I agree with everything you're saying here. I think in a way I feel let down because, like you, it wasn't so much that I had a specific narrative agenda (well, of course I did, but I was certainly willing/excited to be taken in a completely different direction), but that I really thought I understood the series' thematic agenda. And now that the story has been resolved, I realize -- like you said -- that some things that were important to me are not so important to her, and vice-versa.