At least we’ll have the comic book continuation. It’s worked tremendously well so far for Farscape, Buffy and Angel. That said, Pushing Daisies charm is so much in the narration, the bright pastels and the whole tone of it visually and aurally that I fear it will be lost in the translation to a words-and-static-images format.

That being said, there’s also that strangely frenetic and beautiful grown-up storybook dialogue that would read just fine. I can certainly put the right voices with the right words. At any rate, since Bryan Fuller pretty much told me (you do know we hang out… oh yeah, all the time!) that the series finale wasn’t going to be satisfying in any way, I’ll be looking for those comics to continue the story.

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(Season 2, Episode 4)

In a way, I can almost sympathize with the idea behind the rent-a-friend business. They’re right in that, while we’ve created a world of technology that connects us in ways that we almost could never have imagined, we couldn’t be more alone as people. How many of us have friends online we’ve never seen, or rarely see? Just look at the interactions on this site. These are people we don’t see in our day-to-day lives. When I grew up, I knew all the kids in the neighborhood and we all played together … outside. We borrowed sugar from the neighbors and invited them over. And I’m not that old.

I know that wasn’t the point of the show, but it’s never bad when TV makes you think about things. As for Daisies, the facts are these: rumor mongers are starting to fear the worst for this little show with its little audience. While other shows are getting their pickups and renewals, things aren’t looking good for our team of sleuths on that front. Even Ausiello isn’t that confident in a pick-up, encouraging a write-in campaign to save it. Maybe it’ll help that we got to learn a bit more about my second favorite character, Emerson Cod.

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