This show still makes me salty when I think about it. It’s not the only show to undercut it’s own narrative, but it’s the one that hurt me the most because I believed in it’s message.
The message: we are flawed people but we grow and who we are tomorrow isn’t who we are today. This is good.
The ending: Nah we just pretend to change and any growth you think a person makes is just cope.
-Trash.
Edit: and yes, I know the ending ‘makes sense’ that just makes it worse. It went from one of my favorite teen shows to one of my most hated in a matter of 45 minutes. Impressive.
GoT was more about execution. The show runners forced 3 seasons worth of character development and plot into 1 mini season. The ending makes sense when you take the whole of the series.
The framing was bad too. With characters like Bran. His end is fine if they had framed it correctly.