Showing posts with label Night Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Night Court. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2008

Writer's Block: Your Favorite Series: One Last Go Round

Night Court.

They had the perfect ending set up at Season 8 and filmed a final episode. Then NBC decided they didn't want to cancel the show after all. Season 9 started with a sudden reversal of everything that happened at the end of Season 8, restored the status quo in a haphazard two-part episode and then set about putting everything back where it was... at least until the end of Season 9, when things changed once again and the ended the show with...

*Harry getting numerous job offers and declining them all because he decided he was doing the most possible good where he was.

*Christine getting elected to Congress.

*Dan quitting his job so he could devote himself to proving that he was a good man to Christine.

*Mac quitting his job and law school to become a filmmaker, after his video of Bull's wedding was accidentally released to a local Independent theater and became a Rocky Horror style camp classic.

*Bull leaves with two aliens from Jupiter, who need a tall guy to reach the things on their high shelves.

*Roz... umm... reassuring Harry that she'll still be there even as everyone else is moving on.

Somebody needs to resolve all of that. If nothing else, they need to bring Bull back to tell his wife what happened. I picture Bull having become, not only the "reacher of high things" but complete warlord of Jupiter!

I admit this would be silly. But would it honestly be any sillier than most of the things that happened on Night Court?