First off, let me just say what an awesome show this has been! It doesn’t happen often that a show surprises, both in content and in the emotional stires that gets drawn up when watching the show, but this one has. A mark of a good show to me has always been its ability to draw in a user, and for good or bad, this one has drawn in me further than I had expected, an further than I care to admit at this moment in time. What makes this show so interest? Let’s first start with the content. Usually with shows like this, the content is very light, somewhat comical, but not Kyle XY–from the very start, the show has very mature lines and deep controversial topics that either teens or families or groups of people struggle with.

The science behind the show, while is still science fiction, would be something that I would have expected on SyFy instead of on ABC Family. Complex, interconnected, a continual story line that is interwoven with mini-story arches that not only made the story better, but drew you into each of the characters. What makes this interesting is that usually there is a spell bounding revelation that causes changes to occur, but in this case, it was small incremental changes little things that caused the story to shift one way to another. You could almost compare this to the X-Files in the sense that what the writers giveth, the writers taketh away. Not to mention a super secret organization, in this case, three organizations, that bring mortal peril to Kyle and Jessie and in season 3 to the Tragers and to Amanda that results in one of the best relationships in the series to be put into a blender and mixed up, down, left and right until you can’t tell if the characters know what’s real and what’s not.

There are many questions as to why the writers did what they did with the characters. The main issue that is central to the series has always been Kyles desire to be loved and to love another. This came very quickly to Kyle through his encounter with Amanda early in the series, as the girl next door neighbor who sparks something in Kyle that he doesn’t know himself what it is until later on in the series when he learns to understand and interpret the feelings and sensations that surround him. Central to this is the relationship that he eventually has with Amanda, one that we all thought would last, but in the cruelist way possible the writers stripped this from us in an act of chaos by flipping the tables between the end of Season 2 and Season 3 that resulted in Amanda and Kyle moving apart due to the secrets that Kyle couldn’t tell Amanda. This is a question that even to this day as I finish up Season 3 can’t understand why they chose to take that route. In one episode, Kyle is asked by Decklin and Josh why he doesn’t read her in–this question has plagued me from the beginning as it would seem the most common practical thing for Kyle to do is to bring Amanda into the fold. At the start of Season 2, Kyle brings the Tragers into the fold, and not just one, but all of them after Decklin and Foss. Kyles explaination is that he can’t let anything happen to Amanda, that he has to protect her–but that logic doesn’t hold up. I mean, Kyle cares about the Tragers just as much if not more than Amanda, this is shown when Kyle trades the amniotic fluid that saved Balen to save Nicole after she gets into an accident that threatens her life and in exchange has to then team up with Ladnok an organization that Kyle sees as being pure evil–and yet he does. And through all of this, he doesn’t see that his life would be drastically improved by reading in Amanda and having her part of his inner circle? She’s already been affected by the activities of Zezicks, Madacorp, and Ladnok, so why does he continue to resist the temptation to bring close the person that means the most to him in his life? One of the comments by the writers after the series ended was that the hero character always tends to be by themselves–that in the end he would have been probably written to be alone without Amanda or Jessie. I ask isn’t every superhero or hero type character suppose to put faith in those less like them to be able to feel human and connect themselves to the people and things that they are always trying to protect? What’s the purpose of what the heroes do if they never get to be with those who they are trying to protect?

I actually think that towards the end, Kyle became less open to interpretting humans and learning and became more paranoid and confused. A love interest would help ground him and act as a sensible buffer for the things that he does. A lot of time Kyle gets himself into trouble, and having that voice of reason may be that thing to keep him out of trouble.

Kyle should have learned that he doesn’t need to take on the troubles of the world all by himself. He’s one person against a multi-national organization that is hell bent on taking science and using that to their advantage.

An interesting concept and perhaps a twist that ABC or whomever could look at doing to do a sequel to Kyle XY–what if Amanda in her quiet shell, decides to ditch the music career and go into business, turns into a cut throat business woman, starts to work for and infiltrate the ranks of Ladnok and ends of being involved with the very thing that Kyle had worked so hard to protect her against. And then later in life they meet up in some dramatic meet and greet and instead of him being the one to protect her, she is trying to destroy him so she can further the agenda’s of Ladnok. Definitely an interesting concept!