So it finished the other day. Michael’s mum sacrificed herself to save her grandson and Michael and Fiona faked their own deaths to live some idyllic life. How did some of you long term viewers think of the ending? Good, bad, appropriate or too contrived? I kinda felt like it would have been better if after all the shit Michael had done, that he would end up paying the ultimate price and dying. But I was happy to see Jesse and Sam returning to the whole helping people out of bad situations thing. All in all it was fun ride and it’s a shame that its over.
I liked the ending. I thought someone might die, but I didn’t expect it to be her doing something like that. Michael and Fi have a kid to raise, and Sam and Jesse are a possibility for a spinoff series.
it was, appropriate.
It was not fun - I do not feel like we ‘won’ in the end.
I do not think that Mattie’s death was necessary, and I’m not really sure how I feel that Michael got ‘everything he wanted’ in the end.
IN bed last night it occurred to me that Maddie didn’t need to die.
Duct tape the bomb to the couch, slide the couch in front of the door. When James’ men force entry, the door hits the button and BOOM.
And why didn’t Michael or Fi dive for the dead man’s switch as soon as they saw it?
exactly my thoughts - there were plenty of ways to rig that to explode -
for the second part - ‘false drama’ so that we could think for ‘just a moment’ that they actually died, even though we know they wouldn’t.
Which, for a moment, is what I thought would happen with Mattie.
Agree Michael’s mom didn’t have to die, that was just stupid. Glad they lived happily ever after. Glad they left it open for a new rogue Buddy Series.
I don’t know, I think Maddie did have to die, they didn’t have much else in the way of weapons, what would have happened if only one guy came in and died. This way she knew she could take out as many as possible and give Jessie and the boy a much better chance of getting out.
I was kind of hoping that Michael and Fi died, would have made it a much better ending with Jessie taking care of the kid.
Over all I thought the season got much better then the start and was better then I had hoped for from the season opener.
That’s a good point about Michael not getting what he wanted. The whole series was about his desire to clear his name and rejoin the spy game. But that’s not what happened in the end.
(And nitpick: It’s Maddie, short for Madeline.)
By the way, I liked that Sam repeated the line about “a bunch of bitchy little girls” at the end of the episode.
They threw a lot of ‘fan service’ lines in there - referring to the chin, having Fi tell mike to tell the kid “I used to be a spy” - etc…
An interview with showrunner Matt Nix said that everyone got to say their line from the opening credits. I caught everyone but Maddie’s:
Sam, at the CIA “A bunch of bitchy little girls.”
Jesse, talking with Mike about guarding Maddie & the boy, “I guess that’s how we do it.”
Fi, as they “surrendered” to James, “Should we shoot them?”
It was time for this show to end, and I guess they wrapped it up OK.
Was interesting the see Michael and Fi settled in a snowy environment, after living in Miami all those years.
Maybe I missed it, but didn’t Maddie hit a “button” to detonate the bomb? In which case, couldn’t they have rigged up a longer line to the button from the bathroom? Whatever - my guess is that Sharon Gless (sp?) was glad she got to go out with a bang!
Also, when Fi tells Michael how to explain his life to the kid, she says to start at the beginning: My name is Michael Weston, and I used to be a spy.
Question: where were Michael and Fi at the end? Judging by the music, I’d guess they were either in Ireland, or the Shire.
Fiona’s from Ireland, and it’s where they both met, so yes, definitely Ireland. Though the establishing shot looked more like Scotland.
If you think about it, the only reason Maddie had to die was because Fiona just wouldn’t get off the damn roof. Try telling that to the kid someday.
Hope they do have a Sam & Jessie show, and get back to actually helping people, like they used to. Not that the wind down was bad, but it just wasn’t the same show.
I had so many problems with the ending of this show, but at least it’s over and I didn’t completely hate it. I mean, Michael was completely betrayed by the CIA so many times, but he kept going back (or getting dragged back) and doing their bidding. It felt like he had to lose to win this one, which was kind of a bitter ending.
This whole last season has felt like something of a letdown, showing how the CIA coerced Michael yet again, and Michael didn’t really deliver the comeuppance he was famous for and that they so richly deserved. I thought it might happen when he was poised to take over the “terrorist” operation…giving Mike the power to help people and accomplish things at a scale he had not ben able to do before. But in the end that wasn’t to be.
Now I get to enjoy Justified taking me down a similar path, just a little worse with each new season, till eventually it has to end somehow as well.
Funny. The establishing shot made me think they’d moved to Alaska. I blame it on Metal Gear Solid (the first one).
Count me in for a Sam & Jesse spinoff. In fact, screw Jesse; I just want more Bruce Campbell. His chin can be the co-star.
Sam Axe and the almost never seen rich lady friend Elsa. 
Mr. and Mrs Findley.