Get Star-Crossed Renewed for a 2nd Season!
Make sure you sign this petition as well. I just signed one with over 10,000 signatures and I know there are several more floating around out there. But one more can't hurt!
Get Star-Crossed Renewed for a 2nd Season!
Make sure you sign this petition as well. I just signed one with over 10,000 signatures and I know there are several more floating around out there. But one more can't hurt!
That finale was bananas!!! Sign the above petition and help bring our show back!!! Come on Stargazers!!! We can do this!!
A Letter to the CW
When I heard Star Crossed had been cancelled, I couldn’t believe it. It is a fantastic show in its own right, but the ideals it promotes make it priceless because of its relevance to the world we live in and the questions it raises about how we handle the challenges we are faced with every day, both individually and as a country. Star Crossed looks at the issues that arise between people of different races and religions as well as addresses contemporary societal issues such as homosexuality, racism, and hate crimes. And that is to say nothing of how the show incorporates the regular trials of growing up and going to high school along with issues as ordinary as having relationship problems and disagreeing with your parents, into a fun, excitement-filled drama that has something for both teens and adults.
While the show incorporates all these issues into the storyline, the real beauty of the show is the setup of the circumstances within which the storyline takes place. Even though there are aliens on one side of the equations, the show really comes down to two cultures trying to live together and the show does an incredible job of conveying both races’ sides of the story. It shows how both races have groups that are antagonizing the situation and people who are working towards peace. It also shows how there are good people on both sides of the line who are willing to put their personal differences aside for the sake of the greater good and how both races have people who are able to see the beauty in others and love them regardless of how different they are from themselves, just as others will hate each other no matter what. By presenting viewpoints, it is easy to see how both races are right and wrong as the storyline unfolds against this backdrop with the characters trying to cope with the fear and hatred that keep the two peoples from coexisting peacefully.
In one of the many ways in which the show acts as a metaphor to reality, the kids seem to be making a lot of independent and influential decisions, which usually result in them saving the day (or having to save the day) and some of that is just to dramatize the show but I think this correlates with the pressures that are put on teens nowadays. The pressures teens face today go beyond the normal ‘do well in school, go to college, and get a good job’ because society now has so many additional temptations and complications for teens and young adults to navigate through that no previous generation had to face. The responsibility falls to young people to make difficult decisions, to choose differently than their parents, and to step up and think outside the box, because our society keeps hitting the same potholes and making the same mistakes as it did decades ago. In a very real sense, we inherited a mess, through no fault of anyone in particular, but a mess all the same. That mess is destined to get worse before it gets better, but the fact is that it’s our job to fix it even though we aren’t the only ones affected by it, just as the teens in the show face and overcome the obstacles in their path to stop humanity-threatening situations with only a little assistance from the adults in their lives.
What is so unique about the show is how it uses such metaphors to tackle controversial issues in a removed environment that allows viewers to think about them and even discuss these topics without being threatened by them. But even as bold and daring as it is that the show challenges these issues, for me, the real draw is the question that everyone who sees the show has to ask him or herself after each episode: If this were really happening, what would I do?
If you were put in this situation, where would you stand? Would you give in to fear and just move to Alaska? Would you be scared and angry, but refuse to be pushed out of your home, so you’d join the red hawks? Or would you fight for peace and friendship between your people and the first intelligent alien race to ever land on Earth? These questions are important questions whose answers speak to your character and your courage. But these questions, easy to think about and deal with from the relative safety of a world grounded in fiction by the presence of aliens, are actually asking you to think about the world today and the situation our country is currently involved in with a foreign culture and people.
Like I said, it’s an extraordinary show, but its ability to help teens and young adults think about issues and see the complexity of such issues from both races’ perspectives as well as discuss questions and subjects that they’d normally shy away from because of the controversial nature of such topics is the most impressive aspect of the show. For these reasons, it is an absolute shame that the show is being cancelled when it has already opened so many possibilities and has so much future potential.
keep star-crossed it's the best show ever!! and season 2 will be awesome.