Happy Friday! Hey, how's everyone doing? It is so cold but I'm keeping warm. And since it's Friday, what are some of your fandom thoughts? Well, here is one of mine:
I noticed there's an increasing and growing grumbling among 9-1-1 fans about how the Showrunner Kristen Reidel has been ruining the show. Kristen has been in charge since the fourth season when she was co-Showrunner with Tim Minear (who appears to have left control of the show to her so he can run 9-1-1: Lone Star). As much as I love 9-1-1, the quality has been on a steady decline with her in charge and so far it doesn't seem like the course has been corrected. Hopefully, that will change in the upcoming second half of the sixth season.
You can really tell the difference in how 9-1-1 is being run compared to 9-1-1: Lone Star. Since Tim has been in charge of Lone Star, the storylines and writing have been good, entertaining, exciting and concise. While the writing for 9-1-1 for the most part has been unfortunately uninspiring, lacking creativity and never seem to go anywhere. Or when there are good storylines, sometimes there's no follow through or the stories are simply abandoned.
As much as I've more or less enjoyed the nine episodes of first half of the season, these episodes as a whole have felt mostly like filler episodes with a few key moments sprinkled throughout. You can really tell she doesn't really know what she's doing in running this show and her many interviews continue to shine a spotlight on her inexperience. There were a lot of very questionable decisions being made not only for the characters but the progression of the series. This sixth season has been suffering from not letting the stories have any emotional payoff and main characters don't seem to have that many emotional scenes together.
It feels like as long as the show continues to get good viewer numbers, the network or whoever is in charge of this show doesn't care what Kristen does as the Showrunner. That is until the ratings start to drop. I wish the show had been left in more capable hands because unless she steps down, gets demoted or gets fired, I feel like the show will simply continue with the less than stellar results. It's not hard to see that engagement within the fandom has definitely decreased, which isn't usually the case with popular shows. Hopefully once the show returns from hiatus, fandom interaction and engagement will return but for now, it's sort of running on fumes. It doesn't help that the show has a Showrunner that continously seems to kill the fandom's spirit.
I love this show and want it to continue to succeed. But with such an inexperienced Showrunner it won't improve unless there's a new Showrunner or she at least gets help from a more competent and experienced co-Showrunner.
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