Everyone's Waiting- disambiguation

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"Everyone's Waiting" is the series finale of the HBO television series Six Feet Under. I'll get to that in a second.

"Everyone's Waiting" can also refer to:

* Something with work I first found about just under a week ago, had my first meeting about on Sunday afternoon(!), and have been preparing for, keeping things clear for, and generally stressing about ever since, which is only millimeters closer to being a reality than it was previously.

* Everyone (all three of us and several of Emily's friends) going to see the all-female Macbeth production in Delaware Park tonight, assuming That Last Thing doesn't eat my brain in the next ten hours.

That's about it, except for this:



Day 22 - Favorite series finale

Is it still necessary to spoiler-cut after five years?  Maybe for this it is, because there are many who weren't watching during the original run and might not be through all five seasons.

I've already mentioned a few things I don't like in finales. Quantum Leap's goofiness and death sentence of a final title card. MASH's refusal to dance in the Officers Club with the people and memories that brung 'em there. Star Trek-TOS's accidental ending. The Sopranos' artsy-fartsy minimalism. I'll even throw in Lost at this point, even though I still haven't entirely processed what happened or how I feel about it, but while I was okay with it, it was a little too neat and tidy for a very messy run of characters and emotions.

On the other hand, Alan Ball nailed that coffin- and not, necessarily, shut.

By design or demand, he'd already had his tragic moment- killing off Nate before the final episode. In the SFUniverse, though, "killing" is relative, and thus he still got to be there for the end, influencing those he loved and being clear about being with the most important of them on their roads ahead.

I loved that the episode dealt with the pedestrian as well as the philosophical. They didn't just make a plot point out of David/Keith and Rico's decision about the business; they got into shares and buyouts and retirement planning. (I know, I'm lawyergeeky that way, but I know from that experience that such shit is PART of the experience.) I loved how they handled it, and that Fisher and Sons is still with us for our planning and bereavement needs.

Much as I dislike gimmicks in shows, even more so in finales, it was perfect to begin this one with a birth rather than a death. As for the ending of the ending: Watch. Just watch:

"Amos Lee - "Little Light" Official Performance & Meaning | Vevo" (Watch on YouTube)

Although this ending came two years before Tony's, they both begin their final scene the same way: the music starts. Unlike the East Coast version, though, where it just. Plain. ENDED, Claire drives from the West Coast to the sound and images of a symphony. I didn't especially need to see Keith go the way he did, and they certainly didn't need to rub it in by marrying off Claire, but there they all were. Together. Aging. Eventually dying. But especially that together part.

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