Hmmm. The boy genius quoted Clarke's 3rd law - about any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic - and attributed it to Isaac Asimov. I wonder how much else he thinks he knows but doesn't? If you look up "hubris" in a dictionary, I bet it has his picture.

@GoddessRavinia wrote:
awe... Nooooo... Why the Cliffhang lol

A cliffhanger ending was pretty much inevitable, considering it took 9+ episodes to wrap their first case, and they had less than 4 left for the new one.
On a side note, doesn't the DEA train their people to zig-zag when someone is trying to shoot them?

I know some hardcore book fans have criticized this for straying too far from the source, but I read the whole series years ago, and it brought back enough hazy memories of characters and events to be worth watching for me. While I wished it could have continued to the end, I had no realistic hope that it ever would. Network execs just don't have the balls to see a series spanning 14+ books, and 14,000+ pages through to the end. I'm constantly surprised they keep green-lighting projects like this, when they must know from experience they'll never make it to the end. They just hope there will be enough initial hype to draw viewers for a few seasons before leaving them all hanging... again.

@derweissse wrote:
I can't imagine that anybody saw this coming.... :(

 

We should have. They outright told us what to expect at the end of episode 1, and dropped other hints along the way. But like any good magic trick, after telling us what they were going to do, they still managed to catch us off guard when they actually did it. The head-fake near the end where he meets his future ex-wife had me thinking "oh, that's the big twist...", and then WHAM! Don't know what the plan is for next season, but they'll need something pretty compelling to replace what had become one of my main reasons for watching. @snap: more like a gut-punch.