Wish You Were Here/Wishes for the Finale (Justified's Final Season Airing in the UK)

[meridian_rose]

(This article was originally posted to my wordpress account)

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"Justified", an American crime drama series based on Elmore Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole" is currently airing on UK TV station Spike (Thursdays, 11pm) and, sadly, this is the final series/season of the show.

Starring Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens, an old-time lawman in character, who is actually a modern day US Marshall in Kentucky, the series has long pitted him against antagonist Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) and both Raylan and Boyd have been involved with Ava Crowder (Joelle Carter).

Despite Boyd's faults (and they are legion) the show has always tried to find the humanity in all of the characters – who can forget how Boyd tried to go straight, only to get sucked back into bad habits? And as the show inches toward the conclusion I find what I want is for Boyd and Ava to run away somewhere without an extradition treaty. For Raylan to get a postcard from them. For the final scene to be Raylan joining them on a beach, bringing a bottle of bourbon because surely they've missed real Kentucky bourbon. All three of them sitting drinking and looking at the water, at peace with their past and content with the present.

I've seen enough spoilers to know that's never going to happen.

There is, of course, always fanfic.

Justified, FX Productions, 2010-2015; the official website for the show is here

Comments

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were a Justified fan!!!! Raylan! Boyd!!! At its heart, it is a bromance.

Are you feeling sparked to write some fanfiction?

http://archiveofourown.org/users/Zagzagael/works?fandom_id=131462

[meridian_rose]

You do know, you have just forgotten :P We talked about my micro fic in the fandom and how I still have this last season to enjoy. Though the deaths have started early this season, usually it's about halfway through before the body count starts racking up, especially for recurring characters!

I'll definitely read fic later :D

IDK, that postcard/this meta sums up ALL MY FEELS right now. Why can't we just have happy polyamory ending?! (eta: boyd/raylan would also make me happy!) But I'll maybe feel inspired to actually write something at a later date. What I'd love (but don't have the source material to hand) is a fanvid set to "Trigger Happy" (Wild Al Yankovic) because so many lines in that crack song would suit the show so well.

Cool icon, I came to justified from Deadwood, Olyphant makes such a good cowboy!

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Huge apologies, L! Your fic is always memorable...so I don't know how this one slipped my mind. And the fandom is SMALL, so....I don't know what my brain is doing.

There is no question that that particular polyamorous triangle appeals! Ava is such a complicated character! And Boyd was just the dark star of the show!

Yes, he does make a great alpha. I wonder if he has anything up his sleeve for his next incarnation??

[meridian_rose]

No apology necessary :D I had the same conversation with someone yesterday on Tumblr; we're both in one small fandom and I wondered was it her or just another person who is also watching another small fandom I'm currently catching up on! It can get confusing :)

By all rights Boyd should be a terrible person and not sympathetic but the show and the actor are amazing; he is indeed the dark star of the show, and what is a show without some conflict between two characters who mirror each other in so many ways? :D

IDK but if Olyphant is in it, I'll probably check it out! *hugs*