quarta-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2013

Fringe, the journey has come to an end.


My favorite TV  show has come to an end. Can I just sit in a corner and cry for the rest of my life?

Life will not be as fun without Walter (every version of him).

Warning: I won't tell any specifics details about the end, but it might give you a general idea of how it was.

I watched the last episodes last week and I have to say, I didn't expect it to be so emotinal. My mistake, I know, because Fringe has always been an emotional show. To me it has always been more about the relationship between these characters (specially Peter and Walter) than anything else, so I should have seen it coming. I believe my main mistake was to think that it would have a 'happily ever after' kind of end, again, I should have known better.

I loved the end, don't get me wrong, it's not a sad ending. It's just bittersweet. Really bittersweet. It's heartbreaking and amazing, because when you think about it, it couldn't have ended any other way. It just makes sense.

Those final 3 or 5 minutes were the death of me. Can't remember the last time I cried this much, from the moment I realized what was gonna happen until the very end, I couldn't stop crying. It was so meaningful and beautiful and heartbreaking.

What I loved the most about the ending is that they rescued the essence of the show, Walter and Peter's relationship. It's all about them. And looking back into those 5 years and seeing how far they've come was very touching.
There's 2 scenes with them that are so beautiful, one of them is when Walter looks at Peter and says 'You are my favorite thing, Peter. My very favorite thing.'. How powerful is that? Gosh! And the other is when Peter finally says 'I love you, dad.'. And I'm crying again.

I read somewhere (can't remember where, sorry) that Fringe is a show about love. About a man who loved a boy so much he broke the universe to save him and about that same boy learning to love the man he grew up hating. About a love strong enough to break the universe and then fix it.
That describes that end so well that I don't even need to write anything else, except:


Thank you, Fringe.

Great, now I can't stop crying!