Moonlight Canceled

Well... what can I say? I guess the information can only be as good as the sources from which you receive it.

CBS has canceled Moonlight, even after reports indicated it was a safe bet for a return. This is especially surprising in the face of a nationwide blood drive organized by fans of the show.

While I would eat my words, the precepts to/underlying what I said remain the same: TV executives don't give a damn what fans want; TV executives only want to make money. That's why it's important for us to ignore TV altogether (excepting Supernatural) and focus on the Internet.

If we allow this kind of corporate takeover of the Web - ala Google, Microsoft, et.al. - then we face the very same thing happening here. While individuals develop websites and other functions as much out of their own love of the subject(s) as to make money, corporations are soulless capitalists who are, by their very nature, Evil. There is no denying this; no philosophical semantics will change this because the very foundations - the underlying principles - which led to the development of corporations in their current form are Evil.

Making money is not Evil; making money at the cost of others', the environment, and basically any and everything else is. Undercutting your competition's prices to steal their customer base is not necessarily Evil; doing so to put said competition out of business is. I mean, it is a matter of ethics on the one hand, but it's also a matter of plain, old-fashioned common sense:

Google is not Evil because it sought to dominate the search engine field; Google is Evil because it did so at the expense of all competition. And for a whole host of other reasons, but that will suffice for our immediate purposes. That's ethics.

The common sense part enters the picture when you realize that we all suffer for allowing this to go on unchecked. Because of Google, we have significantly fewer search options; because of TV executives, we have significantly reduced mainstream television entertainment options.

I stand by what I said, even though the reasons for having said it have changed: TV executives do not listen to fans, do not care about fans, and will never bow-down to us for anything. TV executives only listen to advertisers and child molesters.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008