Beauty and the Beast - The Final Season
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: Linda HamiltonBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 543 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-02-05 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Paramount Movie Reviews of Beauty and the Beast - The Final SeasonMovie Review: A fairytale must remain a fairytale (SPOILERS)Note: This review contains spoilers. Anyone who was a fan of this series will want to have this season in their collection. After all, a collection isn't a collection unless it's complete. Having said that however, the choices made by the writers and producers of "Beauty and the Beast" were poor. This story--at its core--is a fairytale. Fairytales must have happy endings, or they're not fairytales. It wasn't worth twelve rather unsatisfying episodes to compromise the integrity of the fairytale genre. It would have been much more rewarding--and honest--to have ended the series with Catherine realizing that she had done all she had set out to do in the world above--and joyfully accepting that her future would properly be spent with Vincent, and their son, in the world below. Having Vincent lose his empathic connection with Catherine was a big mistake, since that bond is the entire premise on which their relationship was based. Killing off Catherine was, of course, the ultimate error--because it simply is not the way a "true" fairytale should end. Season III, in and of itself, isn't wholly "bad" television, but it is mediocre. It actually contains some fine moments, particularly for some of the secondary and recurring guest characters (such as Joe Maxwell and Elliot Burch, respectively). In addition, unlike some other reviewers, I found the character of Diana quite interesting, primarily because what she and Vincent develop is a friendship. It could not possibly be more. However, the evil characters in this season were silly and boring--and too much time was spent on them. The season would have redeemed itself far better if they had spent more time on a more romantic storyline, since the whole series was intended to be a romance. For example, they could have focused on Joe's coming to terms with the love he felt for (but never expressed to) Catherine--AND they could have developed a meeting/friendship between Joe and Vincent. (After all, the love Joe felt for Catherine was far less selfish than what Elliot felt for her.) Or, they might have pursued a romantic interest developing between Joe and Diana--perhaps even with Vincent's help. Joe Maxwell, in particular, was a wonderful character who was left wholly unresolved in the series, and that is unfortunate. Although I still believe the third season never should have happened--there are ways in which it could have been better.
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