I distinctly remember a Christmas episode following the first season. Does anyone else remember this or have I gone completely off my rocker?
shareI'm watching the Christmas episode now. It's season 2, episode 13. I'm the previous episode, Myka quit the job and the team and drove off. Now in the following episode, she's back as if nothing happened. No explanation. What the hell...?
shareIt's the typical holiday special, American style. While British shows like Downton Abbey have Christmas specials that follow in line with canon and the ongoing story, American shows seem to like to waste episodes on holiday shows that have no correlation to the actual story at all. It drives me nuts, especially when we have short season shows like WH13 and wasting an episode on nothing is a big deal. ABC Family likes to do it too, sometimes with Christmas AND Halloween (really?) Syfy did it was Eureka as well.
It's made all the worse when the special holiday episode follows some dramatic, potentially game changing season finale or mid-season finale, and you're immediately going "huh?", like with Myka suddenly not being gone from the Warehouse.
That's traditional in the US. The holidays are an excuse to break routine, do something fun, and then get back to the serious work after the break.
shareI'm American, and that's not really an excuse for the random, pointless holiday episodes. They're only customary for the short season, cable network shows. Full season shows, most often on the networks, either don't have holiday episodes or they incorporate the holiday while still staying in line with the show. Shows like Bones (at least back in the good days) would often have Christmas episodes and sometimes or for Halloween, but it didn't ignore the current canon of what was happening. They managed some really great seasonal plots, had the light hearted fun, and all while still progressing the story vs ignoring it.
shareIn days of yore the desire was to come up with a holiday episode that could be repeated every year. That meant that it had to be absolutely devoid of anything resembling continuation. That is still lurking around as a desirable concept in Hollywood and it colors Holiday episodes to some extent.
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