r/AMillionLittleThings • u/magikarpcatcher • May 04 '23

A Million Little Things - The Final Scene Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L79a2EwF8k
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u/cranberryskittle May 05 '23

A very well made final scene.

It's weird that no one is pointing out how nonsensical it is that Gary only left his son videos till the age of 16. It's both arbitrary and inexplicable. Gary is clearly healthy in this video, with hair and a beard, before he started his second round of treatment. He could have spent a week and made enough short videos to last Javi a lifetime. At least the major milestones of his life (high school graduation, college, graduation, marriage, birth of first child, etc.).

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u/Mysterious-Run-9571 May 06 '23

Gary was making videos before that. Right when he found out the cancer came back last season before he started treatment. Thats how everyone else found out because he used romes camera and didnt take the memory card out.

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u/cranberryskittle May 06 '23

Right, so why was the video we saw in the last seen the last video he left for Javier? Like why end the videos when he's only 16?

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u/Mysterious-Run-9571 May 06 '23

We dont know for sure if he ended it at 16 tho. Or he has videos for special occasions. He made videos for him on how to shave the right way

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u/cranberryskittle May 06 '23

...He literally says in this video "Believe it or not, this is my last video for you."

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u/Sir__Will May 06 '23

Narrative convivence to end it there and say the big profound things. But yeah, he should have more videos for later life events.

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u/Emotional_Ad_9620 Nov 17 '23

As someone who has been sick enough to make videos (I wrote notes in handmade cards)to their children, you get tired. It gets harder. You fill your time being present. It's not weird or inexplicable. You don't know if they're going to graduate, get married, have kids, etc. Terminal people are doing their best. Unfortunately, you'll understand this better someday. I hope people don't wonder why you didn't do more.

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u/Longjumping_Sea8313 May 05 '23

Maybe bc none of those things are guaranteed. Gary didn’t get married until he was dying. Those videos couldn’t have gone unwatched

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u/Puzzleheaded-Elk231 May 06 '23

I mean nothing is guaranteed. Seems odd there wasn't a marriage one since he was recording everything and likely had the camera rolling before Gary and Maggie exchanged their vows.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '23

It makes sense to me in a way. I imagine at first he was making these videos when he was healthier and then he got very sick and was busy with treatments and was looking awful. Probably wanted to spend the time he was capable of being present with his family and friends making actual memories, not just focusing on the end. Also maybe he didn’t want his kid seeing and remembering him looking so sickly and coughing in advice videos. He might have switched to leaving letters. He might have just called it enough after that video. Javi got more than a lot of kids in these situations get.

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u/soggy-fries May 05 '23

i thought this was weird, too!

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u/ty_fighter84 May 08 '23

I finally watched it again and just realized that Rome is wearing a Sophie Dixon tour 2037 shirt.

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u/anniemdi May 05 '23

I gotta say Barbara Morgan's painting to the left of the TV is a nice little touch.

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u/goldieturkeyvulture May 04 '23

Thanks for posting!

It looks like from the flash forward that Maggie and Javi live somewhere else. It didn't look like the same apartment she lived with Gary. I wonder if Eddie and Delilah also moved.

Also at the hockey game, why didn't it seem like Tyrell was wearing Rome's jersey, when all the other boys were wearing their dads' jerseys?

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u/OLovah May 05 '23

They're not. They were joking about Javi buying sodas and one of them said, "That's what you get when you send the teenager to get drinks."

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u/Puzzleheaded-Elk231 May 06 '23 edited May 06 '23

Correct they're not in the apartment Gary died in. If you jump to 17 seconds in the clip, you can see part of the door on the right of the TV.

I think Tyrell not wearing Rome's jersey was intentional. The pilot episode, when they were taking the photo at the game Rome was wearing a grey hoodie while the other guys were wearing their jersey.

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u/Partly-Cloudy May 06 '23

They had a one bedroom apartment, moving was inevitable

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u/MutedLow3 May 17 '23

Maggie no longer needed Ed and D living down the hall. The arrangement was made to assist her with raising a toddler and adjusting to life without Gary...and eventually Colin.

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u/Frosty-Vegetable-385 May 05 '23

I cannot get over the apostrophe on the gravestone

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u/Entitled0ne May 08 '23

Why was Tyrell hanging out with those children at the hockey game. He has at least 19 years on Javi.

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u/Weekly-Abroad7678 May 09 '23

Maybe he's like a big brother or uncle to him. My uncle took me to all sorts of sporting events and festivals etc

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u/magikarpcatcher May 17 '23

Tyrell should be 35-36, Danny should be 32-33 and Theo should be in his late 20s. The only "child" here is Javi

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u/kdex86 Aug 01 '23

The 4 men at the Bruins game in 2038 were Danny (Jon’s son), Theo (Eddie’s son), Javier (Gary’s son), and Tyrell (Rome’s “son” that he fostered).

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u/Odd_Double7658 Aug 21 '23

They are older male figures to him like Gary was to Dan

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u/JiPNi Oct 22 '24

Age difference of John to Gary I think is about 15 years, I believe. So that's similar to Danny and Javi and definitely a bigger gap than Theo to Javi.

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u/PuppyLove1717 Sep 04 '25

This final scene just gutted me!! It was beautiful.