Well, so that was just garbage. I'm sure I wasn't alone in throwing up in my mouth for pretty much the entire second hour.
I didn't come on this site before watching the finale - didn't want to get spoiled if RJ really did come back...ha. But now that I see that picture someone posted, of the wedding invitation with "Lazarus" RSVP'ing, it's obvious Bruno was just jacking us around. He made it seem like this was a big deal, and guess what? Lazarus had absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Every single horrible thing we feared (yeah I'm talking about the "3" clue) pretty much materialized. Was yelling at the TV "just shoot me" but still held out to the very end with a glimmer of hope...of seeing a red smiley. Nope. It's like when the rough cut of 6x8 was leaked, and we were like, nah it can't be this bad. Then as we're watching the live episode, we keep waiting for the twist, and only at the end do we realize the leaked episode was real, and yes, it really was that bad.
Today's finale was like reliving that all over again. I can't even deal with this right now. I think back to what that writer Tom said about the finale: "everything you ever hoped for." I barfed again.
Good acting all around though. Such a shame they didn't have good showrunners.