Just a short review…
Well, that was a pretty good two hours of Revenge, wasn’t it? It’s as if those in charge have been listening to everyone’s complaints and decided to pack it into the final moments of Revenge’s sophomore season. As we’ve all pointed out, Revenge hasn’t truly been itself this season, getting muddled up in tangents and The Initiative and Padma and so on. During these two hours, the series even tried to eradicate that. Albeit, they didn’t exactly explain away The Initiative all that well (“meh, there was never really an Initiative” uh okay) but who cares? We’ll all gladly take it.
And that’s not even the biggest news. Tonight’s Revenge finale decided to hold absolutely nothing back. Eric van der Woodsen is dead. Yes, viewers, Declan has bitten the dust. And it was one of the more anticlimactic deaths on television ever. After Declan is found to be at Grayson Global, he has to have heart surgery. When there, he records a video for his brother… and them promptly dies offscreen during while under the knife. I know a lot of people were hoping for that one since episode one of season one, so much so it seemed they really just wanted to get him off the screen. Sheesh.
But I am glad for what it did to Jack’s character. The actor has been knocking it out of the park this season, and tonight, it finally gave him the drive to pull the trigger — literally. Even more so, Emily has no options left but to tell Jack the truth: she’s the real Amanda Clarke. Well, I certainly didn’t think that was going to happen any time soon.
As opposed to last season’s finale with all of the maybe-deaths and cliffhangers, season 2’s finale decided to go full-force, and what resulted from it was nothing but a gripping two hours of television. I mean, we’ve yet to even discuss Nolan getting arrested for the blackout. Or Victoria’s son Patrick returning. Or Aiden revealing everything to Emily.
Needless to say, I think I speak for everyone: this is the Revenge we’ve been waiting for all season — good, guilty pleasure, roller coaster-like fun. I’m saddened that showrunner Mike Kelley has departed with the series, but I’m hopeful that the show can get back to what made it work in its freshman season. Until fall.
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Agreed. Jack has become really interesting since Amanda's death.
Anyway, hopefully the "terrorist initiative" storyline is ended with this. They have been the BIGGEST distraction of this season(well, second biggest).
Hopefully Aiden is dead. Although I doubt it since show seems to be unreasonably in love with that gary stu glorifying him every second("Emily! How dare you keep secrets from aiden! He sacrificed so much trying to control your life and make your decisions for you! You should tell him the truth always~"). Most likely the biggest gary stu around got shot in the heart, yet somehow survived escaped and then performed a heart surgery on himself to save his own life, while at the same time saving a bus full of kitties and schoolkids. UGGGGGhHH, just let him die already.
Also not that happy with negative lgbt portrayal in Charlotte's storyline. Its the cliched "those creepy lesbian stalkers~" kind of plot twist, which is ughghh..
Wow, i cannot agree with you on Aiden. Hes been nothing but the good guy here. He went through the same things as Ems and i dont think that he means to be controling, rather wants to save someone he loves. I wish him no death ;)
Re Jack, hes been annoying as hell since the season one and even more after Amandas death. This was the first episode when i finally felt for him. He completly lost it. Great acting btw.