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Anybody else think that Mike and Fi should have actually died together


i was convinced that james took them in the blast, it would have been a perfect creative ending. both mike and fi have been through so much and they die together side by side, it would have been a much better ending in my opinion. i still liked the ending, but i just feel that mike and fi dying together in the explosion would have been perfect. does anybody else agree or am i the only one?

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Matt Nix and his crew are fans too and they've lived with these characters for 8 years. I can't help but think they'd want a happy ending too especially since it was about Michael getting his life back.

You don't have to be perfect to be good.
-Victor Davis Hanson

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What happened to the guy from "Spin City" that they locked in the trunk? Did James find him and kill him? The CIA did Sam let him out?

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I KNEW he looked familiar!

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Mike and Fi will die together, more importantly they get to live together.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

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I would have hated that! Fi and Michael needed to be happy together in the end for fast seven seasons to mean something.

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I was sadly hoping they would have died in the blast.

1. We've seen time and time again that despite the personal loss, Micheal just loves the spy game too much. No matter how much he loves Fionna and Charlie I don't see him settling into a life of seclusion.

2. In his last monologue he mentions that until a spy is dead, he is always useful and always a spy.

3. So what now, they raise Charlie in isolation because neither Fionna or Micheal can show their faces in public without fear of having death and destruction come down on them.

I've been a huge fan of Burn Notice since the beginning. I hated seeing Maddie die and was hoping that James would call of the people on Maddie and only kill Micheal (James showed compassion more than once and despite being the villain showed that he was far from pure evil).

IMO it would have been better to kill of Micheal and Fionna and have Charlie end up with Sam and Elsa.

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When Maddie died I knew that was the BIG DEATH of the series and that everybody else would survive. As long as Sam made it, I would be okay with any outcome. I do think Charlie should be with Elsa and Sam as he is the most rational and grounded of them all.

I think they kept them alive as a possible stand alone TV movie. Mike and Fi have both been in the game too long to be happy with a domesticated life so I dont see them as happily ever after. Maybe for a few years while the kids real young but after that all bets are off.

I doubt anyone will agree with me and I knew it wouldnt happen but i really wanted Mike to let Sonja shoot Fi. I just like Sonja as a character and as an actress so much better than Fi. I think it was cowardly he shot her in the back and killed her. For all these seasons we have seen him pull off all sorts of heroic extraordinary feats. He couldnt disable/disarm Sonja without killing her? That was her punishment for daring to make him care for her.

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One more season where they go back and do the weekly odd jobs again. Or even one more episode.

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You have to look at the entire series to know that wouldn't be good. Someone had to take care of Charlie and it wouldn't be Maddie. Jessie and Sam were out, too, because of their lifestyles. Michael and Fi deserved each other and deserved to make a go of it, outside of the spy world.

If you want to see someone get it when a bad guy unexpectedly pulls out a detonator, watch Zorg's priceless reaction in "The Fifth Element."

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Yes I know exactly what you mean and I agree. The ending was good, but leaving at the point when fiona and Michael died would have been better. It would have been more sad that way but much more of a better ending.

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I am another who liked the ending as is. IMHO there are more than enough movies and TV series with dark endings these days. Why add yet another in the name of being "edgy." Losing Maddie was enough dark for me.

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