Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

[A Cousin]

(10-11-2010 02:23 PM)lwhite53 Wrote:  

(10-11-2010 07:55 AM)JHyde Wrote:  My main issue with this episode was that there was no real suspense. For me, that is the conversation stopper. This show has always been high on the suspense front and it was really lacking in this, ESPECIALLY for a season finale.

Even my least fave seasons came home with great episodes and perhaps that's why I'm holding a grudge against season 9 as a whole.

Yep, I second that. At no point did I ever feel that either Ruth or Harry was in real danger. And it was so clear Lucas was going to die by jumping over the side of the building. It was all so . . . predictable. I really hate predictable!

Yeah, I felt that too. After all the twists and turns of the whole series, to paraphrase Ruth, that I can barely begin to pick apart, it all just boils down to something as simple as a file that doesn't even work. Part of me wants to fanwank myself into thinking that this is intentional. As illustrated in H/R love for each other that *should* be that simple or Lucas doing all of this for Maya and his desire to go back to a time in his life that was right. But the rest of me still feels disappointed with this finale. Theater is supposed to be about the extraordinary, not the ordinary. 9.8 seemed ordinary to me.