Comment by Mark Saleski

Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:16:09 EST

it won't surprise me if it's gone forever. the writers have exhausted their cookie jar of will-they-or-won't they cliches. now that ed & carol are finally married they won't know what to do with them. ..which is really too bad in my book. nothing interesting ever happens to couples? i guess not in the minds of clueless television writers.

Comment by Tom Johnson

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:42:24 EST

It's pretty much certain that Ed is gone for good - the early season end, the time slot changes, these are things that do not bode well for a show. It's too bad, with the tying up of the whole Ed/Carol story they might have finally been able to move forward for once. Like you, I'm more sad to not see continuing story lines based around the peripheral characters - Ed and Carol could probably leave the show and I wouldn't mind anymore. I've always enjoyed the kids, Mike and Nancy, and have grown especially fond of Eli's spunky character. I'd be glad if they spun him off into his own show - they almost could, in fact, with the amount of time they spent developing his character over the past handful of episodes. However, cancelling Ed seems rather dumb, given the fact that NBC's running out of shows that have a dedicated fanbase. The Ed fans may not have been huge in number, but they tuned in week after week. Taking Ed off the air gives my wife and I yet another reason to find another station to watch - because there sure as hell isn't anything else on NBC we'll watch outside of what we already do (and that's a small number of shows now - Scrubs, Friends, ER . . . that's it. In a short while that'll be reduced by yet another show.) Maybe NBC will realize this and give it another season. I'm not holding my breath.

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