See, now I'm going to disagree with youse guys. It was exceptional *television* - among the best ever - and its treatment of the subject matter (military in space, political tension, the struggle to survive, hunters and hunted, mysticism, etc etc) set it apart from all before.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
Atmosphere, cinematography, acting, visual design, even the MUSIC - everything was off the charts. Simply incredible. Which is why it SHOULD have been the best science fiction on television, evar. But the writing was a hot mess, and the show was garbage once that mattered.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
It set up that there was "a plan". That there was some big mystery, that all the odd things added up to something and made sense in the end. Where have I heard that before cough lost cough?
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
And just like Lost, and The X-Files before them, the writers were talking out their ass the whole time. Making it up as they went along. Going with whatever sounded cool at the time, with ZERO idea how to justify it.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
And so they started painting themselves into corners, except that they didn't care about that - they just outright ignored anything they'd previously committed to in pursuit of whatever sounded cool *this* episode. New things came out of left field, and old stuff got dropped.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
To be fair, the pressures of getting your show renewed for one more season, and dealing w time pressures of Hollywood are IMMENSE. They don't have the freedom I did to (a) slip 5 years, (b) work for $4 / hr, in order to have artistic integrity. Only two shows have managed it...
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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie and
Sopranos, and Mad Man. Oh, wait. The Shield. Best of them all, actually. Right down to the closing credits.


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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie and
Willing to expand on the closing credit's bit?
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Replying to @MacWhiskyFace @random_eddie and
The Shield was an amazing story about Vic Mackey and his two buddies, bending the rules but still kinda sorta serving greater good ...but in the end he turns on both of them to save himself He's left w no friends, no family, and no career In 7 yrs he turned from man to monster
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...and the final so ends w his total defeat. ...then the upbeat credits roll, w video from season 1, ep 1 (better times), with the soundtrack "Long time Ago". https://youtu.be/II2zX0S9-iQ
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Replying to @MorlockP @MacWhiskyFace and
it's nuts that a) the show is not well known as it is and b) they still got to finish the arc
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