"Power" fans are going bananas over the final season of the crime series. Someone, or perhaps everyone, has been out to get the main character, played by Omari Hardwick.
Hardwick told ABC News he hasn't been able to bring himself to watch this season.
"I lived it," Hardwick said. "The mid-season finale, that to me was the finale."
Hardwick plays big time drug dealer James St. Patrick, aka Ghost, who is in the process of trying to turn his life around.
Perhaps his hesitation to watch this season may also be because he says he saw his character's fate coming early on. In season one, he emailed show creator Courtney Kemp to share his thoughts on the ultimate fate of his character.
"I said, 'I see this guy taking a bullet at the end.' I saw the fate of the show," Hardwick said. "That's five years ago. I saw him taking a bullet but it was almost like Denzel in 'Man on Fire,' when Denzel had to give a life for a life."
He added, "Whether it was eight seasons or whether it was 20 seasons, Ghost had to give his life to save his brother and his best friend. So I did perceive an end, not dissimilar but it wasn't necessarily this end."
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Hardwick credits Kemp with writing a character who viewers saw flawed, but trying to fly straight.
"We literally added mirrors to the show," Hardwick, 46, told Travers. "You'd see shattered mirrors, or broken mirrors, weird interesting looks of Ghost at himself within the mirror. So there was the reality of what we find attractive about human beings is that not just the fall, but when there's the fall, a lot of us are rooting for the person who is falling. We're almost figuratively extending our own hand saying, 'Hey, I can help you up'. So Ghost was always getting up and falling. "
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