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Post by MCDemuth on Mar 15, 2017 5:12:37 GMT
Sometimes on TV Shows, they will do an episode or two, where a character will wake up... Like, in a psychiatric hospital... and it turns out everything he thought that was his life or reality, never happened or is completely different...
For Example...
In the Superman based TV Series "Smallville"...
Clark Kent wakes up in a psychiatric hospital and discovers that he no longer from the planet Krypton, and he doesn't have Super Powers anymore. All of his Super Friends, and Super Enemies, were all in his mind... and nothing he experienced was real.
Then at the end of these episodes, we find out... no, it was the episode that was not "real"...
Do you like these kinds of episodes, or do you dislike them?
I really don't like them.
When you spend several years watching a show, like Smallville, you want to see Clark Kent become Superman... You don't want to watch a show about some farm boy having delusions about being a hero.
I find seeing episodes like this to be very jarring, and I am left feeling a bit betrayed as a fan.
I think stories like these should never be done.
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Post by ashverses on Mar 15, 2017 14:33:31 GMT
That may or may not be what is happening on Legion. I'm not sure yet. But no. I don't like them. I'm not sure if anyone likes them.
Also, I have a theory that The Walking Dead will end with Rick waking up in the hospital and his family surrounding him...like the zombie apocalypse never happened. Michonne will end up being a doctor or a lawyer in the hospital, or something like that.
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Post by Raimo47 on Apr 10, 2017 16:11:42 GMT
Do you like these kinds of episodes, or do you dislike them? I hate them. I agree. |
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Post by sariz on Apr 10, 2017 18:21:37 GMT
Not a big fan of them.
House did something like that in No reason and while its not completely a bad episode its quite frustrating spending an episode deciding what's real and what not. The last episode of season 5 was the same it was going so well with House and Cuddy finally getting together with a great kiss and then we realize all was an allucination.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Apr 10, 2017 21:27:49 GMT
"The Magicians" took that cliche and did something fun with it.
"Community" as well.
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Post by DarkManX on Apr 11, 2017 5:55:08 GMT
I hate It was All Just a Dream and concepts like it. It's cheap and shows a lack of talent on the writers part.
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Post by pkcommando on Apr 11, 2017 14:36:47 GMT
Generally speaking, no. If it was part of the Grand Finale - or a season finale with renewal still uncertain - then I might. It still might feel like a cheat at the end, but I would enjoy the episode as the story was unfolding far more than when it's happening in the middle of a season. That time there would be real stakes, a genuine possibility that it would stick, and I would be far more invested in seeing the outcome.
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Post by pkcommando on Apr 11, 2017 14:50:51 GMT
"The Magicians" took that cliche and did something fun with it. "Community" as well. Farscape did, too. And they made theirs worth it by not only giving the audience some really messed up, quotable, hilarity, but by also throwing in a vital piece of story-arc information along the way. |
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Post by detour on Apr 11, 2017 15:18:48 GMT
I guess I am a lone voice, but I like them. Definitely something different and I enjoy the way it throws me off and makes me think "WTF? is going on here?".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 22:10:26 GMT
No. Although sometimes a storyline is so bad, I do wish it was really all just a dream or something.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 13, 2017 1:40:53 GMT
If it helps drive a story, like the musical episode regarding buffy.
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