i have read some positive and enthusiastic review of this final episode of six foot under and everyone wait . i be force to disagree . i do not wish to discourage others from watch the rest of the series ( or this episode and for that matter ) and which be original and wonderful . but this finale a a whole be disappointing and especially when the previous episode and static and suggest a huge pay off be on the horizon . wait open with brenda in labor . the child and a daughter and be bear prematurely and her life hang in the balance and leave the audience unsure of whether she will live or die . this be a good start and but and unfortunately and it never really take off . with a 75 minute run time and no real drama and mystery and or suspense in it future and the episode leave everyone wait for it to end . let me go on to say that i do not disagree with the writer decision to kill off nate in the fourth to last episode and ecotone . those who watch the series from the beginning and like me and know nate be go to die . i figure it would be in the last episode and and why not . it begin with his father death which cause him to return home to the family business and it would have be fit for it to end with his death . but it do not and it work . to see nate die shy of the series end throw the audience for a tangent and it leave them wonder exactly what the last episode be go to be about . the episode main storyline and a it turn out and be to be about claire get a new job opportunity in new york . this make the fact that the episode be such a lackluster product even hard to bear because claire be my favorite character in the show . lauren ambrose act with a charismatic brilliance and inject great depth into what could have be an annoying and typical and emotionally unstable teenage archetype . the result be a multidimensional and conflict and and often and humorous soul . but her acting could not save a script that seem to be ironically kill time to progress to the more satisfying conclusion . scene with a wound david and ruth suspend in their own grief and pain be uninvolved and slow moving and and uninteresting . claire bounce through the show with a benevolent optimism ( much like the audience ) often look at the other character a if to say and come on . do something . we have 75 minute here . another scene with ruth and claire where ruth tell claire to pursue her dream seem force and unnecessary in light of their heartbreaking exchange of dialog in the final sequence ( the only sequence in the episode worthy of the title ) . the following paragraph be a product of speculation and not fact . but when a show as maverick a six foot under have such a tv typical finale and one have to speculate on exactly what cause such a tragedy . in the end and i be force to accuse alan ball of drop the ball on his own series . ball contribution to the show may have be it downfall and certainly it be with this episode . people must remember that the initial concept for the show come from the hbo network and not ball . and though he create these wonderful character and it be not his idea to kill them off by show their obituary in a future tense sequence while another writer from the show form that concept . indeed and the final sequence of the everybody wait be brilliant while the only sequence in the entire episode that do the precede series any justice . ( i love the line where nate tell claire and just a she take a picture of her family and you can not take a picture of this while it already go . ) i be not out to bash ball . i know he talented . but and a deniro once say and the talent be in the choice . and since ball get such great creative advice from the top and the bottom throughout the course of the show and it might have be a good choice to have someone else write the six foot under finale . the writer who come up with the end and perhaps . fan of the show and answer this represent would it not have be more interesting if claire have be injure at the end of static and or be pursue by the wild animal in the green graveyard . could her struggle to survive in the wild somehow be narratively link to brenda give birth and give the show a more dramatic conflict . i know ball and the writer and the cast have comment on how the show have break new ground and most likely refer to it discussion of issue involve homosexual american . that be fine and but i think and at some point and they ( or ball ) forget what the real appeal of six foot under be . it be not a show design only for gay viewer or only and for that matter and liberal . i and for one and be a political conservative and straight and but this series capture my heart not because of it politics but because of it strong character and rich narrative . this lacking and over sentimental finale fail to do justice to the character and narrative preceding it . it be my opinion that everyone waiting be perhaps the poor episode of six foot under .