I’ll start out by saying that Defying Gravity is my third favorite TV show of all time, behind Firefly and Doctor Who (the 9th and 10th Doctors, I didn’t watch the old series). I honestly can’t believe how little media attention this got. I mean, Ron Livingston! Not the best actor in the world, but he was the main character in Office Space, which EVERYBODY loves. That should have at least attracted enough viewers to keep the show going for the full season, but ABC didn’t push the advertising; plus, they started it at the worst possible time (summer, when people take vacations and try not to watch tv). They were able to build up a huge fan base for FlashForward waaay before it even started, and they couldn’t even do that for a show that was already half-way through its first (and probably only) season.

You and I will always be connected in some strange way I can’t explain. Usually involving too many drinks…

-Zoe Barnes, to Maddox Donner(Defying Gravity)

Laura Harris is a wonderful actress, in my opinion. And the rest of the cast, though I don’t recognize them from anything else, were all great. The main plot (the mysterious Beta, etc) may have been a bit unrealistic, but there was definite chemistry between each of the main couples, and the characters were believable in their respective parts.

And really, is science fiction such a bad thing to watch? I don’t get why most people don’t like science fiction in this generation. Just because we live in an age with movies on our phones and internet on our airplanes, doesn’t mean we can’t imagine the future. Space travel is our next big step, but we don’t seem to want to strive towards it anymore. Sure, we have Star Trek making a comeback, but that’s only because they crew is young and hot(ter) now, and we can do so much better with special effects than we used to.

Since I’ve rambled far too much by now, I’ll leave on this note: if anyone reads this and doesn’t know what Defying Gravity is, look it up on Hulu and then email ABC and tell them to hurry and air the rest of the episodes in America. Canada already showed them all, I believe, but we have to wait for someone to decide to air the best episodes of the season.