JOURNEYS END

They do, they just do: once begun, journeys eventually will end. Sometimes far too abruptly, but I don't think that can be said of THE JOURNEY.

After 21 seasons, written over the course of 22.5 years, and culminating in 699 episodes, THE JOURNEY has finally come to its end.

And not even its greatest fans will think it's too soon, I'm sure.

Not even I.

The 21st Season Finale left the Montacruz family reeling from the self-incriminating expose of Logan. Though Logan had realised the devastation that his autobiographical novel would cause for all concerned, it wasn't before Jesse set in motion a blackmail scheme to keep the publisher from printing the novel (similar but not exactly what happened between Avery and Carlton at the beginning of Season 1). The death of the publisher - though caused by his angry wife, who then made her husband's aborted suicide look as if he had followed through on his own after all, but because he was being blackmailed - sent Jesse into guilt overload. Little did he know that his renewed relationship with Den was going to get her pregnant, since he was being harassed