By John Keegan
If there was ever any doubt that the producers and writers were preparing for possible cancellation, this season finale erases that doubt without a hint of hesitation. Not only does this episode wrap the vast majority of plot threads from the fourth season up with a bright, shiny bow, but elements going back to the first season are addressed or referenced along the way.
If there was ever any doubt that the producers and writers were preparing for possible cancellation, this season finale erases that doubt without a hint of hesitation. Not only does this episode wrap the vast majority of plot threads from the fourth season up with a bright, shiny bow, but elements going back to the first season are addressed or referenced along the way.
This show delves into dreams and the notion of reality. Dreams tend to be extensions of whatever a person's reality is at that time. There is a warped sense of time passing when dreams are involved. I write this now because it hadn't occurred to me that it's been only six months since the accident that changed everything in Detective Britten's life. He had gotten used to his situation, comfortable enough to expect a pattern to his new life, and this episode was the first since the pilot episode really to throw a wrench into all of it.
The time has come for “Once Upon A Time” to take a bite out of the apple, lose its innocence, and finally gain knowledge of the world around it. Oh, sorry, wrong storybook. In this tale, apples make you want to take a long nap, and answers will have to wait for the season finale (and maybe beyond).
June 17th marks the return of basic cable's #1 new series last year, Falling Skies. The TNT drama will pick up where it left off at the end of last season with Tom Mason, played by Noah Wyle, having voluntarily boarded an alien spacecraft, hoping that it would help to save his sons and also open negotiation for the survival of the human race. The 2nd Mass has continued to struggle in his absence, as his eldest sons step up, both seeking to be leaders.
Tonight Fringe will conclude its fourth season with fans knowing that it will return again for a fifth. The finale is sure to be a an epic and probably game-changing episode. Last week we found out that David Robert Jones (Jared Harris) was not the mastermind behind all of the nefarious things happening, nor the plot to collapse universes. That honor belongs to William Bell, played by the legendary Leonard Nimoy, who used him as a pawn, and who we now know is not the same man as in the original universe.
The season arc for "The Secret Circle" has been a complete mess, but I have to give credit to the writers: they managed to bring a number of threads to a conclusion, even if some of the resolutions felt sloppy along the way. And while I was a bit annoyed at the final resolution of the Blackwell arc, it did force the story into an interesting direction.
I had a feeling what we were in for when the episode began with a flashback to happier times for Elena. And given my prediction in the review for the previous episode, as events continued to converge, I began to wonder how much was real and how much was in Elena's mind. On that note, I'm still not clear, but the end result was one of the most lyrical season finales I've seen in a long time.