Z Nation Finale: The End of Everything?

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I'm not super positive. This was an emotional reaction from me.

This gives me a desperate craving for fix-it fanfic. How am I supposed to want Netflix to save you show, when this is what you define your end as? Every other season gave us a better and more caring finale to the characters and the plots they were pushing and one had people jumping off cliffs and spaceships y'all. 
 

Like the rest of the latter episodes this season this one was badly written, badly paced, and sadly, for a real first imo, badly acted all around as well. It's like nobody put effort in.

 

Cooper's return and Warren's secret were hokey and lacked any emotional resolution for Warren. Our main character!

 

The villains were one-note and given too much focus and just fucking annoying. Licking your lips is not character. They are also not even connected to Zona so WTF was all that Florida zombie set-up. 

 

Also this is how unresolved plots of Zona, the blends, Final Mercy goes out? Also also... Hector? The cheese wheel? *cries*

 

Red is a non-character with no interesting personal feelings or story to contribute. 

 

Doc got no development. They reused the scene of TenK and Doc talking, the same one from last episode, for a hint of emotional drama without any reason. Too lazy to notice?

 

Kaya and son were missing from the end. 

 

Addy was just there. 

 

I'm so disappointed. I think perhaps the most frustrating thing is I do love this show and the characters, and weirdly am ok with it being stupid I guess is the word, or more like a mish mash of ideas on a shoestring budget, but this year, the idea was interesting, the plot and characters are there and workable, and for the first time the execution, the effort, was what seemed to really fail. 

 

It was even poorly shot The scene where Warren and co take the bad guy's guns; Tell me that didn't look half-arsed. All the absent extras and empty hallways to run down. The blue light room. WHY?

 

I can't even with the voting still being a thing...They were at war! Why is the resolution between talkers and humans taking place off screen when it's the crux of your season?

 

I want it done over. Keep everyone but Pandora and the hackers and the Canadian stereotypes, and just focus. Show George's backstory, with Warren, with Dante, with democracy. Show the divide between talkers and the living, and the mutual fear of inhumane survival. Show Murphy and his powers and his blends and his ambitions and have Sun Mei and her desperation for a fix and have Warren and her survival instinct and TenK and his losses, Doc and his optimism. This is all already referenced or on-screen, focus on it.

 

The saddest thing is it's not a big change that was needed. This isn't a failure because an actor/character was gone or a set didn't work. The structure of episodes, or sets, or locations or who they've got cast, keep it the same and if you just focused the writing/direction, it would work. 

 

Like, I was explaining the finale to my mother this morning and in details it's perfectly fine. I don't get it.

 

I'm re-watching on Netflix as soon as I can to see if it helps. I would love a mini-movie type thing, because I love these characters.

 

I liked that Murphy ate his own cure and therefore controls it. Oh the scheming devilish possibilities; Until Warren kicks his ass.

 

I liked George's white jacket. 

 

Everyone's ending seemed happy and I liked that. 

 

There is nothing about this season to retcon or that would make it hard to pick back up and explore. Just do it well and with care.

 

 

 

 

 

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