random lunchtime FK observation on favorite season

[brightknightie]

Last week, I rewatched "Black Buddha," both parts, to check some canon. The episodes made me sad. The dialogue was thin. The themes were thin. The plots shed loose threads. The tone was -- albeit unintentionally! but from this end of history -- helpless, hopeless, foredoomed.

Then, on the weekend, I rewatched a handful of first season episodes, and they made me happy. "Dying to Know You." "False Witness." "Cherry Blossoms." "Hunters." The dialogue and themes were rich. The plots built up. The tone was full of energy and hope and possibility. They sparkled, bigger on the inside, in a way few series to this day can even approach.

To each her own, but first season FK is definitely a very good place for me, personally.

Comments

[brightknightie]

Yes, with no disrespect to the new third-season characters, the thematic and tonal consequences of Schanke's removal were especially profound and far-reaching.

For myself, I would have extended the first-season milieu, if I could. And then if I couldn't, I would have extended that of second-season, yet could have happily then added the new third-season characters to an ongoing second-season story-world... I imagine Tracy as a recurring rookie character who joins both Nick and Schanke (and interacts with Cohen), and Urs at Janette's Raven, rather than Lacroix's Raven, and Captain Reese returning to his previous precinct, but with interactions across precincts...

2+3 = wonderful

[waltd]

Oh, that would be soooooo nice! :-)