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Originally Posted by happy_terd
I never watched the show. I have a lot of buddies that been following the show since day 1.
I can borrow the seasons for free. I may have to check this show out.
 At least I can watch it all at once and not have to wait a week between episodes. |
Here's the lowdown. You will watch the first several episodes of the first season and will generally have your jaw down somewhere around floor level for pretty much the entire time. After about the fourth or fifth episode, you will be convinced that you are watching the single-most head spinning, game-changing television show of all time, the one that all future great series will be measured against, that you have finally stumbled across TV entertainment that is compelling and fascinating in a way that no show has ever managed before. You'll literally be breathless at the end of every episode, and with a whole season of DVDs at your disposal, you will have to quite literally force yourself to stop watching at 3AM just so you can get some sleep. That will last well into the second season.
However, by the time you get into the third season, the show begins to meander a bit, and the fourth is a bit ho-hum, largely because the producers and writers knew how they wanted it to end, but they didn't know how long the series was to be aired, so they had to just keep dragging things out. The fifth season is where the writers got a commitment from ABC to end the series with 6 seasons, so they were able to refocus their efforts and began a two-season-long wrap-up of the story arc. Unfortunately they had lost a good deal of the original magic and momentum of the story in the third and fourth seasons, and it seemed to me that they never really hit that first unbelievable stride they had going in the first couple of seasons. I mostly watched this last season just more out of curiosity rather than out of any serious emotional connection to the show. The last episode was, for me, the only one that really came close to touching that emotional magic of the first two seasons, so I do have to admit that the last episode was very well done and I very much enjoyed it. Yes, it left enough holes for a whole fleet of jets, and yes, it's painfully obvious the writers did that on purpose to leave wiggle-room for any possible future follow-on or movie series, but on the whole, the entire series was a satisfying TV experience, and it was certainly better written and performed and vastly more entertaining than the vast majority of the rest of the garbage on the tube.