Anyone else haunted by SFU ?

[PB]

Lord knows it's just a TV show, and not always great, but man, lately,
maybe it's my life, but all the themes have been haunting me.

Maybe that was the point. I wish I had dead ghosts coming to rid me of
my inner demons.

:)

[Harv]

Post by PB
Lord knows it's just a TV show, and not always great, but man, lately,
maybe it's my life, but all the themes have been haunting me.
Maybe that was the point. I wish I had dead ghosts coming to rid me of
my inner demons.
:)

Like any other teevee series that runs for a few years, SFU had good
episodes and bad episodes, brilliance, and filler, red herrings, plot
devices that were significant, moving, gut-wrenching, others that went
nowhere. IMO, it wasn't a perfect piece of art, few things are, but
generally speaking it was head and shoulders better than 99% of any other
drama series in recent memory. It transcended by far the dreck that makes
up most prime time shows. The combination of generally brilliant writing
and acting made those characters real, totally fleshed-out people. One
could love them, hate them, but rarely be indifferent to them, and the
choices they made as they lived their lives, and made their decisions, or
were innocently thrust into situations over which they had no control, and
could not escape. Who could watch David's night of terror at the hands of a
maniac and not be riveted by what they were seeing?

As a continuing story with a continuing core group of characters, as each
season ended and months went by before the next season started, the wait was
almost painful. It was almost like an extremely long movie, broken up into
seasonal chunks of weekly chunks.

But I gotta tell you, the epilog of the final episode was one of the most
haunting things I've ever seen on a teevee or movie screen. Sia's song made
the perfect backdrop for it. From the point Claire says goodbye to the point
the end credits roll, I've watched it a dozen times, and it really packs an
emotional wallop. I'm haunted by it too. I'll miss this show a lot.

Harv

[manitou]

Post by Harv
Like any other teevee series that runs for a few years, SFU had good
episodes and bad episodes, brilliance, and filler, red herrings, plot
devices that were significant, moving, gut-wrenching, others that went
nowhere. IMO, it wasn't a perfect piece of art, few things are, but
generally speaking it was head and shoulders better than 99% of any other
drama series in recent memory. It transcended by far the dreck that makes
up most prime time shows. The combination of generally brilliant writing
and acting made those characters real, totally fleshed-out people. One
could love them, hate them, but rarely be indifferent to them, and the
choices they made as they lived their lives, and made their decisions, or
were innocently thrust into situations over which they had no control, and
could not escape. Who could watch David's night of terror at the hands of a
maniac and not be riveted by what they were seeing?
As a continuing story with a continuing core group of characters, as each
season ended and months went by before the next season started, the wait was
almost painful. It was almost like an extremely long movie, broken up into
seasonal chunks of weekly chunks.
But I gotta tell you, the epilog of the final episode was one of the most
haunting things I've ever seen on a teevee or movie screen. Sia's song made
the perfect backdrop for it. From the point Claire says goodbye to the point
the end credits roll, I've watched it a dozen times, and it really packs an
emotional wallop. I'm haunted by it too. I'll miss this show a lot.

Thanks for an excellent, lucid summary of the show's strengths and
related impact.

I agree that the show's one weakness was erratic story development by
the senior producers. However, the acting was usually transcendental.
From the start I felt as if the characters were real people whom I knew
and this, more than anything else, is what made the show so riveting for
me. (In comparison, "The Sopranos" is more plot-driven than
character-driven.)

The only other TV series in recent times to have such a strong core cast
(and stellar guest actors) was "Frasier", obviously a very different
type of show.

I have to give particular high marks to Rachel Griffiths who never
ceased to astound me with the range and subtlety she brought to Brenda,
perhaps the most conflicted character in the series and someone with
whom we might empathize or despise.

Agree the finale's closing deaths montage packed an incredible punch.
It was the one part of the show which brought me to tears.








C.

[Crystal]

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Sia's song made

Post by Harv
the perfect backdrop for it. From the point Claire says goodbye to the point
the end credits roll, I've watched it a dozen times, and it really packs an
emotional wallop. I'm haunted by it too. I'll miss this show a lot.

ditto with what you just said here. I've watched from Claire's goodbye to
the credits 5 times and every time I cry, well everytime she says goodbye I
cry, but during the deaths I just sit there mezmerized and then I just feel
depressed. I think about that ending all the time now. I'm constantly
thinking about my and my family's demise now, always was in the back of my
mind but this show really brough a clarity to me.

[bustout]

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will make
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Post by Harv
Sia's song made

Post by Harv
the perfect backdrop for it. From the point Claire says goodbye to the point
the end credits roll, I've watched it a dozen times, and it really packs an
emotional wallop. I'm haunted by it too. I'll miss this show a lot.

ditto with what you just said here. I've watched from Claire's goodbye to
the credits 5 times and every time I cry, well everytime she says goodbye I
cry, but during the deaths I just sit there mezmerized and then I just feel
depressed. I think about that ending all the time now. I'm constantly
thinking about my and my family's demise now, always was in the back of my
mind but this show really brough a clarity to me.

[3finger]

Post by PB
Lord knows it's just a TV show, and not always great, but man, lately,
maybe it's my life, but all the themes have been haunting me.
Maybe that was the point. I wish I had dead ghosts coming to rid me of
my inner demons.
:)

Honestly, I haven't been able to shake the finale since Sunday night. I
know they're fictional characters, but it was stunning to basically
watch them all die. It really got me thinking about the clear and
obvious fact that we're all going to die. And thinking about mortality
all the time can be a bitch. Plus I'm a Cubs fan, which gives death a
whole extra meaning.

[somebody]

Post by 3finger
Honestly, I haven't been able to shake the finale since Sunday night. I
know they're fictional characters, but it was stunning to basically
watch them all die. It really got me thinking about the clear and
obvious fact that we're all going to die. And thinking about mortality
all the time can be a bitch. Plus I'm a Cubs fan, which gives death a
whole extra meaning.

We go through each day acting as though we will live forever (but we know we
will not...)
"To know that we can die, is to be dead already."
http://drumz.best.vwh.net/Hartley/Sounds/other.html

Olivia (to Claire while discussing the new job): "Oh Claire, please don't
get maudlin on me."
(That line makes me laugh whenever I hear it.)

[Patricia Butler]

Post by 3finger

Post by PB
Lord knows it's just a TV show, and not always great, but man, lately,
maybe it's my life, but all the themes have been haunting me.
Maybe that was the point. I wish I had dead ghosts coming to rid me of
my inner demons.
:)

Honestly, I haven't been able to shake the finale since Sunday night. I
know they're fictional characters, but it was stunning to basically
watch them all die. It really got me thinking about the clear and
obvious fact that we're all going to die. And thinking about mortality
all the time can be a bitch.

Yes, it wouldn't be an episode you'd want to show to anyone with the
least suicidal tendencies.

[Patricia Butler]

Post by PB
Lord knows it's just a TV show, and not always great, but man, lately,
maybe it's my life, but all the themes have been haunting me.
Maybe that was the point. I wish I had dead ghosts coming to rid me of
my inner demons.
:)

Better than live ones, I guess.

[Ed]

I would not say that I was haunted by the series, however I will miss the
show immensely. I thought the acting was terrific, especially Ruth and
Nate.. I would love to buy the entire DVD series, but the price is a bit
high, though it varies on the net.

I downloaded "Breathe Me" by Sia and created a CD and when I play it in my
car, I think of Claire's farewell to her familiy and the other events during
the last few minutes of the series. When I go to LA for business, I plan to
make a trip to 2302 West 25th Street and see the Fisher home for myself.

Haunted by the series, no...but the series taught me a lot about life,
death and the different paths that we take for this short time we stay on
this planet.

I will miss Six Feet Under....I felt like I lost an old friend.

Ed