Absolutely, anon. I’ve thought about it a lot, and read some pretty amazing insights, and I did go back and forth in wondering if this ending was truly satisfactory for me, as a person that generally thinks about things from a storytelling perspective as well as the emotion. 

Fully believing that everything will turn out okay for Chuck and Sarah isn’t the best defense for this finale (well, maybe it is to those that believe Sarah’s memories are gone for good and she’ll never be the same person at all), and it’s not the thing that I love most about it. What it represents with regards to the relationship in the bigger picture, and the testament to their love, is. And it’s the relationship to a tee. An awful, awful thing happened, but they will survive it. And their history was not erased, it’s the very reason this ending was so moving.

For me, I think it had much more of a powerful impact than I think getting the predictable ending would have had. I get excited whenever I think about their life after the beach. Fedak created a wonderful story here, and the fact that he gave fans a chance to create their own ending is another reason I love it so much. Because no matter what kind of white picket future we would have gotten, it would have never matched people’s own visions and expectations.

Then again, there will always be a part of me that wants to physically see it.