Carnivale... that was TV worth watching. I had only just gotten my HD-DirecTiVo and suddenly my "HD-ready" rear-projection CRT just came alive with Carnivale. When they'd go from night scenes to day, I'd squint from the brightness. Ahh...

I'll say this, though. If they'd somehow been able to cobble together a season 3, it would have been one hell of a confusing plot to recover from the ending of season 2.

Which reminds me... I only just recently discovered that they did a comic book Buffy Season 8, canonical, written by Joss Wheadon. How did I manage to miss this? Now I need to figure out whether I want to dive back into the Buffyverse or not. From the non-spoilers, it looks like things changed in a pretty big way. There's no longer even the hint of a pretense of the Scooby gang pretending to be regular college students.