WHAT I KNOW

[krickets]

Alright my Killing flisters.

Come commiserate in the comments with me about the finale.

GIFs welcome, and shit.

FYI I'm going to sleep. My brain is still wired from this ep so it'll be hard. But I have to work in the morning. Will respond to everyone tomorrow. And basically THIS SHOW MAN! ♥!

Comments

[timidwildone.livejournal.com]

Dude we were right. I'm sorry about Jamie, though :(

Wholly unsatisfied with Linden/Holder resolution. WHOLLY. UNSATISFIED!

*flail*

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I realized you were right at the end of the first act and then I started crying and couldn't stop. It would have been super embarrassing had I not been watching the finale alone in the living room with no lights on like an emo kid. Emotional devastation, I have it. AUNT TERRY. JAIME. ROSIE. Everything hurts.

Then the end happened and Sarah looked so free and I was happy for her, but...HOLDER. I am a mess of emotions right now and I have to go write a review for Girls, but I'm having a hard time thinking about my favorite hipster kids because Holder is all alone and Terry's in jail and fucking Richmond got Ames off...but at least Sarah solved her case and didn't get shot. (My heart momentarily stopped beating when Holder fired his gun because I couldn't tell who had fired the shot and Sarah was standing right there.)

It has to get renewed right? And if it doesn't you'll write a season 3 for us, Y/Y?

[aeliasnymph.livejournal.com]

I don't mean to just jump into the discussion like a creep, but none of my RL friends/family watch this show (except for my mom and we exhausted our discussion) and I desperately need to see/read/feel other people's reactions to this episode. I posted a pretty lengthy recap on Tumblr, but I'll copy the link if anyone is interested in reading:

http://alliesob.tumblr.com/post/25343972911/the-killing-finale

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also season three linden/holder fic yes plz need it like burning

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Let me start by saying that if I was one of those people who was invested in the murder mystery plot-line, I would probably hate this show by now. Because I really think the writers made a lot of mistakes in their attempts to stretch out this mystery. I think if they'd just wrapped it up several episodes earlier and used the second half of season 2 to launch a new case, it would've been less illogical in parts. But, as I am someone who's in it for the characters and the UNBELIEVABLE ACTING, I was mostly happy with the finale and the season in general.

Can we talk about Jamie Anne Allman for a minute? And by talk, I mean MARVEL at her performance throughout this series. I just...I don't know if she was told from the beginning that Terry was complicit in Rosie's death or she's just a smart cookie who realized it was a possibility but either way, I feel like she really laid the groundwork for the reveal, right from the start. There was always something...idk...guilty about Terry. Some people chalked that up to the Beau Soleli thing but I never bought that. And there was this sort of...darkness?...hanging over her? Like, I think we were meant to see her as a very haunted and damaged person right from the start. Again, whether that was to set up the ultimate reveal or just plant suspicion, who knows but I think it really worked to make Terry a very believable murderer. Now the actual killing went a lot differently than I expected but I think it was better than I'd imagined? Like, I LOVELOVELOVE the idea that Terry committed cold-blooded, heat-of-the-moment murder without really blinking...because she didn't know it was Rosie in the car. SHE DIDN'T KNOW! And yet, she heard this girl screaming for her life and didn't flinch. TERRY, HOW ARE YOU SO TWISTEDLY SPECTACULAR?! I just...we should really loathe this woman for killing her niece and yet...she gives me ALL THE FEELINGS. Essentially, Jamie Anne Allman is spectacular and needs all the awards.

Jamie on the other hand...I adore Eric Ladin but I really don't think there was much to point at Jamie being the killer until these last two/three episodes. Maybe that was the point and you really weren't supposed to expect him but...idk...it just didn't work for me. Despite Eric's awesomeness at playing Jamie's downright insanity in this last episode, I still can't buy that he was capable of chasing down this girl and beating her nearly to death. Yes, he's ambitious. Yes, he'll bend and break and run right over the rules to get ahead in the political arena but I don't think that equates being willing to murder an innocent kid.

Then again, I feel like Jamie was kind of chosen at random to be the chaser-through-the-woods? Maybe the wasn't the case and they knew from the start but merely executed it poorly but Jamie being the guilty party just didn't fly for me. I also wasn't thrilled that it was a mostly political reason. Yes, they'd been leading that way all season but I was hoping there would be a last-minute twist that the murder was more personal. Like Ames killing Rosie so she wouldn't tell anyone about his affair with Terry or his plans to leave his wife and screw her out of her own company.

But in the end, it was all about the acting for me. And all the actors in this show were really incredible. Obviously Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman stole it all in the end, but Michelle Forbes and Brent Sexton were just as awesome. And I kinda want all the post-season 2 Holder/Linden fic EVER. Mostly about her coming back to work and how their dynamic shifts now that they're having all the sex ever and she's basically moved in with him even though neither of them wants to admit that. Because...yeah...that's absolutely what happens, in my mind.

[hamarakissa.livejournal.com]

I will have to get back to you tomorrow... totally have to sleep bevoreo i fall over. i can't evey tyoe right now. <3 NIte!

[far-to-nowhere.livejournal.com]

MY SOUL. IT BURNS. IT CRIES. IT ACHES. IT LOVES.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Please please please send me screencaps for this episode if you ever do them :D I've got about half my Big Bang done with The Killing icons but this episode so deserve 50 icons in itself.

MY HEART. ROSIE. ROSIEEEE.

[far-to-nowhere.livejournal.com]

Joel Kinnaman interview thought you might likeeee.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

I cannot imagine what you are feeling right now. Actually, when I was watching it and it was running with Jamie, I was just... "I will not be satisfied unless it is Terry. I will not!" Fortunately, the show delivered :) Except also D: because Jamie! And Terry! And Mitch! And Linden/Holder! In the dark! Honestly that might have been my favorite part.

I am all exclamation points!

[timewaslost.livejournal.com]

[twilightthief.livejournal.com]

When Jamie was really guilty and Holder shot him:



When Terry was guilty too and she was crying (you were totally right btw. GO YOU!):



The Holder/Linden moments at the end:



Realizing that the Rosie Larsen case is over: