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

[senmut]

I tend to rank them 1,2,3... and only rarely am willing to rewatch 3. Highly individual tastes to all, though.

[brightknightie]

That is my personal rank order, also! It's not that I don't also love the later seasons in their own ways, but first season brings me so much that I want from fiction; it feeds my soul and impresses my brain to this day, no excuses, no decline, no "for its era."

I was weirdly lucky to meet the series in reverse order. I discovered it during third season's first airings. Some kind ForKni-L people then shared second-season tapes with me, and then first season. There were still a number of first-season episodes I had yet to see for the first time when the final third-season episodes aired.

I'm sure that my "backward viewing" played some factor in my preference, but... first season is objectively brilliant. IMO. ;-)