I don't think I could watch from Rachel's POV, simply b/c of how much Neal (especially, but Peter, too, in a slightly different way) is in my head these days. But yeah... there are SO many lines from S5 that just "fit" into the whole "where's he going with this" thing, like, when he steals the money that Dr. Summers had already stolen, and Mozzie asks him, "Are you coming back to the life?" And Neal's answer eventually gets to, "Too many masters in my life, I'm ready to cut the strings..." "Which ones?" **"When the time is right, all of them." **DIES** (Me, not him :-P)
Yeah. Just *kills* me.
By the end of the season, he's back to telling Peter, "YES" on going straight, and they're back to being mostly okay -- but they *never* show anything about how/why that happened, really, other than El telling Peter to make his peace w/Neal. A few lines here and there, but geez, Peter basically threw away (with reason, but still!) that "faith in each other" that's the core of the whole show, and they never addressed how that affected Neal??!!
I know *exactly* what you mean about dealing w/Neal post-S5/S6. I want to smother him with cuddles and also Gibbs-smack him in the head, repeatedly if necessary, to get it through to him that he shouldn't do what he's doing. I really do wonder, in some ways, if *part* (not all, but a piece) of why he went ahead with it wasn't "just" b/c of his desire to protect them, no matter the cost, but also b/c, after S5, he sort of felt like Peter and El would be better off without him, and June and Mozzie would be "okay enough" without him that it was important to let them go. I just... yeah. Smack and cuddle. Repeat as necessary. :-P
I rewatched the finale twice last night, actually (b/c of the DVD arriving, and I wanted to hear the commentary on it, and there're two versions of commentary, one with Jeff, Tim and Willie, and another w/Jeff and Matt), and... I'm kinda with you on that. For whatever reason (which I'm mostly attributing to fanfic! LOL!), it upsets me less now than it did initially. But it still... GAH. I "get" the why (from their POVs), but it still just bugs me in a lot of ways. The one main thing is that this leaves alllll sorts of ways for fanfic to "fix" it, but geez. I dunno if you've ever watched "Glee," and it had *plenty* of issues all along, but I have to say: their finale was one of the most satisfying series finales I've seen ("Friends" is probably my other favorite in that sense). And I just wish I'd had more of that sort of reaction to the WC finale, and less of the, "Well, it could've been worse..." or something, you know? It's not *as* bad as other series' finales, but I just felt like it should've been *more*.
And yeah, coherent or not, I seem to be able to write plenty of sentences, regardless! LOL!!
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Date: 2015-05-06 07:41 pm (UTC)Yeah. Just *kills* me.
By the end of the season, he's back to telling Peter, "YES" on going straight, and they're back to being mostly okay -- but they *never* show anything about how/why that happened, really, other than El telling Peter to make his peace w/Neal. A few lines here and there, but geez, Peter basically threw away (with reason, but still!) that "faith in each other" that's the core of the whole show, and they never addressed how that affected Neal??!!
I know *exactly* what you mean about dealing w/Neal post-S5/S6. I want to smother him with cuddles and also Gibbs-smack him in the head, repeatedly if necessary, to get it through to him that he shouldn't do what he's doing. I really do wonder, in some ways, if *part* (not all, but a piece) of why he went ahead with it wasn't "just" b/c of his desire to protect them, no matter the cost, but also b/c, after S5, he sort of felt like Peter and El would be better off without him, and June and Mozzie would be "okay enough" without him that it was important to let them go. I just... yeah. Smack and cuddle. Repeat as necessary. :-P
I rewatched the finale twice last night, actually (b/c of the DVD arriving, and I wanted to hear the commentary on it, and there're two versions of commentary, one with Jeff, Tim and Willie, and another w/Jeff and Matt), and... I'm kinda with you on that. For whatever reason (which I'm mostly attributing to fanfic! LOL!), it upsets me less now than it did initially. But it still... GAH. I "get" the why (from their POVs), but it still just bugs me in a lot of ways. The one main thing is that this leaves alllll sorts of ways for fanfic to "fix" it, but geez. I dunno if you've ever watched "Glee," and it had *plenty* of issues all along, but I have to say: their finale was one of the most satisfying series finales I've seen ("Friends" is probably my other favorite in that sense). And I just wish I'd had more of that sort of reaction to the WC finale, and less of the, "Well, it could've been worse..." or something, you know? It's not *as* bad as other series' finales, but I just felt like it should've been *more*.
And yeah, coherent or not, I seem to be able to write plenty of sentences, regardless! LOL!!