Again, I have been watching all of the episodes and it hit me that as a way of coping with losing our favorite show that I would look at the season as a movie.

In a movie you have a beginning, a middle and and an end. We got that and as ANGRY as I am that we won't get more I have decided to look at it as a movie. A wonderful, heartwarming, thought provoking, tear jerking movie.

I will miss all of the characters. I want to know how they develop as people. I want MORE, MORE, MORE. That is not to be so for my own personal peace I have been looking at this one season as a movie. This is my way of living with the fact that the best program I have seen in a very long time (nothing compares) will only be there for us for the one season.

I just wanted to share this with all of you. Maybe it will help.

Extraordinary things should be rare. We need to appreciate them.

I had come to this way of looking at it a while back, after having heard an interview with someone else (I think Mitch Hurwitz or "Arrested Development") on NPR whose show was prematurely cancelled, and that's kind of how he had to approach writing the final six episodes. I thought it made a lot of sense, and of course with movies you rarely expect a sequel from anything really thoughtful; generlally they're reserved for popcorn flicks and movies whose content is referred to as "The Property," such as "Fantastic Four" or something.

I've looked at it as a sort of mini series type thing. I watch episodes now and then and people still catch me quoting the show. I still miss it greatly, but I am coping.

There's no silver lining. I recently got my DVD and I'm glad to have it. I intentionally didn't download anything post-Nevada Day from iTunes (except for one that my DVR failed to catch) so that when I got the DVD it would feel fairly fresh, and it does.

But I still want more, even knowing it'll never come.

I'm not boycotting NBC, as Friday Night Lights is, to me, no S60 but as good as anything still on. I won't sample any new NBC shows, more because I see how NBC treats them than as any sort of boycott, but FNL has me hooked and I won't deny myself what's left just because the best is gone.

It probably won't matter after this season, as FNL doesn't take people to Silverman's "that happy place" either, so it probably is in its last season.

But there's no silver lining. S60 could have been a great show for years, and while Sorkin condensed a lot of what he'd have put into those years into the last four episodes, nothing can make up for what could have been.

Well said, Anonym. It is sad that the best of these programs - the ones that make us think, the ones that really move us - aren't around for long enough. I miss Studio 60, and thinking about what could have been - a few more years of character development, very human storytelling - still makes me sad.

My own experience is like yours. I am hesitant to watch any new shows, as the ones I've really liked in the last few years haven't made it. (In addition to Studio 60, I also really liked "The Nine" last season on ABC. That one didn't even make the full season.) I am really enjoying the excellent "Friday Night Lights", too; but I find myself trying not to become too deeply attached, as I suspect that program won't be around for long either.

As a viewer, I find it so frustrating that, with so many outlets - networks, cable channels - it is so hard to keep good dramatic programs on the air. Isn't that what television entertainment is supposed to be about? Bringing quality programs to the viewers? Endless reality show, game shows, and contests - what television has now become - does not require any creativity or artistry at all. And what is the point in that?