WALANG HANGGAN: THE PHENOMENAL FINALE

After much anticipation and excitement, the finale of Walang Hanggan is finally over! How will I describe it? It was dramatic, intense, and unexpected! The ending is surprisingly different as to what most of us, I bet, were hoping to happen. Nonetheless, it was really great! I really liked it!

Filipinos love the traditional happy endings, the “and they lived happily ever after” kind. Thus, many really wanted the characters of Daniel and Katerina to live until the end. However, some (including me) are expecting that Daniel and Katerina are going to die because if we base it from the movie where it was adapted from, the 1991 movie Hihintayin Kita Sa Langit starring Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta as Gabriel and Carmina respectively, the main characters died. Will they spoil the expectations of the viewers for a happily-ever-after ending or will they follow the original flow of the story?

And so, Katerina died. The scene where Daniel was beside Katerina in her final moment was so calm yet full with so much anguish and pain! And the part where Daniel didn’t want to leave the cemetery was so heartbreaking! So while Daniel was beside Katerina’s grave, Tomas came. They had a fight! And Tomas shot Daniel straight into the heart! Then, too late it was, the others characters arrived and Emily rushed to Daniel and wailed! It was a wail so painful and heartbreaking and I almost cried! I think it’s the saddest scene ever! It reminded me of Pieta. I’m pretty sure many viewers had outrageously reacted while watching. It was such a tragic story!

But the happier part came. Everybody who was watching the soap must have been feeling heavy on the tragic death of Daniel and Katerina. So, they made the scenes where Daniel and Katerina are happily reunited in heaven. At least the happy scenes lightened the heavy feeling brought by the intense scenes beforehand. Just when I was expecting that it will end that way, another twist added up to the surprise. Emily got pregnant and gave birth to a son whom they named “Daniel”. And then, they had neighbors with a daughter named “Katherine”. How about that? Could it be possible that a sequel is going to happen?

The last episode of Walang Hanggan is such a phenomenal one and the performances executed by the actors and actresses (most especially Coco Martin, Dawn Zulueta,and Paulo Avelino) were totally superb! They were all out and they definitely deserve an award for that!

It was, indeed, a great soap opera! It’s one of the best, I think! I will surely miss watching it!

"Ngayon magkasama na kami at malayang magmahalan nang walang hanggan."