Originally posted by pixiesio
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Oh, and I'm sure that was there intent, but it was the way that they, yes, badly conveyed it. The things he said to her and how he said it jarred me and made me feel really bad for Vala. Then the writer/editor in me was rewriting that scene entirely in my head and having MS and even CB adjust their performances. Then I would have had less issues with the ep. Although I still don't think this ep fit as a series finale, at least for me.
But I'm crazy that way.
And since this is the Sam thread *g*, some stuff in Unending...Spoiler:
Again, this may be l'il ol' me, but her scene with Landry when he's dying. Why was she all alone with him? Why weren't the others there at Landry's side too as he died? There was no way they couldn't have known that he was close since Sam obviously did.
And, honestly, I never saw any emotional connection between their two characters, even before this ep, so it seemed off to me that she was that upset. Maybe there was supposed to be more stuff showing in the in-between years between them, but they seemed to really only show, as far as one on one interactions, Cam and Landry. So without anything extra to show how close they supposedly got, it just felt like something was missing there. *shrug* If it had been Hammond or (heaven forbid) Jack, oh heck yeah I could have understand her being so upset, but it wasn't, so..yeah.
And, honestly, I never saw any emotional connection between their two characters, even before this ep, so it seemed off to me that she was that upset. Maybe there was supposed to be more stuff showing in the in-between years between them, but they seemed to really only show, as far as one on one interactions, Cam and Landry. So without anything extra to show how close they supposedly got, it just felt like something was missing there. *shrug* If it had been Hammond or (heaven forbid
) Jack, oh heck yeah I could have understand her being so upset, but it wasn't, so..yeah.
Okay, I better stop now before I don't shut up. ;P
Sio
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I agree with you vis-a-vis the "instant love" aspect of the character interaction(s), but I think it's been something of a get-over-it-if-you-want-to-keep-watching element for me since season nine. They really didn't emotionally develop either Cam or Landry with any of the other characters to a degree that would have me upset (as a viewer) if they died. Especially Landry. His emotional scenes, even with his wife and daughter always rang false because we didn't get to know HIM. They just didn't write those kinds of stories for us. Having said that, I think what UNENDING did was tie in a lot of the emotional subtext for the characters we *did* already know and love, and manage to lend some of it to the new characters also, which gave them perhaps more emotional resonance for (me, at least) than they might have had otherwise. UNENDING was well done in that regard. The problem was that it was one episode - and it couldn't completely right the emotional void that pre-existed it. In context, it was a good episode. Given the scarcity of those until season ten was already well under way, there's simply no way for even a powerful episode to have come across as truly well rounded, because of those very issues.
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