Easily the strangest line in the review.  That's some really weird armchair psychology based on, as far as I can tell, nothing that's ever happened on the show.

I'd rather watch the cast of Big Bang Theory stare at each other and drool for ten hours than hear Robin Williams's Parade of Wacky Voices even one more time.

No, it's that you have taste in comedy, and the reviewer was (typically for an AV Club review of a sitcom) looking for character progression, surprising plot developments, and all kinds of crap that you find in one sitcom episode out of a dozen if you're lucky, and that has a very marginal relationship to funny in the…

Er, yes.  ABC.

@avclub-782066c88e9c574d6085f3ddfc7032e4:disqus  Agreed, that's basically a summation of the island and the main story.  A last final twist (e.g. The island is also the garden of Eden! Or a UFO!) would have been awful.  Short of that, most everything was explained pretty adequately.

@avclub-fb3deea8bff8902a6a092a4b532b4a68:disqus  That's right, NBC came up with it to give viewers some kind of quiet, meditative final image to stare at while thinking about… stuff.  I actually like it, but it apparently confused a lot of people who are easily confused and expect everything that appears in a show to…

90% of those mysteries were wrapped (most well in advance of the finale).  The only stuff they didn't give a fully satisfying explanation to were mostly the big questions to which it had become very obvious there was no single satisfying answer to be had - e.g. What is the island? - and a few minor odds and ends, like…

So, we're REALLY going to follow this up with the same discussion of "Lost" the internet has had 8,000,000 times without changing even a single person's mind about anything?  For real?

Two references to Sartre and one to Marx?  I need to ditch this college party while I'm still sober enough to walk home.

Yup.  I mentioned this the other day in the Breaking Bad finale thread, but I don't understand how "The Wire"'s last episode isn't cited more often, even by people who love that show.  The last season is a little weak, but the final episode is as good a series finale as there is.

Sadder than Randy on "The Wire"?  Granted Shane got worse, but he wasn't an innocent kid with a potentially bright future.  Nothing will ever make me sadder than the end of season 4, and what happens to Randy.

@avclub-cd01e5786d65f27654ca570edef28c69:disqus  Exactly.  I think the disappointed viewers were hoping for one last mind-blowing episode and maybe some more punishment heaped on Walt, but that was all two episodes prior; this was the relatively understated wrap-up.  It's actually better storytelling, I think, than…

The Seinfeld finale sucked.  I love the show overall, but that ending is least watchable episode they did.  Put aside the debate over whether it was fitting to send them to prison for their petty selfishness (I think it's overkill, but Jerry's comedy routine for the inmates just about makes up for it).  You still have…

I agree with this.  They've also made a point of how casual Jack is about all of this - even when he's murdering and stealing millions, he's very relaxed and chatty.  So it doesn't seem out of character that he'd get engaged in this dumb, pointless argument with Walt and feel the need to prove him wrong, even though…

I agree.  It's nice that they stunned us so often in the past, but the finale was more about wrapping up every loose end and giving closure on Walter's character, and it did all of that very well (while still subverting expectations and pulling one more clever rabbit out of its hat with regard to Gretchen and…

@mattepntr:disqus  Walt was that much of a wanted man when he left ABQ.  That was months ago, though.  They wouldn't keep up an intensive manhunt for him, even in his hometown, for all that long - he's not Bin Laden.  In pretty short order he'd hit the Most Wanted list and the investigation would be downgraded to a…

I love the last Peaks episode but I can't rate it as one of the great finales.  It leaves so much hanging, and the knowledge that Lynch would only sorta wrap it up (if you stare long and hard enough at FWWM) is a bit galling too.  It's an amazing episode of one of my favorite shows, and certainly one of the most…

"Ozymandius" is the most heartstopping thing they ever did.

Yeah - on reflection coda is the wrong word.  I think it's more correct to say that "Ozymandius" was the climax and the two episodes after it are mostly falling action & denouement.  A lot of series insist on putting the climax in the final episode, but "Breaking Bad" had emphatically hit that note two episodes ago.

@Robinson_Crudite:disqus  I usually make a point of not getting bothered by people's more out-there theories - after all, it's a good thing that the show is compelling enough to inspire them - but it does bother me when it seems like a lot of fellow viewers watch a very thoughtful, careful show in a way that lacks…