One of my favorite shows and hate to see it end but man what a great finale. Didn't go exactly how I thought it would but that's a good thing. Instead of the final showdown between Boyd and Raylan they end with a somewhat unspoken token of mutual respect for one another and the great line of "well we dug coal together". In the first season after Raylan shoots Boyd, Ava ask him why he said he was sorry after shooting him and his response was: "we dug coal together". Thought it was kind of cool how they came full circle back to that after all they had been through as adversaries.
As Raylan was driving Ava in and the ominous music "you will never leave Harlan alive" played with Boon running them down I thought this may actually be the guy that finally get's the best of Raylan. Ava and Loretta sheepishly ducking down as the two showed it down was such classic old western gun fight I had to chuckle. Raylan survives but finally met some one as fast as him but he took the safe shot center mass while Boon went for the low percentage head shot. His hat is no more but Raylan lives on. Evidently that was an ode to the since passed writer Elmer Leonard. He said Timothy Olympant played the role and delivered lines exactly as he had imagined the character he created but Leonard never liked the Steston hat. The one Raylan takes off of Boon to replace his shot up Steston is more of the type Leonard had always envisioned his character wearing. I was wondering why all the banter about hats between the two all season but that put it all into context.
Going into it I wasn't sure how they could tie the whole thing up in an hour but they did and the last 20 minutes was done perfectly. Other long running series could learn from how well they ended this one. Kind of funny ole Duffy somehow survived and is surfing in Fiji with 9 million dollars as well. Redemption for all the beatdowns and horrible situations Raylan put him in over the years!
As Raylan was driving Ava in and the ominous music "you will never leave Harlan alive" played with Boon running them down I thought this may actually be the guy that finally get's the best of Raylan. Ava and Loretta sheepishly ducking down as the two showed it down was such classic old western gun fight I had to chuckle. Raylan survives but finally met some one as fast as him but he took the safe shot center mass while Boon went for the low percentage head shot. His hat is no more but Raylan lives on. Evidently that was an ode to the since passed writer Elmer Leonard. He said Timothy Olympant played the role and delivered lines exactly as he had imagined the character he created but Leonard never liked the Steston hat. The one Raylan takes off of Boon to replace his shot up Steston is more of the type Leonard had always envisioned his character wearing. I was wondering why all the banter about hats between the two all season but that put it all into context.
Going into it I wasn't sure how they could tie the whole thing up in an hour but they did and the last 20 minutes was done perfectly. Other long running series could learn from how well they ended this one. Kind of funny ole Duffy somehow survived and is surfing in Fiji with 9 million dollars as well. Redemption for all the beatdowns and horrible situations Raylan put him in over the years!
