Hello, you've come to what was Full Review, an unofficial JAG fan reviews site maintained by Shirley. Full Review was a forum for diverse opinions and viewpoints on the TV show, JAG. The site is no longer available. I took it offline on June 5, 2002. This short history of Full Review is its obituary.

A long time ago, in October 1998, I decided I would like to learn how to make a Web site. I chose to make a site dedicated to JAG because it was my favourite show at the time. Since I was an absolute newbie when it came to the Internet, a simple text site was my only option. I was literally thumbing through Creating Web Pages for Dummies in search of the HTML codes as I laboriously typed up each page. Thus was born Full Review, a site where I and other JAG fans could voice our diverse opinions on our favourite show. It was almost another year before I learned how to make video screen captures, adding pictures from each episode to illustrate the reviews.

I ended my brief stint as a self-appointed reviewer of JAG part way through Season Four (April 1999). That was when I stopped watching JAG. Why? Because I no longer enjoyed it. However, I kept this site online and continued to post other fans' reviews and opinions as my contribution to JAG fandom. Why? The show had given me a lot of pleasure in its early seasons, so I wanted to give something back by providing a forum for fans to give voice without having to worry about flames. Contributors to Full Review could use whatever nom de plume they preferred. Their privacy was totally assured.

Full Review welcomed many different opinions on all aspects of the show. Because of this, the site has always been a target for flames. JAG fans regularly sent flames to me in response to contributors' opinions that they disagreed with. But there were also other fans who contributed thoughtful dissertations. By late 1999, my Web site was achieving its objective as a place where fans could safely share their opinions. In addition to reviews of each JAG episode, Full Review had articles on all things JAG - the characters, the story arcs, the relationships, the good, the bad and the ugly. And visitors came, first by the hundreds, then by the thousands. Site traffic increased by leaps and bounds. Bandwidth usage skyrocketed. It was starting to become an expensive hobby. I was proud of the site's success, but I was also starting to question why I continued to maintain it when I no longer watched the show. Meanwhile, the JAG seasons passed and my Full Review site continued to grow.

On May 31, 2002, I posted an article explaining why I no longer watched JAG yet continued to keep this JAG Web site online. I was inundated by invective-laden flames telling me to get out of JAG fandom and to take my JAG Web site with me. Flames are nothing new to me, but this latest spate caused me to re-examine my reasons for maintaining this site. When I was building Full Review, I was always asking myself, "How do I do this?" The question now became "Why am I doing this?" There didn't seem to be any good reason. Sadly, I decided the time had come to close Full Review. On June 5, 2002, Full Review was no more.

Since then, I've received hundreds of e-mails from all over the world, from shocked and disappointed JAG fans. They tell me that they relied on Full Review. They used it many times a week, some even daily, to keep track of the episodes, to get themselves up to speed on the storylines and the back stories, and most of all, they liked the diversity of viewpoints. Yes, my visitors liked to know what fellow fans think of JAG episodes. Some even tell me it's their favourite JAG site. <blush>. It was gratifying, but it also generated in me a great sense of guilt. Yes, there were many that pleaded for Full Review's return and argued that while they understood my decision to close the site, it wasn't fair to punish the many who loved the site for the flames of the few. To these JAG fans, I can only bow my head and say, "I'm truly sorry. My decision is final. I have come to the end of my road with JAG fandom. It's time for me to go and do other things with my spare time."

I thank all the JAG fans that have contributed to Full Review. To my visitors from all over the world: it's been an adventure. THANK YOU!

Shirley
June 19, 2002.