The Killing - Season 3 Finale

[krickets]

I've never felt so damn shitty about being right about anything before in my life. (Perhaps a slight exaggeration.) This would have fucked Linden up royally even if she hadn't reconciled with Skinner right before, but now she's even more broken than she's ever been.

Damn.

I don't even know what to say.

Comments

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

I'm at work for four more hoursssss yet!!! Arghhhhh!!!!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I want to say consider yourself lucky. Because I still feel drained 24 hours later. But you've probably watched by now.

[aeliasnymph.livejournal.com]

I am just so distraught. This was not a closed ending like with season two. This was so much more raw and real and worse, and there's was no last minute breather for us to catch our breath. I just don't even know what to think about Linden, or how Holder feels, or anything. I'm just so. Ugh.

It's also a million times worse because a season four hasn't been confirmed yet and if it they don't get a green light and this was finale was IT I will just die.

is there consoling fic in the future?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I feel like my protectiveness of Sarah Linden made this MAYBE the most emotional episode of the season. And after the last three that's saying A LOT.

I mean, I just.. she's completely devastated. I can't even imagine.

We need a season four.

Yes, I am writing fic. Maybe not now because I am still not over it. But maybe in a few days or a week or so. Maybe it'll involve "on the run" type drama. Because that seems like a great place to go from here.

[aeliasnymph.livejournal.com]

YES, this episode was torture. And it's exactly because of Sarah that the ending was so devastating. Like...I just have no hope, I know they'll figure something out, but her future is so bleak and I don't know what Holder is going to do and I just don't see how she can make it back from this, this poor girl has had ENOUGH and then they make her go through this? Sarah Linden is my lady love and her life and situation has emotionally compromised me.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I know. All day I have felt uncomfortable.

It took me a while to realize it was this show that was doing it to me.

[imaginary-lives.livejournal.com]

If this show gets cancelled now AGAIN I am going to fuck shit up.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I'll bring a bat and we'll do it together.

Because damn!

[oviedo.livejournal.com]

Jesus fucking christ I have no words there NEEDS to be a season 4 it can't just end there (although how could they fix this is beyond me at the moment).

Ughhhhhhhh

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yes. Season 4. Need it. Must have it. Give it to me.

Sarah Linden, you broken, beautiful creature you. I can't even get over how all of this has so totally fucked her up.

[oviedo.livejournal.com]

This was a great season finale but a terrible series one, MORE PLEASE. They'll cover it up right? I mean no way Holder would let Linden go to prison, not for that scumbag. But living with a secret like that... (But from a storytelling perspective it's great. What does a killing do to you?)

I mean, god, he was responsible for everything. For her ending up in a mental ward, almost losing Jack (and then ending up losing him anyway), for Holder having to open up that trunk and finding Bullet inside, for Linden having her own gun pointed at her, for Adrian being all alone waiting to be found, not to mention all those poor girls. And then Skinner had the audacity to tell her she knew and loved him anyway. This was never going to end any differently. This it what happens when someone who cares too much stops caring. Saraaaaaaaah ♥

[aud-woman-in.livejournal.com]

That ending was bleak, bleak, bleak. And I kinda feel the same way you do. The whole season, I was looking forward to Sarah's instincts (about Pied Piper and Trisha Seward's killer being the same person) being validated, but that victory was bitterly mocked by her complete lack of instinct when it came to Skinner. As much as I would love to see a S4, dramatically speaking, I can live with this as a series finale.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I should have KNOWN this show would turn that around on us. The satisfaction of knowing she was right all along is so fucking dissatisfying. ONLY THE KILLING.

I can't truly comprehend the tragedy of the last 4 episodes.

It's just too much to deal with.

And it's fiction. But it's in my head and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

[geckoholic]

Yeah, uh. Same here? I'm crying and sort of disturbed and wow. That was cruel. NOOOOOOO.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

SORT OF disturbed? Haha.

Like, I am kind of mad at Veena for doing this to Sarah, and not even from a storytelling perspective. From the perspective where I'm completely delusional and forgetting that Sarah Linden is not a real person and Veena Sud didn't actually do anything to her. (Although she did do something to me. Can't quite get over it!)

[geckoholic]

Ah yeah. I'm afraid I somewhat over-identify with Sarah too, for, uh, reason, so that ending was a kick to the gut and just NO SARAH, SHIT. And she was so calm and relaxed and happy in the beginning of the ep, both of them actually, and just whhhhhy.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I just keep remembering how she told him that they can change. Oh, Sarah. Babe.

[geckoholic]

Yeah. It's so brutal, things look so good at first, and then it all collapses and becomes worse than it ever was and, yeah. SARAH.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

you've got to be fucking kidding me.

I don't even know what to say.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

BRB plotting stupid "on the road" fic to make it better.

LOL.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Several days late but JESUS that finale! It was just...We NEED a season 4, okay? You just can't end it there!