Aha, now I understand why you liked Spirits of the House!
Because it's a hopeful ending? Yeah, I suppose so. Though I'm also much more of a campaigner-for-Denethor-reform than I used to be, after his character was mangled in the film. (Boo! Hiss!)
I'm guessing this is what is inspiring The Butterfly Effect?
That I'm trying to rewrite the ending of B7? Oddly enough, I think B7 is one of the exceptions -- I didn't want to jump up and down and scream at the ending, I was sort of more resigned to it; it wasn't as if there were really any dashed hopes, it was more like a classic tragedy. The blow was probably cushioned by the fact that with the long gap between season 3 and 4, I'd been watching The Omega Factor, something else which Chris Boucher was involved in, which was also rather gloomy in that our poor hero kept on losing, so when B7 ended that way, I just muttered "Typical!".
Interestingly enough, now that I think of it, though, season 3 of B7 falls into the "hopeful" rather than the "tragic" ending, since even though they've lost their ship, they're all still alive (at that point), Servalan is probably dead, and they do have some hope of not being stranded forever.
Sure, the motive for "The Butterfly Effect" is trying to see, in a disciplined manner, how one small change could lead to greater changes (and a less tragic ending), but it's also cuz I'm a sucker for Avon-is-a-telepath stories...
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Date: 2005-11-18 09:33 pm (UTC)Because it's a hopeful ending? Yeah, I suppose so.
Though I'm also much more of a campaigner-for-Denethor-reform than I used to be, after his character was mangled in the film. (Boo! Hiss!)
I'm guessing this is what is inspiring The Butterfly Effect?
That I'm trying to rewrite the ending of B7? Oddly enough, I think B7 is one of the exceptions -- I didn't want to jump up and down and scream at the ending, I was sort of more resigned to it; it wasn't as if there were really any dashed hopes, it was more like a classic tragedy. The blow was probably cushioned by the fact that with the long gap between season 3 and 4, I'd been watching The Omega Factor, something else which Chris Boucher was involved in, which was also rather gloomy in that our poor hero kept on losing, so when B7 ended that way, I just muttered "Typical!".
Interestingly enough, now that I think of it, though, season 3 of B7 falls into the "hopeful" rather than the "tragic" ending, since even though they've lost their ship, they're all still alive (at that point), Servalan is probably dead, and they do have some hope of not being stranded forever.
Sure, the motive for "The Butterfly Effect" is trying to see, in a disciplined manner, how one small change could lead to greater changes (and a less tragic ending), but it's also cuz I'm a sucker for Avon-is-a-telepath stories...