Episode Report Card Kim: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Felicity Was Here
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.24.1999
Commentary Trivia: At the end of the final episode of the series, there is a montage at Noel's wedding with everyone laughing and crying while Sean gives a speech, but we don't hear what Sean says because the music plays over it. In reality, Greg Grunberg was giving a speech about how much the series had meant to him, and how much he would miss the show and the people, and the actors were genuinely responding to that.
"I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan starts up. This was before that song got all overplayed and annoying. Felicity continues her tape to Sally as we see a montage of various scenes on campus, now empty and abandoned -- a classroom, the library, a hallway. FVO says, "When I was six years old, I had an ant farm. After a few months, I opened the top, left it outside. The next day the farm was empty. All the ants were gone. But they left behind these tunnels, all these empty spaces they'd been living in, working in, for months. I remember staring at this empty ant farm, noticing one last ant, still inside, still moving little grains of sand." Felicity takes her bags out of her room and turns for one last look before closing the door. Felicity walks down the dorm hallway to the elevator as FVO says, "I watched him for a while until he began making his way through the maze of tunnels and finally climbing out the top." Felicity carries her bags out to a cab. FVO says, "Anyway, once he got outside on the grass, he just stopped. I swear to God, it was like he was trying to decide which way to go. But then finally, off he went." Cut to Ben, sitting on his car's hood, waiting to see if Felicity will show up. FVO says, "So here's the thing. I've made a decision. I'm not flying home by myself." Cut to Noel, sitting in the airport, waiting to see if Felicity will show up.
Commentary Trivia: The address Felicity says in the cab was supposed to be J.J. Abrams's address in real life, but Matt Reeves gave her the wrong address to say. So really, Felicity just said a random address that had no meaning.
FVO says, "I didn't have to make a decision between Ben and Noel, but I did." Felicity gets into the back of the cab and seems lost in thought. The cab driver gets in and turns around. He asks, "So, where to?" The camera cuts to outside the cab, so we only see, but don't hear Felicity's response. I remember when this episode originally aired, one of my friends taped it, and we seriously spent a couple of hours trying to read Felicity's lips and see what she said. At the time, I wanted her to pick Noel (shut up), so I was arguing for "La Guardia." FVO concludes, "I'll be home in a few weeks and I'll send you a tape when I got there. Love, Felicity." As the cab pulls away, Felicity looks up at her dorm. Cut to a pan down the list of names on Felicity's closet wall. We see a new name has been added to the list: Felicity Porter, '99.