Texas Forever

[bigboobedcanuck]

It's so, so hard to stick the landing and create a truly satisfying series finale, but I watched the FNL finale tonight, and I think they succeeded marvellously. I laughed, I cried, I cheered. Bravo, show. Bravo. I'm going to miss you, Dillon.

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[bigboobedcanuck]

Yeah, I'm of two minds about Julie. She has her moments of awesomeness, but I've wanted to shake her many times and tell her to grow up already. But I feel like she's finally doing that, and if she makes Matt happy, then I want them together. Because I want Matt Saracen to be happy. How I love that boy.

I dunno, I thought they did a great job of keeping characters around as long as they could but still being realistic. I forgave the early age-fudging, because I loved those characters and wanted another year of them. And I loved that Matt did end up leaving because he realized he couldn't stay in Dillon. And Julie did go to college. And there were a lot of new characters. Vince, Luke, Jess, Becky, etc., with more than half the original cast leaving. Personally I thought they struck a good balance.

Have you ever watched Skins? (UK version.) I remember the huge outcry when they announced they were turning over the cast after the first two seasons because the characters were graduating. When I watched, I already knew that, so I went in with a different mindset, and liked that there was closure for those characters before the new batch came in. But I understood why it was such a shock and upsetting to viewers who didn't see that coming. AFAIK, it's the only show that's ever done that. They just started their third cycle of kids, I think. I really need to catch up.