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marie_j_grangerI was looking for another file on my computer and found a "Friends" video I'd downloaded a while ago. (I don't mean an episode, I mean a fan-made video with a bunch of clips to a song.) I can't remember who made it, but I'm pretty sure the link came from the Ross and Rachel club on F-B. (I don't even remember whether it was old or new F-B.) Anyway, the song was "Say Goodbye" by Elton John, I think. The clips were almost all from the tenth season. Watching it made me cry. I mean, I enjoyed the clips, especially Emma waving at the camera in TOW Chandler Gets Caught, but it was very poignant about the show ending. I'm going to be a mess on the finale night, especially if the clip show they do before it is as well done as that video. A lot of time music can get to me when simple images can't. So if they use a song like that one or "Time of Your Life" or something equally emotional, I'll be a wreck before the episode even starts.
It's not like this is the first time one of my favorite shows went off the air. When "Wonder Years" ended I was in my early teens and I know I cried hard. (Of course, part of that was out of anger -- I couldn't believe they had Kevin and Winnie not end up together in the end. I'm still bitter.)
The show's ending I cried the hardest at, though, was "Farscape." I almost didn't even watch it because I was mad that Sci-Fi channel had canceled that brilliant show. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't, but Fiance encouraged me to. If you're not familiar with the show I need to tell you that there was an Earth man (John Criton) and an alien race similar to human woman (Aeryn Soon) who had had UST for years. Their relationship was the main thing that drew me to the show, even though I was also interested in the other characters. In the finale, they not only got engaged, but she also decided to have his baby. (Her alien physiology was such that she could decide when and if the pregnancy would take; she'd been putting it off for over a year.) So it was a really happy, romantic moment -- they were out in a rowboat in the middle of a lake. Then an alien spaceship zoomed over the lake and blew them both to smithereens (or maybe "beemed them up," but the ship was sure left empty). I started sobbing and didn't quit for quite a while. Fiance was at a loss for how to comfort me. I gave myself a splitting headache. (Of course, part of the crying was partly just me letting myself go because I was in the middle of a high-stress semester.) At any rate, I blame the sucky ending on the Sci-Fi channel, hence the boycott I mentioned a couple of posts ago. As I understand it, they are now working on a mini-series for Farscape that will give a more satisfactory ending (largely because of fan outcry at its ending). The actors that played John and Aeryn are supposed to be in it and it will air on Sci-Fi again. If they fix it, I'll forgive them, but until then I'm sticking to my boycott. (No, I don't hold grudges. *rolls eyes at self*)
Anyway, I fear that my extreme reaction to Farscape would be nothing compared to the emotional freak-out that would occur if Rachel actually left Ross for Paris in the Friends finale. I've been a Friends (and RnR) fan since I was either thirteen or fourteen. That's way too much time and emotional energy invested in their relationship, I know, but it's still true. (And I staged a similarly childish boycott of Friends for a month last summer because of the Season Nine finale. I didn't come back until the "Joey" show was announced officially.) I'm not actually worried that BKC would do this to me. I have to believe that they will actually end up together. They will, right? There's too much history for them not to. We've waited too long and been teased with reunions too many times for them to part as friends only. They have to make it worth our wait.
It's not like this is the first time one of my favorite shows went off the air. When "Wonder Years" ended I was in my early teens and I know I cried hard. (Of course, part of that was out of anger -- I couldn't believe they had Kevin and Winnie not end up together in the end. I'm still bitter.)
The show's ending I cried the hardest at, though, was "Farscape." I almost didn't even watch it because I was mad that Sci-Fi channel had canceled that brilliant show. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't, but Fiance encouraged me to. If you're not familiar with the show I need to tell you that there was an Earth man (John Criton) and an alien race similar to human woman (Aeryn Soon) who had had UST for years. Their relationship was the main thing that drew me to the show, even though I was also interested in the other characters. In the finale, they not only got engaged, but she also decided to have his baby. (Her alien physiology was such that she could decide when and if the pregnancy would take; she'd been putting it off for over a year.) So it was a really happy, romantic moment -- they were out in a rowboat in the middle of a lake. Then an alien spaceship zoomed over the lake and blew them both to smithereens (or maybe "beemed them up," but the ship was sure left empty). I started sobbing and didn't quit for quite a while. Fiance was at a loss for how to comfort me. I gave myself a splitting headache. (Of course, part of the crying was partly just me letting myself go because I was in the middle of a high-stress semester.) At any rate, I blame the sucky ending on the Sci-Fi channel, hence the boycott I mentioned a couple of posts ago. As I understand it, they are now working on a mini-series for Farscape that will give a more satisfactory ending (largely because of fan outcry at its ending). The actors that played John and Aeryn are supposed to be in it and it will air on Sci-Fi again. If they fix it, I'll forgive them, but until then I'm sticking to my boycott. (No, I don't hold grudges. *rolls eyes at self*)
Anyway, I fear that my extreme reaction to Farscape would be nothing compared to the emotional freak-out that would occur if Rachel actually left Ross for Paris in the Friends finale. I've been a Friends (and RnR) fan since I was either thirteen or fourteen. That's way too much time and emotional energy invested in their relationship, I know, but it's still true. (And I staged a similarly childish boycott of Friends for a month last summer because of the Season Nine finale. I didn't come back until the "Joey" show was announced officially.) I'm not actually worried that BKC would do this to me. I have to believe that they will actually end up together. They will, right? There's too much history for them not to. We've waited too long and been teased with reunions too many times for them to part as friends only. They have to make it worth our wait.
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:01 pm (UTC)It is was probably new FB, because TOW Chandler Gets Caught didn't air until after it re-opened. (Did it? I can't remember.) And I don't remember them ever using music over clips on the show. That would be a very nice thing to do, though. I agree, words of a song can get to you when images can't. That's why all of Vero's videos are so great- she picks perfect songs to go with the images, and the right clips for the right moments.
I don't think I've ever had a favourite show finish in my lifetime, apart from kid's shows, but they don't really count. So this will be a totally new experience for me. I'm going to have to watch it on the computer, too, so I'm hoping I can get it at a time when no one's around, so they don't see me cry. I don't like crying in front of people, but I know I'm going to. I had tears in my eyes at Phoebe's Wedding, and that was on the computer.
That sounds like a bad ending to Farscape. I never watched that, though. I know that Sci-Fi's main thing isn't couples, but if you have couples on a show, people are going to get invested in them, so the wish thing to do isn't exactly to blow them both up, is it?
I have no worries about R/R ending up together. And no qualms. I'm not the biggest shipper of them, so I'm not that concerned, but them not ending up together isn't an option. It's gonna happen. The thing I'm concerned about is predicability in the finale. I mean, what good is me staying offline for a few days before I get the episode going to do me if there's nothing surprising? I know people don't feel the same way, but I'll feel disappointed if what I think is going to happen is almost exactly what does. Does that make sense?
I hope you still don't mind me rambling. But you give a lot of things to comment on. I like that. :D
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:17 pm (UTC)As for crying at the finale, they'll be big, manly tears so don't worry about it. *hugs* Besides, your female fandom friends will likely find it endearing rather than wimpy. I think it's sweet that MnP's wedding made you misty; it sure did me. (But then, I also understand not wanting your family to see you cry over a TV show. I feel a little sill about it myself and girls are expected to be more emotional by society.)
And I agree that the Farscape ending was unwise. From the scuttlebut I've gleened, they'd planned it for a season finale cliffhanger (and we'd later find out that they weren't actual dead, just captive or something). Then they were mad that Sci-fi canceled them with little warning so they decided not to re-write it, in protest. (So I think I'm justified in blaming the channel, not the studio for the sucky ending.)
I also understand what you mean about not wanting the finale to be predictable. I'm weak and have read spoilers. I still hold out hope that the "finale" described in the National Enquirer is false. Ias incredibly predictible and rather fanfic like. Bah.