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This is Rob Morrow's last episode and as such the show just feels so much different after this. The love that Joel shows Maggie here shows a real character shift for him which I adore. You can tell he's really changed and has such admiration and respect for her. But after this episode the show is just missing the soul of the show. As much as Joel Fleischmann is a whiny princess, who has had a major personality shift in the episodes leading up to this, he really drives the show. I noticed it later because even other characters you associate with him, like Marilyn, just don't have the same character without his 2 cents.

As for the storyline of the episode, it is classic Northern Exposure. Lots of creative magical weird plot stuff but with an undercurrent that reminds you of a deep philosophical epic novel. It's a fitting end to Rob Morrow's run on the show. But like another reviewer said, it really feels like the show finale. The remaining shows after this are cute but not enough to really hold your attention.

I agree with those that enjoyed the surreal nature of the trek that Joel and Maggie went on. I guess the result is the result and even if we wanted them together, it wasn't going to happen. I also agree that the whole thing with Chris, his brother, and Capra was ridiculous. It wasn't in Chris's nature at all. He wouldn't do that to someone that did him no wrong. As for the restaurant review bit, that was so contrived and almost slapstick. I've alway been amazed at how much food they served and the obvious quality of it. It seems that they had to get Mrs. Capra a little screen time and that was about it. Sadly, this is really a final episode but it had to end sometime.

In my opinion, this is the last episode of Northern Exposure. I've seen the official last episodes, but, really, this one is the last episode.

I feel that Joel's "overnight" transformation in Up River (1994) was extremely rushed, I wish it had been a more gradual change and something happened to rush Joel's growth. Perhaps a change in contracts, a new opportunity for Rob Morrow, or budget cuts. But, I think this should be the way the show should have ended.

Sorry, Dr. Capra, you're no Fleischman.

Goes along with all the other weird stuff going on in season six. This whole series was done at the end of season five..... I really enjoyed the eclectic nature of the show until season six when the writing seamed to go south.

It would have been better to have Maggie and Joel go off to New Yore or anywhere else to start their own adventure. It's truly understandable why the show got canceled at the end of season six. It literally had no where to go after Joel's departure! They should have died all of the writers after the first three episodes of season six. At least they would have stood a chance of moving to season seven with some decent storylines.

I think most of us Northern Exposure fans can agree this episode was really the finale of the series. Having Joel finally return to NYC, albeit in a most unusual way, was the end. I was disenchanted with the episode during its original tv run and only slightly more open to it thirty years later. Having Joel make this quest complete with dragons, boons, sirens, quesitons was clever yet annoying. The dramatic change in Joel's personality never seemed sincere to me and Maggie's chill acceptance of it never rang true. I was glad they had a sweet goog-bye but now Maggie has to treck solo days back to her plane? (And no one with the show at the time noticed the plane flying was not the plane that landed?!) For me the sweetest moment was when Marilyn sensed that Joel was gone. Marylin, such a wonderful character yet underused during the 6th season.

The other stories of this episode were dumb. The Chris that we grew to know in five seasons is now behving like a petulant child? No, no, no. And the writers took the stuffing out of both Holling and Shelly. And who is minding Randi? You can tell that the writers were only interested on hurrying along the demise of this fine series.