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Re: Final Season

Yogabon — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:47:20 +0000

Let me concur regarding Six Feet Under. Great characters, fabulous cast, phenomenal Finale. And they did the Dead Dad stuff way better than Dexter does (Especially Season 3).

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Re: Final Season

Mike — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:01:46 +0000

I understand your reaction completely, Robin. These things usually only strike me on later viewings. I absolutely agree about Fox in that scene, though really throughout the episode, and indeed the off-island story arc of season 4 (plus finale of 3). In particular, his start at first hearing Christian's voice is maybe the most believable portrayal of sudden shock I have seen on screen.

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Re: Final Season

TheTVCritic — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:12:08 +0000

Hey Mike,

Thanks for reposting and sorry to have lost the original comment. We have updated the CMS several times recently and are still ironing out the kinks.

It's really interesting that you brought up "Something Nice Back Home" now. Re-reading my review I can see I expressed the same emotional reaction as "The Substitute" - a disconnect from what I was seeing. It's a peculiar reaction of mine to Lost. In both cases I thought the story being told was excellent and should elicit emotions from me. I had no complaints about the presentation and yet I didn't feel it.

I think this is something which exposes a rigidness in my own ability to enjoy a story. In the case of Jack and Kate's relationship my mind was definitely affected by knowing that these events were in the future and therefore showing making the events of the present seem less consequential.

I guess I would have felt it more poignantly if perhaps on the island Jack and Kate were getting together. Perhaps seeing their hope contrasted with how it was going to get crushed would have made me really feel it.

I did try to capture in my review that I was impressed that the writing took the story in this direction. Something so different and daring from average network TV. And I was a huge fan of Matthew Fox' acting in that episode. Particularly the scene where he changes the smoke alarm and sees Christian. I was blown away by the realism of that.

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Re: Final Season

Mike — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:02:30 +0000

Hi Robin,

Just responding to your kind mention in the podcast. I can't quite recreate the comment I made about Something Nice Back Home. But the gist of it was that I found the tension created by seeing the initial appearance of happiness between Kate & Jack juxtaposed not only with Jack's extreme emotional tension, but especially his interaction with Hurley, acting almost as the off-island symbol of the pull of the island, to me was thrilling television. In that sense, the hollowness of the Jack-Kate relationship at that particular moment was an essential element of the show -- both showing the island's power over the characters while on the "continent," and also making the eventual return look inevitable. I have a personal affinity for dramatic presentations in which a surface calm is broken in various ways owing to an underlying reality that is anything but resolved. I thought that was done extremely well in the episode.

Of course, the episode has to be watched in conjunction with a a lot of the rest of the series - especially Through The Looking Glass (season 3 finale - both hours), and at least hour two of There's No PLace Like Home (season 4 finale). Note the origin of the titles -- all from works focused on the experience of moving between a imaginary/dream world and the real world, and raising questions about the the reality of the real and the nonreality of the imaginary.

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Re: Final Season

Brando Calrissian — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:09:48 +0000

I agree 100% with Wolfram. Six Feet Under has (in my opinion) the best series finale ever. There have been some greats out there, but the ending to Sixt Feet Under was just perfect in every way...I can't think of a more fitting ending to a show.

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Re: Final Season

wolframhart — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:34:11 +0000

I have never heard of it. I'll definitely load it up to my ipod and let you know what I think.

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Re: Final Season

TheTVCritic — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:07:07 +0000

That's good to know. Have you ever listened to "Buffy Between the Lines." It seems like a clever idea, though so far I've only heard one episode.

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Re: Final Season

wolframhart — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:18:36 +0000

it's definitely something I would listen to! there are not very many buffy podcasts out there. and the few that there are, they're not very good.

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Re: Final Season

TheTVCritic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:18:00 +0000

I have never seen Six Feet Under sadly. I did hear that the ending was good. I didn't like season 7 of Buffy, I thought it was a big letdown. But I didn't have a big problem with the finale for what it was.

Cordia and I are thinking of making a Buffy podcast. Going back over each episode of the show. Is that something you would listen to?

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Re: Final Season

wolframhart — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:27:20 +0000

Have you ever seen Six Feet Under? It has one of the best series finales for any show out there. I thought the Buffy finale was alright too. I felt closure with both those shows.

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Re: Final Season

TheTVCritic — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:09:37 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for posting that's good to know. I am pretty excited about that. Although I imagine expectations will be ridiculously high. I don't think I have ever seen a season finale for a show which felt completely satisfying.

Maybe a show could never satisfy all my expectations!

Just a warning for anyone posting here, NO SPOILERS please. I still haven't heard a thing about Season 6 and I would like to stay that way.

Thanks,
R

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Final Season

BH — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:35:41 +0000

Just learned that Lost will air on a new night: Tuesdays. ABC announced that Lost's final season begins on Tuesday, February 2. Only 70-something more days to go!

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