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Yes, that ending was most hard-hitting. It was a sudden shock into a sense of reality - that people really did die, and no matter the machinations, suddenly it was unavoidable. It was especially meaningful in that although the people were obviously characters, we'd had chance to know them and build up a relationship with them. With
that ending shot, suddenly that war became not a mass of unknown people who fell over in a distant land decades ago, the meaning of which is gradually being reinvented and even, to some people today, lost, but instead a much-needed reminder that these were real people, whose deaths were terrifying and horrible, and whose losses were mourned for many many years (some even still now) by the families and friends who loved them. That last scene was an underlining of a cost of war that we don't often recognise en masse like this, as the impact of individual losses across the countries were just that - individual impacts, and usually on people who had little voice to express just what those losses personally meant to them.
Dad's Army also ended with an acknowldgement of reality, with a toast to the people who served in the Home Guard.
Both good actions, and it me also, it's significant that although these were comedy programmes, behind them was something so real and so tragic that it could not go unrecognised.
