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"Your article on The Swan (Proud as a Peacock About The Swan - April 12) fails to mention something I find very frustrating about such shows - they are replacing programs that present women in strong, well-adjusted roles.
In particular, The Swan replaced Wonderfalls, about a deep, interesting (albeit quirky) young woman who put forward a positive message to young girls. Fox also cancelled Firefly last year, which provided multiple, complex role models for the female audience.
Complex, fully thought-out female characters are pushed to the side for shows about women who are convinced that a nose job will solve their problem.
I realize that reality-TV shows are super cheap, but I just can't imagine that Wonderfalls was so expensive to produce, and it was so much richer in texture, so much more suited to a long-term, dependable audience."

- JOHN EDWARDS, Annapolis, Md.
(appeared in The Globe and Mail, Thursday, April 15, 2004, pg A18)

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