I don't know how I feel! I was actually kind of gutted, despite not really having loved Will for a couple of seasons at least - in fact for a while there I was tipping over into active dislike. There are people talking about shark jumping and shock value, and I guess it was sort of promoted that way? I didn't watch any of the promos, so I wasn't even aware that there as anything to be spoiled for, and I was definitely shocked, but man. Will is such an integral part of the show for me, such a fundamental part of its structure; he brings things to the table that none of the other characters do, so I can't imagine that the writers did this lightly. (And the Kings' letter makes it clear that they didn't.) I definitely agree with you that it would have been difficult to organically have Will leave; otoh apparently the cast has been sitting on this for a whole season, which is just incredible. So yeah, I don't know! I'm taking the wait-and-see approach. That said, I think the last few episodes were really great for Will and the most - idk, honest? way for him to go out - emphasizing the good things about him and resolving things just enough without overlooking his less than stellar qualities. But then AGAIN, I've never been that invested in Will, so I'm mostly interested in how this will play out for the other characters and glad that it's a definitive end to a ship that I've cared less and less about, while feeling an awful lot of affectionate nostalgia.

I totally understand the complaints about lack of elegance, but from my perspective, TGW is typically so...measured in its actions with the frontline characters (obviously Kalinda is another story and one I prefer not to think about tbh) that I'm kind of glad to see it take the gloves off and become ugly. And in a way I'm kind of glad at the way it pulls together the previous ugliness of Kalinda's stories; it's always been Kalinda dealing with the ugliness while the other characters are untouched by it and finally it feels they're aiming for some kind of cohesion, I guess. Because they are working with dangerous people, convicted murders, life-or-death stakes, and somehow they remain totally disconnected from it. So yeah, the wait-and-see approach basically.

Wow was this comment ever a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.