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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 106691" data-attributes="member: 23">Lest I forget to post a final thought:The third series of Butterflies ended on what felt like a very final note. It left me wondering if the fourth would be as fitting. In terms of the Ria/Leonard/Ben story, I'm torn. Leonard leaving for New York at the end of Series Three should in all probability have ended the story. In many ways, Series Four didn't tread any new ground other than building on Ben's suspicions.After a point, there was a cyclical undercurrent to the whole show that made the viewer question why Ria kept going back. A bit like JR and Sue Ellen. Though Ria and Leonard made more sense when it was considered that there was a kind of unfinished business. It was emotional infidelity and both seemed to feel it wasn't an affair because there wasn't a physical aspect. In every conversation Ria had about Leonard, the phrase "nothing's happened" or some variation thereof came up.But then when this is considered - that Ria felt her affair of the mind with Leonard was harmless - her journey through the final series did bring something new. By the end of it, she'd kind of, sort of recognised that she had a very real choice to make. And this was satisfactory enough, although by series' end, with Ria having done a Deirdre by walking out briefly before deciding to return to the comforting safety of her familiar home and husband, there was still a sense that she was still not quite truly conscious of the consequences of her actions other than the effect they had on her. Overall, I found Ria both endearingly ditzy and self deprecating while at the same time frustratingly self-centred (and the very worst kind of self-centred - the martyred type who feels they give too much). A very curious combination that made her a very interesting, very real lead.The soap watcher in me wanted a scene between Ben and Leonard. Not necessarily a confrontation, but perhaps a scene of mutual understanding. A scene where they found common ground or a degree of empathy for the other. Still, I can live with what we were given. The final line of the series was perfect and resonated with me for some time after watching.So the main story didn't have a degree of finality. Or at least, it was no more final than the end of the series before. There's a sense that we could easily have returned for a Series Five and the story would have gone on. Or perhaps the story went on anyway, regardless of screen time.Where the series scores is in giving a satisfying end to subplots of previous years - particularly those of Russell and Adam. Both had a form of closure and their respective reunions were just enough for this viewer to be left wanting more.</blockquote>

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