User blog comment:Alexa12/The Finale Sucked./@comment-69.179.15.155-20120816171542/@comment-206.211.150.253-20120816182301

Anyone with a basic understanding of psych can "get that", this MTV show targeted at the teen/ pre-teen audience isn't exactly deep and Jackson is a basic basic basic psych 101 type character. I didn't feel the need to spell out all his issues and go into depth with that since it's a "needless to say" level of simple.

The love of a high school girlfriend/ boyfriend or a high school friend simply seems very insignificant to me personally in the scope of life, certainly not significant enough to magically save Jackson after all we saw this season. However, to be fair, I am not of the target audience for this show so perhaps to pre- teens/teens this would make more sense and I do believe you are correct in what the writers were going for.

Still, clearly all his issues originated from his feelings of abandonment by his birth parents. and it was already crystal clear Lydia loved him/ cared about him yet it wasn't enough to change him before now... so why now?