situation where the PH shoots the finale and Sony never airs it. In fact Sony hasn't been kind to a lot of shows, but CID is in a category of its own.
4. Finally, what can a finale really be after 21 long years? And would it really be enough? Like would you or I be sufficiently happy to say bye to CID? I doubt it. I still lament that the CSI finale was crap and yet that PH probably thought it was giving us a brilliant ending. The CSI NY finale was better, but even then I still am not happy because it wasn't up to what I wanted, which in reality even I don't know. My point is, even if the PH got their act together and shot a stellar episode, even if the channel aired it, even if fans just agreed to let CID go quietly, would we be happy? Isn't the whole point of a finale to wrap up everything so that fans feel happy letting the show go?