Watched the last episode of The Professionals, and what can I say
The episode's end was cut down again, like so many times before, except this is the finale, which shouldn't been left like this.
There wasn't any solution/relief progress from the emotional stress, trauma and doubts they faced in this episode related to their professional.
It was a really rotten thing Cowley pushed the duty, his duty onto Doyle, to notify the widow about losing her husband. It was rotten and wrong both morally and professionally. There are important reasons and rules why it's a work for superiors and not for colleagues. Pushing it onto Doyle wasn't just unprofessional but unnecessarily cruel to the man. The guy isn't his substitute in learning to justify why it was him and not Cowley who needed to do it.
The big twist Doyle came up with about how to trick the baddie with the time was a clever idea, but I already seen it played out in Criminal Minds, although it's not the pros's fault I seen that one first way before this.
The bomb in the car at the end, which went off and killed another man? All while Cowley was on the scene? Disappointing. Common logic and ages-old military tactic tells they to blow up a bomb (with any vehicle the bomb was planted in) if it can be safely fenced off and separated from public. It was separated behind barriers. There was no reason for the guy to go to the bomb, especially as it was time set. They had the robot to check if it was the bomb they were looking for, and they got visual confirmation via the robot's camera. The guys death was totally unnecessary and moron, as even Cowley could've put a stop on it but he didn't.
The whole ending was just unresolved emotional agony, anger and bitterness, both for the characters and the audience. So so disappointing. I grieving the ton of enjoyment this show birthed in the viewers, the many moment of epicness and the SO many potential this show left untouched.
