But Madeline's death hit all the right notes. It was all about this ultra-cool spy who had to - ha ha! - deal with his chain-smoking, nagging mother. Especially considering how the show, back when it started out, was a lot more tongue in cheek than it is now. Sam would have made the biggest impact, I think, but Madeline's demise was still very well done.
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Still, I think most folks thought it was going to be Madeline or Jesse. Me especially since, while searching for episode images for "Sea Change," I actually came across a picture of Sonya with a bullet wound in her shirt. Fans were promised a big, meaningful death in the finale, and as much as the cliffhanger last week tried to trick us into thinking it would be Fi, we knew it wouldn't be.
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More violent than, say, just a gunshot wound. And as quick a death as it was, it was still very violent. "This is for my boys," she said, taking her last drags off a cigarette before blowing up an entire room. And to atone for her shortcomings as a mother. And not just her death, but her ultimate sacrifice. The biggest moment in "Reckoning" had to be, of course, the death of Madeline. So there was was, at the end of this episode, in a cabin with Fi and Charlie. No organization was going to live up to his lofty ideals. This all bubbled up to the surface over the past two seasons, and, as it turns out, Michael finally figured out that he didn't really belong anywhere. It was no longer about Michael reclaiming his old position, it was about him slowly coming to terms with the fact that the CIA was a dirty, rotten place that he didn't want to return to. Then, post-Season 4, things kicked it up a notch. In fact, for a while his quest to use his friends in order to return to a life of cold isolation became very frustrating to watch. Because nothing was worth the danger he was putting himself, and everyone else around him, in. Also, during all of this, Michael's quest to get his old job back wound up becoming a strain on the show.
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In fact, if you asked me about all of it now, I'd be hard pressed to tell you all the ins and outs of how and why Michael was burned.
#Burn notice finaly series
Burn Notice ran into some trouble, series-wise, after its first season led us into a seemingly never-ending series of Russian nesting doll-style villains in an attempt to drag out the original premise as long as possible. Even though "Reckoning" continued the Season 7 tradition of showcasing desolate backroads and unimpressive, abandoned locations, it still packed a wallop.
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Especially after the show stopped being about Michael getting burned by the CIA. Oh, and a small, fun dig at the fact that fans, ever since the end of Season 1, have wondered if the show would ever get a proper opening. It might seem like a clunky touch, but for a show that's often chased its own tail I felt like this was just a loving look back at all the characters. Even Fi got to say the "My name is Michael Westen" line at the end. Sam got to say his "bitchy little girls" line, Fi said "Shall we shoot them?" and Jesse even got to say a version of "That's how we do it, people." Though a bit more somber with "I guess that's how we do it," after Mike asked him to stay behind and protect Madeline and Charlie. Though certainly not the most impressive thing about the Burn Notice series finale, "Reckoning," it was still splendid to hear everyone's opening credit soundbites worked into the dialogue throughout the course of the episode.