Anyone else think the final montage is overrated?
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BingoFlip20943 — 10 years ago(June 14, 2015 12:13 PM)
Yes. People think it's the most amazing, brilliant ending to a tv show when it's pretty much a bunch of people falling over in the future set to an okay song. There are other parts of Six Feet Under that are vastly superior to the final montage.
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GuyOnTheLeft — 10 years ago(June 15, 2015 12:13 PM)
LOL, well said. And I would add, falling over in the future with bad age makeup on.
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sawfan1414 — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 01:49 PM)
Well Claire died in her bed, asleep, so there's that. So did Ruth, whilst seeing a final vision of her son, with her remaining family surrounding her, in a very beautiful moment. Oh, and Keith was murdered.
The only people who "fell down", were David (which was perfectly done) and Federico.
We can all have our opinions, but this is generally considered the best ending to any show, trying to bash it with inaccuracies shows your ignorance. -
z_thomas — 10 years ago(June 16, 2015 09:20 PM)
I love the ending and it makes me cry every time. It's incredibly moving and the makeup and set design is pretty good if you ask me. I love the Nate dying scene dream even more though with the going to the beach sequence.
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Eva_Marrie — 10 years ago(January 31, 2016 03:20 PM)
Yes!! I've always found it incredibly cheesy. The driving into the sunset with the perfectly fitting Breathe Me part is great, but the montage ruins it. I would've just gone with title cards detailing the future lives of the characters, maybe over 1 photo each.
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nataliadenise — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 12:09 PM)
Nope. Just watched it again on the HBO marathon. Almost peed myself. I fakkakta love it. So damn good. Keith, Ruth ans Davids' deaths leave me gasping for air. So beautiful. I hate cheese and corniness and I find neither in it. How does it still get me 11 years later?
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sawfan1414 — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 01:52 PM)
I don't think it's overrated. The finale as a whole is up there with my favorite endings, The Shield, Justified, Cowboy Bebop.
As for the montage, it was beautifully done, but it's not my favorite part of the episode. Always have been fond of the part where Nate appears to Claire one last time, telling her "You can't take a picture of this, it's already gone." -
ADBruns — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 11:47 AM)
Overrated? No. By people who underrate the rest of the series? For sure. I don't think that it's even because it's "the best" so much as it set a standard for finales. What bugs me is Keith's death. Yes, it makes sense for his story, but why did the one major black character get a premature and violent death? I don't think it was inherently racist, but unnecessary, probably wouldn't have gone that way today.
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NinetyPercentGravity — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 06:16 PM)
As someone who consider this show their all-time favorite, I'd have to agree with the above poster regarding people who underrated the rest of the series.
While I'd be lying if I said I didn't still love the Sia montage, I certainly don't think that those nine minutes should be the entire summation of the show's legacy. While undoubtably effective, the show is simply so much more than Everyone's Waiting. Hell I don't even consider the montage the most impressive aspect of the finale, let alone of the series.
Now of course, the people who visit IMDb message boards, critics, the people who can appreciate the larger scope of drama television, understand the impact that the show in terms of evolving the drama genre and balancing the macabre with the humorous and abstract, all that great stuff. But for the average consumer, I think it's realistic to say that they know the show largely for the finale, if they've even heard of it at all.
While the series was certainly not without moments of spectacle and showiness, the show truly excelled in the moments of subtlety and nuance. Superb writing, the masterful handling of the subject matter, completely believable and immersive characters and developments, those are the types of reasons why I consider this show the best of all-time, not because it throws together a Sia montage and eradicates the entire cast in the series finale.
As the poster above me said, it did set a standard for other finales, and of course this upcoming point is largely tied into the fact that I've seen the finale montage 50 times, but I personally don't see the ingenuity and marvel of it. From an outside perspective, as someone who wasn't familiar with the content and bravery of the show, I could absolutely understand how the idea of watching every central character die seems enthralling and groundbreaking. That being said, the other 62 episodes were just as inventive and masterful as the finale was, to the point where after watching and conceptualizing the tone of the entire series, the conceit of the montage does not seem nearly as innovative.
Like I originally said, I still absolutely watch the montage and become emotional, I am completely fine with it as an ending to the show, but I don't believe that it works as a representation of the greater series. The show approached mortality through so many different lens' and with so much care and open-mindedness, but in the end the concept of death became just as straightforward and one-dimensional as it was on any other television show, just another water-cooler gimmick. I would have preferred something a little less garish and a little more poignant.
The show, at its best, was grounded in subtlety and poise, at its worst (looking at you, Season 4) veered off into clumsy directions of a network drama. I think the finale borrowed too much from the latter.