After I finished watching the series finale with my mother, I turned to her and she said "oh that's it?". And it got me thinking..

The whole focal point for the creators of this show has always been this family of 5. That's why Randall mentioned this episode - "When someone asks me to close my eyes and picture my family - I think of mom, dad and you two." Throughout the whole series, we were taken on this wonderful journey of this family and were given the privilege of peaking into the lives of some of the other people dear to the main 5. That's all! We should have seen it much sooner that while we were given glimpses of the future, we would never see the complete future. Dad is gone. Mom is gone. The Big 3 on the verge of big things - perfect point in time to close the chapter.

Also, I feel after the roller coaster of emotions we've been on the last few episodes, this episode really nursed my emotions back to healthy feelings and made it so much more easier to say goodbye to the characters. It was a much softer blow.

The whole point of basing this episode around the "lazy Saturday" and drawing parallels to the present really felt like turning to the last page of my favourite book. Life really did come full circle for all of them. Most of my favourite books, TV shows (Schitt's Creek most recently) have always ended on this beautiful note of optimism and looking forward to the future.

I wrote down my thoughts about the finale here to help me process how I felt about the whole thing. It became clearer as I wrote. Maybe it'll help all of you too. I personally couldn't have asked for a more peaceful finale. It really healed my heart. 💕