Tonight, the world will get a little sadder for me as I view the last episode of a TV show that I’ve grown fond of over the last couple of years.
The saddest part is not the show going off the air, but that I grew attached to the people who shared my viewing interest. The show created those “water cooler” moments that allowed a group of internet friends to joke and dissect every nuance of every action and word of dialogue on the program. We were able to project our own view of the world on copyrighted characters and it was great. It allowed geekiness at an extraordinary level as we could proclaim with supreme confidence that character X wouldn’t do a particular action because it was inconsistent with what they did in show #14. That was so much fun.
But like graduating from high school, where everyone writes in the yearbook, “Best friends 4ever,” the reality is – things change. You go to college and make new friends. You try to keep in touch with the old ones, but before you know it, it’s been weeks or months since the last time you talk.
I’m not looking, but maybe I’ll find a new show or book series to get enthusiastic about and with it will probably come a whole new set of friends.
But I do know this. Sadly, I think, I will always miss this particular high school the most. Goodbye Justice League Unlimited.