The 7th Heaven Series Finale was tonight, and it was majorly dissapointing.
The first 50 minutes (of the one hour episode, mind you) was the same Simon and Rose, will they or won't they get married debate. Sigh. Then, they come back from a commercial, and show everyone at the reception!! (Waaaa? What happened to the wedding? Well they keep us guessing for the next 8 minutes...)
In the mean time, they squeeze in that Matt and Sarah are pregnant with twin boys, Lucy and Kevin are pregnant with twin boys, oh and Carlos and Mary (who calls - and doesn't even join the family in person) are back together and, guess what? They're pregnant with twin girls.
Uh huh...
SO then, Sandy shows up with her baby and Simon explains that he and Rose were NOT married. They both realized that they shouldn't go into a marriage so undecided. (Good decision - 1 thing that made me happy)
And then Sandy says, "Did Rose talk to you about the baby?"
Simon says, "No.."
and Sandy says, "We need to talk." and the freakin episode ends. Waaaa???
So lets start with the positive:
Rose and Simon don't get married.
Carlos and Mary are back together.
Mary is suprising her parents with the fact that she is graduating from college.
Mary, Sarah, and Lucy are pregnant.
The negatives:
Mary, Sarah, and Lucy are pregnant... with twins (how unbelievably cheesy corny retarded is that? You could argue that fraternal twins are genetic, but that doesn't exactly help Sarah's case... and besides... at the same time??? whatever.)
Mary comes back for a "what if" sequence with the family, but doesn't appear in real time with the family... which she should have... this is the series finale! A phone call doesn't cut it! I'm glad Jessica Biel came back for the episode, but it should have been more connection with her family. Even if she only came in at the very end. It would not have been unlikely for her to show up for a wedding.
Dropping a bomb by implying that Simon might be the father of Sandy's baby. I mean, I understand that they want us to realize that life with the Camdens is going to continue, but seriously... a bomb like that in the series finale?? Totally unneeded. That's more like a season finale cliff hanger. Series finales are supposed to tie up loose ends, not create a bunch more!
Where was Martin?
No emotion. Except for a couple of flashbacks, there was very little different about this episode then any other. I didn't get all weepy (I can cry at the drop of a hat, especially on goodbye episodes...) I mean, it was so empty, with so much crammed in the last 10 minutes, most of which was idiotic.
that's it??
I seriously hope the show comes back on the new CW station. That the script was so bad, because they really believed that they were coming back, so they left a cliff hanger...
If this was truly the last episode, they should have ended it with Matt and Sarah's graduation from Med School, which was happening the next day, or with Mary's graduation, or some big momentous ceremony or event, that left us believing that life was good, the family was together for a special event, and some hints about the heppy future they would have together...
...an ending is not a 50 minute, will-they won't-they build up to a half-assed wedding that didn't even happen... followed by 10 minutes of hurried conversations to tie up loose ends in the crappiest manner possible, only to put the icing on the cake by dropping a bomb that could totally alter the course of a major character's life...
...and not one tear. Not even a sniffle.
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