Dig Three Graves #Revenge Series Finale
I know this is a few days late, but I
just had to write it. Maybe this one will be a little shorter.
Anyway, on the series finale of Revenge we actually got a proper
series finale. Everything wrapped up in a pretty little bow for we
viewers who stayed with and enjoyed the show from its inception.
There was so much going on in that one hour that it felt like it was
two or at least should have been. As always, I don’t really know
where to begin.
Let’s start with the fact that Evil
Queen Victoria was alive. Yes, we discovered this in the previous
episode but we as an audience felt an empathetic shock when Louise
was confronted by the living Victoria who wanted help in carrying out
her ultimate plan of revenge against Amanda/Emily. We also found out
last week that the body of the woman who blew up was an unclaimed
cadaver from somewhere upstate but had the added reveal of it being
Victoria’s own mother who had just recently died after somebody
threw a bucket of water on her and she mel—I mean, she died of some
disease. One curious thing, they said that the two hadn’t talked in
eight years when I could have sworn that the woman had appeared on
the show before (sometime last season). Maybe I’m wrong on that.
Feeling more betrayed and used than ever, Louise actually didn’t
side with her play-mother’s plan, opting instead to run back to
Nolan. While this might not have sat well with some viewers, at least
Nolan had showed some sense of caring for her at some point by
marrying her and getting her from under her mother’s thumb.
But before Louise could converge with
Nolan, thereby joining Amanda’s side, Amanda had to do some
trickery and sleuthing of her own. First, she and Nolan broke her out
of jail after she confessed to killing Victoria Grayson—a move she
only did to get her into a higher security jail that was easier to
prisonbreak. Go figure! A little detective work led her and Jack to
what appeared to be a safe house of some sort where we last saw
Victoria killing Jack’s old partner the week before, or rather the
female goon that was hired to protect Victoria doing the deed (side
note: Courtney Love is making a comeback? That’s so crazy. I would
have never thought that of all the people that she would pop up in
show after show). She happened to scoop some uncleaned blood from
under the baseboard that clearly belonged to the dead cop. With
enough evidence to convince herself of Victoria’s evilness, she was
on a mission to do nothing more than kill the old bat finally.
Unfortunately, the group wouldn’t
escape unscathed as Jack went back to the house (for reasons I’m
still not too clear on) and ran into the assassin who stabbed him
through. He’d survive but that would only strengthen Nolan and
Amanda’s resolve. Knowing that it was nearly over, Nolan started to
freak about what his identity going forward would be. I have a very
interesting idea about that as I enjoyed his character—more on that
later.
Finally reconnecting with Louise, she
led Amanda to Victoria’s new hideout where they could have it out
in one last battle. Admittedly, I was a little disappointed that they
didn’t throwdown Dynasty style and Amanda seek her revenge through
her bare hands. But after being assured that the room was wired to
send out a video stream of whatever happened, Amanda put on her
blinders and still raised the gun to shoot the Evil Queen only to
have her dad David come behind her and take the shot himself,
sparring her from sinking to the lowest level. While some fans
disagree with even this twist, I found it actually more poetic than
anything because of the connection between David and Victoria. If she
had only dared to truly love him in the first place, then none of
this might have happened. And if he had only dared to never love her,
again there would probably have been no show. So, the fact that he is
the one that kills her even after spending a good part of the season
in her arms, to me is poetic. But she doesn’t die without getting
in a shot herself, sending Amanda tumbling into her father’s arms
just before the commercial break.
Upon return from the advertisements, it
is revealed that some time has passed since Victoria died. She didn’t
lie about the room being set for filming and David was tried and
convicted of her murder. Luckily, because he was already deathly ill,
the judge granted him a stay of compassion so he could spend his last
few days at home with Amanda. In a tearful goodbye on a cold wintry
day, he told her to look back at the double infinity carving on the
porch one last time and professed his love for his only daughter
before taking his last breath.
Picture courtesy of TVLines
If you missed it, that’s right,
Amanda was still alive. She recovered from her gunshot and got with
Jack, marrying him and literally sailing off into the sunset to get
her happy ending. In what was supposed to be another twist that would
be left open for viewer debate, a scene where her younger half-sister
Charlotte stood in the hospital and donated her mother’s heart to
Amanda was shown in a different color to signify Amanda dreaming.
What is in question is whether this was just a nightmare or if it
actually happened and she is living with the heart of her sworn
enemy. I tend to go the inception route and say that it didn’t
happen and it was all just a dream, but to each their own theory.
Also, some fans have been down on the fact that Amanda didn’t die
with Victoria. I actually enjoyed that she didn’t. While she did
embark on a journey of revenge that led to people’s deaths, it must
be noted that she never really killed anyone herself. She just wanted
them to suffer and they did and she did. I think that having her die
would have felt too much like the sins of the father visited upon the
daughter without cause. Victoria was truly evil. She actually killed
people or had them killed. David was even a killer. Amanda, after all
was said and done, was still nothing more than a hurt little daddy’s
girl who tried sticking up for her dad even while being lied too and
manipulated. She’s Louise in five years. I thought it just that she
survive and end up with Jack, because she wasn’t the one who threw
her life off the path that would have ended in his arms anyway. Sure,
she could have not gone for revenge at all, but then she might have
never known the truth about her life.
With Amanda’s story come to an end,
the last few seconds were spent on Nolan. In my opinion, he had the
saddest end of all. Though he had a new beau or beauty to “wrestle”
with each season, he ended up with no one in the end. He devoted
years of his life to Emily’s quest for vengeance and what does he
have now... outside of being a genius, playboy, billionaire,
philanthropist? As great as the wrap-up was, his (and to a lesser
extent Louise’s) story felt the most unfinished, like it could
continue. And with some young man coming to him and telling Nolan
that one of his family member’s was accused of a crime they didn’t
do, it seemed like the billionaire might have found his calling. This
leads me to my theory/half-want/desire. I would like to see a
long-defunct ABC show get revived with Nolan as the eccentric head of
a team of elites. The show was entitled Vengeance Unlimited and it
starred Michael Madsen. In it, he helped people to get vengeance
against criminals that had done them wrong. It was a weekly revenge,
essentially. With the right cast around him and some good writers, I
think now is the perfect environment for this on ABC as it could be a
quirkier mix between Scandal and Revenge and I really want more
Nolan. Here’s hoping for a Revenge, Inc. spin-off.
Check it out here on IMDb
So, what do you think Revenge fans out
there. Are you sad to see it go? Did you like the happy ending for
our dear Amanda? Did you like the end for Victoria or should she have
lived? What about Nolan? Do you think my idea for him is any good or
should the show and all of its characters completely die?
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Until next time, Might sound crazy, but
it ain’t no lie. Baby, bye bye bye!
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