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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 436924" data-attributes="member: 57984">See, that&#039;s just exactly it -- there is just a tiny whiff of &quot;we&#039;re about to shut down now, and goodnight,&quot; about Season 7: it&#039;s perfectly good, but it feels almost ready to close up shop. (Even back then, I recall Ted nervously pacing around the doctor&#039;s office, cutesy music in the background, and the scene felt &quot;off&quot; -- something they wouldn&#039;t have done earlier on, or, if so, they would&#039;ve done it slightly differently). There&#039;s a mild biding-time quality about it which doesn&#039;t shortchange the viewer in any way, but turning out the lights at WJM seems imminent. (Mary&#039;s eye-lift surgery between S6 and S7 says it all: she&#039;s priming herself to marry Donald Sutherland, sleep with Redford, and passive-aggressively abuse Timothy Hutton -- and we&#039;ll all be the richer for it).One more year might have revealed a slight strain. I think of it like DALLAS in a way: a seven-year run ending in Bobby&#039;s death. (Of course, MTM would never have re-cast Murray with Paul Lynde in Season 7, even if DALLAS did).And I&#039;d never want to miss DALLAS&#039; ninth year (Season 10, per DVD), the Shakespearean Séance at Southfork --- which was the real conclusion, with Pam going &quot;splat!&quot; and conflagrating into oblivion.&nbsp; <img src="https://resizing.flixster.com/mUWmcYcW151wAjC7hrjqUVO4rz8=/206x305/v2/https://resizing.flixster.com/-XZAfHZM39UwaGJIFWKAE8fS0ak=/v3/t/assets/p1148259_e_v8_aa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 509px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 436924, member: 57984"] See, that's just exactly it -- there is just a tiny whiff of "we're about to shut down now, and goodnight," about Season 7: it's perfectly good, but it feels almost ready to close up shop. (Even back then, I recall Ted nervously pacing around the doctor's office, cutesy music in the background, and the scene felt "off" -- something they wouldn't have done earlier on, or, if so, they would've done it slightly differently). There's a mild biding-time quality about it which doesn't shortchange the viewer in any way, but turning out the lights at WJM seems imminent. (Mary's eye-lift surgery between S6 and S7 says it all: she's priming herself to marry Donald Sutherland, sleep with Redford, and passive-aggressively abuse Timothy Hutton -- and we'll all be the richer for it). One more year might have revealed a slight strain. I think of it like DALLAS in a way: a seven-year run ending in Bobby's death. (Of course, MTM would never have re-cast Murray with Paul Lynde in Season 7, even if DALLAS did). And I'd [B][I]never [/I][/B]want to miss DALLAS' ninth year (Season 10, per DVD), the Shakespearean Séance at Southfork --- which was the [B][I]real [/I][/B]conclusion, with Pam going "splat!" and conflagrating into oblivion. [IMG width="509px"]https://resizing.flixster.com/mUWmcYcW151wAjC7hrjqUVO4rz8=/206x305/v2/https://resizing.flixster.com/-XZAfHZM39UwaGJIFWKAE8fS0ak=/v3/t/assets/p1148259_e_v8_aa.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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