Firouz
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Post by Firouz on Sept 24, 2013 16:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by manche on Oct 9, 2013 6:30:24 GMT -5
Ow, it's always awful when a show you like ends on such a sad note. The ending of Sinbad was not so sad, it let a lot unfinished things, but at the end the crew set off towards the next adventure together, Sinbad knew that Maeve is alive and safe with Dim Dym at least. But different tv series had worse endings, I mentioned the dark night, where two from three main characters ended in hell, but the worst ending had the lost world, where all our heroes were separated from each other and each of them faced the mortal danger alone. And this was the end of the whole tv series, the resolution of the situation we never get from the authors |
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Post by Doubar on Oct 9, 2013 8:25:58 GMT -5
Gah, really? Lost World ended like this? What a shame!  I think I never watched the end then, because somehow I can't recall them being seperated and facing mortal danger... or I did indee see it and found it beyond mean to leave the watchers hanging like that and thus chose to forget. Either of the two is possible. Anyway. True enough that! At least Sinbad left us with the sense of a new beginning, of something good. We knew Maeve was safe with DimDim and that Mala's mother had saved him from who he was turning into. Hell House made for the perfect start into our own little fanfictional AoS worlds and I am grateful for that. It would have been so awful if the show had ended like Lost World or The Dark Knight - don't even want to think of that, really! So let us appreciate the show and the ending that we had, because in a way, it never was an ending but a beginning.  |
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Post by manche on Oct 9, 2013 11:38:39 GMT -5
Gah, really? Lost World ended like this? What a shame! I think I never watched the end then, because somehow I can't recall them being seperated and facing mortal danger... or I did indee see it and found it beyond mean to leave the watchers hanging like that and thus chose to forget. Either of the two is possible. it never was an ending but a beginning. We really met with the great cliffhanger, where our heroes were sent to different places and times and everyone was in some danger (Roxton should have been killed by some Spanish soldiers, Marguerite Krux was supposed to be killed by druids, in the worst situation was Challanger who was in a remote future where his beloving science ruled over the people, a robot wanted to do him lobotomy). Maybe even the authors did not know which way they could resolve this situation, it was obvious during the last season that they were losing the ideas for the next episodes and the changes in the cast did not also help very much this tv series. The ending of Sinbad was really more the new beginning. I like the final scene where Doubar asked where they are heading and he simply answered "Wherever the wind takes us." It reminded me of the scene from The Masked Marauders where he said something very similar Maeve about finding Dim Dym. Maybe he was thinking about their finding in this scene of the hell house as well. He was the same person as in the first season at the end of this episode, our caring captain.  |
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Post by Doubar on Oct 9, 2013 15:37:21 GMT -5
Hm, actually, now that you mention it... those things sound familiar. I think I do remember them so I must have watched that ep. But it's not filed as "show's final" in my head, so maybe I thought it was just the season final and then just never realized that there was nothing else to come (caus by then I had already almost completely lost interest  ). At any rate, well spoken about the captain at the end of S2. Indeed he finally was at ease again there - as if a burden had been lifted off his shoulders (which I guess is just what had happened there). And taking into account what Naha said about S3 Sinbad this fits perfectly as well. Because the captain was ought to be a mixture between S1 and S2 Sinbad there. |
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Post by manche on Oct 10, 2013 3:36:28 GMT -5
Hm, actually, now that you mention it... those things sound familiar. I think I do remember them so I must have watched that ep. But it's not filed as "show's final" in my head, so maybe I thought it was just the season final and then just never realized that there was nothing else to come (caus by then I had already almost completely lost interest ). It also took me a few years than I found that the new season did not exist, i did not believe in it before, because for such dramatic ending i logically expected some resolution of this. I quite like this tv series, i like the fantasy and adventurous stories in the global scale and this was present here (maybe too much sometimes), but it was evident in the last season that the screenwriters had the troubles to create next plots fot the next episodes |
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Post by Doubar on Oct 10, 2013 17:53:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I, too liked to watch it for quite some time. But it might have well been somewhen during the last season that I lost interest and only watched occassionally from then on. I also don't remember much of it which usually means it didn't leave a too great impression on me. But the show aside, it's always beyond sad when you notice that screenwriters start to struggle creating plotlines for a show. And sometimes it's just so much better to end a show properly than let it die slowly and painfully.
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Post by manche on Oct 11, 2013 5:28:22 GMT -5
Yes, the last season was weaker than the previous seasons we can find there a few stronger episodes, but from the adventurous story became in this season rather sci fi and it was not very good.
But i like the first two seasons quite and some episodes were the topics for my writing also, for example there was the great funny episode where our heroes touched the magic stone which was cursed and anyone who touched it started to turn to an animal and before the complete transformation there started to appear the features of these animals in their behavior. All actors played it perfectly. I thought about the possibility that i would create the similar story for our crew, maybe in the future i will do it. It could be the story only for fun.
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Post by manche on May 2, 2014 9:19:46 GMT -5
He, I always find it funny that whereas the show was originally about Ted and how he would meet his future wife, it soon happened that Barney and Robyn completely outshone him. Now you rather have the feeling that the whole show is about them, and Ted's just the side-kick. Poor Ted. xD I know that this post is quite old but i saw the final episodes of this tv series a few days ago. I do not know if you had the time to watch it ( if you did not watch it, you should not read the rest of this post!!!). If you saw it, what do you think about this ending? For me, it was a big dissapointment. The destruction of the relationship between Robin and Barney, the death of the mother without any emotions (she was definitely a likable character) and the return of Ted to Robin at the end. One of the worst ends of tv series which i have ever seen. |
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Post by Doubar on May 2, 2014 14:26:22 GMT -5
Wait, wait, wait. THAT is what happened? You've got to be kidding me!  Aw, I know, I know, you said that anyone who'd not watched the ep yet shouldn' read on but... spoiler alerts are useless with me, I'll read on anyway. Heck, sometimes I read the end of a book before I read the beginning and only if I like the end I'll start with the whole thing so... Anyway. Back to the topic at hand. This is really what happened? That's such a disappointment. And if it wasn't the 2nd of April already I'd totally think this is an April's fools because it seems so utterly impossible that they'd do that and basically ruin everything that they've been building up before. I just am... shocked. And right now I really wonder whether I want to catch up anymore now that I know where this is heading to. Such a shame. |
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Post by manche on May 2, 2014 17:06:08 GMT -5
I am really sorry that i wrote this there and that i spoiled your surprise. I hoped that my sentence about spoilers will be alarming enough. How wrong i was!
I must say, that I also thought that it was a kind of joke before i watched it myself. There were a few nice moments, but in the global scale it was big dissapointment for me. I had a feeling that a lot of things which were the important part of this tv series were destroyed in the last episodes.
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Post by Doubar on May 3, 2014 8:23:40 GMT -5
Aw, no, no need to be sorry, Manche. You did add a big enough warning, it's just me who ignores them - always. But I agree with you whole-heartedly. This development destroys everything that series established and all that the viewers loved. I mean, seriously, Barney and Robin were amazing together, so much better than Ted and her. And what's the point in telling how Ted met the mother for - how many seasons was it in the end? - only to tell us that she dies? That's just, it's amongst the most disappointing ending I have ever heard about indeed. |
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Post by manche on May 3, 2014 10:56:49 GMT -5
It took him nine years to tell this story to his children. The good joke was that he said in the last episode that he tried to tell the story so briefly as it was possible.
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Post by Doubar on May 3, 2014 15:19:22 GMT -5
That's a good joke indeed. But it still doesn't make up for that ending. |
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Post by manche on May 11, 2014 12:30:01 GMT -5
If you will look at this episode one day, we can make a bigger discussion about it after that. But i completely understand that this ending does not sound very temptingly to you now...
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I think I never watched the end then, because somehow I can't recall them being seperated and facing mortal danger... or I did indee see it and found it beyond mean to leave the watchers hanging like that and thus chose to forget. Either of the two is possible.
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