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I don't want to have to explain it but rare as in uncommon. Uncommon because it would be an unwise statement to make. Maybe it's not that unusual when terms like 'cyber-goth' are bandied about so often.
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The last ever episode of Quantum Leap left me feeling a bit hollow and the world was forever a sadder place from that day onwards.
However, even the last episode cannot possibly compare to "The Journey Home" double episode where Sam arrives in his own body as a teenager and gets to hang out with his little sister and tell her that he's from the future and that their older brother and John Lennon are dead. And she doesn't believe him and so he sings her "Imagine" whilst playing his guitar, and then she cries because that means that he's been telling the truth about travelling in time and therefore their older brother really does get killed in Vietnam. And then he plays basketball a bit...
... and then Sam leaps forward into the Vietnam war! And I can't remember if he is his brother or his brother's friend, or even if his brother lives or dies because I got all distracted by the guns and shooting and stuff and it was da bomb! Best double-episode EVER!
Also, I used to love ER before it got really boring. And the best episode of that EVER was the one where Carter had been flirting with the new blonde chick, who had been around for a while but you still weren't sure whether you would or not. I mean, she was cute, but a bit plump for your teenage tastes, and slightly annoying. However, the writers cleverly alter her character a bit for a couple of episodes to make her not so annoying, and suddenly make her seem pretty sexy, and then she goes into this room and gets stabbed to death by a patient. And then Carter, who was the total hero of the show and who coincidentally also decided around the same time as you that he wanted to bone her, he walks into the room and he gets stabbed in the back too, and the rock music is playing really loud from a party in reception, and he falls to the ground and sees the blonde chick and she's almost dead and then the season ends. Man, that was the best ending ever. They so should have axed ER after that show.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Why is Becket spelt with only one T in the credits of the last episode, when all published books, scripts and suchlike spell it with two ?
Is it not because Scott was to reprise his role in a series of episodes of the 'A' Team - where he jumps from member to member trying to keep them out of that damn military prison for a crime they didn't commit?
It's a nod to Mr T. - The character he's inhabiting when the only ever televised death in the series takes place...
The death of B.A. Barracus' ability to say the letter T
'Shuddup fule... Ah piddy da fule... Ah ain' goin on no plane' and so on and so forth
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Yes, thanks.. It's the leather one with all the studs on it
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The Teh Prisoner - best tv show for 6th-formers ever. Aside from obvious stuff like the look of the show and the modish, mid-Cold War paranoia, the main attraction was Patrick McGoohan's electrifying, vengeful performance: so full of wintry rage that you never had any idea what he was going to do next.
After seeing off a succession of Number 2's in increasingly bizarre episodes, the final installement of The Prisoner (written and directed by McGoohan in the shadow of imminent cancellation) is one of the great moments of pretentious tv - I mean, the very idea of tv being pretentious nowadays is practically science fiction, so I guess we've rgeressed a fair old bit from the time when an offbeat sci-fi show on the third channel could garner an audience of millions.
Anyway. The episode itself kind of goes into meltdown after the crazy courtroom scenes and there's a weird coda that seems to feed back into the open credits of the very first episode (anticipating the circular multiple endings of Teh Twin Peaks by a good quarter-century. When it was re-screened in about 1992 I taped the final episode and watched it over and over, tripping out on its disjointed magic, reading lots of TS Eliot and having not much success with girls.
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