"This is the longest hallway in the world."

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B) I love Monk. SO MUCH. Even though USA/the writers are BASTARDS for splitting the finale like this. I'm just glad I had to wait until I had hardly any wait left to watch it. Being sick _and_ anxious about the resolution would not have made for a pleasant week.

C) D.B. Woodside got to participate in a classic Monk conversation! Like he

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Re: "Wish it were five." / "Why?" / "It's a bigger number."

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1) I don't really count AWE as an example of being excited to see a favourite story end, since it was fully a third of the story. It's not the same with a series of movies as it is with books and shows, I don't think, since those stories are more distilled. It's entirely possible to become as attached to a movie character as a television character, of course, but the story is more focused, more goal-oriented.

Monk is a great example of a show that maintains that focus over multi-season run, but it's exceptional in that regard. There might be a strong, overriding narrative to the entire Tennant Era, but there's no end game telegraphed from "An Unearthly Child." And even shows that _do_ try for that epic driving force and _are_ allowed to stay on the air long enough to end naturally don't usually manage to actually _be_ a complete story (I'm thinking specifically of Battlestar, here - I watched nearly every episode when it was first aired, and I was originally _really excited_ about the Quest for Earth. But you know what? _I still don't know if they found it_! I wasn't able to watch the last two episodes when they were aired, and I just haven't gotten around to doing so. They lost track of the plot they laid down for themselves at the beginning, and I just didn't care all that much when they decided to pick it back up in the final few episodes.

And _wow_, I strayed off the point there. The point was, I _was_ excited to see AWE because the whole of the story was geared toward finding out how Elizabeth and Will were going to live with each other, and how Jack was going to live with himself. I was not so much excited to see "Chosen" because, although Season Seven pulled together a lot of what had come before, BtVS _as a whole_ did not ask, "How does Buffy defeat the First?" (Angel I would put in the category with Monk and PotC - how does Angel defeat Wolfram and Hart?" - even if I wouldn't at all say that it is as focused or as consistently good)

2) I randomly tuned in right exactly at that scene not really intending to watch it, but got sucked in specifically because of how much I love that song. _Any_ Randy song, really, is just fan_tas_tic, but that one is probably my favourite. His rendition of the wedding march is probably my runner-up. And I am beyond delighted to know that we inadvertantly shared that moment ^_^

3) YAY, spoilerlessness! It's so NICE to be able to see a story as it was meant to be seen.