>"I am pretty sure that "Last Knight" is the most traumatic series finale of any show ever. *g*"
Well, there's always Blake's 7. ;-) But yes, our PTB tore us up and left us bleeding in a ditch, and then in our pain some of us turned on each other... given how badly the fandom imploded, I'm that much more grateful for every one of those willing to play FK today!
>"probably in the order that they were originally intended to air"
Yes. "Double Jeopardy" is #85, but it originally aired between "The Stone of Scone" and "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" at the end of the fifth season (really). I still count OMtM and DJ in the sequence in which I first encountered them on my personal episode list. ~shrug~
Was OMtM a stronger season opener than "Prophecy" would have been, though? IMO, yes, very much. I find "Prophecy" weak. I've wondered whether that could have played a role in their choice of which fourth-season episodes to pull into fifth, or whether it was too early (where was "Prophecy" in production?) for that to be a consideration.
Personally, I tend to finish "Homeland" (fourth season premiere) and then go back to "The Gathering" (series premiere) and start again, leaving the end of HL to itself unless I have to look up a canon fact. This makes me an extreme oddity in surviving HL fandom, as far as I can tell; most others seem to watch fourth and fifth season over and over, and skip the rest! For comparison, though, it's not at all unusual in surviving FK fandom to duck third season... while of course a few people do love late FK best, as I love early HL best. :-)
Re: "pure ornery"
Well, there's always Blake's 7. ;-) But yes, our PTB tore us up and left us bleeding in a ditch, and then in our pain some of us turned on each other... given how badly the fandom imploded, I'm that much more grateful for every one of those willing to play FK today!
>"probably in the order that they were originally intended to air"
Yes. "Double Jeopardy" is #85, but it originally aired between "The Stone of Scone" and "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" at the end of the fifth season (really). I still count OMtM and DJ in the sequence in which I first encountered them on my personal episode list. ~shrug~
Was OMtM a stronger season opener than "Prophecy" would have been, though? IMO, yes, very much. I find "Prophecy" weak. I've wondered whether that could have played a role in their choice of which fourth-season episodes to pull into fifth, or whether it was too early (where was "Prophecy" in production?) for that to be a consideration.
Personally, I tend to finish "Homeland" (fourth season premiere) and then go back to "The Gathering" (series premiere) and start again, leaving the end of HL to itself unless I have to look up a canon fact. This makes me an extreme oddity in surviving HL fandom, as far as I can tell; most others seem to watch fourth and fifth season over and over, and skip the rest! For comparison, though, it's not at all unusual in surviving FK fandom to duck third season... while of course a few people do love late FK best, as I love early HL best. :-)