Over the years I've become more and more a believer in needing to do major shifts around the 5th season to keep it fresh.
Yeah, me too -- and fascinatingly it doesn't seem to matter much how long the seasons are. Five full seasons, five half seasons, it's the five that matters.
This has so clearly been the season of Parker! And in fact it's reshaping my view of the series; it's always felt like TPTB were trying to do the Story of Nate (the Angst-Ridden Alcoholic), but Parker really has the strongest arc all the way through, and if this week's episode was the first of the "building to the finale" eps, I think that's going to carry on through. (She said, trying not to be spoilery *g*)
I adored the ep with the three of them off on their own; they are so good together!
I saw the last episode of Farscape when they didn't know they were being cancelled - worst ending *ever*.
Oh, man, it was. But it was mitigated a bit for me; I was watching with a friend, and after it was over, another friend from the West Coast called for information so she'd know whether she'd be able to watch it. "I have just one question," she said. "Is D'Argo alive, and are John and Aeryn together?"
My friend and I looked at each other, and she very carefully said, "Yes, D'Argo is alive, and John and Aeryn are together," while we heroically kept from completely losing it.
WC friend still figured it out from her tone, though. But really, I wouldn't have thought anything could turn that ending into something I'd be laughing my head off about, and yet there it was! (Also my mental image of D'Argo going in with a fishing net to, er, salvage the situation. So to speak.)
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Yeah, me too -- and fascinatingly it doesn't seem to matter much how long the seasons are. Five full seasons, five half seasons, it's the five that matters.
This has so clearly been the season of Parker! And in fact it's reshaping my view of the series; it's always felt like TPTB were trying to do the Story of Nate (the Angst-Ridden Alcoholic), but Parker really has the strongest arc all the way through, and if this week's episode was the first of the "building to the finale" eps, I think that's going to carry on through. (She said, trying not to be spoilery *g*)
I adored the ep with the three of them off on their own; they are so good together!
I saw the last episode of Farscape when they didn't know they were being cancelled - worst ending *ever*.
Oh, man, it was. But it was mitigated a bit for me; I was watching with a friend, and after it was over, another friend from the West Coast called for information so she'd know whether she'd be able to watch it. "I have just one question," she said. "Is D'Argo alive, and are John and Aeryn together?"
My friend and I looked at each other, and she very carefully said, "Yes, D'Argo is alive, and John and Aeryn are together," while we heroically kept from completely losing it.
WC friend still figured it out from her tone, though. But really, I wouldn't have thought anything could turn that ending into something I'd be laughing my head off about, and yet there it was! (Also my mental image of D'Argo going in with a fishing net to, er, salvage the situation. So to speak.)