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Frasier: Back Talk (1999)
Your father said this thing with Dr. Crane's been going on for a while now...what did he mean by that?
This is the episode where it gets out to Daphne how much Niles has been in love with her for six years. The whole episode is mainly about a misunderstood conversation Daphne overhears where she's led to believe Frasier's been in love with her, and with her about to marry Donny, thinks he's about to tell her this. Of course, she's worried about the wrong brother.
The way the truth comes out is offhand, almost anti-climactic, which I give the writers some credit for. By the end, it appears like another episode where "the secret" is about to come yet, yet something happens to keep it safe for yet another week. But come out, it does, and it leaves Daphne completely shocked, and ties her in emotional knots the rest of the season.
Frasier: Visions of Daphne (1999)
Poor Niles
One of the crucial episodes in the "Daphne and Niles" arc of "will they ever?" Daphne comes to Niles hesistant about accepting a proposal from her boyfriend Donny, because she keeps having a dream in which an unseen man stands up and says he's the man she should marry.
Niles, of course, cheerfully allows Daphne to embrace this doubt, because it means there will still be a change he can be with her. But as Frasier reminds him, what kind of person, or friend, is he, if he's willing to sabotage Daphne's happiness for his own selfish reasons? So encourages Daphne not to allow doubt to influence her decision, all the while knowing what could happen.
Which all leads to Donny indeed proposing, and Daphne, accepting, right in front of a devestated Niles and family. Niles' look of defeat and sadness is haunting, when it dawns on him he's lost his chance. Or has he...?
Frasier: Rooms with a View (2002)
Some people hate this. I don't know why...
People either seem to either love or hate this episode. I'm on the side that, while I'm not in love with it, don't mind one bit. It's not really a "very special episode" per se, as there isn't much doubt at all about Niles' fate, it's more of how the rest of his family is worried nonetheless, and how the hospital "remembers" past visits from all of them. Nothing tremendously deep, just quietly reflective.
The last scene seems to give a little creedence to Daphne's psychic abilities. After we've seen past glimpses of characters' previous visits, we see Daphne stop, compose herself, then walk past a room where we see her and Niles in the near future welcoming a second child. One could say she composed herself then and there because she "saw" that future, and knew beyond all doubts things would be just fine. At least that's how I saw it.
People can hate this episode all they'd like. Fair enough. If you hate it, don't ever watch it again, and don't keep complaining about it's existence. There's about 300 or so other episodes of humour for you, if one dramatic one drives you up the wall, pleasantly avoid it.