Jericho--Why I Haven't Watched the Finale

I have some things on my DVR I need to watch, most notably the season (series--*sniff*) finale of Jericho. I almost don't want to watch it, because I know it's the last episode, unless another network picks it up, which is probably a longshot. And part of me just doesn't want to see how it ends.

I think this truncated, hold-n0-punches season has been solidly written, but it some ways I haven't enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed some of the tighter episodes of Season One. My complaints about S1 centered around too much soap opera-like content, not enough apocalyptic aftermath--my complaints about S2 center around too much political intrigue, not enough apocalyptic aftermath. Although I have to say the political intrigue is much more interesting than the soap opera stuff. I do like that so far they've given a good background for the cause of the bomb blasts. I'm a bit disappointed it seems to track back to a single crazy person instead of a full-fledged government conspiracy. I'm all for those full-fledged government conspiracies...

So I'm guessing the finale will be action-packed and have some good plot and probably a bit of an open-ended finish, but I'm still hesitant to watch. And I think a lot of this is that I'm afraid they'll kill off more characters. And they already almost lost me with...

WARNING BIG FAT SPOILER


...the death of Bonnie.

It wasn't just that they killed Bonnie. It was that they killed a woman on the verge of finding herself, of moving out into independence after spending her whole life largely dependent on a man. Maybe I'm overreacting to that, but death or maiming or Horrible Torture of some sort seems to be the fate of an independent woman far too often in literature of all stamps, from that stuff by dead white guys they make you read in college to prime time network TV.

Plus, I liked her.

So there you go. At some point, I'll get up the nerve to watch the episode--probably today, in fact, and then I'll probably comment on it. In the meantime, I'm finding myself a wee bit bitter.