User blog comment:UFO Editor/What season of the show is your favourite?/@comment-392210-20110207181205

Has anyone noticed how season one comes full circle on its own, the stories in the finale are resemblant and continuous with the stories introduced in the pilot, but in later seasons that rarely ever happens, aside maybe from the mysteries?

In the first season finale, Bree and Rex finally make amends and decide to just be happy together, after spending a year working on a rough marriage since Rex told his wife in the pilot he wanted a divorce. In a shocking twist, he dies, so they'll never get another chance. Lynette was introduced as a frazzled mother who misses her career, and in the finale she gets a chance to go back to work again, and her husband will fill in for her. Gabrielle's affair is only revealed to Carlos in the finale, and the main mystery is finally solved, with its main "investigator", Susan, getting caught up in some related drama and playing the part of the damsel in distress.

Now compare that to season 5, for example. Lynette's finale stories (Tom going back to college, thinking about cancer, realizing she's pregnant) are all introduced anew, the only relation to the premiere is probably the fact that Lynette was shown already having enough problems with her pre-existing twins, she didn't need a new set. Gabrielle's story is similar, in that she also already had troublesome children, she didn't need a troublesome niece, which was a story also only opened in the ending. Bree started off simply as a careerwoman struggling to balance her work and social lives. She ended up being blackmailed by her loathsome husband and starting up a romantic affair. Even the mystery was initially linked to either Edie, Katherine or Karen, but Susan wound up playing the major part in the end. Isn't it interesting? If season one had marked the show's end, it would have had a very proper series finale. Every other season probably wouldn't have. They all mostly provide set-up for forthcoming stories of the following fall. In season one, the introduction of the Applewhites was the only thing that couldn't have been left open-ended. I'm not complaining, though, just pointing out an interesting piece of trivia. :)