2016 New Year’s Resolutions for Our Favorite Shows
A new year means new resolutions, but more importantly, it also means new episodes of our favorite TV shows!
We’ve got a full year of fake deaths, hookups, breakups, and heroic last-minute saves to look forward to in 2016, and here at Tell-Tale TV, we’re more eager than ever to see what new twists are in store!
However, every new year also brings its share of disappointments and wrong turns, so our Tell-Tale TV writers have come up with a few resolutions we think our favorite shows should make for the new year.
From crossovers to coming clean, here are our 2016 New Year’s TV Resolutions!
Christine: I want the love triangle on Jane the Virgin to definitively be over, or at least for the writers to back off on it for a while. For 30 episodes now it’s been a non-stop back and forth. It’s time for Jane to focus on herself and really follow through on it. There’s more to her story than being a constant love interest for these two guys. She’s a smart and strong woman with dreams of her own to accomplish. I want to see those stories for a while without Rafael and Michael getting overly involved.
Lizzie: I want shows to take the lessons from this year and build on them when it comes to giving female characters agency. I want women to stop being a tool used to tell a man’s story. I want their suffering, their pain, and their triumphs to be all about them. And, finally, I want TV to not be afraid to give us strong, badass women. After all, they never seem to worry that they’re giving us too many strong male characters.
Sim: That the whole “super hero” and “comic book” thing takes a deep breath, and maybe even stop for a while. I am a full out a nerd — I really am — but even I can’t seem to keep up with all these shows that crossover, bring people back from the dead, and decide to also tie into movies, while others do not. It’s all getting very confusing and seems a bit exhausting. Some original content, with some sarcastic humor and wit is all I ask. Speaking of: please, let the Gilmore Girls revival be everything I hope for.
Lindsay: I would love to see The Vampire Diaries and The Originals reconnect and cross over more often. These two shows have spent the last year practically pretending the other doesn’t exist, which is a shame and a waste of about a dozen crossover opportunities. Instead of bending over backwards to ignore each other, let’s start bending to incorporate shared storylines.
Lyra: LGBT characters that are defined by more than their sexuality. We’re real. Contrary to popular belief, we’re not mystical unicorns who appear every once in a while to add to the lead’s storyline. We are leads, heroes, strategists, and villains. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who we sleep with because we’ve saved the day (or destroyed it) and have got bigger problems to deal with. Basically we need more women like Clarke from The 100.
Allison: I want my favorite shows to stop disappointing me. It sounds a little depressing, I know, but I watch so many shows that I used to love, and I just feel like with each passing episode, I’m getting more and more annoyed with them. There’s a lot of exasperated sighs that happen when I watch Once Upon a Time. Let’s regroup and figure out what works and what doesn’t. If you think things could get interesting by killing off a major character, then do it. Don’t hold on to people and give them recycled storylines or worse, ones that just make zero sense.
Riya: With Felicity being shot in the mid-season finale of Arrow, I’d like the resulting arc to be treated with the depth that it deserves. Whatever the consequences of the shooting may be, I hope that the tables are turned and Oliver is her strength and is crucial to her rehabilitation both physically and mentally. Also, really need that big, ugly lie between them to be resolved quickly. It was a huge turn off that he kept the truth about his child from her after all the progress they had made in their relationship.
Ashley: I’d love to see great new shows be given more of a chance. It seems like it happens more and more that something good comes along, and then it’s canceled before it ever had an opportunity to find its audience. Meanwhile, shows that have been around for way too long have and become stagnant still manage to keep their spots.
What are your resolutions for TV in 2016? Tell us in comments below!
Lindsay MacDonald
Lindsay is an associate editor for Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer, viewer, and internet addict. Her obsession with TV started with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and has been going strong ever since; current favorites include Scandal, The 100, The Walking Dead, and Arrow. She considers a perfect Friday night to be a joint-cuddle-session between an adorable puppy dog and her Netflix queue. Follow @lindsayjoane
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Awesome resolutions, especially the one for Once Upon A Time. I like this show, and at times love it – but goodness, it’s also excruciating and frustrating. My resolution for OUAT would be less memory swipes at the start of every season and a lot less flashbacks. Some episodes this season were nothing but thirty second clips from hundreds of years, to years, to months, to weeks, to days, ago. It was pretty ridiculous and felt like complete time/plot filler.
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