User blog comment:Jon Archer/That was it!/@comment-10870881-20150908093545

The thing is, I don't see the alternatives as being any better. I'll go through a few:

1. Everyone dies. < No, for obvious reasons.

2. Church lives, everyone lives, they beat the Chairman, yaaaaay happy ending. < No, it would be a terrible response to the trailer's statement of Epsilon's death, and just generally cliche and unfulfilling.

3: Church dies, everyone else wins, beat Chairman etcetera, everyone tearfully remembers Church and Doyle, hug it out. < No, because they already did that with Doyle initially, doing it again here would be stale and tacky.

3b: Church dies, everyone else wins, beat Chairman etcetera, everyone gets really depressed. < Even less satisfying than the real ending, ending the saga with everyone being emo would be way too downbeat.

What we have have is ambiguous, emotional and promises so much more to come. I really think that Miles chose the best ending to this season.