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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 8052695" data-attributes="member: 6803337">I liked The Pretender until they were given the "your final season" notice and they decided to triple-complicate their existing plot threads, plus torment the main characters into lashing out at each other.Given the premises of the show, the best ending would have been Jared (a super-genius who can do any job for a week even though he is untrained and inexperienced) working as a Congressional staffer and arranging a hearing into how The Centre has embezzled and bamboozled $Millions of Government money.  At the end of the hearings, the existing leadership is exposed as frauds / crooks and forced to resign (or get sued into oblivion) and self-"exile to Siberia".  Sydney (Jared's father figure and the only sympathetic Centre employee) becomes the new Head of the Centre, with instructions to clean it up.  Those instructions are written by and hand-delivered - with a mutual knowing wink - by Jared.Of course the scriptwriters actually did nothing of the sort, and watching what they did conceive was a form of self-torture.</blockquote>