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fabrisseBeauty and the Beast -- "Though Lovers Be Lost"
This two parter evolved from the opposite situation of AJ Cook. The fans saved the show, but Linda Hamilton, who was pregnant, did not want to return. Her departure set up the arc for season 3, which was never completed. The death they gave her was bad. The implication that Vincent might have raped her was bad, though that was clarified as the episode went on.
I'm rare. I actually liked season 3. No one forgot about Catherine. Her death made the three men who loved her work together to try to find her killer and get back her child. That theme of Catherine, even in death, bringing out the best in people was a lovely coda. And the scenes with Joe, Vincent, and Elliott working together, however brief they ended up being, moved me.
But this episode nearly made me quit watching, not because I was mad about Linda Hamilton's departure, as so many fans of the series were, but because I found her kidnapping and execution after her child's birth to be so triggery. This show never flinched from the violence of city life, but this was both fantasy violence and realistic violence at the same time -- and it was too much.
This two parter evolved from the opposite situation of AJ Cook. The fans saved the show, but Linda Hamilton, who was pregnant, did not want to return. Her departure set up the arc for season 3, which was never completed. The death they gave her was bad. The implication that Vincent might have raped her was bad, though that was clarified as the episode went on.
I'm rare. I actually liked season 3. No one forgot about Catherine. Her death made the three men who loved her work together to try to find her killer and get back her child. That theme of Catherine, even in death, bringing out the best in people was a lovely coda. And the scenes with Joe, Vincent, and Elliott working together, however brief they ended up being, moved me.
But this episode nearly made me quit watching, not because I was mad about Linda Hamilton's departure, as so many fans of the series were, but because I found her kidnapping and execution after her child's birth to be so triggery. This show never flinched from the violence of city life, but this was both fantasy violence and realistic violence at the same time -- and it was too much.
