Spoilers abound.
I have an abiding affection for this show that is so strong that I could live with certain things that seemed ridiculous to me. It seems right to just list them off in short order to get out of the way.
1. Julie Taylor. I never liked this character. She was the character equivalent of chalk going up the blackboard for me. I really wanted her to just go away, but since she is the Taylors' daughter, that wasn't ever going to happen.
2. Some sloppy writing. Tim Riggins's deep descent into anger and self-pity seemed atypical to the way his character had always dealt with things in the past. I also felt that the writers did not give a satisfactory explanation as to why in the last episode, he snapped out of it and again became the Tim Riggins of old.
I did not believe the very important storyline where Tami is offered a job in Philadelphia. To me, it seemed that she was very unprepared for the job interview and the subsequent dinner negotiations, and it was hard for me to think that she would not only be successful at garnering this position, but that they would actually offer her a position higher up than the original offer. It was also hard for me to imagine when in a previous season, she was promoted from being the guidance counselor to the principal of a high school. It just didn't seem to me like a normal career trajectory.
What happened to Epyck? That was a character that looked like she was going to be part of the permanent cast and then she just disappeared from the story.
Mike and I joked in the last episode that every man was going to walk up to his romantic interest in the show and say that they loved them and wanted to be with them forever. There were a series of these scenes in the finale, and it got to the point where I said that they should just end the show with the line, "And they lived happily ever after..."
But in the end, I didn't care. In the end, the music plays in my head, and I wish there would be another episode to see how Vince was doing. I wish I could see another gorgeous ending to a game where our team won in the final seconds and Coach Taylor pumped his fist on the sidelines. I wish I could hear more of Buddy's goodhearted schemes. I wish I could see the Tim Riggins of the future.
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