Pushing Daisies: The Future?

So, all season, Pushing Daisies has been building up long story arcs that have been extremely captivating. Last year, most episodes were fairly stand-alone. Viewers had to watch each week to keep up with the characters' lives, but most stories were self-contained. The show did try to introduce a recurring story (Molly Shannon's salt-water taffy seller was supposed to be involved in a multi-episode arc dealing with her murder of the health inspector, but the writers' strike cut that short). The show was great, but I would have liked a little more overarching stories aside from the Ned/Chuck relationship (not that it wasn't great, because it was). Well, this year, my wish was granted. Then ABC cancelled the fucking show. Ugh.

This year, the show set up the return of Ned's father and the search for Emerson Cod's daughter in the first episode. From out of Ned's dad story, we were introduced to Ned's young half brothers and Dwight Dixon, who quickly became my new favorite character. I like to think that, had the show gone on, Dwight would have returned somehow, because he was far too compelling to leave buried in Chuck's dad's grave. Speaking of which, the end of last night's episode, "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy", set up one hell of a plot line. Chuck tricking Ned into not redeading her dad was great, but now that the half-decomposed man with a grudge against Ned is on the loose, things will likely get very interesting for the Pie Hole crew (or, at least, they would had the show gone on). Oh, and Olive as a junior PI was frickin' priceless. Speaking of Olive, we will be cheated out of her songs, which are always a pleasure:



Bryan Fuller has said that he is in talks to make a comic book continuation, and is hopeful of a movie, but right now, I'm kind of pessimisstic about the movie, which I would infinitely prefer over a comic (a comic could do things with visuals that a movie could not, but the actors breathe life into the characters, and their absense in the comic would truly be felt). Also, there have been reports that Fuller is reshooting the final episode to make it more final. In one sense, I guess this is good because we won't be left with as many loose ends, but there was obviously so much more that Fuller wanted to cover, and I doubt he'll be able to do what he envisioned by reshooting one episode. Oh well. It has been great while its lasted, and I'm sure the final four episodes will continue to be great. But there was so much more that was yet to be seen.

Up next: Finals are almost over, so plan for new ideas soon...