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I really, REALLY appreciate that this show answered the questions and completed the story in a way that Lost, The X-Files, Twin Peaks and others so utterly failed to do, but I think you're giving the writers a little too much credit. We learned in Season 2 that you're reduced to jello-goo if you try to cross into a world where you're alive. How much goo is back there in the portal now? I think that last scene was just supposed to be strange or symbolic, and it just didn't work for me. Even "refugees" would have been looking around with big eyes, asking questions of the "new world's" inhabitants... they looked like they were sleepy and walking into a familiar supermarket. I wish it didn't end with that scene. It didn't ruin it, but it left me not cheering for all the answers we DID get.
I was very satisfied with the show overall, how it tied up the major story lines and answered all the weirdness presented in the first two seasons. I didn't like John Smith's end. Yes, he'd just lost a lot, but he had two daughters and that just didn't feel right. And I found the portal scene utterly bizarre. Why were those people just strolling in like the mall just opened? They didn't even look at our heroes, ask "where is this?" or look even remotely concerned or puzzled. They just crossed universes, and they're in a big, boring cave. Shouldn't at least a few of them have turned around and gone back? I also didn't get the second-in-command immediately calling off the strike on San Francisco, with no one in the room even expressing concern. Was John Smith really the ONLY guy who had turned full Nazi? I don't feel betrayed or "Lost," but I think the storytelling in the last episode was a little sloppy and incomplete.
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