Okay, it ended already and it didn’t matter anyway. But I finally caught up so I had to chip in. So I could move on, lol. But I swear that was like a question for both plot-wise and the situation they were in. It actually went downhill like somewhere in Season 5. I forgot where exactly but it just derailed and never recovered since then. It was like they were dragging out the plot on purpose to fulfill the number of episode requirements and not about the plot anymore. I actually hung on throughout just to see what would happen next. But it wasn’t pleasant. Sure, I enjoyed some of the side humor for the later parts of the plot. I heard spoilers here and there but didn’t actively verify the sources, because I really wanted to find out on my own with some of the side details. Like how Nate had died. Well, in a way, it was a shocker for me since I thought he finally turned a new leaf after some rough patches in his life and would get a second chance. Yet he didn’t. But what was the worst, that didn’t allow me to mourn him, was Mike getting the blame and hated by his mother for the later parts of the series. Yeah, yeah, I got it, her son died and the other son didn’t help the cause with talking the former out of the situation in the first place. But I swear, I never forgave her for making that decision, regardless of what she said all those crap about family and all. Just because they were family, it was all right to make up all the excuses for Mike and Nate’s father? Really? Yeah, I understand the story of the ever abused wives with their typical stories of “He doesn’t mean it”, “He has a good heart overall” or others. AND the old man was her sons’ father after all so she probably didn’t want them to hate him, even through all those abusive incidents. Yet justifying all of that just made me feel even sicker. AND that wasn’t all. It was the fact that they threw in the whole thing by saying he died trying to investigate into Anson’s fishy business was a way to cope out for the rest of his previous actions. It was like it was all right for him to be mean and abusive because he regretted his action in the end. Really? Saying stuff like all of that made Michael stronger (according to the conversation she had with Card that one time) was just a bunch of bull. It was trying to convince too much about the family stuff and regardless of all the crap they put you through, you just have to bite your jaw down and take it (and try to survive somehow) or you’re the monster for going against someone. I believed Jesse when he told that one CIA lady about them being family when she tried to say stuff like his mother would want him to seek justice for her. He told her not to act like she knew his mother and that his mother wouldn’t want them to turn his back on family. I’m not agreeing with Jesse because it worked toward Michael’s cause at that point. But because I truly believed Jesse meant it. Considering how he’d never turned his back on them, even if he’d found out that Michael had ruined his career and life initially–and even tried to sacrifice himself for their safety when they were trapped that one time. He had every right to be upset (or be livid of it), but he didn’t use that to take revenge on Michael, especially that one time when he shot Michael to save him. NOT that Maddy didn’t protect them since the series started showing stuff here and there since Michael’s return to Miami after being burned. But I swear she was making up for lost time because she wasn’t able to do that at the crucial times. They were kids back then, they needed it more than ever.
Anyway, back to the main plot. The Nate’s death scare wasn’t what got me though. Okay, I did care for Nate, but like I said, the aftermath events sort of made it hard to focus on that, even if there was a funeral for him–which was well done. But what got to me was the false alarm in Season 6. I thought I had to watch the remaining fourteen episodes without my favorite character. That was a great scare all right. At least for my case. But what killed it for me–or more like my patience–was how they spent six episodes on the grand escape AND in the end, there was NO escape. Not to mention three and a half of those wasting it on the new ID acquiring thing. Seriously? Then there was the whole Maddy accidentally linked herself to Barry’s incident. Sure, it was risky either way and how he had triggered alarms with canceling his appointments for that day. But IF she could just plain get off the smoking for a bit, there wouldn’t be any cigarette butts around for them to find and incriminate her. Yeah, I got it she was nervous, etc and she needed it. But it was like the screenwriters tossed every formula into the pot just to extend the episodes even more, making it impossible for any chance for a turnaround of the plot. It was like the production team wanted to limit on expenses of having to shoot for possible scenes of the location they were to escape to if that came into play, which it didn’t. So they had to keep delaying and keeping everyone in Miami. I swear I didn’t even like Bly, but I felt his death was just another decoy to make it impossible for their case so Michael could step in, thus making him breaking his promise with Fi in the end. I totally got why he had to do it, and I loved watching him along with the others, more or less at times (regarding the others, except for Sam that was). But seriously? I understand that the whole fiasco was irreversible in many ways and it made sense they were cornered and had to sneak around to stay alive, and they had limited options at that point. But I swear, again, the screenwriters were trying to toss everything in on purpose just to drag the episodes out. I liked how they managed to improvise at times to get out of sticky situations, but I didn’t like how they were tossed just WAY too many problems. Even if those problems do occur, it wasn’t worth per episode to solve ’em.
I initially wanted to wait until I finish the whole series and wrap up the post, but I had to stop. I actually stopped like three weeks back and could never go back. Not yet. So I’m going to come back to talk about the ending the next time.