TV.com

Felicity Season 1 Episode 22

The Force

Favorite

Watched It I've Watched This 0

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

9.0

User Rating

38 votes

Your Rating: 10
Your Rating: 9.5
Your Rating: 9
Your Rating: 8.5
Your Rating: 8
Your Rating: 7.5
Your Rating: 7
Your Rating: 6.5
Your Rating: 6
Your Rating: 5.5
Your Rating: 5
Your Rating: 4.5
Your Rating: 4
Your Rating: 3.5
Your Rating: 3
Your Rating: 2.5
Your Rating: 2
Your Rating: 1.5
Your Rating: 1

Rate Now

EPISODE REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Write A Review

Episode Summary

EDIT

AIRED: 5/18/99

Meghan uses Felicity as her guinea pig as she practices her spells. Felicity doubts Meghan's powers, until she suddenly becomes very clumsy and forgetful, seeming as the result of the spells. Noel's friend Guy forces him to work on their group project outside a movie theater as he tries to secure tickets to "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Ben has to find a new way home to Palo Alto because he must use the money his mom sent for a plane ticket to pay off his gambling debts. Felicity finds him a man who is willing to pay him to drive his car to San Francisco. Felicity, Ben, Noel and Julie plan to drive across the country together. Lynn's girlfriend continually makes passes at Ben. He turns her down, but breaks up with Julie because he feels stifled by the relationship.moreless

FAN RECAP

Fan Episode Reviews (1)

Meghan, Felicity's goth roommate who spent the previous episodes partying and being unhappy, now starts practicing spells (yes, spells) on Felicity and her friends, all leading to a clumsily cobbled together setup for a Ben & Felicity romance.moreless

1.5

By scyfer444, May 07, 2009

This episode is essentially the episode where Felicity jumps the shark and becomes a paranormal (melo)drama series, while the previous episodes of season 1 were smartly written, serious and bittersweet realistic college relationship drama material. Felicity, previously grounded and scientifically minded, now starts believing that her roommate is successfully working spells on her, which is incredibly far fetched and out of places in this show. Extraneous characters are introduced as romantic partners, only to be ignored for the rest of the show. This episode is filler heavy, unbelievable and a truly disappointing shift for Felicity.

If you don't want to see more ridiculous paranormal insertions, badly introduced characters, heavy handed character shifts, witchcraft and time travel, and the like, stop here and just rewatch season 1 again.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
1 0

Flag
Share Hide

See All Fan Reviews

Cast & Crew: STARS

EDIT

Keri Russell	Felicity Porter
Scott Speedman	Ben Covington
Amy Jo Johnson	Julie Emrick
Tangi Miller	Elena Tyler
Scott Foley	Noel Crane

See All Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

EDIT

Amy Hathaway	Nicole	Guest Star
Curtis Armstrong	Danny	Guest Star
Max Baker	Aaron	Guest Star
Amanda Foreman	Meghan Rotundi	Recurring Role
Greg Grunberg	Sean Blumberg	Recurring Role
Brian Klugman	Guy	Recurring Role

See All Cast & Crew

Watch Online

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (2)
ADD TRIVIA
- Throughout the episode, the various segments are introduced with title screens that include a picture of a tarot card. The titles are: Voyage, Action, Adversity, Tempted, Danger, Secrets, Loss and Love.
  EDIT SHARE
- The word "Hey" was used 8 times during this episode.
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (5)
ADD QUOTES
- Felicity: I thought you liked Nicole.
  Ben: I did. I did! It's just she's been sending these signals... that she's interested in me.
  Felicity: What kind of signals?
  Ben: Well, she, uh, she kissed me.
  Felicity: What?!
  Ben: Yeah. That was one signal. And then she came over last night... she took her clothes off, which was signal number two.
  EDIT SHARE
- Danny: It's Talent Night at the orphanange.
  Ben: Ohh. Are you in the show?
  EDIT SHARE
- Felicity: How is burning my hair going to help you with your finals?
  Meghan: Wouldn't you like to know?
  EDIT SHARE
- Meghan: I love the smell of burning hair, don't you?
  EDIT SHARE
- Felicity: Meghan, what's going on?
  Meghan: What does it look like?
  Felicity: Yeah. I have no idea.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (1)
ADD NOTES
- Featured Music:
  "She Will Have Her Way" by Neil Finn
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (1)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- The inclusion of the Star Wars movie was actually timed perfectly. The Phantom Menace was released on the weekend after this episode originally aired.
  EDIT SHARE