The Mountain

I was sorry they canceled this show, but I'm sorry to say that's WB's way. Just when they hooked me they cancel it. Did I miss a episode too, because I think I missed the last one. Just as Maria is getting engaged to Will, she turns around and sleeps with David? Was that the last episode, because that was the last one I saw, which made me want to scream. Anyways back to complaining about WB, they have been responsible for canceling a lot of good shows. Anyone remember Young Americans? This is the network for first canceling Roswell (my favorite), Buffy, Angel, Dawson's Creek, recently Jack and Bobby, I actually liked Birds if Prey, I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, oh Summerland, which was OK. But anyways I am not sure why I keep coming back to this low rating network that keeps breaking my heart , but then I'm reminded that I still love WB shows, sorry to say but I do. I am a little worried what will happen to shows like Everwood, which the majority of the public still hasn't realized is another little gem that needs renewing, since WB has bonded with CBS's UPN network. Sorry, the only show I even care about is Veronica Mars on that network. I only hope that the WB is able to bring the Moutain on DVD, which I hear can be costly due to soundtrack rights, but can be dealt with. Until then, I hear Penn is going to be starring in the Bedford Diaries on the WB, which I have to check when that's starting, and Anson is starring in Conviction on Fridays on NBC at 9pm central time, which also has Jordan Bridges in it, from Dawson's Creek, and J. August Richards from Angel- check it out- it's good.

When I first watched "The Mountain" I liked and thought it had the chances of becoming a popular show on The WB sort of like "Dawson's Creek". The show is about a guy named David Carver Jr. (Oilver Hudson, who is Kate Hudson's brother) who is an irresponsible, un-kept young man, returns to his family owned ski resort in Colorado after the death of his grandfather to find that he, the youngest son, has inherited the entire mountain which puts him at odds with his older brother Will, the resort manager, who's holding out against being bought out by Colin Dowling, a scheming land developer. Other characters involved in the power struggle are David and Will's youngest sister Shelley, a local teen wanting to make it big as a champion snowboarder; Maria Serrano, David's former girlfriend, now Will's girlfriend; the double-dealing resort operator Travis, whom is under the control of Dowling and his son Michael; and the Downling's attractive daughter Maxine 'Max' whom falls for David while trying to get him to sell the mountain to her father. I think the show was kind of like "Everwood" meets "Dawson's Creek" meets "The O.C." meets "Beverly Hills 90210" meets "Summerland". Except the show is different from all those others but still kind of like them. This show came on Wednesdays on The WB until the show switched places with "Jack and Bobby" (which is a really crappy show!) and the show was on Sundays and was being crushed in a competition by ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and then the show was canceled and only had 13 episodes. I can't believe why The WB would make a very stupid decision by picking "Jack and Bobby" over "The Mountain"! I wish this show didn't last one season!

User Rating: 10/10

BOTTOM LINE: GREAT SHOW WITH REAL POTENTIAL IN BECOMING A HIT!

This show was great!!! I am still disappointed that it was CANNED. I don't think it was given a REAL chance to blow up a hit. I told everyone I knew about the show. The plot, the characters, the setting it was a real good show that I haven't seen on The WB in a long time since the Buffy days! When people finally got a chance to tune in the show was gone! Poof just like that!!! VERY Disappointing!!

I would love to see the show come back,....just where it left off!! At least there is 'Supernatural' which proves every episode too kick butt! I love the show! I am a true old school fan of the WB. I watched Buffy, Angel and Charmed since day one! Charmed is even losing it's touch, for about a year now. We need good new shows!! The teeny boppers are grown up now. I guess you have a pretty good audience with Smallville,One Tree Hill and other like shows, but I can't stand them! We know the older people ARE watching TV, with pretty big 'grown up' hits on other networks! Just give us something...like 'The Mountain'.

The Mountain is the best show ever on the WB but of coarse they had to cancel it. I think people in the Television have no brains. They always cancel the best shows and leave the scummy ones on. Take Fox for an example they put on a really good show called Tru calling and a year later they cancel it and after a lot of bagging and pleading from 3/4 of Fox's viewers they finally give us another 1/2 of a season. So then they replace the show with Point Pleasant which is kinda boring in the begging but grows on ya after 10 min. And after 4 or 5 episodes what do they do again? THEY CANCEL IT AGAIN! If you ask me we should get a hole lot of new TV producers cause I don't think they know how to do there job if any of them are reading this get the FUDGE out and let someone else take over for instance someone who knows how to do there job and satisfy!

-A very angry Viewer

The show had true potential. A good cast, a dreamy setting and a great music selection each week. Unfortunately, the writing was all over the place, when it began like your regular Dallas/Dynasty type of soap opera, implying things would get more interesting and complex as the season unfolds. And ended in true WB fashion, like a clone of its most popular teen drama of that era, One Tree Hill. Revisiting the episodes recently, I thought that the Winter finale ended on a high note and it made me eager to watch more, only after the show « returned » things settled in a strange and underwhelming way, for erasing completely those new challenges right of the bat, and making the stories more politically correct, like they did with Everwood a year earlier. The 2005 episodes were more about the Shelley character, and the fight for power between the two wealthy families, that was introduced during the first minutes of the series, took a back sit to leave room for more of the usual angst and « coming of age » drama. The show lost its way so bad, one of its main stars left abruptly, and after the remaining episodes were clearly rushed into production (and were too focused on the coed's life), the « series finale » was like a boring (and overdone) after school special. I wonder why they even bothered green lighting a whole season in the first place...