cracked.com — Not many of you are watching TV any more, or at least not as many as in years past. And as more people tune out (or just steal the shows off Bittorrent) the networks think up more and more cheap tricks to keep you hooked.
Sep 5, 2008 View in Crawl 4
crazyechidna83Sep 6, 2008
thats why i hate that show, it uses every single trick and mystery in the book to make a huge confusing jumble of a plot.
robotbuddhaSep 6, 2008
You'll also have every plot element spoiled for you by then. A bit like how I've never seen any of the star wars movies from start to finish, or read the books, but know a fair amount about even the expanded universe simply form overhearing others.
digglet69Sep 6, 2008
How can i take John Krasinski out of the photo with jenna fisher ?
antdudeSep 6, 2008
Smallville is bad with the romance too: Lana and Clark!
kishosinghSep 6, 2008
And what tricks used by movie maker - <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/movies/Terminator_4_coming_in_June_2009">http://digg.com/movies/Terminator_4_coming_in_June ...</a> ?
vanorSep 6, 2008
Reading this makes me love Babylon 5 so much more. The shows always ended the season on cliffhangers, but they always heavily impacted the show afterwards. The first season was the assassination of the Earth Alliance President, the second season was the revealing of Kosh's true form and the return of the Shadows, season 3 had the truth about the war come out and Sheridan's kamikaze attack on Za Ha Dum, the fourth season had marcus sacrificed himself to save Ivanova, and season 5...well, that was just a heart-wrenching season. And if you didn't shed a tear when G'kar finally forgave Londo for all his wrongdoings, well, you aren't a human.They never f**ked around on that show. Almost everything they set up, they paid off, be it within a few episodes, or a few seasons down, they paid off everything. B5 is a show that is gonna become even MORE relevant as the years pass us by. The stuff it dealt with now is actually more in line with our world today than the world it originally debuted in. Not a lot of shows can say that. f**k, not a lot of media in general can say that.And they almost never gave an easy answer to a question. They always posited moral quandries and it was left up to your interpertation in the end. A lot of things were never fully tied up with a cute ribbon. I think the episode that stands out the most in my mind involved the third season. It had Brad Dourif as a guest star playing a monk that had come aboard the station with other monks who were seeking to learn more about other races religious beliefs. In the show's universe, there's no death penalty, instead, a telepath is used to erase a person's persona and a fresh one is implanted, and the person is put away from any of his victim's family or friends and put into community service.The station chief, Garibaldi, at the beginning of the episode said that a convicted murderer on TV deserved to be "fry at the chair". During the episode, Brad's character starts having hallucinations involving dead women, and he finally learns that he is in fact a notorious serial killer of women, and that his original personality has been erased, and the loved ones of those he murdered have tracked him down and made him remember his deeds before they kill him.He knows this, but earlier in the episode, he was talking with one of the ambassador's and they asked about the defining moment of his belief system, and he said that it was when Jesus begged to be spared from his fate in the garden of gesthemene (or however you spell it), but stayed because it was what he had to do.In the end, he knows he can take refuge and wait until they're all caught, but instead he willingly waits for them, but only one of them still has the gumption to follow through on their actions. The captain, Garibaldi, and the head of the monastic order, Theo, all arrive too late, and apprehend the lone relative, who openly admits to his crime. Laying there, dying, he tells Theo that he's scared, but now he fully understood what Jesus felt in the garden. And there, Theo prays for him until he finally passes on, and Garibaldi, who at the beginning of the episode had been advocating the death penalty, can't even look at what's happening because he's tearing up.And the episode ends with his murderer being mindwiped, and put in the monastic order to replace Brad's character. Just f**king genius writing that've seen ZERO of since. My favorite part of the show, however, is in season 4. "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favors come with too high a cost. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can your associates arrange this for me?"f**kING GREATEST PAYOFF EVER!
abrasionSep 6, 2008
Not good enough - it clearly says for example CHARACTERS WHO RETURN FROM THE DEAD and shows pictures of 3 people - that is a spoiler instantly - without needing to read the rest of that section :/