Felicity Analysis (Season 4)

I pretty much hated this.
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[@kaiwancallender2761]

Remember seeing the commercials for when I was a kid, but other than that, I don’t really know the show. I was gonna watch it before I had to go back to work when the pandemic was over, but that was about it but hearing you hearing your reviews of me pretty good hope I see you when you see.😊😅😢

[@twocentscinema8587]

I love your brutal passion here if those are the correct words. JJ really pulled a M. night twist.

[@yourcultboyfriend]

Haha, thank you. You were starting Roswell, right? Have you got to the second season yet? The more I think about it, the more I really think Roswell season 2 was perfect.

[@twocentscinema8587]

@@yourcultboyfriend Finished season one. Love it. Fixing to order the second season. Found third season on pawn shop and watched the first episode. They most definitely became more experimental with the camera work.

[@BatDevilSpawn]

Never watched Felicity, but this reminds me a bit of the infamous ending of St. Elsewhere, where it was revealed the whole show was a fantasy inside the head of an autistic child. The difference is where St. Elsewhere's ending was more of a deliberate rug-pull joke that wilfully alienated audiences after the show had become formulaic, Felicity's shenanigans seemed to be played far more earnest and straight, as I don't think Abrams has that kind of impulse at all, despite him being a huge part of modern corporate cynicism

[@RomanPhilosopher]

I'm just starting this, but this has been my favorite show ending of all time... so curious to see what your thoughts are on it.

[@RomanPhilosopher]

ooh and you hated it. thats a bummer. I thought it was a really interesting what if curve ball of an ending, and the finale was interesting in how it mixed a clip show format, which I normally hate, as a form of referencing the characters growth throughout the show and making a large thesis statement with those flashbacks as citations. I loved how it did the sorta dorothy returning from oz bit, but in the end tracy and elena are married and together and alive and noel is alive and getting married... so clearly things did change and the magic worked. I dug it all 4x I've watched it. Sorry you didnt.

[@yourcultboyfriend]

Damn, reading your positive thoughts about the season makes me feel kind of bad for going so hard on it in the video. I give you mad respect for wholeheartedly loving the ending. I basically hated everything about it, and that's okay. Clip shows are so difficult to pull off because they're kind of lazy in manifest. I actually just watched a clip show from the third season of Beverly Hills, 90210 that I genuinely appreciated. It's not impossible, but they're super tough to pull off. I was already hating the magical time travel curveball in Felicity, so the clip show series finale felt more like adding insult to injury. The thing that continues to irritate me about the show is that they were asked back for one more arc after they finished, and time traveling warlocks was what they came up with, as if they didn't take it seriously. Or worse - I was misreading Felicity the entire time and it always was that shallow at heart. It's a wild way to end it all, and I'm low-key surprised the ending isn't common knowledge, like infamously known. It's cool that we disagree. I thought that seasons 1 and 3 were pretty impressive. Season 4 was pitifully lacking long before the twist ending. But I honestly loved reading your thoughts here. Hopefully, we'll agree on something else later on.

[@RomanPhilosopher]

@@yourcultboyfriend I remember the time travel bit from when it first aired and i loved it then. The What Ifs in life, especially in college are so big, and to get a chance to go back was a fun thought experiment. I think part of maturing into adulthood is accepting that things are the way they are. The Clip show part was kinda annoying to me on my most recent rewatch... but like I said above, I kinda read it as they are citing their evidence in their senior thesis about what the show's story was ultimately all about, it didn't strike me as lazy, but as a way to show how far Felicity and the others had come across 4 and a half years at Uni (the time travel part happens about 6 months into grad school if i recall correctly). It showed Noel's growth too, from being the creep stealing girls passwords and looking to hook up with Ben's girlfriend at any chance, to showing that he wasnt really ready for a serious commitment with Felicity, just like he had issues with Hannah and Ruby and his first wife... but by the time he is getting married to the ad managers daughter in the finale, he has found the right person (seemingly) and hopefully is going to settle down. And Ben... Ben is going to Ben, but he wants to do the right thing and be a good person, Felicity knows that, but she also was at a point where she was tired of his shit when she went back, and she found out how he was her soulmate, because even in the universe where she goes out of her way to leave him for Noel, she ends up back with him. I liked the butterfly effect of the time travel too and how at the end, the status quo is largely restored, except for the journey felicity and the audience went through to get there. That Ben said the same thing at the end of the time travel and on the return was so... Ben. Just curious, when you were watching the show were you team Noel? Are you unhappy that she ended up back with Ben in the end or was the clip aspect what hurt it for you more? One thing to keep in mind about the finale is that when it was released they didnt even do DVD releases of all shows, and binging wasn't a consideration. The clips from season 1 outside of reruns aired here or there from old seasons would've been stuff most people hadn't seen in 3 years. So showing the clips was a good way to get the audience back up to speed. If you binged all 80 or so episodes over a month, then yeah, you still remember that stuff and it will come off as more boring for replaying what you've already seen. The thing I hated most about season 4 going off of memory is Ben's Dad's Sponsor... the same actress that starred in house. Everything about her character I hated. But I was team Ben since like 1999. I loved Megan and Sean getting married, and Sean actually getting into business and not just being landlord to a bunch of kids while brainstorming ideas. I liked Megan's transformation into Jackie O. I didnt like Elena back with Tracey, I wanted her and DeForest to try and make it work. I liked Noel's arch. I liked Javier as a character a lot more 25 years ago than I do today. Him in drama class or whatever was something I could do without. The other thing I really liked about the time travel bit was the hair work. I know thats silly. but you can almost tell what season or half of a season you are at by the length and style of Felicity's hair. They did a great job with the time travel of winding her hair back. Most of season 4, especially the second half she was straightening her hair, but with the flashback it was back to the medium length ringlets. There were a lot of other subtle changes that made the time jump spell more convincing... and felicity being put in a psyche ward for the things she was saying sounding insane... that was a bit more realistic than most shows would do with the time travel premise... granted breaking out of it was more far fetched... Sorry for writing a book. I'll just say in conclusion though. That this is by far the best ending JJ has done on a show or movie. You may hate it. But its better than Rise of Skywalker, the end of Lost, etc, right?

[@kaiwancallender2761]

That’s really shows that this was not because he was postmodern JJ Abrams always was a time wheeling time dealing asshole will always believe certain things alive. Come alive.😊