Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I've been watching the end of the fourth season of Babylon 5. This has involved a great deal more sobbing than I had anticipated. I reached the end of "Between the Darkness and the Light", and was crying like a baby. So, in a bit of misguided optimism on my part, considering that the story is pretty grim at the moment and I am getting ever closer to the season finale, I thought watching another episode would help. There wouldn't be two episodes in a row that would leave me sobbing my heart out because of something that happens in the last two minutes of the show, right?
INCORRECT.
I allowed "Endgame" to lead me astray. Despite it's rather ominous sounding title, there are things it that go well. So with relief I thought we were out of the woods in terms of heartbreak until the next episode. I thought the heartbreak had been postponed, but no! They ripped my heart out and stomped all over it. Again. With the same set of characters. My plot was foiled, and I was reduced to blubbering once more. I briefly considered soldiering on to another episode, before deciding that with only two episodes left in the season, that was a bad plan.
I haven't seen this show in probably two years, and two episodes in to watching it again I'm as gripped as I was when I was mainlining it. That's a mark of a good show, in my opinion.
INCORRECT.
I allowed "Endgame" to lead me astray. Despite it's rather ominous sounding title, there are things it that go well. So with relief I thought we were out of the woods in terms of heartbreak until the next episode. I thought the heartbreak had been postponed, but no! They ripped my heart out and stomped all over it. Again. With the same set of characters. My plot was foiled, and I was reduced to blubbering once more. I briefly considered soldiering on to another episode, before deciding that with only two episodes left in the season, that was a bad plan.
I haven't seen this show in probably two years, and two episodes in to watching it again I'm as gripped as I was when I was mainlining it. That's a mark of a good show, in my opinion.