Chicken Wing

This. Putting aside the whole step-siblings thing that may or may not be creepy/weird, for the love of God, can we not put Jackson with someone who isn't insane? I think Stephanie is the only person he's been with on this show who was moderately normal. Remember he was with Lexie first -- nuff said. Then April. Lord in heaven. (To be clear, I do quasi-ship Japril when they're not being asses and I still root for them to be endgame, but she's nuts.) And now they want to tease a hookup with Maggie? What kind of hellgod did Jackson piss off in a past life? And what a strange curse they cast on him: "I condemn thee to be forever romantically entangled with the most annoying person in the room."

Ha! That's a perfect description of Maggie.

I see what you did there.

Forgot about that. I absolutely would not take that to suggest Mer could be pregnant since the context of her nausea was already explained right in the scene, that she was just freaked out about Riggs meeting the kids. Like you said, feeling queasy is a perfectly normal reaction to a Big Step -- reacting physically to an major emotional thing. (Like puking altogether when you learn your husband was hit by a semi and is about to die.)

From what I can tell it was just based on the previews showing Riggs and Meredith looking all ecstatic as he twirled her around.

I mean, really, when you think about it, absolutely nothing happened. Everyone is in almost the exact same place they were last season finale. Meredith and Riggs are still, technically, in "will they or won't they" mode with the Megan stuff. Nothing came of Alex beating the crap out of DeLuca and nothing came of the Jo being married thing. Owen and Amelia got married and then immediately had almost nothing to do with each other for nearly the entire season. (Granted, these last two things were partially the result of the actresses' pregnancies, but still.) Bailey is still an incompetent chief. Maggie started and ended the season whining about Riggs. Jackson and April have their baby and that's all. Nothing. Nothing happened to anyone!

What dead woman?

She'll be up and at 'em, walking into crack dens and giving strangers her home address and social security number before you know it.

You have to be related by blood for it to be incest. If you're not, then it's not. They're step-siblings, but hardly that since Webber isn't actually a "dad" to Maggie anyway. It's just ... huh. Not really gross, not necessarily weird, just makes you go ... huh.

...and the sprinklers still didn't go off.

I thought the same thing when I watched The Hangover...

Yeah, very convenient for the stairwell fire to put itself out so Ben and the firefighters could get to the roof unimpeded.

Thank you for not killing Stephanie. She had a good sendoff. And super duper mega thank you for firing Minnick!

The big clincher, as I understood it, was that CBS doesn't have ownership stake in it. That's a big deal for them and other networks these days -- they want a stake in the profits if they're going to invest in a show. And since they didn't have stake in this, it just wasn't worth it enough to bring back in light of the declining ratings and the already-stuffed fall schedule with a slate of new comedies. The math just didn't work. If they did own it, they probably would have renewed it, even for a shortened season which was one of the final negotiation offers at the very end. There are other shows on their schedule that had lower ratings than this that did get renewed -- because CBS has ownership. I wish the studio would try to shop the show. I feel like TBS would be a perfect destination for a show like this but I think this might cost too much for TBS to want to bother. How did the money work when Cougar Town moved from ABC to TBS?

You'd think this hospital would have a lot of things.

And the sprinkler still didn't go off.

I do appreciate that the temporary return to the Enchanted Forest meant that Snow got to be dressed in something besides a tablecloth for the first time in like three seasons.

I haven't made up my mind on whether to come back next season, but if this is going to be my series finale they wrapped everything up pretty nicely for me. I mean, the whole "final battle" was lame as hell, but I enjoyed the coda, seeing everyone's happily ever afters. It's a nice way to end the story. The "cliffhanger" of picking up years later with Grown Up Henry being tracked down by his supposed daughter does nothing to hook me in for next season.

Godammit, I just saw the news. This stinks. This was never a "great" show but it was entertaining enough, and I thought the ratings were decent enough to keep coming back. I mean, the network renews worse. And the way this season ended, it was like they were daring CBS to try to cancel it now. Well, CBS called their bluff, I guess. Any chance another network or outlet might want to pick it up?

I thought of that episode (21 Guns) too!!! Abby immediately knew something was up -- who the hell ever calls her Abigail? Geez, do something, Steph. Her face is totally turned away from Rapist Man when she's talking to Ben. At the very least, couldn't she have mouthed "Help me" at the end of each sentence while Ben was looking at her?

That is precisely the point.

Dear Maggie: You can't call dibs on a guy when you're 40. Sincerely, The World Edit: Maybe I'm being unfair. Say Meredith and Riggs had been carrying on together all these months, or at least that's what Maggie inferred to have happened when the light bulb went off. I can understand her being miffed at Meredith not for "stealing" "her" guy, not for fooling around with a guy she knew Maggie was into, but for carrying on in secret about it while all the time Maggie was going on and on and on about how she was into him. Certainly Maggie would feel like a fool after she learned the truth. Of course, we have the vantage point of knowing how it really went down, how Meredith and Riggs only hooked up the first time before Meredith knew Maggie liked him, and then, partly because of this discovery, nothing happened at all after that until the plane and then they decided to tell Maggie. So knowing all this, Maggie's junior high freakout seems a little petty and ridiculous, railing on her sister for daring to start a relationship with the guy she knew Maggie liked. For a little while. Months ago. When's the last time Maggie even brought that up? Whatever. Either way, her reaction was way too immature no matter how it all went down.

At times I allow myself to wonder why they still do the tally at the end of the episode when they got their $250,000 and opened their cupcake business/dessert bar, which was what it was for. But then I get mad at myself for trying to make the show make sense.

Candy Andy would have made a feud much more fun. Plus, Candy Andy versus Randy. I mean, come on, it's right there!

I enjoyed this finale too. And I liked that it ended as a kind of storyline reset, a backdoor pilot for a new plotline if you will. Other finales ended the season with nothing really happening or changing for the girls (except, I guess, season 2 when they first got the idea to open the cupcake window). Kind of, whatever. Now, we have the introduction of two new storylines: Max Plans Her Wedding and The Girls Deal With The Fact That Their Significant Others Hate Each Other. So at least there's some new ground to cover when the show comes back. If it comes back. I'm sure it is coming back. It better come back. The show is objectively terrible but I love it.