Current Events > Anyone see the Bojack Horseman finale yet? (OBVIOUSLY MASSIVE SPOILERS)

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Not gonna lie, the finale irked me. I honestly would've rather "the view from halfway down" been the final episode, switching it with "nice while it lasted" (and rework it a bit obviously)

I'm glad he got his poignant moments with everyone and the episode as a whole was great, but leaving the ending open like that was really a bummer. I get the theory is "life goes on," but "the view from halfway down"'s ending would've been some nice closure.

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I haven't seen the show but Aaron Paul said he was in tears when it ended

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Bojack starting to like honedew in the last episode ruined it for me

(i'm kidding)

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Yeah, felt pretty much the same tbh. Ending felt like a copout but I know @Darklit_Minuet loved it
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I like the part where the horse was sad

The show's always been anti-closure, and I'm glad it avoided closing the book, for the most part. BoJack dying would have been super depressing and would have led to him being eulogized, which would be pretty whiplash-y. The point is BoJack is a bad person who has done bad things, but that's finally all out in the open: there are no more shoes to drop, and BoJack is still alive. He can become a better person if he tries, it'll just take a while.

Feline_Heart posted...

Bojack starting to like honedew in the last episode ruined it for me

(i'm kidding)

I thought that was a hopeful sign that BoJack is willing to reconsider things he's always thought to be true about himself. For example: that he hates honeydew. Or that he's horse crap.

Really, it's up to you to determine where BoJack goes. Does he continually screw up until he finally overdoses/drowns/whatever, team up with totally-not-Mel-Gibson and become a flaming scandal that is beloved by the lowest common denominator, does he volunteer at the prison and run plays, or whatever? Because, the thing is: he was actually good at teaching acting, and he actually enjoyed it!

I feel like using Bojack himself as a cautionary tale is unnecessary. There are characters in that very episode that already serve that very purpose, like Secretariat and Sara Lin.

It'd be a weird message to go out on for the show about changing for the better: "It isn't too late to change. Except for this guy you've been watching for six seasons. And a lot of the people in his life. It was super too late for them." I feel like the other half of the message is that you need to be held accountable for yourself and your actions, and you can't really do that if you're dead.