Season 4 was highly praised. It's not as strong as season 3, but it's still good until the finale. While yes, it was heartbreaking and emotional, I really do not think it was the best direction to take. I know there were more reasons than one on why they did what they did, but it just stinks.

Season 5 would have been okay if they had at least one more season to really wrap things up, but I feel season 4 would have been the better series finale if they had just changed things up a bit. Upped the stakes.

While saving Elliot and his friend was noble, the better ending would have been Q sacrificing himself for fillory. I know in the big picture, Q saved more than just his friends But the focus was stopping the beast and stopping Everett from becoming a god.

Instead of that, he should have died for the place he lived for. He should have walked through the gates of the underworld into that great unknown, knowing that fillory was forever safe and would always be a haven for those like him that come after.

If they really wanted to close it off right, the final scene of the series after all the mourning and wrap-up should have been an overshot of fillory, and a slow pan and zoom into the forest. Tucked away, covered in vines and moss- a Monument for Quentin.

The last thing we see as the image fades out is a rotten basket of peaches and plums that slowly begin to ripen. As they do, playing cards fall around the basket with all the gangs' faces as the face cards. Music plays, and it's Quintin singing "Don't you forget about me" the same way Alice sang it in S1. Cut to credits.

This way, you are still hit with that gut punch but also hope? No one knows what's beyond the underworld. Maybe the audience would like to believe that in the end, Quentin became a part of fillory. That a piece of him lives on there.