ok, I agree with all the "this show was the worst show ever" you can throw at me - but I watched it obessively anyway. Loved it. No idea why - like I said, objectively, it's terrible. Nonetheless, I looked forward to the season finale and was dissapointed. 6 months of will they/won't they and they don't even show a tiny bit of the (non)ceremony? They don't show the decision not to get married? And when Sandy said "we need to talk" WHAT DID SHE MEAN? IS THE BABY SIMON'S AFTER ALL?

Good thing this is anonymous. wouldn't want anyone to know who I am that I care this much. Ha.

I could never let my hip, urban cadre know that SEVHEAV has been my dirtly little secret lo these 10 years. I felt cheated too. (although I tivo'd and really only skipped to the end) Goodbye SEVHEAV

One of the lamest shows in television history. I can't wait to shatter a champagne bottle on the side of its boat and wish it Bon Voyage.

Gotta admit that I loved this show too. Sad to see it end. The finale was somewhat disappointing, I agree, but let's not get too mean about the show that was actually the WBs most watched series. Although it was definitely cheesy and unrealistic at times, at others it was very realistic in how people make mistakes and very idealistic in how the parents always seemed to love their kids anyway. And I think a lot of us liked it for how involved the parents were with their children (even though we knew that they were too nosey, that's better than not involved at all). And the cell phone episodes were fairly funny. See they could even make fun of their own conservatism.

I do know why I (and probably many others) watched the show obsessively, in spite of the crappy production values and the even crappier writing (possibly the worst feature of this show, in spite of, or maybe because of its attempt to write about social values)...

I would have liked to have Stephen Collins's character, Eric, as a father. Annie as a mother? Not so much. Any of the rest of the cast as siblings. Not really. In general, I found them annoying.

But even if he winked the entire time, there was something about Eric that you felt you could trust to shepherd everyone through their latest crises. Something I definitely missed growing up, and suspect many others did, as well.

As for the family being so holy...? It seemed to me that they had their share of things going wrong with their kids, just like any other family, except that in this case the real-life families have better writers, and not the other way 'round.

And I have to sign this one anonymously, too. ;~)

I can happily say that I am thanking the heavens above for the end of that shittacular show. I like crap as much as the next person, but this show was absolute dreck. Plus it didn't help that most of the audience are a bunch of sanctimonious prudes, at least the ones that show up on the message boards.

My other hope is that the slightly better, but still crap Everwood doesn't make it to the new CW network.

I haven't seen the show in about five years- live abroad, no TV- but one of the thrillingest days of my little life was working as an extra on "Seventh Heaven" and seeing that dream dad in person. I never did meet another addict of that show, and I never had anyone to whom to brag about spending three days in a church attending a fake wedding for 50 bucks a day and the chance to see That Awesome Dad from the Christian show (not to mention Richard Lewis as and Lorraine Newman as the in-laws).

You wrote "'7th Heaven' was arguably one of the worst long-running shows on television", when I'm pretty sure you mean "'Charmed' was arguably one of the worst long-running shows on television".

The 7th Heaven plot never varied: someone did something (trivial) and some of the family knows, but nobody will tell the others. Everybody's gossiping, lying, hiding the truth, and pretending there's some noble reason for any of it. The only variation is in precisely who did it, who knows, who isn't supposed to find out, and how that one finally DOES find out.

If there's a moral, which I doubt, it's that no act is too small or personal for other family members to pick apart like vultures, and no lie is too petty to agonize over for four-to-fourteen episodes.

. . . even though I, too, have (shamefully) watched this craptacular show off-and-on throughout the years.

My God, this show was bad. Generally speaking, low production values in film or TV can be forgiven as long as the acting and story are good. That was NOT the case with SevHeav. Each story built stupid, incredibly fake drama around keeping secrets about someone else in the family (as someone else noted above), and the parents were WAY too involved with the sex lives of their ADULT children, for goodness sake (that is just GROSS and invasive).

This sappy, crappy, unrealistic show used to be a guilty pleasure of mine, until the incredibly mean, impatient, un-loving way they treated Biel's character (Mary?). They sent her away to live with distant relatives-- not for murdering pets; not for molesting her siblings; not for even getting pregnant or smoking crack. They sent her away for lying, being late, and being self-centered. HUH? Essentially, they sent her away for being a TEENAGER. I'm sure the real-world reason was to give Biel the opportunity to pursue other acting jobs. But the plotline made the Camdens seem like the coldest, unforgiving family in the Christian world. Ew!

I caught up to the show on ABC Family reruns. My wife watched it while I cringed. My usual crack when one of the characters ruminated about the problems that cropped up on every episode was "I'm stuck on this crap TV show."

But wouldn't you know I got hooked. The show depicted domesticity and didn't apologize for it. At least once a show someone would unload a dishwasher or fix a sandwich and put away the left-overs. The parents were involved in their kids' lives and actually broached the idea, rare on TV, that teenage sex is inadvisable at best. And as a stay-at-home Dad I'll miss Kevin Kinkirk.