To Be Continued...
Are there any 3 more dreaded words that might appear at the season finale of a favorite show? There are three shows I watch on the Sci-Fi channel, they have a winter & summer season, instead of starting in the fall and running through the spring. The last couple of season, or mid season breaks have had one or two of them end with To Be Continued... Which is kinda cool to give you something to look forward to, but then it's 3 months before you get to actually see it. Plus there's always that off chance that some asshole executive decides that reruns of some two-bit sitcom would be a better idea and cancel your show with no closure.The end of this season came with all three shows being To Be Continued... They work you up to some huge climax and then leave you hanging. I mean, if you're going down on someone, you don't get them 90% of the way there, and then say "We'll finish this next fall". You're liable to get your head torn off. Violently.
Not only that but how often have you seen the bad guys win? The bomb explode? The death ray being fired? The good guy dying? Don't insult my intelligence by building up this huge scene where the good guys are captured and about to be hung and then cut to a To Be Continued... for 16 weeks. They're only going to be saved next season. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. So do me a favor, either give me some plotline closure, or freaking surprise me. Fire the death ray. Obliterate the city. Have a good guy get offed.
Because otherwise it's just an abuse of a plot technique. As far as I'm concerned it's tandemount to,
To Be Continued...
posted by wrmblnwrck @ 5:26 PM
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Not so bad when you have DVD, though. You know what I don't like about DVD's? How when you watch an episode of say, "The X-Files" on TV, they always show that "Last Time, on the X-Files" part where they go through everything, but they don't do that on DVD. Great if you watch it all back-to-back. But if you have a life. . .you can't really follow the storylines at times.
We are watching Angel for the first time ever, by renting it on DVD. And Leona and I were absolutely freaking out during the episode "Hero" because it really looked like Angel was gonna die, but then it was really Doyle, who we didn't expect, EITHER. We knew the whole "you can't kill off the main character" rule, but it is Wheadon, and he did kill Buffy (twice) and Angel is technically already dead so we figured the PTB could bring him back if they needed to.
I have noticed that the rule of "You can't kill off the main characters" is a rule that Wheadon really doesn't give much attention. The hero body count by the end of Buffy and Angel is unusually high. Especially if you count all the people who have been killed, and brought back (and sometimes killed again).
What? Doyle dies?!?!?!?!
Ha. Kidding.
That's one of the reasons Eric and I got so into those shows. People could get offed with no warning.
ebeth...I won't spoil it for you, but before you're done with the whole show, you're going to be surprised who makes it and who doesn't.
Yes. Season 5 is ANYBODY'S GUESS. All of the rules are tossed out the window like Greg's salad.
And when I say salad, I mean his butt.
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