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. But the thing is, personally, I'm over worrying about the Emmys. Ultimately, an Emmy doesn't really mean anything anyway- all it is is the consensus of popular opinion, and most popular opinion isn't really informed enough to properly judge quality (ok, maybe that's kind of nasty, but I see no other explanation of why melodrama like Judging Amy would be Emmy nominated and not Buffy).

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I'd be way gratified if they started a TV award that acknowledged quality regardless of genre, network, or otherwise. Of course, I'd also be way gratified if I suddenly inherited a hundred million dollars, so there you go.

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I will grudgingly add that this year, the bar seems to have been raised with shows like 24... and Sex and the City is really good.

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You know, I saw the first 3 or so episodes of 24 and I didn't come off as overly impressed. I mean it was alright but it really came off as more of an intellectual game than a great show (plus the fact that there wasn't really any sort of connection with the characters that weren't Jack Baeur).

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Originally posted by Pandora:
I'm also annoyed and gratified in equal parts that Six Feet Under has been nominated for like - everything (annoyed because I hate the Emmys, gratified because I love the show)...

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I thought the first 4 or 5 episodes were interesting and engaging. But then when they finally got around to "explaining" things, I began to lose interest. They were obviously making things up as they went along, and had no desire to make things fit together. The plot was determined by drama, not logic. For example, it makes no sense for the scheme to kidnap Jack's family to be so damned elaborate. But of course if the Bad Guys and just gone to his house and taken the women at gunpoint, there couldn't have milked that part of the story for so many episodes!

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I suspect that's the fault of the WTC attacks. I remember reading an article in TV Guide shortly before the show premiered where they said that they had to do a major change of direction midstream to focus the show more on Jack and less on somebody toppling the government or whatever it was they were going to do.

So, that would kind of explain the making things up as they go along. It should be interesting to see what they do this year with a fully planned-out season.

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Originally posted by CharlieBlue:
I suspect that's the fault of the WTC attacks. I remember reading an article in TV Guide shortly before the show premiered where they said that they had to do a major change of direction midstream to focus the show more on Jack and less on somebody toppling the government or whatever it was they were going to do.

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Originally posted by Shuggie:
Six Feet Under has just started over here in the UK - we've had 4 or 5 episodes so far. I like it but I can't quite see what the fuss is about. The writing's ok - sometimes it's a little too self-consciously quirky for my taste. The acting's fine - I think the leads all perform well. But it doesn't really grab me somehow. I keep feeling like it's just about to get really weird and amazing but it never does.

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Maybe it's an unfair comparison but it's dark, quirky with a wry sense of humour - I keep expecting Twin Peaks - but it's not in the same class.

I do like the dead father - he's the most interesting character so far.

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I never watched Twin Peaks, though from what I understand of it, Six Feet Under is *not* Twin Peaks. Get thee gone, David Lynch! (no offense to Mr. Lynch, but I wouldn't be that interested in seeing SFU all Lynched out... bleh).

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The end sequence kicks in shortly after the ending that we did see (of Agent Cooper calling it a night) originally in the pilot. In his hotel room Cooper gets an anonymous phone call stating that the killer is at the hospital, after calling Sheriff Truman they proceed to go to the hospital. Finding the anonymous caller they proceed to the basement and confront the Killer (who was called "Bob") there was a struggle and the caller (who apparently was tracking "Bob" after he killed someone that the caller knew) shot the killer before suffering what appeared to be a heart attack. Bob (the killer) made mention of a cryptic comments that included "Fire walk with me" at some point (I forget if this was immeadiately before or after he got shot, darned long-term memory).

After this a caption mentioned "[x] years later" (I forget exactly how many) you see one of the patented Agent Cooper dream sequences as he is in a room with the red-clad, weird talking midget (anyone who is a fan knows what I'm talking about), and Laura Palmer. What follows was a somewhat bizarre conversation between the midget and Cooper (was there any other kind ) involving Laura. Then music started up, the midget starts to dance, and laura leans over and whispers something in Coopers ear that we don't get to hear (and then the credits role). I have no problems with this extra time until the midget scene, which seemed far more tacked on than I remember the other "midget scenes" being in the series.