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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
I've only ever seen two really good clip shows.

"Back Spin" was on Roswell Conspiracies, and was staged as a tribunal. Logan (the lead character) was put on trial, with his "charges" being displayed in the clips --which also happened to put the pieces together for the ongoing conspiracy arc (as Logan argues that he's been framed). By the end of it, viewers have actually learned something, because of the one bit of data that is revealed, like a key that retroactively unlocks the whole series.

The other was "The Unconquerable Man," from Andromeda. In the pilot episode, there's a gun/martial arts duel between Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) and his Nietzschean best friend/exec officer/betrayer Gaheris Rhade (Steve Bacic) (back when the show had promise; this was a really good fight scene). Dylan wins and goes on to be the series' lead character. The Unconquerable Man (the title refers to the Nietzschean species name: homo sapiens invictus --literally "unconquerable man") takes place in an alternate timeline, where Rhade was the victor, killed Dylan, and ended up as the series lead. The episode is "time-lapse," summing up three seasons of show time via the clips, framed by scenes of the Rhadeverse version, punctuating the ongoing arc.

The irony was that the show had long since started to degenerate into mush, and the Rhade continuity actually ended up looking like a better show (Bacic being a superior actor to Sorbo, and the Rhadeverse having an actual storyline to tie it together). When it ended and the "real" universe was re-established, most fans felt pretty gypped.

I have no doubt that Joss could've topped them both.

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:

"Back Spin" was on Roswell Conspiracies, and was staged as a tribunal. Logan (the lead character) was put on trial, with his "charges" being displayed in the clips --which also happened to put the pieces together for the ongoing conspiracy arc (as Logan argues that he's been framed). By the end of it, viewers have actually learned something, because of the one bit of data that is revealed, like a key that retroactively unlocks the whole series.

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