User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Finale/@comment-31620203-20171222205912

I really liked The Finale. I think as long as there's no hyperactivity at the end, the ending still works. The whole episode does a pretty nice job at keeping that tension up until the last second, and while I had a problem with just how many abrupt endings were being used throughout the season, this episode wasn't really abrupt in the same way as episodes such as "The Watch" and "The Job." Instead, we have the abruptness placed earlier in the episode - when it cuts to Kenneth and Hector causing chaos all over town - and end up with that intensity placed throughout the episode. It works quite well in subverting the oh-good-we're-fi-OH-WAIT-WE'RE-NOT-CHAOS-then-credits thing we saw in a lot of other Season 2 episodes by placing the scenes like that to keep the general mentality of the ending, but not feel like a rehash of other endings.

Well, uh, I just went off on a tangent, but back to where I was before - I think any sort of silence or calm thing will work. While the credits might help a lot - it's the jump from a weird and unfamiliar situation (the breaking of the status quo) to the same old credits, giving you a quite large sense that something's off, and giving you time to calm your brain down - they're not required, really, and when there's a bit of time to relax you really have the capacity to figure out exactly what's wrong and what the twist was. You don't have to concentrate on anything else. Take me, for example - I saw a rip of the episode without any credits, finished it, took a moment to take it all in, remembered the credits, and got the joke. That worked fine, so I don't think the credits are crucial.

But I wasn't around back then (I only really got into the show during the 2017 Mega Hiatus) so what do I know. Maybe the TTG commercial completely ruined its reputation in the minds of everyone else, but for those who still hate it, I urge you to give it a second chance. (As if that isn't the whole point of the article above, hah!)



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