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The big show stealer by the lighthouse was extraordinary, and a great payoff to the whole series, ending with the series' best acted scene. Like you guys have said I can't believe the choice was that close for so many, and after watching the least popular ending on YouTube I'd feel more a little cheated by the outcome (I mean they just seem to stroll through the wreckage with a bizarre, self satisfying smugness!).

It was also more than a bit strange that everyone at Blackwell showed up for the funeral, I know she attended the school but the series never really made a strong enough case for there being a personal connection between the characters we saw at Blackwell and Chloe, but I suppose it made sense in a teen high school drama kind of way.

I loved most of what came before that, but a lot of it hammered home a feeling of not being in control of events at all, which is something of a shame considering the first couple of episodes maybe hinted at the possibility of a more branching line of situations, and this ended up sitting firmly in the Walking Dead/Wolf Among Us camp of dragging everyone to the same overall conclusions.

I couldn't really understand how in one way ripping the photograph up at the beginning of everything resulted in Max's capture and Jefferson burning up the rest of her photos, and blanking out while Chloe gets shot meant Jefferson got caught (I guess Nathan just broke under police interrogation?). Also infuriating that we had work so strawberry floating hard to convice Chloe of anything when we've flashed back from the strawberry floating future and she knows Max can rewind time!

Loved the dream sequence for the most part, and for something that constantly and clumsily referenced things like Twin Peaks (TWNPKS license plate lol! Oooh note from Dr Jacobi?!) this was the most successful supernatural sequence that evoked that in particular I thought, especially the backwards beginning.

Walk down Chloe Memory Lane was shite and mawkish, and the big scene was good enough alone to not require that kind of heavy handed treatment of the previous episodes.

Despite some of those flaws, I enjoyed the idea that Max trying to fix things was the catalyst for destruction and the scene in the diner with herself. The cause of the storm and degredation of past scenes reminded me, of all things, of the series finale to Star Trek: TNG, and maybe it would have been cool if all the different alternate realities or endings required some kind of interaction within each other in a similar way to that.

At first I didn't take it seriously; I expected for her to walk away from the scene learning that while she couldn't effect the far flung past in any meaningful way, she could recall new/forgotten details which she could put to use in the present. Basically, I just treated it like a segment I could relax to. To then see her efforts bear fruit left me shocked but happy. Just a shame the elation lasted all of a few moments due to the couple painful blows to the gut which followed.

It shifts tone into some really weird places.

Well, I know I never want to experience that opening again. Knowing people exist in those situations is bad enough, don't want to ever find myself playing in one.

Was *actually* relieved to see David.

:(

strawberry floating sick of playing time travel games which leave me a wreck.