Everything Ends
Aug. 22nd, 2005 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulSix Feet Under : Series Finale made me think too much. SPOILERS AHOY!
I have to say, this is the first season of Six Feet Under that I've ever seen in it's entirety. I know I saw the series premiere, I remember all the press it was getting at the time, since it was the American Beauty director/writer or whatever. I remember thinking it was interesting but not really feeling comfortable with the sex/swearing/drug use in the show. I tried to watch most of last season with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimithingy, but ended up hiding on my computer after the episode where David gets tortured by that crazy guy. But I knew this was the last season, so I stayed with it.
So, there. I do not have the knowledge of the show or the emotional attachments that I had to BtVS or Angel. The people of 'Six Feet Under' were not people that I ever wanted to know or meet. I didn't relate to them like I did to the scoobies or the fang gang.
Okay, so that being said, I really felt that the series finale was well done. I think it communicated the message of the show very well. Claire is driving away to her new life in New York. And as she speeds towards the unknown, we see images of the deaths of the rest of the characters in the show. It was beautiful and sad. Characters were shot with a very white glow around them, especially the further into the future we went, eventually just becoming white backgrounds. I saw this and knew that it might not be the exact vision of their futures, but it was a close approximation. Like they wanted to drive home that all of these people will die like everyone else, but they will also go on living and have new relationships (I especially liked that we saw Brenda re-married in the one scene, and it looked like she was pregnant again).
I did cry. But I wasn't really crying for the end of the show. It wasn't like Angel or Buffy or any of my other fandoms where I was mourning the loss of my once-a-week family and friends. I think I was crying because of just how well done the ending was. I think you could watch that episode and having not seen any other episodes, end up in tears.
Like Nate told Claire, he spent his whole life afraid and look where that got him. Dead just like everyone else. You can be scared or you can be brave, in the end you're gonna end up six feet under. It's something we hear all the time from TV, movies, and literature. It's the American dream, to be brave and drive to new york with no job and try to make it. Part of me wishes I could be brave like that. That I could just pack up my bags and move someplace crazy and just live. But there's too many things to second guess. To panic over.
And I think that's why I cried. It was similar to my breakdown, after watching 'Garden State' and being insanely jealous of Zach Braff's writing skills. The fact that he had done something so amazing and he's only slightly older than me. Every character in 'six feet under' ended the show with at least part of their dreams realized. And it's something I'm not sure I can ever do.
I think the hardest thing in the world is not to achieve your dream, but to figure out what your dream really is. I have no idea what mine is. There are things that I feel I want to do, but I don't really know if they are dreams. I have people that I want to meet but it's not really a goal to set my life by. And there are things that I wish I could have done but feel like it's too late to even try.
And then I'll die. And that will be the end of my existence on this earth. And that's really depressing.
Claire raises her camera to her eye to take a picture of her family before she leaves. Ghost Nate appears beside her and whispers in her ear:
"You can't take a picture of this because it's already gone."
I have to say, this is the first season of Six Feet Under that I've ever seen in it's entirety. I know I saw the series premiere, I remember all the press it was getting at the time, since it was the American Beauty director/writer or whatever. I remember thinking it was interesting but not really feeling comfortable with the sex/swearing/drug use in the show. I tried to watch most of last season with
jimithingy, but ended up hiding on my computer after the episode where David gets tortured by that crazy guy. But I knew this was the last season, so I stayed with it. So, there. I do not have the knowledge of the show or the emotional attachments that I had to BtVS or Angel. The people of 'Six Feet Under' were not people that I ever wanted to know or meet. I didn't relate to them like I did to the scoobies or the fang gang.
Okay, so that being said, I really felt that the series finale was well done. I think it communicated the message of the show very well. Claire is driving away to her new life in New York. And as she speeds towards the unknown, we see images of the deaths of the rest of the characters in the show. It was beautiful and sad. Characters were shot with a very white glow around them, especially the further into the future we went, eventually just becoming white backgrounds. I saw this and knew that it might not be the exact vision of their futures, but it was a close approximation. Like they wanted to drive home that all of these people will die like everyone else, but they will also go on living and have new relationships (I especially liked that we saw Brenda re-married in the one scene, and it looked like she was pregnant again).
I did cry. But I wasn't really crying for the end of the show. It wasn't like Angel or Buffy or any of my other fandoms where I was mourning the loss of my once-a-week family and friends. I think I was crying because of just how well done the ending was. I think you could watch that episode and having not seen any other episodes, end up in tears.
Like Nate told Claire, he spent his whole life afraid and look where that got him. Dead just like everyone else. You can be scared or you can be brave, in the end you're gonna end up six feet under. It's something we hear all the time from TV, movies, and literature. It's the American dream, to be brave and drive to new york with no job and try to make it. Part of me wishes I could be brave like that. That I could just pack up my bags and move someplace crazy and just live. But there's too many things to second guess. To panic over.
And I think that's why I cried. It was similar to my breakdown, after watching 'Garden State' and being insanely jealous of Zach Braff's writing skills. The fact that he had done something so amazing and he's only slightly older than me. Every character in 'six feet under' ended the show with at least part of their dreams realized. And it's something I'm not sure I can ever do.
I think the hardest thing in the world is not to achieve your dream, but to figure out what your dream really is. I have no idea what mine is. There are things that I feel I want to do, but I don't really know if they are dreams. I have people that I want to meet but it's not really a goal to set my life by. And there are things that I wish I could have done but feel like it's too late to even try.
And then I'll die. And that will be the end of my existence on this earth. And that's really depressing.
Claire raises her camera to her eye to take a picture of her family before she leaves. Ghost Nate appears beside her and whispers in her ear:
"You can't take a picture of this because it's already gone."
