Well, we both agree on the greatness of “Ozymandias”. “Felina” was definitely simple and a bit fan service-y. But as great as “Ozymandias” was, it would have been too dark and depressing to end the series on for me. And I’m someone who does like dark, nihilistic endings in a lot of cases. But those Nazi fucks coming…

Enjoy the violence!

I’m happy with the length of the series. It never stretched long enough to get stale and have a bunch of filler episodes.

Yeah, I thought that was just a callback to when the programmer with the beard and glasses that Donna forced out initially wanted to use the algorithm for medical journal articles. Then Donna kept prodding them for something new until they came up with websites, which is what she wanted them to do.

Good call! I guess I didn’t catch when they said her field was Humanities, just that she was in academia. And that reminds me of all the condescending things Joe said about academics when those two had Gordon and Donna over for dinner. And now he’s one himself.

Yeah, like I said in my reply to a stranger in the alps, I don’t know how I didn’t think of this one. For it’s obvious influence on this show, and for how good it was. People would think you were crazy if you would have told them before the finale that it would mostly be Don at a new age retreat away from the rest of…

Damn, I didn’t think of Mad Men either. I had insomnia for a couple days before I posted this, so I was a little out of it from lack of sleep and knew I was spacing on some good finales.

Yep. Vic was so sad and pathetic setting up his desk at the new job. The only picture he had was of Lem, and had to fold that photo in half because Shane was on it. So his family was gone and his only friend left was a dead guy. And Mackey deserved it.

Oh absolutely! That’s easily in my top 5, maybe 3, shows of all time. I don’t know how I forgot that one. Maybe because “Ozymandias” was so great and kind of overshadows “Felina” when looking back at the final stretch of that show as a whole. Some people thought that finale tied things up too neatly, but I loved it.

Yeah, somebody else mentioned that and I had to look him up. I totally forgot about him and didn’t recognize the guy. That near miss of being run over by the car, then running into Dale right after seemed so surreal, I thought it had to be some sort of dream sequence.

Never mind. I guess that guy was another IBM employee from season 1. And I’m completely fucking insane apparently for thinking that whole sequence was in Joe’s head/supernatural.

If it’s at the expense of the criminal committing the assault, I kind of think that’s ok. If we can’t use disgusting sexual predator celebrities as punching bags while we work on our amateur message board material, which celebrities are more suitable and deserving targets?*



(*My vote is for the Big Bang Theory cast…

I thought after Cameron discovered Joe’s empty apartment, the show might not have returned to the character at all, and I would have been fine with that ending for him. He’d be leaving the show as mysteriously as he entered, and you know he’d eventually end up somewhere interesting. It really did seem like they were…

I liked the time jumps. We didn’t need to see Gordon and Donna going through their divorce, Joe still laying on his couch and not starting anything new years after Ryan’s death showed how hard that hit him, and that phone call between Cameron and Joe wouldn’t have resonated as much without that 3 year gap in…

Did you notice at the fortune teller’s she put out tarot cards for his past, present and future? The guy that made the innovation comment was a possible future version of Joe. He was dressed similarly, same build, and same haircut. And before that, Joe was almost hit by a Porsche that looked like the one he had in…

Donna looked incredible at her party. The contrast between her standing out with the bright red of her dress and hair in the foreground contrasted with all the subdued blues of all her guests in the background looked so cool. Great job by the director. And the fact that it’s Kerry Bishe in that red dress with the red…

I don’t think that was a former IBM colleague Joe had coffee with. I interpreted that as being Future Joe, and the guy in the Porsche that almost ran him over Past Joe.

Totally agree about the first season. Especially at the end, when all four leads started working together to get the Giant made, and they went to Comdex to sell it.

I’m really struggling to come up with a series finale that stuck the landing as well as this show did. Six Feet Under and The Shield both come to mind, but I think this episode (or episodes) has them beat.

Oh, he was absolutely being a gentleman for that era. It wasn’t the look. I just didn’t buy her hooking up with such a square. If Ford looked like Iggy Pop or Keith Richards and was visibly intoxicated, that glare would have gotten him into her pants in a restroom stall within 5 minutes.