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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 225531" data-attributes="member: 8">I can&#039;t say it felt as if there were forgotton or unresolved parts, not from the position of the viewer anyway, but there&#039;s still room to explore more of the goings-on.The revelation of what really happened to Scotty Lockhart felt like the end of a chapter - or the &quot;book&quot; version - and after that it continued as highbrow soap opera with various new partners and affairs.And that&#039;s why I don&#039;t feel it had to end in season 5 or that things had to be explained in a satisfactory way. I thought that the murder of Alison was somewhat similar to the death of SFU&#039;s Lisa Kimmel Fisher because the dramatic narrative didn&#039;t create an urge to solve it. If anything, the conclusion of the SFU version came as a total surprise.We already know that Alison was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong guy, and unless Ben Cruz becomes part of the story again (haven&#039;t seen him yet) I don&#039;t see how it&#039;s going to change things, except for Joanie herself because it&#039;s nice to know that her mother didn&#039;t kill herself - something that may have damaged her personality.But again, I don&#039;t think it was necessary to do her story in season 5.I&#039;m not complaining or disagreeing, and from a more aesthetic point of view - to maintain as much of that &quot;reading a novel&quot; feel as possible - I guess it was the right decision to not continue the series, thus avoiding the risk of having things peter out.Incidentally, Noah Solloway&#039;s novel has been published for real:[ATTACH=full]21327[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 225531, member: 8"] I can't say it felt as if there were forgotton or unresolved parts, not from the position of the viewer anyway, but there's still room to explore more of the goings-on. The revelation of what really happened to Scotty Lockhart felt like the end of a chapter - or the "book" version - and after that it continued as highbrow soap opera with various new partners and affairs. And that's why I don't feel it [I]had[/I] to end in season 5 or that things had to be explained in a satisfactory way. I thought that the murder of Alison was somewhat similar to the death of SFU's Lisa Kimmel Fisher because the dramatic narrative didn't create an urge to solve it. If anything, the conclusion of the SFU version came as a total surprise. We already know that Alison was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong guy, and unless Ben Cruz becomes part of the story again (haven't seen him yet) I don't see how it's going to change things, except for Joanie herself because it's nice to know that her mother didn't kill herself - something that may have damaged her personality. But again, I don't think it was necessary to do her story in season 5. I'm not complaining or disagreeing, and from a more aesthetic point of view - to maintain as much of that "reading a novel" feel as possible - I guess it was the right decision to not continue the series, thus avoiding the risk of having things peter out. Incidentally, Noah Solloway's novel has been published for real: [ATTACH=full]21327[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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