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Was it me or they did rush the last 2 episodes?? SPOILERS

posted 12 years ago by Anthos
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1. They make Brenda's mother die within an episode (without giving a single hint before).
2. They show Stroh going into her house (pretty stupid) and just before Brenda shoots him, he says "I'm gonna tell you everything", she doesn't shoot him and that's it. We learn nothing of what he had to say. This is a character that terrorized Brenda for 2-3 seasons.
3. She leaves the job, we learn at the last minute about the "leak" which wasn't an actual leak, we don't know if Provenza is taking her place or not etc etc

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the full 7 seasons but it kinda struck me as odd that a series with more than 100 episodes would end a bit "rushy"...

[–] Walter_Skinner 12 years ago

To be fair Brenda's mother was an elder lady. Me and my friends predicted the "leak" wouldn't actually be a "leak" either and it was Gabriel unintentionally giving out details. I do have to agree that they rushed the capture and the shooting of Stroh though. They turned him from a crafty and careful villain to a total idiot to give the story closure. They did the same thing in "The Mentalist" with Tommy Volker.

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[–] ritamilo 12 years ago

I know I am being silly, but one loose end I missed, or rather, don't remember if it was resolved - Season 6, Episode entitled Heart Attack, when Ruben and his mother were reunited - it was so evident that Julio's heart was breaking to give up that boy.

But I thought there was a potential storyline to pursue when Julio asked Ruben's mother is she was single, married or had a boyfriend and she said she didn't, and he then offered to take her and Ruben out to dinner. I thought it would have been sweet to see them together in the final season of The Closer, or even if they could touch on it in Major Crimes. Julio has been through a lot of sadness and pain and I'd love to see him with a happy plotline.

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[–] Helena727 10 years ago

I can see why it could feel rushed; to me, however, the final eps felt like a whirlwind, which I find hard to deal with and which therefore underscored the crucial sense of breakage, abrupt change, separation -- the loss that comes with the end of anything we've valued. So altho the pace was intense, I felt that it served the function (= this is the end, and it came upon us suddenly, as is often the case in life).

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