There is still a lot of humor in the remaining seasons.  I forget that sometimes because, as you say, when we think of those seasons we remember most the hijacking, Cromwell's issues, and of course the whole arc of season 5.  But when I actually do watch those episodes, I realize again there is a lot to smile about.

As I said in a post a few weeks back, it surprised me when I first rewatched the series to see how relatively happy Nate was that first season.  Over the seasons though, the years that pass, he does become more and more bitter.  And I can certainly understand why.  He finds himself right back with the life he wanted…

Question I've often wondered:  Why did David want to be a lawyer? Simply because it was something other than being a funereal director but he still got to wear a suit?  A prestigious job?  It paid well?  Work that he perceived as having precise rules and standards?

I love all the episodes, so I really don’t have a worst episode.  Rather than give a best episode, at least for now, I’ll mention one of my favorite scenes in all of SFU.  It occurs in episode 8 of the first
season, “Crossroads.”

Poor Lisa:  Whenever Nate has an opportunity to choose between her and another female, he always chooses the other female, even when that other female is a little baby.

Well, it is true that she went on at least one other trip that we know of prior to the fateful trip, and of course it is possible she met up with Hoyt then.  But my own gut feeling is that the meeting with Hoyt on the beach is the first time they met since Lisa and Nate got married (although they probably did talk…

Reply to McP:  But then how did she continue the affair, 1,000 miles away?

Reply to McP:  True, but as I remember it, there was never any indication one way or the other.  Once she and Nate were together though, how would it have continued (except perhaps for phone sex?) Seattle is over 1,000 miles away from L.A.  Plus if she herself were cheating at that point, would she be so worried about…

Commenting on Thunderdome below: Hoyt's suicide was presented completely out of the blue, but I believe it was presented that way because that was how the other character in the scene, Nate, experienced it. I didn't see it as bad writing.  In fact, I saw it as quite good writing.

My impression was that Lisa had the affair while she was still living in Seattle, but it stopped once she moved to L.A. For one thing, the travel logistics, and for another,I believe she did want the marriage with Nate to work.  So why did she meet with her brother-in-law on that beach?  Maybe they had never properly…

The dynamic in the scenes where David and Keith share their bed with Sarge, and the morning after, are great.   David appears somewhat smitten with the veiny guy while they’re both regrouping behind a barrier, asking Sarge a bit too anxiously, “Do you want me to check to see if you’ve been hit?”  But Keith seems to be…

What was that song, Ashes?  Or something like it?  And the artist?  Anyone?  Running in place?  Beautiful piece.

I really do feel that grades are meaningless.  If you're grading an episode, are you supposed to grade it taking all 63 episodes of the series into consideration?  All of television into consideration?  I much prefer this method John is using, where he evaluates the episode for its own worth, without having to assign…

This was a Craig Wright script, the first he wrote for SFU.  Other episodes he wrote were Twilight, Falling Into Place, The Black Forest, Time Flies, and Static.  Prior to writing episodes, he was a story editor at SFU.  By the end of the series, he was promoted to producer.

Agreed.  The quiet deaths were the best..

It's not clear from the episode, but I always had a gut feeling Russell shoplifted the cobalt blue paint he gave to Claire as a gift.  It was expensive, and he was just a student.

She obviously had a strong attraction to him that lasted for years.  We never really learn that much about their early years together in Seattle, but there must have been something that fixated her on him.  Maybe he paid more attention to her when others wouldn't, trying to show himself as a nice guy.  Maybe other…

She said in an AVC interview that the writers never let her know where her character was headed, which fits in with the SFU universe.  MAJOR SPOILERS  Her death was as much a surprise to her as it was to the viewers, as it is to people in the "real" world who get woken up at three o'clock in the morning by a ringing…

Season 3 to me was one of the best seasons. The loveless marriage, Claire's art school adventures.  The writers seemed really focused. And I love it that in season 3 we're in the middle of the SFU saga.  So much behind us, so much before us.

I always assumed that was a late night cable or satellite channel, which did show hard core porn back then.  In any event, love that Ruth's deepest, shameful thoughts are suddenly televised, and Arthur is appalled at the idea.