I definitely was expecting some less feel-good choices. Nonetheless, I'm happy for Princess Carolyn and what turned out to be of her life.
All in all, it felt a bit anticlimactic, especially on Bojack's side. It was a nice farewell to those wonderful characters and story, though.
I kinda expected it to just end although the finale was a little too feel good as you say. Princess C and Diane both getting married felt like pandoring. I think I would have been more satisfied if it ended with Bojack drunk in his old house watching reruns of Horsin Around. But I'm not unhappy about it and the journey was always the thing, not the end.
shareYeah, I felt like they didn't really wrap it up quite right. Putting a neat bow on everything would have sucked, because the show was very much an anti-sitcom in a lot of ways, mocking the kind of '80s "family show" ideas. So, yeah, wrapping everything up would have been bad, but I really felt like there were a few things that needed some closure that the show didn't address.
It kind of ended on a note of, "Oh, okay. I guess that's the last frame." I mean, some of the best things about the show are how it explores what feels like very real life (despite the animal people and quite a bit of zaniness), so a "big finale" would've been wrong.
Some of this is maybe, to me, because the show wound up being about Bojack himself and his struggles with himself, so showing me the conclusions to the stories of Princess Carolyn and Diane and Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter is kind of, "Okay, so what?"
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The last scene of the episode is Bojack and Diane, but how long had it been since the show was about them as a potential couple? Season two? Or before that even? So ending on those two, beautiful though that scene was, was a little strange because Bojack-and-Diane wasn't the focus of the show.