All I got was a cold taste in my mouth when I saw the two parter finale...I felt cheated. I knew the show on its last legs then...but still....it should have ended on a higher note.

Yes, I felt cheated in a way. I wanted a real finale, even though we do sort of know the girls were all going off in different directions. Heck, Natalie wasn't even present in the last scene.

The end of Season 8 seems more like a finale to me than the real one does.

Not to mention, I thought the idea of Blair buying Eastland seemed so farfetched. She has just finally decided she wanted to be a lawyer and now was suddenly ditching it to run a school?

I think that the series finale would have been fine if it had been a regular two-part episode, but is was a poor way to end the series.

It was a pilot for a proposed spin-off series starring Blair and it didn't get picked up.

It was a pilot for a proposed spin-off series starring Blair and it didn't get picked up.

I think most realize that, but it kind of sucks that it sort of gipped a nine year series of an actual finale episode.

I kind of wish if they were going to do that they did a half hour episode for the new series and a half hour to wrap up "Facts".

I think most realize that, but it kind of sucks that it sort of gipped a nine year series of an actual finale episode.

I kind of wish if they were going to do that they did a half hour episode for the new series and a half hour to wrap up "Facts".

And Mrs. G should have been there. :(

Two of the 3 newest Eastlanders in the final 2 eppisodes I didn't even like. Seth "The Dumb***" Green aka Dr. Evil, Jr. and the morosely insane Juliette Lewis. Blossom was the only okay one out of the 3 new Eastlanders Blair was about to control. And the only thing I liked about the series finale was at the very end.

It doesn't make sense to have Juliette Lewis to star in two of the I Love The 80s series. They should have had me, though.

I wish they had the pilot for Blair's spin-off the episode before the last.I still can't belive we were cheated out of a series finale just for a pilot of a show that was never picked up.

I rewatched the two part series finale ("The Beginning of the End" and "The Beginning of the Beginning") just now and I really think it is a good two-part episode. It just isn't the proper way to have ended the series.

:p :lol: :dance: :banana: i think that it could have ended better even though the pilot didnt get picked up . It should have had a better ending to a great show

The finale was pretty weak. It mostly centered on Blair and that hurt it.

The finale was pretty weak. It mostly centered on Blair and that hurt it.
I definitely agree with you on this.:thumbsup: No wonder the pilot was a failure.

It didn't make sense really like all of the sudden tootie wants to go away to act and then natalie just goes to soho. Also did anyone have a problem with thw wedding of jo and Rick. It was like tootie was engaged for so long and then within 30 minutes Jo and rick are engaged than married

It didn't make sense really like all of the sudden tootie wants to go away to act and then natalie just goes to soho. Also did anyone have a problem with thw wedding of jo and Rick. It was like tootie was engaged for so long and then within 30 minutes Jo and rick are engaged than married

Yeah, it would have been okay if Rick was shown more. I wasn't against the concept of Jo getting married because she'd always been more a serious relationship person than to date several men at once type person like Blair.

But Rick made all of like two appearances prior to the wedding episode and one of them was prior to them even dating. Then there is an engagement and marriage all within 20 something minutes? Then Rick leaves and Jo stays behing for the rest of the season while he is on tour?

It always seemed weird to me that if they wanted to marry somebody off they didn't just go for Tootie since she was already engaged. Maybe they thought a Jo wedding would be unexpected and more of an attention grabber. Did they not remember she had like two wedding attempts already prior to that?

Hated the series finale, it left a big hole. All four girls should have spent the last scene together along with Mrs. G. It seemed put together at the last minute, like they totally forgot that they were ending.

The final episode was very disappointing, it would have been nice if Blair were hanging with the rest of the girls but it focused on her making a possible spinoff with her as headmistress and a new pending cast of teens with Eastland as a co-ed school, except none of the girls had the charm of the girls in the first season.

So we didn't see Blair again until the 2001 reunion, but so many questions remain as to how she met Tad, what happened with Casey, and what she did until then. By the way, anyone notice that in shows like The Facts of Life In Paris and in the Facts of Life Reunion Movie, Blair really never had any plot revolve around her? :confused:

The final episode was very disappointing, it would have been nice if Blair were hanging with the rest of the girls but it focused on her making a possible spinoff with her as headmistress and a new pending cast of teens with Eastland as a co-ed school, except none of the girls had the charm of the girls in the first season.

So we didn't see Blair again until the 2001 reunion, but so many questions remain as to how she met Tad, what happened with Casey, and what she did until then. By the way, anyone notice that in shows like The Facts of Life In Paris and in the Facts of Life Reunion Movie, Blair really never had any plot revolve around her? :confused:

Didn't Blair and Casey break up during the Jo's wedding episode because Blair wanted to get married and have kids someday and Casey didn't?

Blair did have a storyline in the the Paris movie, but it was more understated. Her plotline just wasn't about meeting a boy. It was her figuring out that she liked just spending time with herself and didn't always need to meet a cute boy to make her happy. Though admittedly the Paris movie isn't my favorite.

I also don't care for the reunion movie but she had about an equal part to Tootie. I have no idea why they chose to revolve the thing around Natalie's men issue.

The most entertaining part of the last episode is not the actual episode but was seeing some future stars in the making. I won't go so far as to say the actors had no charm since Seth Green, Juliette Lewis and Mayam Bialik all went on to future stardom after this show.

Didn't Blair and Casey break up during the Jo's wedding episode because Blair wanted to get married and have kids someday and Casey didn't?

Blair did have a storyline in the the Paris movie, but it was more understated. Her plotline just wasn't about meeting a boy. It was her figuring out that she liked just spending time with herself and didn't always need to meet a cute boy to make her happy. Though admittedly the Paris movie isn't my favorite.

I also don't care for the reunion movie but she had about an equal part to Tootie. I have no idea why they chose to revolve the thing around Natalie's men issue.

The most entertaining part of the last episode is not the actual episode but was seeing some future stars in the making. I won't go so far as to say the actors had no charm since Seth Green, Juliette Lewis and Mayam Bialik all went on to future stardom after this show.I was actually some of the characters lacked charm, but I should look up the actors, now that some sound familiar.

It seemed that even though Blair and Casey were in disagreement over the question of marriage vs. living together, at the end they left the question open-ended, but never resolved it. One can imagine that the answer was Tad. But nothing happened for the next 13 years that we knew of.

I think it was a great idea for BLAIR to become the headmaster for "EASTLAND"(after all she had been there almost all her young years), that way she could show the world how much she had grown & learn from MRS. G in "the facts of life". What i would have loved though, is to see her 3 friends interact more in her new life + also a special appearance from MRS. G, but it never happened......
As for the "REUNION MOVIE": the plot was really weak, if you compare it with the Sitcom itself; I also very much disliked how they rewrote the BLAIR character to act like a "spoil teenager" (like she was on season 2 as a 15-16 year old girl) when she was obviously in her 30ies!
Whatever happened to her growing up & taking charge of "EASTLAND"?! talk about bad writers!
PS: does anyone agree with me?