tricky legacies

I love this show...

But it's it just me or was this episode just weird?

It's the end of the series, wrapping up loose ends would be the typical, but this was just so disjointed. It was literally so all over the place.

Guess that's to be expected when you try to pack in approximately 8 years in 35 minutes. The whole episode felt rushed and short sighted.

I mean, if you had that kind of focus and attention drawn to you in A country, why wouldn't you first and foremost just leave and go to another country?

What happened to the character we loved? What went wrong? Why all this happens to smart funny traumatized ex-marine, who receives a gun via FedEx and fight tequando champion with his bare hands? This couldn't be real to Barry. Hader creates a mess, all went crazy serious with no bloody humor. No jokes, no laughs, nothing to watch and nobody to care about. All he does is a slow painful (for us, viewers) murder of a great and complex character with no mercy to him and to us. Like the last season of Game of Thrones, only slow-paced and without walking dead and flying from nowhere dragons.

What a waste!

This season has been up and down for sure, and that's after a very disappointing-to-me season 3. This episode is the worse so far in the season.

I don't see why I should be interested at all in what's happening 10 years down the road. I want to know what happens with the characters in the present. Is this really their future or just some sort of vision/possibility. Maybe like a dream sequence.

The characters are in no way interesting in these scenes. There's no insight other than the obvious. There's nothing revealed.

They're trying to make it interesting because their lives are inane. It really just feels like filler.

Innovative. Tense. Smart. Funny.

None of these apply to this episode.

This show speeds along and hits beats and makes sure to involve you in the world. I have never been so disappointed in a show taking such a left turn and it's a real left turn... not a bad dream sequence.

There are so many obstacles that would have been great to pursue, the prison break, etc

pedalling backstory To see what happened to Hank or Fuchs- is poor storytelling and this show has never been a bad story.

Original story. Original characters. Layers of world building lost. I feel like all the air has been let out of the balloon.

Cross fingers that I'm surprised by next episode. Here's hoping.

I was looking forward to the new episode all week...and then this?! If I want to see apathy, desolation and boredom, I watch the 5th and 6th season of Walking Dead again. It was such a filler episode without advancing the story or bringing any insight. There are still so many bizarre characters in the Barry universe, so many unanswered questions, but here you're just stalled, not knowing for 45 minutes if it's another one of Barry's fantasies or reality. Hopefully this episode was just an outlier and doesn't detract from the 10/10 that the entire series got from me so far. Four out of ten dusty baseballs.