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IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOCKED BACK IN 2000 FOR THE LESBIAN KISS, HAVE YOU SEEN THESE REALITY SHOWS LIKE TILA TEQUILA AND ALL THE LESBIANS CRAWLING FOR HER AFFECTION....NOBODY SEEMS TO COMPLAIN
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THE FIRST SEASON OF ONCE AND AGAIN WAS FLAWLESS. GREAT TV

SEASON TWO WAS REALLY BAD.

AND IN HTE MIDDLE OF SEASON 3 WHEN THE SHOW WAS COMMING BACK, THEY CANCELLED IT.

TOO BAD

It kept jumping when Zoe couldn't stay out of everyone's business. Her 235,896,751 daily questions and incessant badgering of everyone with, "What's that?" ("A paper from work, Zoe") "What does it say?" to "Who's that?" ("Someone from work, Zoe") "What are they saying"? was tiresome. She always had to rush to be the first to answer the door, first to answer the phone, know what all the adults were saying. Did it EVER show her having any friends? Why didn't it ever show her with anyone her own age?

This was one of the best and most refressing shows ever. I was most disappointed in ABC when they took it off the air. The Cast had amazing chemistry right from the start and very compelling story lines. ABC just got cold feet and chikened out with such modern story lines. Bad ABC.

i hate people who hate and kill sharks the photos are ofull!

The lesbian thing wasn't a shark moment, it was one of the first and only genuinely touching portrayals of gay kids I've ever seen on TV. If they were going for pure sweeps titillation, they would have had Karen make out with a woman, not two kids sharing a couple of sweet, chaste kisses.

I just found out Jessie's lover Katie was played by Micha Barton, currently of The O.C.! I don't watch The O.C. nor do I plan to (especially since Ms. Barton hasn't gotten many good reviews on that show) but when I saw these Once and Again episodes during ABC's run, they were some of the most realistically portrayed scenes on network television. A pox on all the affiliates for blacking out this episode because of "mature content". Just be glad ABC is not being fined by the FCC for showing that kiss the way Fox now is by showing various couplings on that "Married" reality show from last year!

I don't think this show ever jumped the shark. Some cite the lesbian kiss and the dimitri storyline but I thought the storyline were done well. Lesbian kisses are usually exploitive and the characters and I thought this was tastefully done and with a well written build up before hand. I don't know exactly where it would have led or what Jessie's sexuality was but I'm sure the writers would have done a good job. I also thought the Grace/Dimitri storyline was handled well. I probably would have been creeped out if the writers actually had them hook up but they didn't.

It JTS when Eric Stoltz joined the show as the high school teacher August Dimitri! Despite the truly dreadful name, he had a matching hairstyle that was unforgivable! OMG what horrible hair. Who lets him walk out the door like that let alone allow him to go on television? And Grace was supposed to fall for him. She was definitely a teenager with "issues"

Jump the Shark? It never did. I never believed for a second that Jessie and Katie were actually GAY. They were simply two young girls with a passionate bond (that girls at that age often have), and they let their emotions and attachment to each other get carried away. I'm sure that if the show had a chance to continue the story-line, their so-called "lesbianism" would have run it's course and they would have started to realize that they in fact wanted to make out with boys after all. It's too bad we never got to see what happened before this excellent show was yanked off the air by those philistines at ABC. First My So-Called Life, then Relativity, Then Once and Again. These shows were just too good for commercial television i guess.

This show was amazingly accurate in revealing so many diverse emotions that go through a person's mind in facing many of the drama's scenario's. The teens and adults alike had many ambivalent feelings that came up and were explored in such a way that brought depth and sense to life, hence the characters made sense. Not just little sound bites or comic laughs to fill 60 minutes. I miss that show and I don't feel it ever jumped. If the network had just left the time slot alone, it would probably would have survived and prospered. I am grateful for the writers of that program who were mature and perceptive - not stuck on themes to work out their own adolescence conflicts as I see in much of tv violent dramas presently.

This show never jumped!! I think it was very realistic, with problems that typical teenagers have to face when they grow up, and about the storyline with Jessie and her girlfriend Katie, I think that was one of the best stories ever written. Someone commented that it was weird for Jessie to kiss her best friend just to stay friends with her, but she didn't! Ever since her friend (Katie) showed up, the attraction between them was so obvious and you could literally feel the sparks. Jessie had feelings for the girl, but because she is a 14-year old girl, of course she doesn't immediately know how to deal with that. When Grace, her sister, told her that Katie was gay, she got scared, because all of a sudden, this became a personal subject, because the feelings that she sort of already knew she had, all of a sudden became very close to home. She had to deal with them and wasn't ready for it yet, or so she thought. Then Katie wrote her the letter, telling her how she felt, and when they were up in the attic, Jessie kept saying she wanted to be friends, but was really trying to convince herself. But she couldn't, because when Katie asked her to throw the letter out, she realised she couldn't, she wanted to keep it, it was too important for her. That's when she came to terms with her own feelings, realised she had strong feelings for this girl, and kissed Katie in a whim, shocking them both. But she realised it felt good, felt right, and she finally accepted herself for what she was: attracted to a girl. I could see this coming for weeks, with the jealous looks from Katie when Jessie kissed that guy Tad, the CD Katie gave Jessie, the staring, everything. Even when they ditched school together, there is a moment when Katie takes off her shirt and Jessie is just staring at her, checking her out. When Katie looks back at Jessie, she quickly averts her eyes. Also, when Lily walks in, catches them ditching school, Jessie's first reaction is 'I'm busted'. Her face shows every sign of it. Even Katie is nervously fibbling in the background. When Lily had to pick something up from the house, Jessie says she could have done that, and Lily remarks she's supposed to be in school. That's when it hits her, she's busted for ditching school. Her first reaction when Lily came in was not because she was supposed to be in school, but because she was caught in a private moment, an intimate moment, as if she was making out with someone she wasn't supposed to. Even though they weren't making out, Jessie felt guilty about something, and it wasn't missing school, it was like having a girl in your bed when you're not supposed to, only Jessie didn't realise that at that time. She just felt busted. This is a girl in love, before she even knows it herself. Even Grace, her stepsister figured it out. Why? Because she has eyes. I think the writers really thought this storyline through. After kissing that guy, she tells her mother she didn't feel anything, asking her about it. I just find it very brave of the writers to write something that can be so difficult for a 14-year old girl. It's a shame ABC cancelled the show. The acting of the kids, especially Jessie, Grace and Katie, is outstanding and I think they deserve Emmy's for it. Well, after reading all these comments, I just had to get this off my chest. This is how I feel about it, I saw it coming and it's great they went on with it. It's just a shame they didn't have time to explore the Jessie/Katie storyline any further, because the end was near. This could have been great. And it should have been. If only it wouldn't have been cancelled. Such a brave show with so much talent. Such a shame....

Rick and Lily got married too soon. They didn't have enough awareness of the reality of their individual situations with kids, exes, and of course the problems cropped up after they wed. It made the show too depressing instead of giving a good honest view of the difficulties that can occur when divorced people with kids remarry.

This show kind of jumped the shark with the whole Jesse lesbian kiss. It was creative to have everyone think it was going to be Grace and then turn around and find out it's Jesse but it didn't make much sense b/c one moment she seemed to be unaccepting and scared of the whole lesbian thing and the next minute she's making out with her "girl" friend. Then when I went to the website to figure out what they were doing with this storyline it was revealed that Jesse was just experimenting and was not necessarily a lesbian but it doesn't seem very realistic that a girl this insecure, unsure, and timid would be bold enough to act on, what, an impulse to kiss a girl just because she wants to stay friends with this girl. It seems like it would have been a little slower developing. After saying all this though...I did love the show and I'm disappointed it was cancelled. It dealt with a lot of tough issues in a real way and for the most part in an accurate way. You could tell just from the way the website was set up...they pointed you to resources on each of the topics they dealt with and had a psychologist write a commentary to further explain the issues. Two of my favorites that they dealt with were Aaron's schizophrenia and Jesse and Eli's mother's (I forget her name) depression.

ABC keeps crappy, low rated Drew on, but cancelled a mediocre O&A???? Why????????

Once and Again had a moment (The hostage episode) when it looked like it might jump, but it recovered beautifully and had some of its best episodes at the end of its last season. It deserved to be renewed, but ABC couldn't tell quality programming if it bit them in the butt.