Ends way too unresolved. [No spoilers]

You finished throwing your tantrum?

I think the ending was fine. The only problem was their final plan being "half-explained". I think it just went pear-shaped after Rask was kidnapped.

It's a cliffhanger not an ending. I just didn't buy the Russian drive-by, that felt out of character. I'm sure if we ever get a second season it would be explained better but until then, just weak.

I disagree. Ending assumes a second season, as writers often do. At the time it was being produced they would have information to the contrary. Decisions like that are not typically made until well after the season airs. There nothing cheap about it. Wrapping this up in a nice pretty bow in last episode would have been the shallow move of a tame network playing to the sheep.

Have any of you considered that freemans character was kidnapped after the funeral and all that, and that they were aware that the fbi guy would blackmail him for money and it's all part of a bigger plan...

I feel your pain.

It didn't come across as cheaply written though, I thought it was intelligently done in many way and was left generally satisfied...as long as there's a second season! If there isn't then my judgement would go right down, more equal to yours probably.

You're right, that wasn't a finale, that was a penultimate episode.

I guess funding was capped or they are wanting reactions like this from enough people so that a second season is commissioned based on public appeal. They hooked me from ep3 and I was fully vested.

Cliffhangers can be done well if they resolve the majority or at least 50% of the threads of the season, then open up new story paths for the finale.

I found the finale to be shoddy because the there was not even a hint of any resolution of the main thread of the story which was pretty much a continual factor with each and every episode.

This seemed more like it should have been the second last episode with the finale showing some significant plot development towards at least resolving their main story thread.

I feel a better place to end is when Rask walks in to meet the 3. Have him walk in and sit down and end it there.

This leaves things open enough for a second season, but also gives a fairly satisfying ending to the first - they may be down, but they are not out, and have formed new alliances.

With regard to the plan, they made it clear they wanted the thing handled legally. However, I can't help wonder if their intention was to say that, but in the expectation that Rask will go off and do his thing anyway.

The driveby, I think, was a hit, specifically aimed at Izzy, the only one with a claim on the software, and obviously the hacker who obtained Rask's information. But they got the sister instead.

Ending this open ended and unfinished pisses me off. Network shows pull this crap, but cable shows should wrap up more. I don't mind the odd unfinished plot or even the odd unknown. But this ends like there is still another episode or two left.

Cheap writing. I enjoyed this, but had I known it ends with nothing wrapped up I would have passed until season 2 was up. If there is even a season 2!

Cliffhangers are for lame watered down network shows..... Pretty unhappy, especially if they never make another season.