Joel and Julia decided to adopt Victor’s newborn biological sister, and Adam took over Chambers Academy, leaving Crosby and Amber to breathe new life into The Luncheonette. Sadly, Zeek succumbed to his failing heart, though the moment of his death happened off- screen before Camille found him, passed away, in his armchair. Per Zeek’s wishes, his ashes were sprinkled on the baseball field, and a series of flash- forwards showed the Bravermans years into the future. Some of the highlights: Joel and Julia with four kids, Crosby and Jasmine with a third on the way and Adam handing Max his diploma from Chambers Academy. Death Note; Directed by Tomohiko Ito. With Mamoru Miyano, Kappei Yamaguchi, Naoya Uchida, Ai Sato. While the world's criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with. What we know about the death of a superstar is precious little. The murk won't clear soon. In the land of the dead, a bored Shinigami named Ryuk decides to create some entertainment for himself by dropping a Death Note (the notebook of a death god; "note. In addition to Wolff and Dafoe, the. Published: December 25, 2007: Game: L the Prologue to Death Note: Spiraling Trap; Developer: Konami: Publisher: Konami: Genre: Action: Platform: Nintendo DS: Released. ![]() We decided that from the first day in the writers’ room, and we didn’t waver from that. When we started breaking specifically what those last few episodes would look like, I kept being bothered by the fact that the series would end with somebody dying. It didn’t feel like that represented what the end of the show should look like. This is ultimately an uplifting show, and it’s about this family coming together. We didn’t want to give the audience a fairytale ending, and we wanted the story of Zeek dying. But that’s when the idea of the flash- forwards came up. By juxtaposing the death against the family continuing to expand and thrive, that would give it the music of life. It was kind of inspired by the end of Friday Night Lights. In the final episode, we did flash- forwards to all of our characters and where they ended up. TVLINE ? Did you come up with a backstory for how he and Amber would have met? We had this idea that we wanted to see Amber down the road a few years. The original thought I had was actually to shoot the scene of the first time the two of them saw each other. That would be when they were both playing with their kids on the playground, and he’s a single dad and she’s a single mom. We actually shot a version of that scene but weren’t able to use it for time. ![]() And then the other scene is the one that’s in there, where you see that Sarah and Hank sort of have this extended family. We reached out to Scott, and we wanted a special actor to do it, but it was tricky getting a special actor when somebody’s coming in to do a scene with no lines. We wanted someone who could come in and, right away, feel like they were part of the family, because we didn’t have time for that relationship to grow. And he came in to do it, and it was magic. TVLINE . Was that purely for time, or did you not feel like it fit with the final episode’s story? We had this scene where Seth comes back and has a moment with his grandson, and you can tell he’s really going to try to be there for him. And in that same scene, he acknowledges Sarah getting married and moving on. It was a really nice moment, and it was painful to cut it. ![]() But unfortunately, we were in a situation where we didn’t have a choice. TVLINE . Given where they started this season, how did you approach writing their endgame? The reconciling really came over the entire season, and it was not a simple reconciliation. But there were so many moments of them building toward this reconciliation that, by the time we get to the two of them deciding to be together — which in my mind, was the episode that ends at the ice- skating rink — I felt like we’d earned the two of them being back together. That scene in the finale between Joel and Julia on the dance floor, when they decide to adopt a child — that one always hits me as a very emotional scene. I think it’s because it speaks to what a deep connection the two of them feel with each other. Even though they know they’ve just gotten back together, there’s an inevitability and a certain level of fate involved with this. The unexpected nature of it; I was really drawn to that. The idea of the fourth child in the flash forward — a lot of people, as they go through the adoption process, it’s a long and drawn- out process. And then by the time the adoption goes through, they find out they’re pregnant. And now, they’re a family with four children, which is like the family that Julia grew up in, like the family we’ve been observing all this time. TVLINE . I felt like the montage really served as a juxtaposition to that. We have this beloved character who was the patriarch of this family who we’re losing. To me, the thesis statement of that montage afterwards reminded me of the thesis statement of the whole show: No matter what curveballs are thrown at you in life, your family helps you get through it. To me, the spirit of that montage was really about seeing this family continue to grow and expand and thrive in different, and sometimes unexpected, ways. Because the whole thing was set in motion by a death, it didn’t seem appropriate to have that montage be about the difficult times. It seemed to suggest more celebratory times. Parenthood fans, were you pleased with the series finale? Grade the episode via our poll below, then hit the comments to back up your choice!
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