Alas: this is the final Tru Calling recap. Television Without Pity is sending the show off to the graveyard called “Permanent Hiatus.” To mark the occasion, Shack works himself up into some kind of human tornado of rage, the culmination of which is almost-germane enough to quote at length:

I hate this show more than any bad television I’ve ever watched. I think it’s because I’m an editor now at a daily newspaper. Every day, I go through the stories by reporters who work their asses off for little pay. And then I make them fix things. Sometimes I make them call people at inopportune moments in order to gather some detail that I think is important to the story. I make them rewrite huge chunks of story. I make them go back to places they’ve already been to in order to get more information. Sometimes I tell them their stories aren’t going to run as planned. It creates stress and resentment sometimes. I don’t do it to be cruel — I do it because I want the stories to be right. I do it because I want to do right by our readers. I do it because I want the reporters to improve their skills and move on to better things. I do it because I want to improve my skills and move on to better things. And every week, I sit down and watch a bunch of people who are making undeserved amounts of money for this shit, where nobody can be bothered to make sure the script even makes any sense — a show where people think we’re too stupid to remember the most basic plot elements, so they have to spell it all out for us like magnetic letters on a board in pre-school. And yet the plots still don’t make any sense. This show is a slap in the face of anybody who actually cares at all about storytelling. I’m glad I got so many kind words about the recaps, but I’m also glad we’re killing them.

There. All those Tru Calling recaps turned out to have something to do with journalism. Somehow, I just knew they were relevant.

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