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Why Is Millennium So Unique & Compelling To You ?

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Why is Millennium so unique and compelling to me?

In its day the idea of the forensic profiler was just coming into its own as a character concept for the protaginist. Add to this the theme of the coming end of the Millennium and the impending end of the world and you have what I consider a winning combination.

Following on the heel of Millennium was Profiler which I didn't find to be a bad show for what I saw, but I didn't think it had the class that Millennium had.

I've never bought into the idea that Frank didn't have some sort of a supernatural gift and that became even harder to swallow when Jordan started to manifest an ability of her own. I liked that element of the show also.

I've always perceived him to be a post-scient character (as opposed to prescient.) And I believe this interpretation works well for what he did. He didn't see the criminal he just knew what clues to look for. This gift of his, which I could see him believing to be an extra-strong process of piecing things together if he didn't believe in psychic abilities himself, was merely a tool to help him get farther into th psyche of the person he was hunting.

That this gift grew in second season into a stronger ability makes perfect sense to me. I can't speak yet for third season.

He reminds me of Johnny Smith in Stephen King's "The Dead Zone," a character I've always liked, although Johnny's abilities included presience and clairvoyance.

I also can relate to Frank in some ways too. Like Frank I don't believe in worrying my family needlessly. I'd rather have all the information to give to my wife before talking about something than bringing the topic up and speaking unintelligibly about it because I don't have the answers yet and thus opening the doors to fear and incertainty. I don't beleive in wait ... worry... I care! When it's revealed I've been holding back on something like this the conversations I have with my wife sometimes sound like the dying echos of a Frank and Catherine discussion.

The first season drew me in and held me through the second season. They will likely be the hook that holds me through the third season once I see it too. But I do like elements of the second season and how it grew.

And that is the why of it.

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