I think the other problem with the past few seasons is that we got way too much late sixties/early seventies stuff - for obvious reasons, that's when they took place, but media's already covered the late sixties and early seventies so much, not a lot really felt new.
Agreed. The hippie revolution - objectively it's interesting historically, but it's been so done to death that I don't care much about it. (Also, the clothes have been so hideous.) That said, one of my Things is that so much historical fiction treats a period like a solid block of time and you don't get the sense that the characters were living in a different age before and will be living in a different one in the future, so I'm kind of for it.
I don't think this episode was good as a series finale. It wasn't terrible, but... it reminds me of some of the fanfics I've written, where eventually I ran out of steam and just sort of tacked on an ending. That's how this felt, even if it's not what MW intended.
Yep, agreed there too. As much as I liked most of the endings, it felt like the show as a whole deserved something more amazing than just individual little happy endings.
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Date: 2015-05-19 11:41 am (UTC)Agreed. The hippie revolution - objectively it's interesting historically, but it's been so done to death that I don't care much about it. (Also, the clothes have been so hideous.) That said, one of my Things is that so much historical fiction treats a period like a solid block of time and you don't get the sense that the characters were living in a different age before and will be living in a different one in the future, so I'm kind of for it.
I don't think this episode was good as a series finale. It wasn't terrible, but... it reminds me of some of the fanfics I've written, where eventually I ran out of steam and just sort of tacked on an ending. That's how this felt, even if it's not what MW intended.
Yep, agreed there too. As much as I liked most of the endings, it felt like the show as a whole deserved something more amazing than just individual little happy endings.