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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 4:43 pm 
And the impending writers' strike could affect quite a few shows..
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 6:21 pm
Oh crap...great
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 11:05 pm
I'm getting so sad this show is ending. I really like all of the characters and the actors that play them.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 2:24 am
I was thinking the same. I really like the characters and the storylines and it is almost over.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 4:48 am
It's funny - Delilah was definitely the character I cared about the least in the early seasons - but last night's episode was probably the most I felt bad for her.
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 12:36 pm
Legal Same.
I'm wondering if Delilah and Eddie are going to get back together? Last night's nostalgic episode really tugged at my heartstrings. The closing of the door, as Delilah leaves the house that was sold, after remembering all the happy and sad times in the home first....was so representative of all the emotions we have gone through as viewers with the show.
I would be very happy if they would have a spin-off with Gary and Maggie, as those are the characters I'm going to miss the most
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 21, 2023 - 10:34 am
I did cry a few times.....wedding for one.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, April 21, 2023 - 11:37 am
It’s scary the way the storyline is suggesting….
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Friday, April 21, 2023 - 12:20 pm
I'm going to be PISSED if what they are showing of Gary's storyline is where they are going to leave it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 21, 2023 - 2:18 pm
Well, the preview showed Maggie challenging Gary to fight an him I assume prepping for chemo or something that would cause hair loss and shaving his head
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Friday, April 21, 2023 - 5:30 pm
Exactly...then we are left hanging with him fighting already metastasized cancer with one lung left. Unless the last episode fast forwards, years in to the future....they could have left that storyline alone and hopeful. Both Maggie and Gary being breast cancer survivors, we knew the possibilities. It just would have been nice to not go there.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 2:24 am
Next week is the end of the series. 😮. Now we have everyone paired up, Gary and Maggie married, Eddie and Delilah next door, Kathryn and Greta thinking of a child.
And Gary...
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 10:19 am
i cant remember the last time i was this emotional throughout a TV show... last night's episode... i just have no words (well i do, but...)
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 11:31 am
Same. Having gone through the same emotions of not wanting to give up, and 3 hospice in less than 3 years...it really affected me. And Gary being my favorite character...it's really getting to me.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 11:49 am
I think that Whoever wrote this episode experienced this type of death first hand, in terms of Gary’s acceptance but Maggie not, Danny not wanting to see him like that or know what to say and the sister saying just be there. It’s very close to what I and others experienced with my brothers passing. As with Sincebb1, he’s my favorite character too.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 12:07 pm
Having to be the gatekeeper with family/friends who all ran the gambit of emotions, when a family member died last year, it totally was real the way different characters processed things. And as much as I love Regina, Maggie, Katherine, Sophie, Danny, Theo…to name a few….Gary definitely became the anchor of the group and the show. I have to jump off…just typing this makes me emotional thinking of Gary.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 1:14 pm
Yes, very emotional. Gary became a favorite, though I like how Sophie has matured and like everyone else too.
And emotions about this show not being renewed, too. I would choose it over any number of shows.
I was emotional over Northern Exposure, Parenthood, This is Us final episodes too.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 1:42 pm
Interesting thing about James Roday Rodriguez. For such a long time, he was known as just James Roday, but in 2020 took his full name back. I’ve always liked him in whatever series he was in.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 10:44 am
This past episode was a tough one to watch for anyone who's been through cancer with a loved one. We lost my dad 35 years ago to lung cancer. He was only 64. He died only 4 months after being diagnosed. It was very hard because I lived an hour and a half from my parents and I was working full-time. I drove over every weekend that summer (except for one) to be with them and to support my mom.
My younger brother was in the USAF, stationed on the East Coast (we're in California). He'd gone round and round for weeks with his superiors trying to get home for at least a visit. One day I told my mom, "Call the Red Cross. Maybe they can do something." He was on a plane home the next day.
My nephew, who my parents had raised, was only 20, and he didn't deal with things well. His method of handling the fact that our dad was dying was to just never be home (couldn't face it, like Danny). He regrets now that he wasn't there for much of my Dad's last days.
Everyone processes a loss differently. Wonderful, but super sad, how this show has captured that angle. I thought I was over this show, but now I'm going to miss it. 
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, May 03, 2023 - 10:54 pm
Well, that was so sad. Again, with the exception of the assisted suicide, the show hit on the various emotions that took me back to when my brother passed. I lost it when Colin cried as Gary passed.
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Wednesday, May 03, 2023 - 11:34 pm
Oh, I have been sobbing through the whole thing. I was ugly crying when they got to the part where they show Maggie the video. By the time Maggie, Gary and Colin were on the bed together...I had snot coming out of my nose. I couldn't breath.
When Maggie was at Gary's grave with Daisy....I'm like, thanks for reminding me about Colin...more crying.
I thank the writers for the last part. I really needed to be able to breathe at this point. I thought I was gaining my composure again. But when Javi was at the baseball game and the guy picked up something Javi dropped and they have Gary's voice saying...when someone smiles at you it's a good chance it's me....that's when I LOST it.
I was at a the Packing House (upscale food mall) a week ago. As I was walking by an elderly lady with her 2 daughters sitting at a table eating. I don't know why, but as I glanced at the mother I looked at her and she looked at me and smiled. And I can't tell you....it was like everything around me faded into the background and all I could see was my mom's smile. I stopped and stared. My husband was looking at me. The ladies daughters were looking at me. I then felt silly. I told them that I was sorry I was staring...but their mom looked like my mom that passed recently. The weird thing, was when I looked again. The women didn't really resemble my mom...maybe her eyes a bit. At the time, I couldn't tell you why, in a crowd of people...why this lady's smile seemed to be directed at me, and I saw my mother's face.
So when we got to that part of the show...I can't even tell you how hard I was baling my head off. It's going to take a couple of days before my eyes de-puff and lose the red rings around them. My nose is still stuffy. I always have a bad cry face. Damn writers.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, May 04, 2023 - 2:56 am
Damn it. Why did they have to play a cover of "For Good". That was supposed to just be associated with one of my close friends (who said long ago that she always thinks of me when hearing that song)...now it will be associated with this episode/scenes too which I do not want!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, May 04, 2023 - 2:35 pm
I waited to watch today. Well done and gut wrenching but with jealousy for the whole support system that Gary had helped to build.
Details. So Gary died at age 39.
Obviously Colin, whose acting turn at Gary's moment of passing was on point, obviously had passed and Maggie adopted Daisy, another large doh.
We see Rome wearing a t-shirt that is for Sophie (Sophie Dixon 2037) who obviously made it in music. Sophie is pregnant. She and Tyrell are excited and the baby is a boy. Kathryn and Greta have a daughter. Theo is a man, wearing suit and tie.. Guessing he followed Kathryn into law..
And we hear that Maggie has met a dad at Javi's school, as she tells Gary at his grave.
Javi is 16. We see Gary's last video for him.
Javi goes to the hockey game at Boston Garden for the 2037-2038 season with Tyrell, Theo and Danny.
Jack is bilingual and Maggie understands his Spanish.
Just some details, because I notice those things..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, May 04, 2023 - 2:41 pm
I loved Rome being able to go to his dad for comfort.
And Theo using what Eddie had taught him, to give his dad advice.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, May 04, 2023 - 3:44 pm
Legal, hopefully you can reclaim that song...
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, May 05, 2023 - 5:46 am
I rarely cry while watching a tv show, but I spent a whole hour doing just that.
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