Got to see this episode. While finding it selfishly frustrating to not get to see the planned season finale, I agree with another reviewer that it was properly pushed back given the events that took place on the day this episode was set to air. I'm going to say something controversial here.. as a society I think we become desensitized to these types of things seeing them on TV shows or not treating everyone of the real life instances with as much shock as Columbine received. On one hand, I can understand not wanting to give real love kids the impression of notoriety if they go the route the kids did in this episode but on the other hand, I can't imagine the fear our youth struggles with knowing the next school on the news could be theirs. As a student, I'm not old enough to a part of the generation that practiced drills for possible bombings during wartime. The only drills I had to participate in were fire or tornadoes and that was scary enough then. To know these kids actively practice what moves to make if they find themselves in a shooter situation, is gut wrenching and heart breaking. Watching the kids in this episode run to those buses as if their lives depended on it because you know, it did and seeing the terror on some of the actors faces, even knowing they were acting, smacked me so hard across the face. The fact a student needs to be thinking about their escape route at any given moment of their day and depending on where they could randomly find themselves is just not okay. I don't necessarily care that a lot of shows represent the aggressors as gamers a large percentage of the time but it is what it is. I commend the show for choosing to wait and I hope these shows with this particular storyline become obsolete because we find an answer to a problem that's been ongoing and devastating for far too many years now.
