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4.6 The Last Goodbye

Shop owner: "I don't specifically specialize in deceased rock star memorabilia, but I do consider it a growth industry."

This episode was a lot of fun: the road trip, Johnny and Sarah as refugees from the "totally eighties," Sarah at seventeen with long hair at the Elysian Fields. It was great to finally have an episode about something that was important to Sarah: her music. The Jim Morrison plot was okay; I found Darren to be rather petulant, but I did like Roy, and I liked the subplot with the reporter who turned out to be a decent guy in the end. I thought Darren really died when the car went over the cliff, and I didn't guess that it was the disabled friend who had murdered Aubrey, so good on them.

Sarah said to Walt in the bedroom scene, "You are just the most amazing man." And he is. We know from Johnny's visions as well as Walt himself that Walt would never have married if it weren't for Sarah. But could even the most trusting of husbands feel okay about their beloved wife going off on a road trip with her former fiance, love of her life, and father of her child?

And (to continue with this general theme) it would have been nice to see more of younger Sarah and Johnny together. It saddens me a little that the sparks between Johnny and Sarah appear to be irrevokably gone. I still want Johnny and Sarah to be together. And I want them to do it somehow without hurting Walt. Yes, I know that's impossible.

Bits and pieces:

-- I absolutely loved the scene where Johnny ("I feel like a peeping tom") walked past the motel room doors, touching doorknobs and seeing a "puking prom queen and a traveling bus tour of 'Cats'."

-- So Sarah and Johnny went to Woodstock. I assume they meant the more recent version, not the one in the sixties.

-- Where the heck is J.J.? His absence is becoming conspicuous.

-- Okay, Roy mentioned the motel in the liner notes where he lived while he wrote the album, right? But Nathan the manager said that they were in the middle of a North American tour. That didn't make sense.

-- The outdoor concert scene looked a little CGI.

-- Who really wrote "Six Feet Under"?

-- Did Johnny really have a mullet? God forbid.

-- Walt: "It was loud." :)

Three out of four stars,

Billie






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