That really did feel like a series finale and it leaves next season in a pretty big, daring cliffhanger. Shows like this generally do not do big narrative leaps like that and the fact that they did was pretty brazen.
Andy back on stage with a Duke Silver collabo, and Leslie finding out is what made assume they were ending it.
This was an excellent season finale. It truly did feel like a series finale, and if it was it would have been one of the best I'd ever seen. I wonder how long ago it was filmed versus being renewed since we knew it was renewed weeks ago.
We were breaking the final batch of episodes and had begun discussing the finale story. Some of it was sort of pre-destined, because we had the Unity Concert, which was going to put the merger storyline to rest, by showing that the town en masse would speak louder than the naysayers. And Leslie was going to accept the job, but figure out a way to stay in Pawnee (set up much earlier in the season by Ron's discovery of the third floor and his subsequent refurbishing of it). Then we had a conversation about the show's future with NBC, and got a very strong indication that we would be back for season seven, so we turned our minds toward doing something that would inject another season's worth of story into the finale. That either meant rebreaking the main action, in certain ways, to make it more forward-thinking, or doing something at the end that would shake everything up, and since we liked the stories we'd broken we went with the latter.
This was an excellent season finale. It truly did feel like a series finale, and if it was it would have been one of the best I'd ever seen. I wonder how long ago it was filmed versus being renewed since we knew it was renewed weeks ago.
The head at NBC gave the show a pretty solid, though not entirely official, thumbs up for season 7 all the way back in January when the network was doing it's TCA presentations, so I don't think the writers would've really ever thought it would be ending.
Did you see the episode tonight? What did you think?
To still see commercials.Why is this not on Hulu Plus yet?
God. Why the **** am I paying $8 a month for this again?
Loved it. Can't wait to get a better glimpse of what's changed in the past three years.
**** the people of Pawnee. They don't deserve her.