**Series spoiler warning for anyone else who might read this.**
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Sorry to hear you were a bit disappointed by the ending. Any particular reason?
To me it all felt so rushed. But I've come to hear a bit about the real life situation of S4-5, with cast changes and being unsure until the last moment whether there would even BE a S5. Seems like it was a difficult situation all the way around, so I do try to take that into consideration.
But it just seemed there was so much we didn't get to see - so much that I assumed we would! We didn't even get to see G'Kar & Londo's end, we only hear about them after the fact! Therefore, I felt like I did not get a chance to say goodbye to these two men that I came to adore.
We more or less already had our emotional/story closure in the previous seasons... only we didn't know it. (Again, I'm not up on titles yet.) Though we were shown what happened, it was in the form of a vision/prophecy/whatever and therefore to me it wasn't 100% sure at that time that it would happen that way. I wasn't prepared for that to be the last we'd see of it and of them!
And then we were introduced to the idea of a son for Sheridan & Delenn, when was it, in 'Babylon Squared'? But aside from the conversation with Londo where he gives them the baby Keeper, we know next to nothing about him. WE NEVER EVEN GOT TO SEE HIM! And how could Sheridan just leave without a goodbye to his own son?!
All of this, and more. But those are the major ones that made me want to cry.
Don't get me wrong, what we were shown, I loved. But wow, there just seems so much that I assumed would be shown and there was nothing at all! It felt so incomplete.
(To be honest, my brain and heart hit a wall when I saw Susan die and then... not. I don't think I ever processed that bit of the storyline properly before moving on. I think somehow emotionally I was still "there" and then the twist with Marcus and everything else just threw me for a loop and I never quite recovered. That's what I mean about going through the show way too fast.)
Perhaps I will feel differently about all of this the second time around. At least now I know what to expect. But if I had seen this when it aired I would've been in tears of frustration and felt quite cheated.
Re: (Here via hobsonphile)
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Sorry to hear you were a bit disappointed by the ending. Any particular reason?
To me it all felt so rushed. But I've come to hear a bit about the real life situation of S4-5, with cast changes and being unsure until the last moment whether there would even BE a S5. Seems like it was a difficult situation all the way around, so I do try to take that into consideration.
But it just seemed there was so much we didn't get to see - so much that I assumed we would! We didn't even get to see G'Kar & Londo's end, we only hear about them after the fact! Therefore, I felt like I did not get a chance to say goodbye to these two men that I came to adore.
We more or less already had our emotional/story closure in the previous seasons... only we didn't know it. (Again, I'm not up on titles yet.) Though we were shown what happened, it was in the form of a vision/prophecy/whatever and therefore to me it wasn't 100% sure at that time that it would happen that way. I wasn't prepared for that to be the last we'd see of it and of them!
And then we were introduced to the idea of a son for Sheridan & Delenn, when was it, in 'Babylon Squared'? But aside from the conversation with Londo where he gives them the baby Keeper, we know next to nothing about him. WE NEVER EVEN GOT TO SEE HIM! And how could Sheridan just leave without a goodbye to his own son?!
All of this, and more. But those are the major ones that made me want to cry.
Don't get me wrong, what we were shown, I loved. But wow, there just seems so much that I assumed would be shown and there was nothing at all! It felt so incomplete.
(To be honest, my brain and heart hit a wall when I saw Susan die and then... not. I don't think I ever processed that bit of the storyline properly before moving on. I think somehow emotionally I was still "there" and then the twist with Marcus and everything else just threw me for a loop and I never quite recovered. That's what I mean about going through the show way too fast.)
Perhaps I will feel differently about all of this the second time around. At least now I know what to expect. But if I had seen this when it aired I would've been in tears of frustration and felt quite cheated.
(Sorry for blathering on!)