Tobi Waves

For the last few weeks Regula and I have been watching the 1994 drama series My So-Called Live. I totally love this show, too sad it got canceled after only 19 episodes. It's the story of 15 year old Angela Chase, her family and high school friends. I won't attempt to tell the story of the show as it is not really the story which makes it live. It's more the depiction of Angela's "so-called" life, as well as the lives of the people around her.

I seem to have a knack for getting hocked on TV Series that get canceled (Farscape is another example). Here I knew what was going to come, as I had bought the DVD box-set long after the fact. All the more amazing to see that fan community is still alive and kicking (www.mscl.com ...). Because the series ended so abruptly it offerd fertile ground for fan fiction, also called episode 20 fan fiction.

After watching the penultimate episode tonight I went on the net to research if the people behind MSCL had done other things I might want to see. The producers of the Series are Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz of the Bedford Falls Production Company named after the setting of "It's A Wonderful Life". They started working together in 1983 and have since produced several award winning shows, unfortunately not all with great ratings. Some died an early death like MSCL. First there was the all around successful thirtysomething, then after MSCL (www.amazon.com ...) there was Relativity which also got rave reviews but low ratings. Now they are back with Once and Again (www.amazon.com ...) where ratings and reviews seem to be more in sync again.

Unfortunately there seem to be no DVDs of thirtysomething available, but the first season of Once and Again was just released on DVD, so there is at least something to console me when the last episode of MSCE will be watched tomorrow night.

I also found a lengthy article about Zwick and Herskovitz and Bedord Falls at (www.angelfire.com ...)