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Since Doc Cochrane is one of the few fictional characters, they can do as they like with him ... meaning, yeah kill him off after not even giving him a moment in the finale, WTF? He was sooo noticeable by his absence.
Yeah, the prior two episodes were the ones more filled with action. And the actual last show had tension and sizzle to spare. I guess the final trio adds up to one amazing conclusion of everythingness.
But the actual finale had some great stuff. I loved all the final interactions with Hurst. As would realistically happen, he comes out ahead plotwise ... but he gets quite the personal comeupance from Bullock, and from Charlie Utter, and from the widow Ellsworth best of all.
The third season led me to a particular appreciation of this show. In the second, I bemoaned the loss of Swearingen as the heavy. But the third season demonstrated that there'd be a new heavy each time around, because the same guy just can't be the same degree of scary two years in a row. This year, Toliver went from frightening to pathetic ... and G.R. took over the villain role. Very fu<king clever, if you ask me.
So unless and until there's a miniseries down the trail, we'll be left with the apt final image of Al scrubbing the blood from his office floorboards.
Waaaa, I miss the show already!!!
The only thing good about the mere 3-year run is that I can watch the whole series without committing a year to the project. This will be the only television series I will buy on DVD.
Sorry to fans of Carnivale ... it was an interesting show .... but --and all a matter of taste, o'course -- not to my mind in the upper pantheon of greatest tv serieses of all time.
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