{"id":271,"date":"2005-12-10T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","slug":"reunion-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Reunion Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Fox finally cancelled Reunion, as <a href=\"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=76\">I accurately predicted in October<\/a>. This post generated a lot of criticism, but I think my comments were vindicated by the fact that not enough people were watching for Fox to keep it going. Eat crow, flamers!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite comment (aside from the person who inexplicably concluded that I must be a callous person) was this one:<br \/>\n&#8220;How can you think Reunion is terrible?! It\u2019s probably one of the best shows out there. I don\u2019t think anyone agrees with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Um, nobody agrees with me? Fox has really made a terrible mistake then, haven&#8217;t they? Of course, hardly anybody cares about the show, so maybe they just haven&#8217;t taken the time to agree.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I actually thought the show was getting more bearable. I even <em>enjoyed <\/em>a few episodes! I wasn&#8217;t really upset that it is cancelled, but I didn&#8217;t hate it as much as I should have.<\/p>\n<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/blog\/entry?id=2243420&#038;searchName=simmons&#038;action=upsell&#038;appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fespn%2fpage2%2fblog%2fentry%3fid%3d2243420%26searchName%3dsimmons\">the sports guy summed it up best<\/a>, during a plea to keep the show around, when he predicted the following would happen if Fox showed a Reunion marathon one weekend:<br \/>\n&#8220;[People will] watch the first [episode], think it&#8217;s terrible, vow to stop watching it, then inexplicably keep watching. By the third show, not only will they be hooked, they&#8217;ll feel like an idiot for being hooked. But they&#8217;ll keep watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Fox finally cancelled Reunion, as I accurately predicted in October. This post generated a lot of criticism, but I think my comments were vindicated by the fact that not enough people were watching for Fox to keep it going. Eat crow, flamers! My favorite comment (aside from the person who inexplicably concluded that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}