Movie Time: Good Omens 3: The Finale

Today's post is about the end of Good Omens.

Shouldn't this be a Tuesday TV Touchbase and not a Movie Time post?

With writer Neil Gaiman's reputation shredded by salacious sex scandals, the powers that be, the BBC and Amazon MGM, have elected to cut their losses and end the Good Omens saga with a single long form special.

So let's call it a "movie"....

And I'm going to deal with it here.

It's... Movie Time!

Working from a script by Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith and Peter Atkins (based on a story by Gaiman),  Good Omens 3: The Finale is directed by Rachel Talalay.  Which is a good omen (pun stumbled into, not intended) as Talalay is one of my favorite directors. 

But what can even a considerable talent as Rachel Talalay do with a story that was intended for a series but has been condensed into 90 minutes?  

I will start by saying that we watched this movie special about a week after it dropped. Andrea was worried about spoilers.

We found that for the most part, spoilers were rather easy to avoid.

Did so few people even care about Good Omens to spoil it?

So what is going on? 

Aziraphale is in his Heaven and is in charge...ish.

He is overseeing the Second Coming and while the other angels are giddily anticipating grim apocalypitic "End Times",  Aziraphale is determined that this Second Coming will be filled with hope and positivity. 

Then things start unravelling. 

In the case of Metatron, he literally crumbles into nothingness.

The Book of Life has vanished.

Jesus Christ! Now Jesus as wandered off somewhere.

How are we suppose to have a halfway decent Second Coming with all of this going on?

Meanwhile, whazzup with Crowley?

Nothing good it seems.  

After being rejected by Aziraphale in favor of running Heaven at the end of season 2, Crowley is working through his bitterness and anger through excessive drinking.  Cut off from his magic, Crowley has lost his beloved Bentley via an unfortunate wager made with to a gangster named Brian Cameron.

Aziraphale returns to Earth to seek Crowley's help to find Jesus.

But first... the Bentley.  

Aziraphale: "Our car!"

Crowley: "My car!"

Aziraphale confronts Brian Cameron in a game of competetive crosswords and recovers the precious Bentley.

It's kind of a badass move in a very Aziraphale sort of way.

Meanwhile...

Where pray tell is Jesus?

He's befriended a retired street hustler named Harry the Fish who has taught the Son of God how to play 3 Card Monte. 

Jesus hits the streets to deliver endlessly regenerating pizza and to share and heal the pain of the people he meets.

SIDE RANT: I haven't heard the expected complaints from thin skinned Christians about the inclusion of Jesus.  Could it be they're embarrassed that this Jesus is actually acting like Jesus should be and not a gun toting MAGA head ready to fight against open borders.

Aziraphale and Crowley get side tracked from their quest for Jesus by the missing angels case in Heaven with two more angels being POOFED out of existence.

It seems archangel Michael has the Book of Life and she's disposing of angels and what not as she rips out pages and tosses them into the Eternal Flames.  

She rips out and burns the page with Canada?!?! NOOO!!! We like Canada!  

Aziraphale does something truly horrible: he forgives Michael.

She burns the rest of the book.  Crowley is able to recover only 1 page.

The page for Aziraphale's book shop.  

Aziraphale and Crowley and this book shop is all that is left of existence.

Also Satan.

And God. 

Well, this is an opportunity to set some things straight and maybe actually get some answers for God, she of the ineffable plan that's been flummoxing Aziraphale and Crowley since season 1.  

Crowley demands of God, “Why make people and then punish them for behaving like people? Humans are going to human. They are born into a world that is against them in a thousand different ways.  And they devote most of their energy to making things worse. Where you’ll find the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil is right inside the human mind.”

As I write this post, I can't seem to remember what God said in response to Crowley's inquiry and I didn't include it in my notes.

She probably said something... ineffable. 

I suppose I could go look it up or watch that scene again but this post has gone on too long as it is.  

What I do remember is that God gives them the opportunity to choose what they want.   

They respond to this offer with a request: they want God to remake the universe, to start over from scratch but without angels. 

Or demons.

Or Heaven or Hell.

Or Satan or even God herself,  

No ineffable plan. 

God points out this plan would mean Aziraphale and Crowley would no longer exist.

They understand that.  

God says "sure, why not?" and Aziraphale and Crowley vanish into nothingness.  

So there's a big bang and yada, yada, yada, 13.5 billion years later, we find ourselves on Earth in the present day.

And a cozy little book shop in downtown London. 

Where the shop's owner Asa Fell meets Professor Anthony Crowley, author and astrophysicist.   

They get along so fabulously well and they go on their first date, dinner at a local cafe.

An establishment filled with faces that look familiar. No demons or angels here. Just people living their lives.

Twenty years after that fateful encounter and first date, Fell and Crowley are married and living together in a cottage. 

They're sitting outside under blankets, enjoying delicious cocoa and pondering the stars above them.

Asa Fell wonders if there is anything beyond the universe.

Anthony Crowley isn't particularly keen on that concept.

 Because he has everything he ever wanted.

And we reach... the end.

Well, did we enjoy that? Or simply survive it? 

While we gather out thoughts, let's taken a moment to look at some...

Doctor Who Connections

Director Rachel Talalay has directed such Doctor Who epics as...

•  "Dark Water" (2014)
• "Death in Heaven" (2014)
• "Heaven Sent" (2015)
• "Hell Bent" (2015)
• "World Enough and Time" (2017)
• "The Doctor Falls" (2017)
• "Twice Upon a Time" (2017)
• "The Star Beast" (2023)

Brian Cameron the gangster is played by Sean Pertwee who is the son of Jon Pertwee who was the 3rd Doctor on Doctor Who.

Satan is played by Toby Jones who was the sinister Dream Lord in "Amy's Choice"

Derek Jacobi was Metatron and was also in Doctor Who as another character beginning with "M", the Master in "Utopia".  

Henry the Fish, Mark Addy was in "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos" at the end of Jodie Whittaker's first season as the Doctor.  And I do understand if you don't remember that.  

And I understand Crowley himself, David Tennant, has some modest connections to Doctor Who.  

Now on the matter of Good Omens 3: The Finale.

As Aziraphale would want us to, let's start with some positivity.

Any time spent with David Tennant and Michael Sheen is a good time and bless them for making a valiant effort to hold this thing production together.

But damn if  Good Omens 3: The Finale isn't quite the rickety contraption.

Originally Good Omens 3 was to be a 6 episode season.  Compressed to 90 minutes, the seams do show.  It feels like certain characters and things were meant to be more of thing. 

• Brian Cameron and his daughter Misty.  
• Harry the Fish. 
• Jesus as a street preacher.  
• Even Archangel Michael who was the catalyst for what appears to be a plot.  

All of these elements felt like they were supposed to be more important. The result is this 90 minute special feels less like a coherent "movie" and more like a clip show congealing into incoherence.

I suppose the ending holds some merit with Aziraphale and Crowley uniting with a common purpose one last time to save the human race from the machinations of the hosts of heaven and hell and while that action ends in their destruction, at least they met they dissolution together. 

And the universe may have something resembling a happy ending for them after all in the form of Asa Fell and Anthony Crowley.

They are not Aziraphale and Crowley, are they? So does it count, this Asa and Anthony as a happy ending for Aziraphale and Crowley?

As Aziraphale would want us to, I will  err on the side of positivity and joy and say yes it does. 

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If all goes according to plan, next week's Movie Time will spotlight another TV series morphing into a movie. 

Andrea really wants to see The Mandolorian & Grogu.  

Well...   this is the way.  

Your Friday Video Link: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

Last night was the last episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

The travesty of this despicable decision has not stopped Stephen Colbert from embracing joy even has the show winds down to it's undeserved end.

Your Friday Video Link#1 features Colbert with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and John Oliver as Strike Force Five gang reunites one more time!  

Your Friday Video Link#2 features the guy who started the Late Show on CBS, David Letterman as he and Stephen Colbertengage in the wanton destruction of CBS property.

It's time for a party as Your Friday Video Link#3 brings us 

David Byrne performing "Burning Down the House".

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert deserved better than what they got from CBS and their Trump loving corporate masters at Paramount Skydance.

But kudos to Stephen Colber who approached this distressing moment with grace and joy.

Stephen Colbert is a far better man than the those who sought his cancellation.

I'll have more about The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in an upcoming edition of the Tuesday TV Touchbase.

We're back tomorrow for another ending with Movie Time.

Until next time, remember to be good to one another.   

Comic Book Retro 50: May 1976

And we're back with Comic Book Retro 50! 

What pray tell was a young Dave-El spending is comic book buying scheckles on in May 1976.

Let's start with the big surprise of the month, the return of Green Lantern/Green Arrow. 

A little bit of comic book history.

Starting with Green Lantern#76 in April 1970, GL began sharing his book with Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow.  Starting in issues of Justice League of America, writer Denny O'Neil had Oliver Queen lose his fortune and began molding the character into a social justice warrior and an agitator against authority figures.

Pairing Green Arrow with Hal Jordan who worked for the ultimate police force, the Green Lantern Corps, was a recipe for drama. 

Partnering with artist Neal Adams, O'Neil sent our heroes on a road trip across America, exploring subjects like pollution, war, racism, sexism, political and corporare corruption, drug abuse. 

The series was cancelled with issue #89 and Green Lantern and Green Arrow were consigned to back ups in The Flash and Action Comics respectively.   

Four year later, GL and GA were back with Green Lantern#90.

Writer Denny O'Neil returned but Neal Adams had long since moved on from regular comics work so Mike Grell was brought on board as the new artist. Grell had been drawing the GL and GA back up strips and he was DC's hot go-to artist so he was a perfect choice. 

While the original iteration of Green Lantern/Green Arrow primarily focused on street level adventures geared towards Oliver Queen's talents and personality, the new version would lean towards a more cosmic angle aligned with Hal Jordan's work as a Green Lantern.  

"Those Who Worship Evil's Might" introduces some updates to the Green Lantern mythos.  The power ring gets a re-design from a circle to resembling a stylized power battery.

Oh look!  A Vulcan Green Lantern! Complete with the Vulcan salute! Cool! 

We also find out the Guardians of the Universe employed different resources to bring justice and order to the universe before founding the Green Lantern Corps.  An idea that writer Steve Englehart would explore in JLA a year later.  

Speaking of the Justice League, I laid out a whole dollar for Limited Collectors' Edition C-46  with a dynamic new cover by Dick Giordano.  

This was a tabloid sized book that reprinted Justice League of America #24 and #43 written by Gardner Fox and drawn my least favorite JLA art team of Mike Sekowsky & Bernard Sachs.

"Decoy Missions of the Justice League" is a team up with Adam Strange  vs. the master world conqueror Kanjor Ro.  

"The Deadly Dreams of Doctor Destiny" features the JLA's dream controlling nemesis.   

And I picked up Justice League of America#133  written by Gerry Conway and drawn by my estimation the best JLA art team of Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin.  

"Missing -- One Man of Steel" puts the spotlight on another recurring alien threat, Despero.  And features a long overdue JLA appearance by Supergirl.

After not being part of my purchases for a couple of months, the Batman solo titles found their way home with me.   

I'm not sure why Batman#278  made the cut this time.  

"Stop Me Before I Kill Batman" by David V. Reed, Ernie Chan and Tex Blaisdell is about a masked weirdo known as... The Wringer who is going around wringing the necks of puppets and marionettes as a prelude to... murder!

Accompanying Batman on this baffling case is Inspector Kittridge from Scotland Yard who has come to Gotham City for the express purpose of matching wits with the Caped Crusader in solving a strange and unusual crime.

I remember this sequence where Kittridge thinks he's cracked the case using the kind of leaps in logic that Batman himself was prone to do in the old 1960's TV show.  

The Wringer has a different plan.

So does the Batman.   

David V. Reed favored these one-in-done crime procedural tales with Batman a glorified police officer in a Bat suit.  

And I picked up Detective Comics#462.

First of all, huzzah to losing this god-awful logo:

Maybe this new logo is what appealed to me to drop 3 dimes for this new issue.  

 "Kill Batman -- in Triplicate" is the conclusion of  a 3 parter where Batman is contending with a pirate themed villain called Captain Stingaree who is convinced Batman is actually 3 people and has kidnapped two of them.  

I had missed parts 1 and 2 but I was a smart kid and got caught up to speed pretty quickly.  

The stort was written by Bob Rozakis and Michael Uslan with art by Ernie Chan & Frank McLaughlin.   

Instrumental to the plot is a guest appearance by the Flash. Well,it is one big happy DC Universe, ain't it?

If the name Michael Uslan seems familiar, you see it in the credits of every movie that has Batman in it. Early on Uslan secured the film rights to Batman and has hung on to them. The result: Uslan gets a producer credit on every single Batman movie and (I presume) a nice check for his trouble.  

The back up is an Elongated Man short called "Clue of the Talking Orchid" by Bob Rozakis,  Union Studio*  & Vince Colletta.  

Union Studio?  This is a team of Spanish language artists drawn from Latin America and Spain who primarily worked for Charlton Comics during the 1960s and 1970s. As far as I can tell, this is their only DC Comics credit.  

Next up: Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's.....

Superman#302  by  Elliot S. Maggin, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

& Bon Oskner.

Lex Luthor has zapped Superman with.... SCIENCE! that makes him grow bigger and dumber!  

Size changing sounds like something that the Atom might be able to help with. 

This is our second story this month that remind us our characters live in a shared universe.  Marvel is clearly impacting how DC does things.  

Supes is able to trick Lex and gets the cure to his condition. 

A standard issue 1960's type "weird shit happens to Superman" tale enhanced by some dynamic art by Garcia-Lopez.

Which brings us to Action Comics#462.

"Super-War of Independence" by Cary Bates, Curt Swan & Tex Blaisdell continues Superman's struggle against the alien menace of Karb-Brak. Which will mercifully conclude next issue.

Rounding out the issue is a Krypt solo adventure, "This Is a Job for Superdog" by E. Nelson Bridwell, Curt Swan & Al Milgrom

Well, this post began with Green Lantern so let's end it with him as we head to Flash#243.     

"If I Can't Rob Central City, Nobody Can" by Cary Bates, Irv Novick&  Frank McLaughlin where Flash foe the Top has died and left one last threat for Central City as a farewell "gift".  

This was a rare for real change to the status quo of the Flash's  

Rogues Gallery.

The issue also features the concluding chapter of the Green Lantern serial, the Ravagers of Olys.   

Denny O'Neil and Mike Grell are joined by inker Terry Austin who was a very good match with Grell.  

Green Lantern would have two more solo back ups in The Flash in a couple of months.  

And that is what Dave-El bought in May 1976. 

What's coming for June 1976?

I purchase for the 1st time Freedom Fighters and Secret Society of Super Villians.  And Shazam is new again! 

And Batman vs. the Riddler and the Black Spider! 

And more! 

Jack Kirby Way

On Monday May 11th, 2026, New York City awarded a special honor to one of their native sons.  

A street corner was named for the artist and visionary who was integral to forging Marvel Comics into a pop culture icon, a man whose singular talent was a jolt of creative energy to this art form we know and love called comic books.  

Jack Kirby was a strong, tough guy but was also known for being gentle and kind.  

With Joe Simon,he created Captain America which debuted with the Star Spangled Avenger punching Hitler on the cover. 

America was not at war with Germany yet but Kirby knew evil when he saw it and was not afraid to express it in his art.

Reportedly some pro-Hitler types showed up at the office to express their dissatisfaction with the treatment of their beloved der Führer.  

Kirby went down stairs to demonstrate what he thought of their dissatisfaction.   

Kirby grew up poor in a rough New York City slum and he knew what to do with bullies.

It was the 1960's that really catapulted Kirby into comics notoriety with his work on such feautures as the Mighty Thor and the Fantastic Four. 

But the time of Jack Kirby's greatest success at Marvel was also a time of his greatest frustration.  

Kirby's inclination to just keep his head down and keep producing the work put him at odds with Stan Lee's talent for glib salesmanship and self promotion.  Too many people pegged Stan Lee as the true genius at Marvel and Kirby was just the artist. 

Being sidelined and ignored began to gnaw at the nominally good natured Jack Kirby so he jumped ship to DC Comics.

On the plus side, Kirby was a creative dynamo unleashed without having to capitulate to a spotlight stealing scripter. At DC, he created the New Gods, Mister Miracle, the Forever People, the Demon Etrigan, Kamandi the Last Boy On Earth and OMAC.  Kirby was generating concepts that spanned time and space and remain crucial elements of the DC Universe. 

But the staid and tradition minded old guard that ran DC did not know what to do with Jack Kirby, leaving him feeling frustrated and unsupported by the DC regime.  

When his contract was up, he returned for a time to Marvel.  

Another bursts of creativity produced such diverse concepts like Devil Dinosaur, the Eternals and Machine Man.

In addition to those creations, Jack Kirby returns to the character that started it all, Captain America for a bonkers long form storyline called "Madbomb".

But Kirby At Marvel 2.0 was a temporary side trip and when that contract was done, Jack Kirby focused on storyboards for animation.  

Kirby did return to create some comics for the nascent independent comics scene such as Captain Victory.

He even returned to DC Comics for a New Gods graphic novel and to draw a toy tie in series called Super Powers.

I must be honest and confess that as a younger comics fan, I did not appreciate Jack Kirby's art.  It was too boxy, too weird, too stylized, just too.... something...

As I got older, I can't say I liked Kirby's art but I have grown to appreciate the power of it, the dynamism, the bursts of unleashed imagination and prescient insights to a world still to come.

Jack Kirby deserved better than what he got when he was alive.

The crowd that came out on that Monday to dedicate a street sign with his name on it was a powerful and sincere appreciation for the man and his talent.

He charted a unique path and produced a legacy to be proud of.

And he did it the Jack Kirby way.

Tuesday TV Touchbase Too: Jeopardy Times Three!

 What? A second Tuesday TV Touchbase in one day?!?!

Well, I do watch a lot of TV.

Which includes perhaps too much Jeopardy?

On with the Touchbase Too!

Last week was a plethora of Jeopardy options for Andrea and I.

On the regular show, contestant Tristan Williams is on a bit of a run with 9 games and  $188,000 in cash won as of  last night. 

Tristan is a nice guy but his appearance seems almost computer generated.  I described his head as early 1990's Pixar.

Well, I'm not the only one to compare him to Pixar animation.

Jeopardy! fans took to social media to put side-by-side photos of the Jeopardy champion and a certain Pixar character. 

“Do you actually see Woody from Toy Story in Tristan??” a Facebook user wrote. Many fans agreed with the poster.

Tristan is aware of the comparison and is cool with it.  "I had heard once or twice before that I kind of looked like Woody from Toy Story, and then the internet caught it, it spread like wildfire, and it’s so fun!" 

Meanwhile, last week was the start of season 2 of Pop Culture Jeopardy.   Colin Jost (SNL star and Andrea's not so secret boyfriend) is still the host but a lot of other things have changed.

The venue has changed from Amazon Prime to Netflix.  There are no scheduled ad breaks. Once an episode starts, it does not stop until the end.

Instead of the admittedly unwieldy teams of 3, the contestants are in pairs.  

The winning contestant can advance to the next game with an old school limit of up to 5 games.  

I spend a lot of time with Pop Culture Jeopardy going "I didn't understand a word of that" for certain clues and contestant responses. I'm just not up on my rap music and social media influencers.  

Colin has a looser vibe than Ken Jennings. Colin is free to mock the contestants who in turn feel free to mock him right back. Colin's ownership of the Staten Island Ferry remains fodder for comedic commentary. 

And if that wasn't enough Jeopardy, ABC ran the last 4 episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy All Stars over 4 days in a row.

Congratulations to ESPN sportscaster Mina Kimes on winning the tournament, beating out Ike Barinholtz and Steven Weber.

Kimes won $1 million for the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition in Los Angeles.

In describing their charities to Ken, a lot of the celebrities had a constant refrain: programs designed to provide housing, food, health services and other things to help people were struggling due to government funding cuts and could really use whatever money they could win on Jeopardy to help them out.

Thanks to Kimes' fast work on the buzzer and her knowing a lot of shit, there's $1 million to help the homeless of Los Angeles.

More Ken Jennings?:  Click here for this past weekend's edition of NPR's Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! with Ken Jennings as the celebrity guest and he plays Not My Job with questions about H&R Block.

More Game Show News:  On Wheel of Fortune,  Jason Nieradka won $78,000 PLUS a brand new Corvette. Jason lives in Kernersville NC which is about 10 minutes up the road from our home here at the Fortress of Ineptitude.  

TV Stuff That Is Not A Game Show: Andrea and I recently finished season 2 of Leverage.  We've got 3 more seasons of that series then 3 more of it's reboot Leverage: Redemption.  The series features a team of con artists who pull jobs to help people who have been screwed by big business, the governments and unscrupulous millionaires. It's revenge porn for people who want to see the rich and powerful pay for their transgressions instead of getting tax breaks and pardons. 

We're gonna have to wait until Januay 2027 to find out what happens to Nick Wagner who was last seen bleeding out in Morgan Guillory's arms in the season 2 finale of High Potential. ABC announced the 3rd season is being held back as mid-season entry in their schedule.  

For now, that is that for this Tuesday TV Touchbase Too.

Next week, the series finale for The Boys.  

I do not anticipate the same reaction I had to the series finale for Outlander.  

Unless they kill off Hughie.  Those fuckers better NOT kill off Hughie!

AND there will be another Tuesday TV Touchbase Too as we bid farewell to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.  

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.   

Tuesday TV Touchbase: Outlander

Today's Tuesday TV Touchbase is a solemn one.

We mark the end of Outlander.

Spoiler Alert: I will discuss the ending of the last episode.

If you've seen the episode or do not care about the series but you are amused by watching me suffer through an emotional breakdown, well...

As it says on the title of this blog, I am so glad my suffering amuses you.

So read on if you dare.  And be amused by my suffering. 

So I watched the series finale of Outlander and...

And...

And...

<gulp!>

I'm gonna need a minute.  Sorry! 

Let's try that again.

So I watched the series finale of Outlander and...

And...

<sob>

I'm NOT crying! You're crying!  

No, you shut up!!

Damn it! 

One more time! 

So I watched the series finale of Outlander and...

And...

C'mon, Dave-El!  Hold it together!  

You are an American 100% all MAN! 

Who also happened to watch Outlander. 

And it's over and I...

And I...

....

And I am going to write this blog post, damn it! 

I watched the series finale of Outlander and...

Well, Jamie Fraser died! 

But then...

Well, it's complicated.  

I actually came late to the Outlander party.  

I started watching in the middle of season 2.  Jamie and Claire are in France.  Claire's pregnancy ends in tragedy with her baby daughter Faith stillborn (we find out at the start of season 10 that no, Faith did not die) and Claire herself bleeding internally and beyond the reach of 18th century medicine.  

But the mysterious Master Raymond heals her with a strange and ethereal blue light. We never learn who Master Raymond is although I suspect he's a fellow time traveller.  

We see in season 10 that Claire herself seems to possess this healing blue light as she saves a stillborn child on Fraser's Ridge.

All of this is relevant.

Brianna along with Roger and the kids have travelled back from the 20th century to rejoin her parents in the 18th century.  Brianna has brought a history book written by her 20th century "father", Frank Randall.  

A book that tells of the Revolutionary War battle on King's Mountain in North Carolina.   

Where Jamie Fraser will die.

The last episode of the series brings us to that fateful day. 

General Ferguson has brought his British troops to the mountain. Jamie leads his militia from Fraser's Ridge to join other Patriots who will fight there. 

Claire has accompanied Jamie and his militia to provide medical assistance. And re-write history if she can.

The battle is brutal, fierce and bloody.  Bullets whizzing about, swords and bayonets flashing through the smoke and the cries of the wounded.  

But just as Claire fears time is running out and Jamie will not escape, there is a lull in the din of battle.

A lull broken by calls of "I give up" and "I surrrender". The British are surrendering.  The battle is over. 

And Jamie Fraser has survived. 

Yay! 

Screw you, Frank Randall! You and your book were wrong!

I point and laugh at historians!  

Except...

With his forces in disarray and capitulating to the victorious Patriots, a bloodied and beaten  General Ferguson pulls out a gun and shoots Jamie in the chest.

This was not in battle. The battle was over. This was a cowardly act of murder.  

All of Jamie's men step up to take turns shooting Ferguson. Ian McMurray puts a goddam hatchet in him. 

Meanwhile, Claire runs up screaming and sobbing, taking Jamie up in her arms begging him not to die.

Jamie whispers "Forgive me, Sassenach" and dies.

Damn it! 

One by one, the soldiers all leave and it's just Claire cradling Jamie's body in her arms as she whimpers "He just needs to rest."

Day turns into night and Claire will not let go of Jamie.    

Roger McKenzie returns the next day to find Claire still holding on to Jamie.  Sorrowfully, he says that Jamie is gone and he needs to be taken home to the ridge to be buried.

Claire still refuses to let go. 

As the camera pulls up from Claire holding Jamie (Wait! Was that...? Did I see...?) we get a flashback...

Flash forward?!

Wibby wobby timey wimey.

We go to episode 1 of season 1 and it's the ghost of Jamie Fraser watching Claire from a distance in 1945.  

Who the what how when now? 

And then we get a montage of every emotional moment between Jamie and Claire over the course of 10 seasons.

And then....

We're back on the top of King's Mountain.

Claire's hair is completely white.  She opens her eyes.

Jamie opens his eyes and breathes and...

Fade to black.

Show's over?!?!

God damn it! REALLY?!?! Is that where we're going to end this?!?!? REALLY?!?!?!

Damn it! 

Damn it! 

Damn it! 

I HATE THIS SHOW!! Whose stupid idea was it for me to watch this show?!?!

Oh yeah, it was mine.

But it's not quite the end.  

After the closng credits, we open on a book store in the 21st century.  Signing copies of her Outlander books is Diana Galbadon.  On the table next to her is an old journal.

A fan asks Diana about it and she replies, "It's wee bit of inspiration."

It's Claire Fraser's journal!

Oh, my mind is blown!  

Like I said, I came late to the Outlander party, starting mid-way through season 2. (I did go back to catch up on season 1 later.) The Doctor Who nerd in me came for the time travel but I stayed for the drama. And oh my God, was there so much drama. 

I really got caught up in this world of passion, peril, political intrigue, love, sex, death, war and some people just being fucking bastards. 

And at the core of it, the undying love of Claire and Fraser. 

And as that final second before the end reveals, literally undying. 

I'm going to miss this world a lot.

I know there's still Outlander: Blood Of My Blood  which is it's own kind of good I suppose but....

It's not the same.

It won't be Jamie and Claire.

SIDE NOTE: In the blog banner that my son Dean drew, the guy with the flowing hair behind me? That's Jamie Fraser. 

Well, it's supposed to be.  😉  (Sorry, Dean!)  

That is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm still emotionally verklempt.

Raya Yarbrough, take us out with Bear McCreary's Skye Boat Song.