Nothingisasitseems - American producers are so practical when they give their fans two endings of a show. They know how to satisfy all their fans. What's wrong with that?

(29-10-2011 01:04 PM)beatrice4ruth Wrote:  Nothingisasitseems - American producers are so practical when they give their fans two endings of a show. They know how to satisfy all their fans. What's wrong with that?

It's stupid, that's what's wrong with that. It's like 'make your own TV show', it's ridiculous. It creates a disjointed experience for the viewer and reduces the amount of consistency and cohesion that so often makes good TV great.

TV shows do not exist to serve the audiences need for every single thing they want to be fulfilled. If you don't like the direction a TV show has taken, don't watch it and find something else that fulfills your needs.

I respect Kudos for sticking to their guns and doing an ending they think is right for the show they created, instead of bowing to audience demand and creating an ending that would ruin any respect people had for them.

I'm struggling to think of a good TV show that had an alternate ending. For the record I hated how The Sopranos ended but I respected David Chase's decision to do it how he saw fit.

I know the alternative ending that Kudos might have planned.

As I wrote to Ian Wylie on October 25, my cynical self expected only one ending when a dying Ruth said to Harry: Harry, we were never meant to have these things. Harry, you are allowed to move on with your life. In a Spooks movie without me.

I don't think I've seen a single television show that has had an alternate ending than what was aired. Either I like a show's duration and ending or I don't, but I respect the writer's, director's and producer's choice to make the show as they see fit, keeping with the tone and characters they created.

Spooks for me had a good run and I liked the final product. For me it did show hope, rather than despair. When Harry returned to the grid, yes he was sad, and surely he missed Ruth, but he seemed to show a renewed sense of purpose and focus. Ruth would not have wanted him to wallow in misery. She knew he was needed in Section D, to prevent the tyranny of folks like Mace, Collingwood, and others in the JIC who seek power fo their own needs. And I think Ruth will still be his moral conscience, in as much as he would want to be true to her memory.

(29-10-2011 12:51 PM)JHyde Wrote:  Uh, yeah I think it would have. Also, why should the BBC be the ones to decide how it should have ended?

I thought as the BBC had commissioned the show from Kudos they had the final say but is this incorrect?

(29-10-2011 05:51 PM)nothingisasitseems Wrote:  

(29-10-2011 12:51 PM)JHyde Wrote:  Uh, yeah I think it would have. Also, why should the BBC be the ones to decide how it should have ended?

I thought as the BBC had commissioned the show from Kudos they had the final say but is this incorrect?

They commission a series, the same way they pick up any series. They fund a series based on what advertising $ they get (as well as other funding sources). They don't dictate how a series is to be written. Otherwise, why bother hiring writers in the first place.

Who was the ex spook that went to see that Russian at the end, I cant remember his name.

(30-10-2011 12:51 PM)Wheels Wrote:  Who was the ex spook that went to see that Russian at the end, I cant remember his name.

That's off-topic.

(30-10-2011 01:15 PM)Nitrus Wrote:  

(30-10-2011 12:51 PM)Wheels Wrote:  Who was the ex spook that went to see that Russian at the end, I cant remember his name.

That's off-topic.

Nice answer and nice welcome wont be coming back here NITRUS