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deird_ljHow exactly do you describe a pivotal moment in a tv show to someone who hasn't seen it?
It's... pretty much impossible, for the most part. About the best way to do it is to find a similar story, and try to relate it to what happened in that one.
Which makes life tricky, because usually the stories that are most worth describing are also the ones that are the least like anything you've seen before...
I've been thinking about it, and I think I've finally come up with a possible way to describe the last scene in Tru Calling.
(Seriously. Even if you don't care about TC whatsoever, you really should read this explanation. Cause I think it's really cool.)
The Final Scene (Ever!) In Tru Calling:
So, it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 5.
Only... it's kinda different.
And Buffy and Spike have not been getting on at all lately. She tried to dust him for some reason, then he did something evil, then she tried to dust him again, and then he got really annoyed at her, and things got a bit out of hand...
Anyway, they haven't been getting along.
But, it's Christmas (aww!), so Buffy has decided to call a temporary truce on the whole mutual-attempts-to-kill-each-other thing, and has invited Spike to spend the evening with her family and friends, so that he won't have to spend Christmas alone (aww!).
Isn't that sweet?
Just watch the nice people, having Christmas together, and all getting along, and everyone being happy and drinking nog, and singing Christmas carols...
...and then think about all the little scenes you've watched for the past nine episodes. (Not all the Buffy vs Spike ones. No, those ones are pretty insignificant right at the moment. Instead, think about all the scenes with Buffy's family, and the whole thing with Willow and Tara, and that one scene with Riley...)
And you'd kind of forgotten about those little scenes. Because, hey, Christmas! Mistletoe! Nog! - all so much nicer than thinking about those rather... troublesome... scenes.
But now...
You look round the room, at all the people singing Christmas carols together, and suddenly you remember that Spike actually hates Buffy and wants to kill her.
And then you remember that, recently, he managed to corrupt Riley into working against her too.
And then you remember that Joyce has actually been evil this whole time, and actually wants Spike to win this whole Buffy-vs-Spike battle.
And then you remember that, in fact, Tara only started going out with Willow because Spike convinced her to so that he'd have a spy inside the enemy camp. (She's been doing a really good job of spying so far.)
And you suddenly realise that, out of the ten people in the room, nearly half of those people are actively plotting (together) to bring Buffy down.
Just keep watching the nice people, as they sing carols and hand out presents, and try not to think about the fact that the others have no idea what's about to hit them.
...and that's where the show ends.
Can I just say how much I wish they'd been able to do some more episodes of this?
It's... pretty much impossible, for the most part. About the best way to do it is to find a similar story, and try to relate it to what happened in that one.
Which makes life tricky, because usually the stories that are most worth describing are also the ones that are the least like anything you've seen before...
I've been thinking about it, and I think I've finally come up with a possible way to describe the last scene in Tru Calling.
(Seriously. Even if you don't care about TC whatsoever, you really should read this explanation. Cause I think it's really cool.)
The Final Scene (Ever!) In Tru Calling:
So, it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 5.
Only... it's kinda different.
And Buffy and Spike have not been getting on at all lately. She tried to dust him for some reason, then he did something evil, then she tried to dust him again, and then he got really annoyed at her, and things got a bit out of hand...
Anyway, they haven't been getting along.
But, it's Christmas (aww!), so Buffy has decided to call a temporary truce on the whole mutual-attempts-to-kill-each-other thing, and has invited Spike to spend the evening with her family and friends, so that he won't have to spend Christmas alone (aww!).
Isn't that sweet?
Just watch the nice people, having Christmas together, and all getting along, and everyone being happy and drinking nog, and singing Christmas carols...
...and then think about all the little scenes you've watched for the past nine episodes. (Not all the Buffy vs Spike ones. No, those ones are pretty insignificant right at the moment. Instead, think about all the scenes with Buffy's family, and the whole thing with Willow and Tara, and that one scene with Riley...)
And you'd kind of forgotten about those little scenes. Because, hey, Christmas! Mistletoe! Nog! - all so much nicer than thinking about those rather... troublesome... scenes.
But now...
You look round the room, at all the people singing Christmas carols together, and suddenly you remember that Spike actually hates Buffy and wants to kill her.
And then you remember that, recently, he managed to corrupt Riley into working against her too.
And then you remember that Joyce has actually been evil this whole time, and actually wants Spike to win this whole Buffy-vs-Spike battle.
And then you remember that, in fact, Tara only started going out with Willow because Spike convinced her to so that he'd have a spy inside the enemy camp. (She's been doing a really good job of spying so far.)
And you suddenly realise that, out of the ten people in the room, nearly half of those people are actively plotting (together) to bring Buffy down.
Just keep watching the nice people, as they sing carols and hand out presents, and try not to think about the fact that the others have no idea what's about to hit them.
...and that's where the show ends.
Can I just say how much I wish they'd been able to do some more episodes of this?
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Date: 2009-04-20 10:47 pm (UTC)Kinda glad I stopped watching it, bad endings just make me cranky.
Two fave shows of mine did terrible endings (well, three, but Farscape got resolved at least, kinda!)
Journeyman: It's been a while, and I've kinda forgotten, but it got so good and interesting, and his kid may have inherited the same ability/ curse, and his ex also has the ability, and decides to stay in the past, and there are more people out there like him...and....that's it? Argh. That was one show that deserved another chance.
Now and Again: Michael reunites with his family, they have an 'omg you're him? moment, bad guys break in, they flee.....and that's it. :-|
Sometimes I hate TV. At least books have closure.
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:16 am (UTC)"Men with guns behind me! Run for your lives! Quick!" - and we NEVER see what happens next!
*hates shows getting cancelled without warning*
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Date: 2009-04-21 12:34 pm (UTC)Someone should do just one more ep. To tie it all up. Young Mr. Close has hardly aged in the intervening...lordy, is it 9 years already?
*hates right along with you*
I await the day when, a la holodeck, we can scan a whole tv series into a drive, and then enter in a storyline, and it will recreate it all as though it were a normal episode. Mmm. What a way that would be, to fix all the injustices done to excellent shows/ storylines!