Unfortunately, Canadian fans didn't get to hear the gunshot. Some idiot at the switcher faded at the end, as Erica was running across JR's viewpoint. Only when I went back did I hear the faint gunshot as it faded to a stupid promo for Nikita (which probably has a fraction of EVEN AMC's pathetic audience)! It wasn't until my online friends told me there was a gunshot that I knew.

That's fine for me, but what about ALL the Canadian fans of AMC who watched the show for more than 40 years, who now have no idea how it ended. They'll just think it ended with Erica running after her boyfriend like a teenybopper. Nice going, Canada. I hate you. God bless America, I'm watching the west coast feed on ABC Seattle now, where our version of the FCC doesn't block out the American channels and force us to watch the shoddy Canadian feeds!

Stupid hosers.

The final episode was kinda lame for me, personally. It seemed overly saccharin and cheesy. I liked Brooke and Adam getting engaged and Angie regaining her sight, as well as the hidden mystery surrounding the 2nd person that David has hidden, but that last scene just screamed SLOPPY. I wanted something more cohesive and powerful. The editing and lack of REAL dramatic impact at the end was a bit disappointing. I wanted something REALLY powerful like the final episode of Dynasty where Alexis and Michael Nader's character go hurling over the balcony.........or something more similar to the Moldavian massacre. Why not REALLY make people want to know what happened in an INTENSE way? I expected so much more.

Love AMC finale. AMC really showed other soaps how to bow out with a BANG!! Sorry alstonboy4315 if you were disappointed by I believe that you are in the minority

I am so happy they didn't go out with some over-the-top, bodies laying everywhere "shock" ending. Mrs. Nixon and Lorraine Broderick are on record saying they loathe stunts, and they made AMC's stunt ending as unstunt like as possible. Some lame 1980s style nighttime soap ending might have been more exciting for some people, but it would have been spitting in the faces of longtime viewers who can't move with the show online. Yes, I've heard the whole spiel about internet ready TVs and set top boxes. LB and AN aren't totally tone deaf and out of touch with the show's older fans, they knew this was the last day for a lot of people.

I didn't mind he sap. These are characters I may not ever see again, I wanted it to be as sentimental as possible. I loved hearing the AMC poem again, having the kids recite was a nice touch. Adam asking Brooke to be his (last) wife was wonderful. Tad's speech was nice. Heck, I even liked Jack and Erica's corny Rhett and Scarlett moment.

Overall, it was a nice episode, noticeable rewrites and editing problems aside. I give the episode a solid A- to B+.

As a fan I have enjoyed the last couple of weeks of AMC. Yesterday was pure gold with Adam and Stuart. I cried.

Today was good but kind of a letdown. The only "cliffhanger" I thought was done well was when Jack walked away from Erica ala Rhett Butler and Erica with her Scarlett O'HAra vowing to get her man back.

THe other patient if there is one I thought was poorly mishandled as a cliffhanger

The shot at the end didnt have anywhere near the impact it did on the end of the Sopranos and I am thinking they were going for the same impact.

Overall I dont think messing with the ending helped anything in terms of carrying viewers over to AMC 2.0. It was kind of blah

But I want to thank Agnes and Lorraine for a great ending overall to AMC. I think they did a beautiful job for the most part and gave longterm fans some nice closure and great moments. I didnt mind the PO crap at the end because it was a HW recognizing the damage such deaths did to the fabric of the show not a stunt to bring back viewers like other shows have done. Its a shame GH doesn't have the guts to do something similar. Zach though to me was never a key to AMC so they could have left him dead, Stuart and Dixie yes. And kudos to MEK for that speech at the end which was most obviously to the audience.

I heard the shot on the west coast AMERICAN feed. It took a fraction of a second longer. Fuckin' Canucklehead television.

Sorry, alstonboy, I can't sign on with your take of things. In fact, I already commented on my "home" board that I'm glad they didn't go the Moldavian massacre route (one of the most embarrassingly bad soap moments in history...and sadly, prime-timers got to see it and further reinforce their disdain for soaps). I think this ending (and the entire week of shows was absolutely excellent and could not have been any better.

That's it for me.

I liked the ending a lot. I loved when Jack told Erica off !

I thought the show ended with a whimper. Would a sound effect of screams after the gun shot been asking too much? This isn't going to have people clamoring to watch it on the internet.

Thank you Jamey. I agree with everything you wrote.

I loved Tad's speech so much.

As I said on another thread, Lorraine and Agnes had written another ending before PP stepped in hence the cliffhanger. I hope people keep that in mind. I liked it this way rather than another bullshit weather system breaking the windows and people running for cover.

My heart is full and I am grateful for the years I got to see life in Pine Valley on ABC. AMC was the first soap I watched so this to me is like a death. I am 34 now and I began at age 5 watching with my mom and enjoying Erica, Joe, Ruth, Kate, Jenny, Greg, Nina, Cliff, Palmer, Daisy, Myra, Sloane, Jesse, Angie, Tom, Brooke, Ellen, Mark, Phoebe, Langley, Mrs. Valentine, Mona, Charles, and so many more characters that made that one hour visit to Pine Valley time well spent indeed.

Pine Valley isn't exactly the corner of Hollywood and Vine but it is pretty damn fabulous in its own way.

Many thanks Agnes Nixon. xo
See you in January.

Even though it isn't ending the way I wanted it to end, I still have two hours to go before it airs here in Hawaii, I think it isn't a surprise that JR fired the gun at the party. I so wish that they would have had a big wedding for Jack and Erica. That's what I wanted to have happen. But I'll take what I can get because and I've said this everywhere I've talked about AMC without Susan Lucci there is no AMC so I wont be following this on PP. I think it's going to be a new AMC that as someone that has watched this since 1975 it just wont be the same. I get so pissed off the Asswipes at ABC let this soap go so far down the drain with the hiring of Pratt and then continuing with the next two when Lorraine Broderick was right there and should have been head writer all along. I hope the show replacing it, I refuse to even type it...rots in the ratings. Mahalo to the entire cast and crew, past and present for doing such a marvelous job all these years. Agnes Nixon Mahalo to you as well. It's been quite the ride.

If all you were looking for was a cliffhanger, you were missing the whole point. What about Tad's great speech? As hard as I've been on him over the years, I'm glad he's the one who got to say the words, "All My Children".

What about Marian's reunion with Stuart? That was sweeter than Godiva chocolates! Frankie and Randi may be pregnant. Brot and Natalia are getting married. ...I loved David leaving it up in the air who the mystery survivor is!

Will Brot get involved in the life of the family of his lost war buddy? If Angie ends up in a coma (and how soap-poetic is that? Blindness to coma in a matter of days!), will Maya move in with the Hubbards to help them deal with their loss? Will Maya and Frankie fall in love and raise Lucy, making Jesse a grampa?

I'm glad they didn't show a big shoot-em-up scene with bodies lying on the floor like that ridiculous Moldavian wedding massacre on Dynasty! That was just stupid (especially since hardly anyone died). No, I think this was the best way to end the show. I'm very impressed with what they've pulled off in these final weeks, including today!

I LOVED it myself...but then again....I like cheesy and saccharin too lol. I especially loved the way it started...(the opening montage) and of course the end...GWTW happens to be one of my all time favorite movies...and I especially liked the Scarlett/Erica comparison. I loved Tad's speech at the end...I have been crying since The View aired today.

If I already hadn't planned on watching this show on the web...this finale would have had me tuning in to see what happened. I really hope they are able to sign a lot of these wonderful actors for the next version of this show.

@TV Gord

I liked the ending and honestly when I read what the ending was supposed to be like sort of the SFU and Friday Night Lights kind of closure it kind of irritates me that they did this because I don't think it had the impact PP wanted and I think they should have stuck with the original plan. Regardless I think overall it was fine I just don't think they needed the gunshot and the David part because to me both were not particulary done well. But overall I think the show ended respectfully, better than this fan expected it to.

@Jamey - Nice article. I think your former professor may be on to something with "wait 24 hours"-rule because I am kinda emotional about the conclusion of All my Children. AMC has never been a favorite of mine but since the notice of cancellation, I have tuned in regularly an enjoyed what I have seen. This week has been awesome and I enjoyed today's finale. Granted, I do not have the history with AMC that long-time fans do, and perhaps, that is why I found the finale pretty satisfying, albeit, all so rushed. I do not understand why AMC did not give the Chandler party a week-long treatment. That way, the endings could have been soaked up before a "cliffhanger" finale. I thought their was good amount of closure. Yes, there are things I would have done differently, but I felt AMC's finale had a heart that my beloved Guiding Light did not hold in its finale. Ducking my fellow GL fans but I felt GL and ATWT were sorely lacking in that heart and impact that I felt was present in AMC.

I loved how great everyone looked and that was a treat in its self. I will watch the finale again tonight (with some family) and evaluate how I feel once more but, right now, I feel pretty good about how it ended (on TV anyway.)

I'll watch tonight on SoapNet--that's for sure!

I kind of liked the All My Children finale. It wasn't perfect but it was enjoyable.

I loved Tad today. I think the last show was good enough. Debbie Morgan was feeling it, as were others.

It did serve to make me recall all the years, as a much younger woman, I watched and ranted and raved about the stories, and it caused me to remember many of the characters who entertained me and allowed me to escape into Pine Valley.

I am sad to see it end.

It seems a number of people are saying they're okay with the ending, but there were things they didn't like. That's the thing I dislike the most about the blogosphere. Everyone complains if you don't get precisely what YOU want! Well, suck it up, ladies and gents. You aren't the creative forces behind these shows. They'll never do a show that satisfies everyone. For decades, we've had to deal with "focus groups" that wanted to change the ending of Fatal Attraction and countless other creative projects. YOU people who nitpick over every little thing are the reason we have executives who try to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator. Let the creators CREATE! The people behind AMC have done brilliant work in the past few weeks! And still, you nitpick and complain. I wouldn't be surprised if Lorraine and Agnes and everyone else decided to just pack it in and say screw it!

Agnes almighty!

I thought is was very good in all aspects of families, JR prime example didn't need a happy ending. I liked the whole cast together at the end. I did like the set-up for January and the reboot but what I'm curious about when January does come time for the show to move, some cast will not be present so how do set up from that point? They could recast some characters, such JR, and even Angie (almost have to) maybe Erica would be shot or Adam that would die? Start off at Erica's funeral? JR in prison at point? I don't think PP can wait any longer then January for the reboot, you lose way too many viewers if they go until next fall. If they had "wrapped" up everything in nice ending then you could have a clean slate for the reboot. Erica in CA, JR in rehab, etc...wait to see.

@TVGord - So, it's not okay to criticize art but it is okay to criticize each other? I have one opinion of AMC's finale and I am fine with other people sharing their opinion. In fact, I invite it, that's why I am here. I now remember your announcement a few weeks back that you were leaving the blog because you were critical of how it was managed and now you are back with criticisms of us participating in the blogosphere? Okay...

And your reference to "focus groups" means nothing. The industry was killed at the hands of corporations that no longer valued the soap audience.

TV Gord--

First, welcome back. Second, I think you are a little too emotionally charged right now and perhaps you need to take a few.........DOZEN........deep breaths, and remember that this website has ALWAYS featured people nitpicking and it always will. I am a proud nitpicker myself, and won't apologize for it. You are clearly very riled up about the loss of AMC, as are many of the rest of us, but instead of taking your frustrations out on your fellow posters, perhaps you should take time to remember that none of us put AMC in a premature grave. I think we all know who is to blame for what happened to this soap. Perspective is EVERYTHING right now.

I will catch the episode later but just wanted to chime in and say I'm another one who feels like they lost a relative today.

I was 5 years old when AMC started airing and vividly remember watching it as a little girl with my Mom and Grandma. AMC (actually the entire ABC soap lineup) kept my sister and I occupied during the summers during jr high and high school. Yes work and family eventually got in the way of my AMC habit but like an old friend you always knew you could turn on ABC any weekday afternoon and catch a bit of AMC even though admittedly it was a shadow of the great show it once was. Today is a sad day.

Love it, can't wait for January!!

This was the episode that brought AMC back to me. I'm a lapsed viewer and have been ff'ing since I restarted a couple of weeks ago. I like how they framed the families this past week and this ep finally had the drama I needed and some callbacks to my favorite years (Aunt Phoebe, queen of hearts, Winifred).

I enjoyed Jack's pronouncement, but I think the end could've been more dramatic. I agree with maybe hearing some screams. It needed a final extra exclamation point. It's teeny, tiny nitpick tho.

My favorite tv endings wrap up the main story lines, but keep some things up in the air. I like the idea that stories will continue on somehow. This episode head a different purpose, which was has always been its purpose, tune in tomorrow (or next year). And I will.

I would love to hear or find out what the original ending that flashed forward would've been. Hopefully they will not have to use any part of it for another 40+ years when the show jumps formats from online directly into our brains.

And to The Chew. I hope your death is quick and that Dr. Hayward can't help you. Let your last episode show me how to make some peanut butter banana pancakes. That might make me tune in. Might.

You're right. I made a mistake coming back today, because it's been an emotional day (week) and I value all of your opinions, even though I disagree at about the same rate as the rest of you do. I do enjoy this site (if not the editorial decisions on it), but I should not have dipped my toe back into the water, no matter how important this day has been. I won't make that mistake again.

What I am trying to say is that for decades before the blogosphere, we consumed our entertainment and we didn't have the place to come and nitpick. Entertainment worked just fine then. Still, we had those focus groups that we all hated that wanted to change endings to movies or dump an actor because his/her complexion was a little too dark, or that character was a little too ambiguously gay, and they got filtered out. Today, these blogs may be the focus groups, and it's watering down our entertainment. I believe this is why we are stuck with all of the reality crap and Jersey Shore type shows that we're watching today. They are the shows that people are commenting on most these days (not here, but elsewhere).

Alstonboy, thanks for the welcome back , but soapbaby is right. I shouldn't be here, and today has reinforced that. This site is four soaps away from extinction, anyway (since my main complaint with it was that it wasn't covering ALL of Daytime in a balanced way, in spite of the name up there at the top).

Maybe if it changed its name to the more accurate Soaps Confidential, I could come here and not be bitching about that all the time.

Who does David have if not Babe?

The worst ending for a drama!!!! The ending was a horrible event...SUSAN LUCCI is gone, JACOB YOUNG is gone, DEBBIE MORGAN is gone, MICHAEL KNIGHT is gone....they all left AMC and won't go on the internet...when January comes, we will notice alot of absence in the party! How will u explain them being all missing? JACOB YOUNG is on B&B, whos is playing JR? when january comes? They should have done a bomb explosion at the end after Jack told Erica the GTWT inspiration (that was the best) of all the scenes...If ERICA KANE is shot...who is playing Erica Kane? No Susan Lucci is no AMC...!

Every AMC fan should feel cheated

I THINK WE LOST A GOOD SHOW WITH A VERY BAD ENDING! only one scenes when Jack told Erica, "Frankly, Erica, I really don't give a damn!:" That was the only thing that was the best out of the whole show! Just one line!

Who does David have if not Babe?

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Yeah! WTF is David keeping on ice???

I really loved the show today. Tad's speech made me cry, Brooke and Adam getting engaged was lovely, and OMG, Erica pulled a Carrie Bradshaw on Jack when she told him that she couldn't marry him. Immediately, I thought of Carrie and Aiden near the fountain when she was wearing that ring around her neck, and he wanted to immediately get married and she didn't want to, and he said he wanted the whole wide world to know that she was his, that's why he was rushing, and she said 'who else's would I be???' And this was all after the Big affair, and it clicked for her that he still didn't trust her... Anyway, I thought of that scene when Erica was talking to Jack, lmao. And then Jack pulled a Rhett Butler on Erica! All the people in my TL on twitter got that "Frankly" reference. Cracked me up.

I admit, this has totally inticed me to see what's going to happen on the online version!

That said, WTF was up with that long ass commerical of the Chew??? They feel the need to expand on AMC's last day and rub it in. Stay classy, ABC. Stay classy...