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just saw the finale

posted 12 years ago by jnatch
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7 months later just saw it. I liked it. It was predictable and corney and tied things up quick but , hey, that can explain every episode. Let's face it this show was campy, a guilty pleasure. I thought 5 years was just enough. It was satisfying. Not that I'm not a bit sad to see it go. In fact I have done this three times in three months now with Chuck, Fringe & Eureka, and it is sad when a show goes. I watched the pilot before seeing the finale and man did it look different, lots more location shooting. I liked them bringing back Matt Frewer (why didnt he stay anyway?). I had forgotten the dude from Ally McBeal had a huge role in the pilot. I suppose he turned it down when it got picked up.

The final shot was very cool (Jack and his daughter seeing themselves on the road) was a nice loop back to the very first scene.

overall good

question - was there a different Andy at one point? was he just a different acto playing Andy or was it a different robot?

[–] hka-3 12 years ago

I happen to be in the middle of watching the finale again right now

I had forgotten the dude from Ally McBeal had a huge role in the pilot.

I did too!

question - was there a different Andy at one point? was he just a different actor playing Andy or was it a different robot?

Andy was originally played by Ty Olsson (I can never remember his name). When the writers decided to expand Andy's role, Ty Olsson already had a lot going on, so he came back for just one more episode. After Andy was fried in an episode while trying to help save the day, he was "reskinned" with a different face and that's when Kavan Smith took over as Andy.

Ty Olsson http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648153/

Kavan Smith http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808902/

[–] lovinglaurasmiles 12 years ago

"The final shot was very cool (Jack and his daughter seeing themselves on the road) was a nice loop back to the very first scene."

I thought so too...until I went back to the first episode and saw thst it was different.

In the pilot it was a copy of the cr and them driving past each other and in the final episode, they were leaving town in his sheriff jeep and "they" were in the car.

I am sure it was written to leave the plot open to continue it. So I don't know if the writers intentionally made it different vehicles and wrote Jack saying "We'll deal with that tomorrow" or if they intended it to be exactly the same vehicles still.

[–] youngdj606 10 years ago

Or you can look at it as the car changed to a jeep because they're in an alternate timeline. I just want to know how they saw themselves, everything had a cause in the show that they found out except why she saw both of them
them

[–] hka-3 10 years ago

Or you can look at it as the car changed to a jeep because they're in an alternate timeline.

That makes sense . Other things were altered, so why not that, too?

[–] DontPeeInTheBacta 10 years ago

Although the finale was abrupt, the series, it seems to me, had run its course. While I enjoyed the stint in 1947, there are only so many time-travel and alternate realities the audience can take. I think that the writers too understood this when they only spent 1 episode of the characters in the "Beverly matrix." They could have dragged this on for a few episodes, but recognized that the theme had been done before.