The endings are always sad when a good series ends, but when it is in fact your favorite series, the feelings of emptiness that remains are very large.
Everything starts as a normal series, but very soon you start to see that there is a lot of potential in those plots and that potential is exploited more and more as the series progresses to end in episode S03E10 The Devil's Share. And almost without having time to assimilate everything that happened and to think that it can happen now that it can overcome it, it comes the episode S03E11 Lethe with the introduction of Control and Samaritan and a new story even more interesting. Everything changes from here. The series acquires more depth and new points of view to live an epic battle between two gods unique in their kind.
The epic final began in the episode 10 (where the title of episode reflect perfectly the facts) with a little and simple mistake by someone that missed his wife. A simple mistake that forced him, a good man, to take out his dark side, break his own rules and kill his master creation. I needed a happy ending for Harold and he has it with his wife but... It is not a happy ending at all. The guilt for the death of many of his friends will be always with him. Michael Emerson was the main motivation to start the series after his last job on Arrow (although I wanted more of Amy Acker after watching her on Alias two years ago) and I am sure that I will watch Lost in the future to see him.
John's death was the saddest but the most meaningful. His evolution from the lost man who was going to commit suicide and die for nothing to the true hero who is and who gives his life for his best friend, a good man who thanks to him can have the life he could not have. Jim has been awesome and I did not bet anything for him before seeing the Pilot. What a mistake. Similar situation with Fusco, another character very well built and that, fortunately, has a happy end.
Root has been the most determined, strongest, badass, charismatic and sweet (and I would continue saying adjectives) character that I ever seen. Amy is a gift that we can enjoy in every series that she acts. Root stole the show after "If-Then-Else" with her passion to find Shaw, her multple identities or her crazy acts. Her heroic death was unexpected but also meaningful. Like John, her evolution is so deep and amazing that we would never imagined to love her so much when we saw her first time en season 1. She is the best female character that I have ever seen on TV (yeah, I finally said it). Amy has surpassed any expectations that I could have of her after seeing her in Alias. Next stop, Dollhouse and The Gifted.
And now Sameen. If I had to say a favourite episode without count the season finales or mid-season finales, I would say S03E05 Razgovor or S02E16 Relevance. The first one because is a episode with a really beautiful background history where we know more about the most complex character of the series: Shaw. And the second one because basically is the best presentation of a new character that I have ever seen. Sarah entered in the series like a hurricane and that rarities, humor and feeling of emptiness that Shaw always shows becomes her in my favourite, because, like The Machine said at the end, all these things that I said make her beautiful and special. We suffered with her since the masterpiece S04E11 and we were cheated with her simulations during the whole season 5 like to her. Of course, Sarah has been a great discover to me, and now, I have Life, Fairly Legal and the upcoming series Reverie to enjoy again of her.
Finally, I want to highlight the music of the series. I think that a series is nothing without the music and Ramin Djawadi again surpasses himself with a music that thrills, that gives meaning to each character and each scene and that achieve to connect even more with the series. And of course, also I want to highlight the brains in the shadows Jonathan Nolan, JJ Abrams and their amazing team. They have created a masterpiece that, as I read in a spanish recap, "the series plays to be the best of action, of espionage, of science fiction and police of the television and wins in all the categories at the same time. Because it already was the best series of superheroes before the others series came".
This is not a farewell, because good things are never forgotten. :)
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