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Okay, this is for monicaop, and anyone else who might wonder how Eli Stone ended up.
I was so nervous throughout this hour, I thought I was going to give myself a heart attack.
Okay, Eli's vision in this one was of a plane crash and a woman in white standing in the wreckage. He came to realize that the woman was on a heart transplant list, and the heart that she was supposed to receive was from a young woman that was in a vegetative state, due to an accident.
Only just as the woman was supposed to get the heart, the girl's family found out she was an atheist, and since they and their daughter were Christians, they didn't want to give it to the atheist. Which is, like, the opposite of the right thing to do, but whatever. Christians on TV are generally portrayed as biased nutjobs. Not that there aren't some out there like that, but a fair and reasonable portrayal every once in awhile would be nice.
But I digress.
The other part of the vision was the plane crash, and the only real clue Eli had as to why he should stop it was a black travel bag in the debris. It had what looked like a VS emblazoned on the front.
When Eli got to the office, Jordan announced Taylor and Matt's engagement, and he presented the entire staff with black travel bags emblazoned with WS (for Weathersby Stone, the name of their firm) on the front, and then Eli was in really big trouble. It could have been anyone from the firm in the plane crash, so Eli had to set about stopping everyone from going on trips. lol Which went exactly as you would think it would with him.
In an itty bitty Maggie subplot, at her firm with Paul, he offered her second chair on a case that could take them to Rome, like in Eli's vision from Sonoma.
Jordan was the first to announce that he would be going to Colorado to see Taylor's mom to reconcile with her for what he did in the past. Eli told him not to go, and they discussed his visions, which, they apparently weren't supposed to discuss, which was news to me. Jordan essentially told Eli that he didn't believe him, and they didn't discuss the visions because he was afraid that doing so would confuse Eli in regards to the fact that just because he didn't believe him didn't mean he didn't believe IN him. He basically also renounced believing in God or any of his miracles, which was just such a 360 for him that it left my mouth hanging open.
I thought the entire basis of Weathersby Stone's inception was because of what happened to Jordan in the building collapse and his belief in Eli's visions to do good with their work. So that was just the biggest WTF? in the world.
ANYWAY. Jordan went to Colorado despite Eli's warning, and then Eli found out that Matt and Taylor would be eloping to Hawaii immediately. He held the doors to their elevator and told them not to go. He told them why, and even though they both thought he was full of it (though, again, why anyone would after all they'd seen him do was beyond me), when it came down to packing at home, Matt decided they weren't going to do it. He told Taylor that if there was even a 1% chance, or one half of one percent chance that it was true, he refused to risk her and the baby.
Needless to say, the plane to Hawaii did not go down.
In the heart transplant case, the girl's ex-boyfriend came forward with e-mails she had sent him regarding her crisis of faith. The girl's parents knew nothing of this, and thought she was still a believer, but apparently at the time of her accident she was not. Eli and Keith took the e-mails to the woman waiting for the heart, and she told them to absolutely not present those in court and break the parents' hearts like that. She told Eli that she might be an atheist, but she couldn't live with herself knowing she had destroyed someone else's lives just so she could have the heart. So they agreed not to submit them.
Eli had a vision that he saw the plane crash on television, so he knew the day and time, but not the flight number or any other details. Desperate to find out those details, he went to Frank for the Dark Truth, and brought Nate in to monitor him so it would be safer than the previous time, which was believed to have brought about his second aneurysm.
They did the Dark Truth, and Eli ran through the airport, approaching paramedics performing CPR on... him. As he lay on the floor, they pronounced him dead. Commercial break.
Back in court, it came down to the 11th hour, and Eli decided to submit the e-mails anyway, because he couldn't live with himself if he hadn't done everything he could for his client. So he called the mother to the stand and told her about the e-mails, and she asked him to read them. He shared the pertinent information, which the father stopped, citing that it was cruel. Eli didn't feel good about breaking the news, but he felt it was pertinent to proving a point. After court, the mother told him that they had decided to give the heart to the atheist.
I didn't think they got their point across too well in that plot, because a true Christian would do what was right, regardless of the other person's beliefs or lack thereof. All that matters is what you do, and what God would want you to do. After that the rest is up to the other person, and they have to live with that. But no one ever portrays that very well on TV, like I said.
Eli got a voicemail from Maggie, and she was thanking him for the travel bag from the firm. Patti sent it over to her (she would have been there at Christmas, as they were presents held off from then), but it had his name on it, so she wanted to thank him. She then told him that she was leaving for Rome with Paul on a case.
Eli then realized that it was MAGGIE that was going to be in the plane crash, and he tried to call her, but as she was getting ready to go to the airport, of course her phone was dead.
So Eli got to the airport, and as he was running to the gate, he collapsed. On the other side of the break, he woke up in the hospital, and Maggie was sitting beside his bed. She told him what had happened, and that she had told the paramedics about the aneurysms, because they had thought he had a heart attack. One of the aneurysms had burst, and they had fixed it with some kind of procedure involving a coil.
He asked her how many people had died on the plane, and she said no one. He then asked how she had gotten off, and she had said they had been really close to take off, but she had insisted on getting off the plane. Something just didn't feel right, so maybe they both knew things, she said. When she got off the plane, they had to go back through the safety tests or whatever, and they had found the problem with the fuel pump in the engine, which allegedly would have caused the plane to explode.
Eli was relieved, and then they kind of vaguely addressed the "what's going on with us" thing and admitted there was definitely something there, then Nate came to interrupt.
Nate told Eli that the woman who had been going into transplant surgery had died in prep of an embolism, but the heart was still viable and going elsewhere. Eli was very dejected and angry, wondering how that could have happened after what he had had to go through in order to get her the heart. Nate told him it wasn't his fault, these things just happen. Then Nate left, and Maggie took his hand, of which they showed a closeup.
The next thing we see is Eli walking down the hall of the hospital, and he spots a snowglobe with mountains on it on a table. He walks over and picks it up, and suddenly he's in a suit, in the snow covered mountains in India where he had gone in the pilot to spread his father's ashes.
His father is there, and Eli looks at him skeptically, and asks if it's really his father or God, or what. His father just tells him a little bit of both, it's complicated.
Once Eli is over the shock of being face to face with Jeremy, he asks him why he went to the trouble to save that woman when it was all for nothing. Jeremy tells him it wasn't for nothing, and that Grace, his soulmate (Katie Holmes, from earlier in the season), had come back to San Francisco to see Eli, and her condition had caused her heart to finally give out, and she had received the heart. Eli told him he was glad for that, but that he was basically not amused at having the people he loves, like Maggie, at risk.
Jeremy tells him a couple of "mysterious ways" cliches, and Eli tells him that if he's going to keep doing what he's doing, he's going to do it his way. Jeremy says, "And you wonder why God gave man free will." He more or less agrees to that, and he tells him he didn't miss that Eli said he loves Maggie. He also tells him he's made something of his life and done good things, as well as Nate, and a father couldn't be prouder. Eli is crying, which means I am crying, and then Jeremy disappears.
It then fades to Eli at the office, walking into his office and putting out pictures of Nate, his father with him as a boy, and an adorable one of Maggie, and he smiles, and then he picks up his brief case and walks up the stairs, and everything fades to white, the end.
For the mostpart I was satisfied, especially with the fact he wound up with and finally outright said he loves Maggie and that he got to see his father again, and everything wrapped up as well as could be expected in the amount of time they had.
The only thing I really didn't like was the character assassination of Jordan, the initial portrayal of the Christian couple, but overall I was pleased with the series as a whole. I just wish they hadn't been dumb enough to cancel it.
Eli and Maggie are together, the end. hee
I am grateful to Greg Berlanti and Mark Guggenheim for being brave enough to bring this wonderful, sweet, imaginative show to fruition, even if their mission got cut short. Not to mention the AMAZING cast of this show, who all knocked it out of the park every single week. This may be the only show ever where I didn't hate a single character.
Sad it's over, but glad it turned out all right.
I was so nervous throughout this hour, I thought I was going to give myself a heart attack.
Okay, Eli's vision in this one was of a plane crash and a woman in white standing in the wreckage. He came to realize that the woman was on a heart transplant list, and the heart that she was supposed to receive was from a young woman that was in a vegetative state, due to an accident.
Only just as the woman was supposed to get the heart, the girl's family found out she was an atheist, and since they and their daughter were Christians, they didn't want to give it to the atheist. Which is, like, the opposite of the right thing to do, but whatever. Christians on TV are generally portrayed as biased nutjobs. Not that there aren't some out there like that, but a fair and reasonable portrayal every once in awhile would be nice.
But I digress.
The other part of the vision was the plane crash, and the only real clue Eli had as to why he should stop it was a black travel bag in the debris. It had what looked like a VS emblazoned on the front.
When Eli got to the office, Jordan announced Taylor and Matt's engagement, and he presented the entire staff with black travel bags emblazoned with WS (for Weathersby Stone, the name of their firm) on the front, and then Eli was in really big trouble. It could have been anyone from the firm in the plane crash, so Eli had to set about stopping everyone from going on trips. lol Which went exactly as you would think it would with him.
In an itty bitty Maggie subplot, at her firm with Paul, he offered her second chair on a case that could take them to Rome, like in Eli's vision from Sonoma.
Jordan was the first to announce that he would be going to Colorado to see Taylor's mom to reconcile with her for what he did in the past. Eli told him not to go, and they discussed his visions, which, they apparently weren't supposed to discuss, which was news to me. Jordan essentially told Eli that he didn't believe him, and they didn't discuss the visions because he was afraid that doing so would confuse Eli in regards to the fact that just because he didn't believe him didn't mean he didn't believe IN him. He basically also renounced believing in God or any of his miracles, which was just such a 360 for him that it left my mouth hanging open.
I thought the entire basis of Weathersby Stone's inception was because of what happened to Jordan in the building collapse and his belief in Eli's visions to do good with their work. So that was just the biggest WTF? in the world.
ANYWAY. Jordan went to Colorado despite Eli's warning, and then Eli found out that Matt and Taylor would be eloping to Hawaii immediately. He held the doors to their elevator and told them not to go. He told them why, and even though they both thought he was full of it (though, again, why anyone would after all they'd seen him do was beyond me), when it came down to packing at home, Matt decided they weren't going to do it. He told Taylor that if there was even a 1% chance, or one half of one percent chance that it was true, he refused to risk her and the baby.
Needless to say, the plane to Hawaii did not go down.
In the heart transplant case, the girl's ex-boyfriend came forward with e-mails she had sent him regarding her crisis of faith. The girl's parents knew nothing of this, and thought she was still a believer, but apparently at the time of her accident she was not. Eli and Keith took the e-mails to the woman waiting for the heart, and she told them to absolutely not present those in court and break the parents' hearts like that. She told Eli that she might be an atheist, but she couldn't live with herself knowing she had destroyed someone else's lives just so she could have the heart. So they agreed not to submit them.
Eli had a vision that he saw the plane crash on television, so he knew the day and time, but not the flight number or any other details. Desperate to find out those details, he went to Frank for the Dark Truth, and brought Nate in to monitor him so it would be safer than the previous time, which was believed to have brought about his second aneurysm.
They did the Dark Truth, and Eli ran through the airport, approaching paramedics performing CPR on... him. As he lay on the floor, they pronounced him dead. Commercial break.
Back in court, it came down to the 11th hour, and Eli decided to submit the e-mails anyway, because he couldn't live with himself if he hadn't done everything he could for his client. So he called the mother to the stand and told her about the e-mails, and she asked him to read them. He shared the pertinent information, which the father stopped, citing that it was cruel. Eli didn't feel good about breaking the news, but he felt it was pertinent to proving a point. After court, the mother told him that they had decided to give the heart to the atheist.
I didn't think they got their point across too well in that plot, because a true Christian would do what was right, regardless of the other person's beliefs or lack thereof. All that matters is what you do, and what God would want you to do. After that the rest is up to the other person, and they have to live with that. But no one ever portrays that very well on TV, like I said.
Eli got a voicemail from Maggie, and she was thanking him for the travel bag from the firm. Patti sent it over to her (she would have been there at Christmas, as they were presents held off from then), but it had his name on it, so she wanted to thank him. She then told him that she was leaving for Rome with Paul on a case.
Eli then realized that it was MAGGIE that was going to be in the plane crash, and he tried to call her, but as she was getting ready to go to the airport, of course her phone was dead.
So Eli got to the airport, and as he was running to the gate, he collapsed. On the other side of the break, he woke up in the hospital, and Maggie was sitting beside his bed. She told him what had happened, and that she had told the paramedics about the aneurysms, because they had thought he had a heart attack. One of the aneurysms had burst, and they had fixed it with some kind of procedure involving a coil.
He asked her how many people had died on the plane, and she said no one. He then asked how she had gotten off, and she had said they had been really close to take off, but she had insisted on getting off the plane. Something just didn't feel right, so maybe they both knew things, she said. When she got off the plane, they had to go back through the safety tests or whatever, and they had found the problem with the fuel pump in the engine, which allegedly would have caused the plane to explode.
Eli was relieved, and then they kind of vaguely addressed the "what's going on with us" thing and admitted there was definitely something there, then Nate came to interrupt.
Nate told Eli that the woman who had been going into transplant surgery had died in prep of an embolism, but the heart was still viable and going elsewhere. Eli was very dejected and angry, wondering how that could have happened after what he had had to go through in order to get her the heart. Nate told him it wasn't his fault, these things just happen. Then Nate left, and Maggie took his hand, of which they showed a closeup.
The next thing we see is Eli walking down the hall of the hospital, and he spots a snowglobe with mountains on it on a table. He walks over and picks it up, and suddenly he's in a suit, in the snow covered mountains in India where he had gone in the pilot to spread his father's ashes.
His father is there, and Eli looks at him skeptically, and asks if it's really his father or God, or what. His father just tells him a little bit of both, it's complicated.
Once Eli is over the shock of being face to face with Jeremy, he asks him why he went to the trouble to save that woman when it was all for nothing. Jeremy tells him it wasn't for nothing, and that Grace, his soulmate (Katie Holmes, from earlier in the season), had come back to San Francisco to see Eli, and her condition had caused her heart to finally give out, and she had received the heart. Eli told him he was glad for that, but that he was basically not amused at having the people he loves, like Maggie, at risk.
Jeremy tells him a couple of "mysterious ways" cliches, and Eli tells him that if he's going to keep doing what he's doing, he's going to do it his way. Jeremy says, "And you wonder why God gave man free will." He more or less agrees to that, and he tells him he didn't miss that Eli said he loves Maggie. He also tells him he's made something of his life and done good things, as well as Nate, and a father couldn't be prouder. Eli is crying, which means I am crying, and then Jeremy disappears.
It then fades to Eli at the office, walking into his office and putting out pictures of Nate, his father with him as a boy, and an adorable one of Maggie, and he smiles, and then he picks up his brief case and walks up the stairs, and everything fades to white, the end.
For the mostpart I was satisfied, especially with the fact he wound up with and finally outright said he loves Maggie and that he got to see his father again, and everything wrapped up as well as could be expected in the amount of time they had.
The only thing I really didn't like was the character assassination of Jordan, the initial portrayal of the Christian couple, but overall I was pleased with the series as a whole. I just wish they hadn't been dumb enough to cancel it.
Eli and Maggie are together, the end. hee
I am grateful to Greg Berlanti and Mark Guggenheim for being brave enough to bring this wonderful, sweet, imaginative show to fruition, even if their mission got cut short. Not to mention the AMAZING cast of this show, who all knocked it out of the park every single week. This may be the only show ever where I didn't hate a single character.
Sad it's over, but glad it turned out all right.