My youngest, who is nearly 15, is watching a series with us. I don't watch a lot of series. I don’t really binge on TV shows so it’s not like I have a great reference point for what the best TV shows are, but I really enjoyed this series when I watched it with my daughter and husband a few years ago.
What I really loved about the show was the character development. They went through so much over the seven seasons and the growth they experienced and the camaraderie, the brotherhood, was done very well. The way everything culminates by the end of the final season was probably one of the best things I could have expected.
(Clearly, that’s very vague because I have this inner “don’t give away any spoilers!” voice.)
I might have mentioned in another post how we finished the first season of this show several months ago and my son was like, “Okay, I'm good for now.” He didn't want to watch any more episode for a while. I was okay with that. I didn't want to push him into watching something he didn't feel ready for.
But then I was talking about the show last month and he said was interested in finishing the show, so we got back into it.
What's especially fun about watching it this time around is that, most evenings when we watch, I text my daughter and ask her if she’s got time to watch. And if so, we do a video call. I flip the screen around and she watches on her phone with us. Wo we're able to watch together as a family even though she's 2,000 miles away.
When we watched it the first time, there were certain episodes she or I absolutely loved and it’s great being able to watch them together, again.
The episode we watched last night was one of our favorites across the seven seasons; it was bittersweet.
So, this morning I asked my son, “What did you think of that episode?”
We were talking about it a little bit. Because I’ve watched it before, he’s gotten a few hints about what's coming, so he knows the final season involves time travel.
This morning, he told me what his prediction about that final season will be. He was guessing that with the time travel, everything is going to go back to the way it was before all the bad things happened. That meant one character who had this thing happen to her will go back to before that thing happened. (I know, I’m being vague again.)
In his mind, it seemed like that was his idea of a good ending.
I said to him, “You know, that’s not exactly how it happens, but I think the way they do it rings truer because there is no going back.”
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