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I didn't like it. I liked everything in the episode until that point. It felt underwhelming that Church died in a season where he wasn't even the main focus. I felt cheated. They kill off a main character and don't even further develop his character the season he dies. He should've died in a season where he is the main protagonist. I understand why we don't get to see the result of the fight (or the fight itself) because the hero technically isn't alive to see the results of their actions. While clever and a new take on self-sacrifice, this wasn't the time to do it.

The season doesn't focus on Epsilon deteriorating and finally coming to the conclusion that he must off himself. It's hinted at a few times, but I feel one more season would've given that subplot a full, if not better effect. The season is about the Feds and Rebels learning to work together in order to reach a common goal: saving their planet. This is their story. We've spent so much time learning and connecting to these characters, we don't even get to see them celebrate, have someone find them, or stop Hargrove. I wanted to see them get what they want. I wanted a resolution to this entire trilogy.

Sure they may continue where they left off in a later season, but why couldn't they have just done that now? It'd be kinda weird to start off the first act of a new season with the characters realizing their freind's gone, and their still fighting Hargrove, who has already lost. I could get over not seeing a fight, it's not about having a final battle or anyhting. I just hate how this trilogy ends on a character who was never a main protagonist in any of the Trilogy's seasons.

I also personally kinda felt that Church just gave up. I mean, Doc has a rocket launcher, Grif has his brute shot, Lopez and Simmons have two pairs of alien weapons, Donut is sick with grenades, Caboose has Freckles, and Tucker has a modified Meta suit. I mean how powerful are Hargrove's forces? Couldn't Church have simply activate a domed energy shield to protect everyone? He didn't have to use all the enhancements at once; he just needed to use what he could. Hell, it's not like Tucker was going to push him like Carolina did.

Another note, after Meta captured Epsilon-Tex in Reunion, she was able to run all of Meta's enhancements on her own. Though I suppose she wasn't as old as Epsilon but she was a fragment of a fragment, right? Wouldn't she be weaker? I don't know. Also, in S12, we see Epsilon is able to harness and use the memories of the other AI. He seemed to be at his most powerful being able to do things super fast. The stakes, IMO, weren't high enough for Church to die.

I think the trailer pretty much ruined everything. It indicated that, since Epsilon was narrating the entire thing and his last lines being about how he died, Church was going to be the main character of S13. But nope, he wasn't. Instead we got more development from Locus, Felix, Doyle, Kimball, and Carolina than we did with Church. They felt more like the main protagonists. It feels as if they had to force the whole Church dying thing because they brought it up in the trailer. And what killed him? He was too old to run the suit. Um... didn't Epsilon kill himself already while inside Wash's head? All the way back in Recovery One? Did he just kill himself again?

Overall, this season needed a resolution to ALL the characters, not just Epsilon, because it's (or was) supposed to wrap up everything in the Trilogy. If they wanted to end it like this, they should've put more focus on Epsilon throughout the span of the season, at least. But they didn't. That's why I was unsatisfied with this ending. This isn't Epsilon's story.