Don't tell me this is the end.

I think I'd prefer to not know that I'm watching the final episode of a show until after it's over.
Knowing beforehand puts me in a weird frame of mind.
I think too much about the episode, and the show, and don't enjoy it.
And sometimes the episode just seems off.
Like the show is trying to prove something.
Or all of a sudden trying to do something new.
Then again, maybe it's the finality of it all.
Knowing there won't be another episode.
That this is the end.
And I'll never see these characters again outside of reruns.
But it could also be that some series just haven't ended all that well.
Like they didn't know how to end.
So they went a little crazy.
Even if it wasn't the Fourth of July.