Re: When DC went downhill

"Seaclock" <seaclock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Sharpe Fan wrote:
>
>
> > Dawson got the "we will always be special to each other" speech as
well
as
> > his "career", so it is not like he was left to die on an ice flow.
There
> > seemed to be more meaningful Dawson/Joey scenes in the finale than
> > Pacey/Joey scenes.
>
> My reaction to Dawson's speech is, "Don't kid yourself."  For what it's
> worth, I found the whole "soul mates" thing to be kind of ridiculous.
> Call me jaded, but I think what really ends up mattering is the people
> you're with, not some deep, untouchable connection you may think you
> have with someone else.  I think that scene with Joey was just a sop to
> the viewers who were disappointed with the P-J ending.  (Did Jack and
> Jen have to use the s-word too?)
>
> > As an aside, it is a weird "career".  His big break in the Capeside
> > Redemption was a filming on the group's early years (his second
attempt
at
> > that, by the way) and now his show is the same thing.  He seems to
have
only
> > one story to tell - a fictionalized version of his high school years.
>
> I agree completely.  Did no one ever, I mean EVER, mention at a story
> meeting or script read-through that TPTB had turned him into a one-trick
> pony?  Very odd.
>
>
> > I like your suggestion of how they could have wrapped up the series. 
It
> > would have worked much better than what they did.
>
> Actually, I think Rob Jensen mentioned something like this in another
> post in this thread so it's not an entirely original idea.  Also, didn't
> they do some sort of time ****ft thing in the final season of "Felicity"?
>     I don't remember exactly but there was some sort of jump well before
> the season ended.  Frankly, I don't know why series TV thinks it always
> has to follow the calendar slavishly as if the show were happening in
> real time.  Do they think we'll get confused if winter on TV doesn't
> occur at exactly the same time it does in the real world?  (Not that
> that was ever a problem in Capeside where it almost never snowed.  I've
> never been to MA but I have it on good authority that they do get snow
> there.   Who did they think they were kidding?  Maybe DC could have been
> set in perpetual summer and fall.)
>
> Seaclock

Felicity had a time travel story for the last few episodes.  I watched one
of them, I think, and none of the others.  I don't care much for time
travel
stories (the paradoxes are either ignored or become annoying) and I don't
want them in a non-sci-fi story about going to college and growing up (or
not as the case may be).

They did end the school year a few weeks before the end of the show to
accommodate these episodes and one or two non-time travel post college
episodes.

To be honest, I had never thought of a series deliberately running shows
that are out of sync with the calendar (as opposed to those that are
merely
non-date dependent).  It is an idea worth considering.  They do it in
movies.  I would still want them to go forward chronologically (no labor
Day
before the 4th of July, for instance), but your idea would allow for more
flexibility.  For instance, they could have had four years of college in
two
seasons -  show just im****tant periods and milestones.  Since the purpose
of
the show was not to show "life in college", but the interaction of friends
that would work out OK.  You would have to out a date card at the
beginning
of an episode so the viewers would no when they were watching, but that
isn't a problem.  Sort of the anti-"24".

Maybe some exec will see your idea and use it.

Sharpe Fan