The finale sucks!

Had to put a counterpoint to someone gushing about the finale.

What's so amazing about the finale?

First this show tangles you along and plods SO slowly - showing useless things, having incredibly slow camera pans, useless fades, repeating things like overly-long hall walks ad nauseum - I get the reason for those hall walks, but don't tell me they couldn't have been condensed down a bit.

It gives us more questions than it answers for most of its runtime, then at the very end, it packs SOME answers and makes everything tense and panicky and unrealistically lets the 'innies' make a hare-brained plan that somehow ends up working... there's NO reason why the fat guy should be confident about being able to handle 'two keys simultaneously'

.. and there's NO reason why the two keys would be SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER if their whole purpose is to separate the people turning them so no ONE guy can do it.

It's like they didn't TEST this at all! Would YOU design it this badly? I bet you wouldn't. You would at first put the keys AS FAR as you possibly can, and in any case, so far that the tallest man in the world couldn't reach both keys simultaneously. THAT is just common sense.

Then you would TEST it with the biggest people you can find (ok, tallest, longest arms and legs and so on - heck, you could hire the biggest basketball players you can find).

If these simple, common sense-procedures had been followed - and WHAT engineer wouldn't have?! - we would have something like what we see in 'War Games (1983)', where there's NO chance for one guy, no matter how fat, could turn both keys simultaneously, let alone KEEP them turned.

Also, don't tell me it couldn't be rigged, if it's just a switch instead of a proper key that has to be turned? Don't tell me he couldn't PUT some object there that creates constant pressure.

Also also, why would they design it so you have to KEEP it turned for the duration, that's just user-hostility.

The finale gives us SOME answers, but not enough - it just FEELS 'fantastic', because it's an enormous contrast to all the other episodes, that were mostly just ridiculous, useless non-story - when they actually DO something relatively interesting, it feels 'amazing' by CONTRAST, not because it actually IS amazing.

We have seen this kind of ending so many times, and I am tired of it. There's nothing new or something you couldn't have predicted - the only 'twist' is that the wife faked her own death and didn't tell her husband, then did 'severance' to work with her husband.

What kind of sense does that make? It's like she doesn't want anything to do with him, but then she wants to work with him, and is happy about that. So what the F? What is her motivation?

Motivations and explanations are hard, keeping mysteries going and audiences in the dark is easy (just look at Seinfeld; zillion mysteries, no explanations, and we're supposed to just laugh and accept it just because the show is brilliantly funny?).

They dangle us for friggin' 8 episodes just to give us .. THAT? Not good enough, my friend. I guess that's why cliffhangers exist - so we can have more money for more seasons so the people can buy Lamborghinis. Not because it's a good story or because the story needs it to be this way.

Why would the 'innie' give a crap about the 'outie's wife anyway? If they're separate entities, like this show wants us to believe..

This could've been more interesting if the motivations were more clear (why would the witch-hag ever be loyal to the corporation that screwed her so badly, for example, and work against Mark, that she genuinely seemed to like and get comfort from - it's like we're shown her starting to realize how awful and evil the corporation is just to suddenly serve it with a passion. WHAT?!), and this show 'subverts your expectations' by killing anything that's good about it, like the old guy that 'reconnected' his memories.

Also, the 'helper doctor' that killed the head of security (that doesn't have any employees, no guards, robots, anything for some reason) just DISAPPEARS from the show completely. And this is called 'amazing'? Irving's story is Irrelevant (I wonder if that's how he got his name), Mark's innie is illogical, nothing about the woman's story makes sense (being so hostile to yourself without retaining any of the cruel 'rich princess lifestyle' stuff, and even having your own daughter go through your cruel procedure that YOU KNOW IS EVIL makes no sense - wealthy people rarely even have TVs, they don't let their own kids use smartphones too much, but yet they market them for everyone else)..

If this passes off as 'amazing', then what ISN'T amazing? Can't people learn to demand more and better stuff and not be SO EASILY PLEASED, like a mass of conformist drone robots? People that think the finale is 'amazing' are worse than any 'innie' in the first few episodes when it comes to conformism and corporate worship.

Remember where this show CAME from..