To ask your opinion on the conclusion of "Jamestown"?

[BeanBag7]

Spoilers Probably

I have watched all 3 seasons of Jamestown and it was made clear this would be the final season. With 30 minutes to go I was thinking "they're going to have to wrap this up quickly!" And then it just sort of... finished. No conclusion to the different relationships, what happened to the individuals in the aftermath, just the end!

Anyone else feeling very underwhelmed by the whole thing or is there something great I have missed in the ending?

It was rubbish! Husband and I said it was hurried and rushed. A real let down.

Shite!!!
All those character develops just dropped into the abyss

Glad I wasnt the only one. I was also annoyed about the hunchbacked man with the "kings signet" that was built up to be this massive deal and in the end it was just that he has arranged a new governor which made no difference to the plot and even the existing governor didn't seem to care that much!

Rubbish! The whole season was a bit meh but that episode was a real disappointment. They could at least have shut the gate on the governor!

It felt a bit like the script writers weren't told it was going to be the last series until just before writing the last episode. And being a bit annoyed about it they couldn't be bothered to do a decent ending.

It felt a bit like the script writers weren't told it was going to be the last series until just before writing the last episode Or 'hey guys, write 45 minutes, don't worry about an ending - we'll just shove some generic text up over the credits'

I felt the same, I loved Jamestown it had so much potential, this series was just crap that could have been written far better.

Total let down to fans.

Agree! It just seemed to ..... stop! It had huge potential - exploring the lives of early settlers was a great concept and I wish they'd focused more on historical accuracy and more down to earth problems they'd have faced instead of all the plotting.

I was watching it on demand and somehow missed that it was doing to be the last episode. It was a total surprise til the writing appeared at the end! Didn't feel like a finale at all. I enjoyed the series but it was more easy watching than masterpiece.

Series get cancelled when not enough people watch it!

I think, a bit like the series set in Australian penal colonies, this could have been interesting.

But I think the "message" of the damage done by white colonisers to the native inhabitants was undermined by showing it through a contemporary adventure film style.

And the attempt to make women more independent than they were.

But from the closing message it seems they did seem to have set out to give a backstory of personal lives to the real life violence caused by westerns appropriating other people's land.

The storylines were random throughout. Very odd series!

@Loopytiles that's true. I was really expecting some more of a conclusion with Alice but that was that, off she sailed.

@SomebodysNotInBedYet
I suppose though that back then when somebody went off you just never heard about them again so maybe it was shown like that, that the whole story is being told from someone in Jamestown, some people’s stories wouldn’t have had a conclusion!?
Still think the finale was too rushed though, nothing in the series had any impact on the ending! Or may be that was the point? All thier petty squabbles and politics meant nothing in the face of battle? Made no difference to who lived and died??

The natives killed the Spanish slave traders, I think that was supposed to be an early warning sign that something wasn't quite right. Yeardley was going to be replaced by a new governor, James and Jocelyn were happy together, Pepper and Mercy got married, Verity and Meredith got Tam back, so there was some stories wrapped up. There was never a big fight between Jamestown and the natives. Following the initial attack, everyone who got back to Jamestown survived. It was the people in the outlying areas who suffered. This was followed by a ten year war, which the show probs don't want to cover because it would be hard to keep the storylines running smoothly.

It was a short, sharp ending though. I thought we'd get another couple of episodes showing a massive fight, but reading about it afterwards, this just never happened. I think Jamestown made it through the war pretty much unscathed.

I agree OP, I slogged through the series never really getting into it, but enjoying it just about enough to keep going, and then that to end.

I was looking forward to Jocelyn and the metal guy ( sorry forgot his name) and it was so rushed and unsatisfactory, ditto the marriage of the maid. It felt like there should have been one more episode but they couldn't be bothered.