finale

Spoilers of course, but it seems I'm the only one here anyway.

Ah, they fell prey to one of my least favorite TV tropes. They get they yearbook before the end of the school year. Excuse me, no, as far as I'm aware in real life, you get it in the middle of summer so that it includes graduation and other end of year things.

Though not the same template exactly, reminiscent to me of It's a Wonderful Life. Also, as most shows do, trying to be like the end of Six Feet Under by crash-coursing us on the rest of everyone's lives. And the end scene at Pop's, like Titanic of course.

Bummer about Fangs.

Overly sentimental, but not surprising. Also had some vaguely heavy conversations that are realistic enough to life. Glad Kevin finally got a happy ending. And hey, finally, a glimpse of his mom. No lines and only in the alternate timeline, but take what you can get right?

The core four being in a quad was a hilarious touch.

Overall, decent episode. Nothing spectacular. But it wasn't terrible, and it made me laugh a few times and tugged at the heartstrings a few times, and I guess that's all you can really ask for. Especially after it's been so all over the place for so long, I really had no idea what to expect. I'm glad they went for a quiet, sweet ending, rather than trying to do something extremely crazy for the heck of it one last time. To that, I'm glad they took care of the memory business and Tabitha and time travel in the previous episode, so this episode could just breathe a bit more.

I know there's always an issue of time constraint, and actors' scheduling, and where do you draw the line, but there are a number of secondary characters I'd have liked more info on in their later years (and for some of these, they also should've gotten their memories restored, as I mentioned in another post). Such as Hal Cooper, Frank Andrews, Tom Keller, Josie, Ethel (Dilton and Ben were there but she wasn't?), Polly, Julian, Midge. So on. Also bugs me we never saw Moose in this timeline, he was there when the comet hit.

All in all, the show was crazy, but I'm glad I took the ride, and even at its worst, glad I stuck it out. Loved the comics as a kid, so to have a show, even if so tonally different at times, was a gift. Goodbye to one of my favorite guilty pleasures.