Tempting though it may be to hang around with the star of many of your favourite shows (not in a creepy way, creeps), watch out. If you befriend Summer Glau, it may be curtains for you. And for god's sake, don't let her be in your TV show. That's the advice given by a particularly paranoid group of geeks who have identified Glau as the common denominator between several prematurely cancelled telly series, coining the idea of a Summer Glau curse. Obviously that's nonsense, since curses don't exist, but she definitely has some bad luck. Besides the obvious example of Firefly calm down, Browncoats, Netflix will probably give it a try right after they bring back Full House she also had roles on doomed shows like The Cape, The 4400, The Unit, Dollhouse, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. All shows that had a certain dedicated viewership, but which were canned after their first or second seasons (to be fair, in the case of Dollhouse, that was more of a mercy killing). It's bad luck for an actress who's good in everything she does especially Sarah Connor Chronicles but hey, it could be worse. At least she's never appeared in an Exorcist film, because that'd be like, double curse. Fingers crossed that Jeff 1000, the satirical mockumentary robot show she's currently starring in for Wired, doesn't suffer a similar fate. Can webseries even get cancelled?
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
