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Plus, woohoo!! More Windy!!!! On that note, I'm still downloading the final episode to clip the Sam/Windy scenes, is anyone interested in me putting those up too? I really didn't expect to see her this final episode that's why I clipped them all last week.

Anyhoo, about the finale ... ( Magnificent and totally unexpected wrap-up. )

ETA: Most people on TWoP hated this, but I still stand by loving it. And there was an interview with TPTB that basically said that this was always planned to be the ending chapter, to which I say, unreservedly: BRAVA!!!! This was brilliant, utterly brilliant, ingenious and absolutely tied everything together in a way that made about as much sense as possible, while hitting the right major note for me. I LOVED IT!

I uploaded the ending to youtube -- it's below in the comments.

So I figured out why I'm not enjoying Life this season as much ... the only thing it now has that differentiates it from other procedurals is the off-center brilliance of Damian Lewis. Sadly, that's not enough. The cases are pedestrian, the one-liners/quips are more standardized that you'd find on just about any procedural and the arc-mystery is barely touched upon and when it is, it's kinda lame. Add to that, the loss of their cool lieutenant from last season, the sleazy (although, I do still love you, Donal Logue) new lieutenant, the entirely unbelievable Reese/new Lieut relationship, Reese separated because of Sarah Shahi's real life pregnancy, thus no Crews/Reese interaction ( quick spoiler for tonight ) ... it's not the same show. *sigh*

As for Life on Mars ...( WINDY!!!! )

So I finally got around to watching Life on Mars from Thursday (last episode until January 28th ::sniff sniff::) and it was really, really, really good.

( And I say this even with no Windy! )

I got an email today from someone who read my post on the premiere who is working with ABC with efforts to continue to promote Life on Mars post-premiere, so I was sent an embeddable widget of the entire premiere episode and asked to put it on my livejournal. I thought: Why not?

So, click to watch the premiere if you haven't yet. It really is quite, quite good.