#Season 7 finale

[brian-in-finance]

Cait was wonderful throughout S7. Here's another review of her performance in S716.

HONORABLE MENTION: Caitríona Balfe

However you feel about that crazy twist at the end of Outlander’s Season 7 finale, c’mon: Caitríona Balfe sold it. She was excellent throughout the entire hour, truly, as she gave us an up-close look at how tender and raw Claire felt in her convalescence. It seemed like Balfe spent the entire hour with her eyes full of tears as incidents both touching (Jamie’s tender understanding as he brought her the candle) and unsettling (Master Raymond’s appearance at night) kept Claire off-balance, emotionally; watching her nimbly play the normally stalwart Claire as fragile offered us a new understanding of the show’s central character. So when it came time to consider the fact that Claire and Jamie’s infant daughter hadn’t died in childbirth all those years ago? With Balfe leading the way, we were ready to believe anything. — Kimberly Roots

https://tvline.com/lists/rebecca-ferguson-performance-silo-season-2-finale-juliette/outlander-caitriona-balfe/

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃 She was! I’ve been waiting to see the season finale before responding.

Starz

HONORABLE MENTION: Caitríona Balfe

However you feel about that crazy twist at the end of Outlander’s Season 7 finale, c’mon: Caitríona Balfe sold it. She was excellent throughout the entire hour, truly, as she gave us an up-close look at how tender and raw Claire felt in her convalescence. It seemed like Balfe spent the entire hour with her eyes full of tears as incidents both touching (Jamie’s tender understanding as he brought her the candle) and unsettling (Master Raymond’s appearance at night) kept Claire off-balance, emotionally; watching her nimbly play the normally stalwart Claire as fragile offered us a new understanding of the show’s central character. So when it came time to consider the fact that Claire and Jamie’s infant daughter hadn’t died in childbirth all those years ago? With Balfe leading the way, we were ready to believe anything. — Kimberly Roots

TV Line

That’s exactly what Anon included in their message, Brian. 😂

Screenshot: Outlander-Online

Name that tune 🎶

Speaking of eyes full of tears, Fanny wasn’t alone in remembering her mother’s singing. Did you notice Jane was humming I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside while she waved to the hundred thousand angels?

Screenshot: Outlander-Online

Screenshot: Outlander-Online

Remember… we were ready to believe anything. — TV Line

[that-birdy-chick]

I was so not - I repeat - NOT - ready for the finale of s7

Listen I have read a lot of fics for this fandom, I know Steve will be fine!

( I got spoilered for a reason for this show)

I thought I knew what I was walking into but OH BOY was I wrong!

This entire episode was one giant emotional rollercoaster, from Steves first talk in Danny's office and taking pills already giving a worrying vibe, to Chin getting his offer to lead his own task force, over to kono with little Sara and a pregnancy test?, to her later fighting her own battle about her drive towards stopping the sex-traffickers for good, back to the whole mcdanno chefs-hat-thing and "good luck partner", to Jerry having his celebration party over finally getting his batch and at last feeling like he's truly part of the five 0 ohana, back to the gutwrenchingly scared way our poor SEAL boy looked when he came out of that bathroom and his talk with Danny about his radiation poisoning, kono leaving to keep fighting sex-trafficking, I just-

It was a lot okay?!

And I know everything will be okay- (perks of watching old shows, you know how many seasons are still ahead of you and they were never gonna kill off their golden boy anyway - so it's FINE) but I was still very emotional about it all!

And i'm so sad that kono and chin will not be around for the rest of the seasons, I'll miss them so much 😭💔 h50 will not be the same without them

But that's enough of me babbling nonsense here

Point is, great season finale! Couldn't have wrote a better one! Uncharacteristically good job h50 writers? You guys were one a role this season

I'm gonna cry and drown myself in a fuck ton of angsty radiation poisoning fics now

great day to yall and peace out

[degankatz]

Outlander season 7 finale spoilers below!

I only have questions about the end of the season: If Faith lived and Francis was her daughter, and Jane was Francis' sister and Faith's daughter, then William is Faith's half brother and uncle to Jane and Francis. So he slept with his niece?

But do the years even add up? Faith was born in France and William was born sometime in the years after Claire returned to her own time. They couldn't have been more than 15 years apart at the absolute max. It's certainly possible that Faith had Jane very early and she seemed a bit younger than William, but not that much.

Is this explained in the book? I want to know if I have to wait for season 8 to find out if there was creepy incest happening. Someone tell me, please.

[an-obsessed-cactus]

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS

[christiecandor]

Inside The Episode: Fear No Mort | Rick and Morty | adult swim

Pretty much confirms that Rick and Diane's dynamic in this episode is canon, even outside of Morty's mind. I believe that she wouldn't have so easily dismissed him, her daughter, and the rest of the family in order to fall for Rick again, but that's obviously where Morty's fears warped what would have been a much longer natural progression. I'm sure they would've fallen again, but only after months of therapy and getting to know her family all grown up. I think Rick's progress would've picked up some speed in hopes of winning Diane back, but he would've definitely had to do more than unage himself and build a romantic little singing robot to bring her breakfast (despite how personally that would eternally melt my heart and proclaim my undying love 😭).

[johanna-swann]

It's been a few days, I've had time to sleep on it and I changed my mind. The season 7 finale was the worst finale yet. In short: The entire thing felt super rushed, there was next to no emotional payoff, the main plot made no sense and I was underwhelmed / confused the whole time.

The end result, where the characters are at right now, the position from which they will start into season 8 I'm happier with than last season (goodbye forced heteronormativity), but the way we got there was... not good. (Long review under the cut. Like, long review. I have a lot of thoughts.)

Just as in 6x18 the pacing of that episode was all over the place. There was this main plot that they teased us with, the "whatever is going to happen? are they all going to survive? what will the consequences be?" and then halfway through the episode that big mystery was resolved and there were no consequences.

I remember the bridge collapse last year was super underwhelming because they just rushed through the incident in a way that gave us no time to even worry about the characters much. Buck finally was put in a position where he had to assume leadership and then that lasted for exactly the time it took him to get to Hen and once she was awake, she took over as acting Captain. Nobody was hurt so badly that we had to assume the worst. That one earthquake victim showed up which was supposed to be meaningful I guess, but it just felt random. (I doubt most viewers even remembered a random victim from 4 seasons ago. I sure didn't until someone else pointed out it was the same actor.) And then the danger was suddenly just over. The "big dramatic disaster" took up less than 20 minutes and there were no consequences. There's a reason why 6x18 only made 99th place out of 106 episodes on imdb.

7x10 repeated those very same mistakes all over again, but worse. In this case the two big questions concerning the main plot were "Who committed the arson?" and "Will Bobby be okay?". Both questions barely had to be asked at all because 1) it was very clear (and not at all a plot twist as some early reviews suggested) that Amir was innocent and the generic Latino drug smuggler cartel (loved that btw, who came up with this bullshit) was involved. 2) this is 911. The main characters don't die. The least I expected though were some heartfelt moments between the rest of the team holding each other up, people sitting with Bobby and talking to him, maybe some parallels to last season when we had a similar situation with Buck.

Instead it takes almost 10 minutes until the other characters even figure out something is wrong and we proceed to focus heavily on Athena who's going rogue again and keeps critical information from her Captain because she wants to take revenge personally. She then threatens an innocent civilian with her service weapon while off duty which - as we learnt in 2x08 from none other than Athena herself - under California law is an assault. Well done 911, a show who has previously criticised Cops abusing their power but keeps writing stories for Athena to do the exact same thing. Wtf.

Anyway, my point was that we spent so much time following Athena around on her nonsensical quest for revenge that we barely even have scenes with Bobby in the hospital. Once the generic cardboard cutout cartel is dealt with it turns out that Bobby despite having been without his own heartbeat for 14 minutes, despite having been seizing and on a ventilator last we saw him, despite the Doctor being unsure if he'd wake up at all is actually just fine. Perfectly happy and healthy even. Okay. My bad for expecting something more here I guess.

Bottom line, the main plot around the arson was very straight forward (I don't know which part here was supposed to be considered a plot twist and using Amir as a very obvious red herring twice just seems lazy), had little emotional impact and "the big showdown" was very anticlimactic. Basically the same things I also criticised about the last season finale and I don't think it's a coincedence that 7x10 is the second worst rated episode as of right now. At least the bridge collapse made sense.

One storyline they (temporarily) wrapped up rather well is the one around Mara and Henren. This will be picked up again in season 8, but for now we know Mara is in a safe place, she can have contact to the Wilsons and it might also evolve into Madney discussing having another kid in the next season. I don't feel bad waiting 3 or 4 months for how this continues. However I still think that they should've waited with the plot around the council woman for season 8 maybe. Have Henren take in Mara, show them growing together as a family, show Mara slowly opening up to them. But season 7 had so much personal drama going on already, maybe if they had pushed the incident with Ortiz, her son and her revenge plot to season 8 it would've helped keeping these last few episodes more grounded. They still could've shown Mara struggling to fit in in her new home and all of that.

Madney didn't have much going on this season. The wedding episode had its moments of course, but those were contained to the confines of 7x06. Now they've taken in Mara and there's potential to build on that, but nothing that has been explicitly teased at yet.

The Eddie/Kim Doppelgänger plot was just unhinged. It was sort of fun and I enjoyed it in a way that I also enjoy Doctor Who, Umbrella Academy or Legends of Tomorrow when they go off the charts again with their weirdness levels, but did it really fit into 911 as a show? I don't know. It's also not exactly clear yet if they're going to bring back either Marisol or Kim next season. And like, I get it. Tim Minear regrets killing off Shannon, but for the love of god just stand by your mistake. She's dead. It's been 5 seasons. We already had a plot where Eddie realised that he can't date just to give Christopher a mother figure, we already had an arc where Eddie realised that if he starts dating again he has to do it for himself, we've had scenes where Eddie admitted he was angry with Shannon for wanting a divorce, for leaving or that he still misses her sometimes, we've seen Eddie and Christopher keep up traditions to mourn her together (visiting the grave, smores). I get that grief doesn't follow a specific timeline, but still. Can we please just move on already.

Also I don't understand why they had Christopher move to El Paso. Eddie's parents are both retired, they could've stayed in LA to support Christopher instead. Chris is probably a lot closer to a bunch of relatives they have in LA than he is to his grandparents too, what about Tía Pepa? I'll be honest, even if I was in a bad place and my kid was angry with me, I would not let my 13 year old who impulsively and in the middle of the night called his grandparents (who have a history of manipulating Eddie into giving Chrisopher to them) move over a thousand kilometres away, away from his school, his friends and all the other family members he's close too. There are other options. (Also why was Buck there? He was in the room, but that's about it. Again, my bad that I had the expectation he'd be there for a reason.)

Then we have Buck and Tommy. Nothing much going on here either. I get that keeping Tommy around for 7x09 and 7x10 was a bit of a last minute decision, it was probably difficult to schedule filming with the actor etc. But that doesn't stop other characters from talking about Tommy. Instead we still barely know what's going on. Are they officially boyfriends? How do they spend their time together, do they have a hobby in common? How long have they been dating? They're still cute, but it seems a little superficial.

Which brings me to a big issue: The timeline. What the fuck is going on with the timeline? I don't even mean the obvious mistake with Tommy leaving the 118 "5 years ago". But Henren are talking about adoption and according to my research adopting a foster kid takes at least 9 months. The cruise ship disaster happened "last march". What? What is going on? How much time are we missing here? Have Bucktommy been dating for a year now and we don't even know? How long was the Eddie/Kim thing going on? Then again, if we're missing an entire year, wouldn't Buck have been with the 118 for 8 years instead of 7 as Bobby said? I am so confused.

Another thing that has been mentioned before is that season 7 barely felt like a procedural drama. It was so chock-full with the characters' personal drama that it felt more like a soap at times. How many calls did we even have this season, especially in 7b? Episode 6 was the wedding, I only remember the abduction case from ep. 7, ep. 8 was Bobby begins once again, ep. 9 only had a montage and no specific calls and ep. 10 didn't have any calls at all. Hopefully this change will be reversed in season 8 when we get more than 10 episodes again.

Only thing left to mention is the "cliffhanger" with Gerrard. Is it really a cliffhanger though? Doesn't feel like the stakes are high enough to call it a cliffhanger. They're stuck with an asshole for a Captain, getting rid of him will be an important storyline in season 8, but it's also not as dramatic as they're trying to make it seem. A big part of the reason why Gerrard's 118 was so bad back in the begins episodes is that Chim and Hen felt isolated. They didn't have back-up against Gerrard, nobody helped them or spoke up for them. That is very much not the case this time. They all still have each other and Gerrard will not stick around forever. It will suck, but it also doesn't seem like a death sentence.

In conclusion: Most of the finale was just plain bad. Not cleverly written, not well balanced, not emotionally rewarding, not planned out enough. There's little positive I can take away from this episode. Some storylines weren't explored enough, others did get the necessary screentime and still made no sense. Not all of these mistakes were made just in the finale, some have been happening for most of season 7. Let's hope for a better season 8.

[lyricfulloflight]

If you could choose one thing for Buddie in this season finale what would it be??

Well I just watched the sneak peak clip and it just about knocked me out... hard to hope for more than such a clear confirmation of what Buck means to Eddie and Chris. How they are each others' person - they can call on each other in their worst moments and know the other person will drop whatever is happening to be there. There's nothing they can't share, no flaw they can't let the other person see and know they'll still be cared for.

That is... that is love.

As for what I'm hoping for - it's hard to ask for more than what that clip shows.

But if Buck hugs Eddie to comfort him in this episode (especially if Chris does leave with his grandparents to spend time with them in Texas) I just might die.

[gra55-tast3bad]

Aside from unmorticken, Can we all agree that fear no mort is the most horrific and depressing ep in the whole season? Like ep 10 gives me goosebumps. likeeee wtfffff man. I even bawled my eyes out in this ep.

I am satisfied that "Rick meets Diane again" atleast we get to know more Diane and now we know why Rick loves unity. the part when Rick said "I think my greatest fear is letting you go. I don't want to, I don't want to, diane" and the scene where they kissed outside the bar and it's pouring, is just 😩

And this is the part where I get goosebumps Ya'll remember the scene where Morty screamed "your not even in the hole are you!!!" "Dear God!!!" That scared the fuck out of me and the fact that Rick is not in the hole is horrifically delicious like damn why you gotta do that to my poor baby Morty

[brucewaynesasshair]

i love the part where they act like theo didn't almost die saving travis😍

like 0 scenes with those 2 after that, like cmmon

half a minute chat would make me happy but we got nothing.

doesn't even feel like it's over

[enigmatist17]

Just finished Buffy and no I did not cry when Spike sacrificed himself

[sweetbeanmacchiato]

I just realized that we'll probably see toga dying next episode ...what a way to end the season there ain't it?

[heaurtfk]

did not get hotchniss until 7.24

[psecho]

My VPN finally gave out on me so I can't watch the 911 season finale until 11am on Friday (my time) which is about 9 hours after it airs (at 2am).

My current plan involves staying up until 2, then avoiding social media once episode reaction updates start after a few minutes. Then, trying to go to bed before 3 because then I have to avoid the internet as a whole when the articles start to come out.

I really have to get to bed before 5am so I'm not tempted to watch the uploaded clips like I normally do. I want to see this episode in it's purest form.

Hopefully, I will be tired enough to sleep until 11 or at least very close to. I've been waking up at 7 on the dot for a few days, but I'm hoping pushing it towards 3 will help with that.

Meanwhile, I'm actually already very tired and want to sleep. but I can't or I will wake up early and then this plan becomes a test of willpower.

So, I'm being productive and working in my Master's thesis instead. Go me. I've already read a 200 page dissertation that I want to reference in my literature review. May the fandom gods give me strength.

[911tvshowpolls]

911 TV Show Polls: Cliffhanger S7 Finale

SPOILERS and SPECULATION ahead! Continue at your own risk!

Okay folks, we are less than 24 hours away from the finale. Some early reviews of the finale have suggested that the season ends on a cliffhanger (not sure how to be ready for that, not gonna lie).

So today we ask:

[wendykw]

I guess Seamus took the picture, since he's the one missing and Juliana is looking at the camera.

“The best panoramic ever”

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[christiecandor]

Look what I found looking for "fear hole Rick and Morty" on Google ... Heavy spoilers, obviously. I personally can't help myself 🤷‍♀️

s07e10 - Fear No Mort - Rick and Morty Transcripts - TvT

https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=364&t=67002