Margaret Mead said "Anthropology has to date made very meager contributions to man's developing concern with the future" ("Contribution" 3). Two decades later, the American Anthropological Association began awarding an annual prize for "Anticipatory Anthropology" in order to ameliorate this shortcoming, what Robert Textor (who sponsored the award and for whom it is named) called the discipline's "tempocentrism"- i.e., its concern only "with the past, the ethnographic present, and the actual present".

Joss Whedon writes has created characters that take their victimization and turn it into something they control and draw power from. The panel focuses on River from Firefly and Echo from Dollhouse, but also draws from Buffy in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Cordelia in Angel.

Panelists each take a TV show that they feel deserved one more season, explaining why and where the show might have gone.