Do we really care?
The show ended some months back now. And still people are discussing whether it was an honorable end of the series or if it was a profanity against it's developed concept. The talks, satires, postFiNfics, parodys and endless questions will be there as long as there's a Xenaverse that's still breathing.

Why should we care?
If somebody dedicates six years of their lives creating a great show, there are two things to understand.

One: These people has worked their asses off for the viewer's sake. For the show's sake. That should be considered. On the other hand it is their job to sweat, concentrate and to make every episode the best imaginable. The problem with being a part of a crew is that you don't distance yourself to the material you're working with. Not with the pace, pressure and demands you have to adapt to, as merely a small wheel in the bigger machine. Contracts, producers, friends, crew members. All do what they can to bring the finished product into our livingrooms. They live it. We view it. We should not underestimate their efforts nor their ambitions, and there are few that actually nag and yell about it. But even if they are proud of an episode or has cried blood while shooting it, we still have the right to question, analyse, agree or disagree as fans/viewers. We should care, both about the excellent team that made the show, and about our reactions to the finale and why we react the way we do. It's only fair, after all.

Two: Then there is the show itself. And it's ongoing story arcs. We should care about the product, which we do. It has it's own life. When you write a story, you soon notice that it has it's own ways to outsmart you, and that it runs in a slightly different direction than you imagined it would. When the story can stand on it's own feet, then the story's obligations towards the creator ends, and the creator's obligations towards it begins. Many have asked themselves why the redemption theme suddenly emerged from it's three year old sleep and blossomed into inconcistency. Others claim that the redemption has been the red line throughout the whole series. That so many interpretations of the redemption and soulmates arcs collided after FIN, only proves that the show went out in a big lack-of-continuity-boom. Season six is a good season, where continuity does occur. All the way to the finale, where it just ends with the head in the wall. We should care about the story, and if the writers stayed true to it. We should also ask ourselves how these episodes stand compared to the rest of the sixth season, as well as the rest of the series. We can also spend hours speculating. Was this right or wrong to the show itself, as a story?


Are we being careless?
Robert Tapert had a vision. So did RJ. That is something that has to be respected and admired. Some of the details in that vision were blunt and confusing, but made good eye candy. The finale is a very beautiful piece of work.

Joseph LoDuca's soundtrack is heartclenching, and brings a sfair of eastern mystique to the delicate, smooth and well directed/edited photage. The music makes us understand what the actions and dialogue on-screen cannot.

Lucy and (especially) Renee grants the viewers a helluva performance, that hits home with decition. Some of their scenes are pure magic. As always. The sad thing is that there are too few of those moments to cover six years of selling the story to it's fans. The question is, would any end do? After all, parting is such sweet sorrow.

There has been praising and bashing of the above people (JLD excluded, since his music ruled the finale). We all have the right to our opinions, but we should also be everything but careless regarding our words. We can care, as long as it's done with the same dignity we expect from others.


The point?
The truth is we all loved the show. And that's why we care.

There's nothing to be ashamed about, we are allowed to react. After all we gave these people work to do for some years. And boy, did they deliver! So what if the finale might have sucked or not? In the light of the show as a whole, with good, bad and brilliant episodes...

...do we really care?


/Johanna