User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Finale/@comment-5961377-20171226181031/@comment-31194372-20171226204913

I really don't get how anybody could say that "The Finale" has a lazy ending because the episode IS the ending; that's the whole point, with everything else being the mere set-up. To reject the ending on the grounds of it being lazy is to deem the whole episode lazy, which it isn't. The episode is a great deconstruction of both the show and its entire medium, and it's pretty freaking brilliant.

Tragically, it seems like everyone possessing the capability to defend such an episode is already on Team Finale, so I suppose we'll never really grasp why somebody would think the ending was bad, even with the credits added. So let's just keep congratulating ourselves for "getting it" like the self-confessed "intellectuals" we are...