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bohemiabythesea December 19 2014, 18:36:35 UTC
OHHH, I was thinking just that. I did get a shock during the morgue scene, and I kept checking how much more time was left for the show to reveal how it's not really Neil, but the longer it went on, the more disturbing I found it. And the Paris scene made me tear up more than the actual 'supposedly be dead' scene, because I thought...no. You hate not living in NYC, and even if you won't admit it, you hate even more not being close to your loved ones; this is the saddest, most unsatisfying thing. I find it believable that he would do it, I just can't feel content about it, for precisely the reasons you list above.

Noooooo.

ETA: Also, I feel cheated out of the epilogue, when Peter comes to Paris to kick Neil's arse for putting them through all that heartbreak. Or, rather, when he brings June, Mozzie and El and lets them have the first three rounds.

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lokifan December 19 2014, 19:05:35 UTC
the Paris scene made me tear up more than the actual 'supposedly be dead' scene, because I thought...no. You hate not living in NYC, and even if you won't admit it, you hate even more not being close to your loved ones; this is the saddest, most unsatisfying thing. I find it believable that he would do it, I just can't feel content about it

EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY. Arrrrgh. The USA Network has this 'blue skies' policy where nothing's meant to get too angsty, so I always believed White Collar would have a happy ending of some sort, and now we've got a REALLY UPSETTING ENDING with happy music over the top! WHAT THE HELL.

Also, I feel cheated out of the epilogue, when Peter comes to Paris to kick Neil's arse for putting them through all that heartbreak. Or, rather, when he brings June, Mozzie and El and lets them have the first three rounds.YES EXACTLY. I really feel like it has to happen, but then the walking-into-the-sunset type ending smacks me over the head again. Maybe it's meant to be back to the beginning - I'll run and you ( ... )

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bohemiabythesea December 19 2014, 22:39:53 UTC
Shows should not be allowed to end like this. Not shows that were mainly designed to be my happy place for several years; they should not leave me on a sad and miserable note of melancholy and free-but-lonely-so-so-lonely. What were they even thinking.

I feel like writing some massive 100k fix-it set post-finale.

I feel like this is a great, great idea, and I support it fully.

Maybe focussing on Mozzie and June and El and Diana and Jones and Peter making Neal pay and pay and pay.

That sounds like the correct plot and focus, yes.

...But then I feel bad about that. Because he inflicted this misery on his friends to protect them from the Pink Panthers, and he was probably even more miserable.

This is true. Hm. Conundrum. It would make for one angsty, h/c-infused D/s-fest.

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china_shop December 26 2014, 21:59:56 UTC
Maybe it's meant to be back to the beginning - I'll run and you come chase me, Peter

Except Peter can't chase him all over the world anymore; El wouldn't let him.

*weeps*

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