The door has been left open intentionally, but nobody’s asked me to write a script. Are you keeping that option in your back pocket? You left the door open for a spinoff or possible movie. Especially in the past couple of seasons, the show has been more about Michael’s emotional stuff, like he can do stuff, but what will it cost him? Does he get to be a human being? Does he get to have relationships? What does it mean to be someone who does this kind of thing? In answering that at the end of the show, it seems to me that that’s the most important thing. But another thing is that I think the show isn’t really about, on an emotional level, can Michael do stuff? Because the answer to that is always yes. It’s conceivable that there’s a way at the end of the day where Michael could have done something really noble and sacrificed himself, and that might have been satisfying. I didn’t feel like there was an ending where Michael dies that felt like a “Burn Notice” to me. Its not an accident that every single person in that climax - if any one of them hadn’t done what they did the whole thing would have fallen apart.Īlso read: ‘Burn Notice’ Creator on Michael’s Fate: ‘I Really Wanted to Do Something New’ ![]() What carries today isn’t Michael being great, it’s Michael thinking he has all of these people together. He’s built this family and in the final episode that’s exactly what he needs. The fact that it falls to Madeline to unlock that with her willingness to sacrifice herself for the sake of all of them - it’s so fitting to me that at the end of the day it wasn’t about Michael’s solo brilliance. If he makes any move Charlie and Madeline die. We thought that in the end the idea that Michael obviously contributes to his own escape very significantly, but at the same time he is faced with something that we haven’t done much in the series, which is a situation that he can’t see a way out of. In her death, she creates a family out of Michael and Fiona and Charlie. And in the end, on behalf of a family that’s ongoing. So you know, not only does Michael not get to sacrifice himself for her, she insists on sacrificing herself for him. And over the course of seven seasons - particularly the last couple of seasons - she’s become a much stronger person. And we’ve explored over the past season that he kind of is who he is because of his miserable childhood, but she kind of let that happen. ![]() Madeline throughout the course of the series has been haunted by the idea that she was a coward when Michael was a kid. What were your thoughts on setting up her death? That’s kind of a theme here, where ultimately they all stand together. Were you a “Star Trek” fan? I think that when Spock says to Kirk in the fourth movie, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,” and dies … I was a little kid when I saw that and I never forgot it. Matt Nix: Michael can save everybody at the cost of his own soul, and he feels that that is a sacrifice that he is willing to make, and everybody else is basically saying, “No, you don’t get to do that, and ‘We’re all going to stand together.” I don’t know what greater affirmation of family there is than that. TheWrap: What was your basic theme for the series finale? ![]() ![]() We spoke with Nix about the action-packed and emotional series finale as well as the possibility for a spinoff. In the end, Michael and Fiona disappear with his nephew to make a new life for themselves while Sam ( Bruce Campbell) and Jesse carry on with further missions.Īlso read: ‘Graceland’ Creator Previews Season Finale, Explains Jangles Reveal His mother Madeline (Sharon Gless) sacrifices her own life so that her grandson and Jesse (Coby Bell) can escape. With Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) by his side, he’s able to do just that. With everyone he loves in jeopardy, Michael knows that he has to stop the ultimate villain James (John Pyper-Ferguson) in order to stop the CIA and James’ henchmen from exacting revenge on him, his friends and family. On the finale, Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) rejoins his makeshift family after having a crisis of conscience that placed them on opposite sides. Note: Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched Thursday’s series finale episode, “Reckoning.” “I think everybody felt that it was important to end the show on our own terms, and while it still had a lot of creative juice, and while we could bring it to a satisfying close and not feel like we were making episodes for the sake of making episodes,” creator Matt Nix told TheWrap. USA’s “Burn Notice” finished its seven-season run with all the elements you’d expect from the popular drama series: Lots of explosions, gunfights, romance and an emotional act of selflessness.
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