{ after a fifty-fifty series, the finale SLEW me. }

[delga]

"But you boys, I love you boys because it was through you two that I've-- I've really, truly lived."

"For so long now I've, um, I've been tired and frightened. The prospect of this scream of time in front of me is terrifying.
Do you remember, George, I was going to pass over, and you couldn't understand why if I didn't know what lay beyond. It's because this endless life - never ageing, never kissing, never having a family, all the things that make you human - not having that is a worse hell than anything they've got over there."

Comments

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

The episode was driven, directional, emotionally satisfying - the series as a whole has lacked that this time around (though I've enjoyed it). I don't think there's been an episode this good in S2 since 2x01. Man, they wasted Daisy and Ivan.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

You are caught up! Now I can tell you how it killed me dead. DEAD.

LUCY, oh my, how she had been betrayed by both science and faith while trying so hard to be true to both, and Nina's savage guilt at the end, and Annie !!!!!! wanting to go but not to leave, and George oh oh, I love it when George gets all cold-hard-truth.

And and! Am I totally misreading this or is there the possibilty that Mitchell took Lucy? I mean how she said "this is what I want" and then when she died there wasn't a door and I know I'm clutching at straws here but I would seriously love Lucy as a slightly bitter vampire.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, I didn't know what to make of Lucy until these last two episodes. Her fury at Mitchell in the finale was so, so beautiful, and then that slow descent into loss. Oh god. I loved her, in the end; so massively flawed.

I HAVE NINA FIC TO WRITE. I missed her so much in the episodes she was absent from and I wished there'd been more of her, but her return was so spectacular. I love how she did not ever let anyone ply bullshit.

Annie broke my heart and then broke it all over again. Oh god, I wish this season had been more structured because I think a lot of things were set up and then plain ignored (Ivan/Daisy? WHAT HAPPENED THERE? They were never onscreen together after that first episode) and then there was a lot of extraneous, annoying stuff (Annie's meandering not-plots; poor, poor Sam and Molly) and overall the emotional gravitas was absent until the finale. AND YET. Yet. There were so many little delightful things - Annie overcoming the door; her friendship with George; George and Mitchell spazzing out over missing The Real Hustle; that weird little bartender/florist story that I didn't really get but was sort of fond of in the end. Jeez.

I don't know, re: Lucy. I doubt it? I mean. They did that already. But, ugh, I'm over Herrick, so I'm a bit disappointed that happened.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

I know I know, first I was all OMG LUCY IS EVIL YAY, then she wasn't really evil and it was sort of disappointing, then she just broke my heart into little pieces.

I cannot wait for your Nina fic! I am way too astonished about the whole show to write anything, if that makes any sense? I definitely need to re-watch from the start and get more of a feel for it. But Nina fic from you! Excited!

Ivan/Daisy you are so right. I did like how they were separate sometimes, with the whole of eternity to be together it was like their relationship was stronger when they didn't even have to be together, but yeah, then nothing actually happened.

Ah Herrick! He was SO GREAT I really hope they can justify his resurrection. Lol Jesus vampires.