<em>This Is Us</em> stars weigh in on the final fate of <strong>each</strong> character

Change that Is to a Was: This Is Us is now officially a show that lives in the past. On Tuesday night, the Pearsons gathered earnestly one last time for the series finale of NBC's beloved, time-hopping multigenerational family drama. The show's swan song proved to be a sweet sign-off, as the Big Three paid final respects to their mother, Rebecca (Mandy Moore), and then chin-stroked about their next steps in life. "Us" also spent half of the hour nestled back in a perfectly uneventful day of the early 90s with Jack (Milo Ventimiglia), Rebecca, and a pre-teen Big Three.

Mandy Moore called it a "warm hug," Sterling K. Brown (Randall) deemed it a "sweet swan song," and his onscreen wife, Susan Kelechi Watson (Beth) found this finale to be far from a Worst Case Scenario: "It felt like the right ending, yet at the end of it, we get this hope of what their new beginnings will be, which just feels very much like the show. It never leaves you sad or in the deep, dark place. It always is looking to bring us back into the light, you know? I had every confidence in Dan [Fogelman, the show's creator], and he really did something beautiful for people in ways that what will go on for lifetimes."

Fogelman shed some light on the series finale over here, while Ventimiglia and Moore broke down Jack and Rebecca's afterlife reunion over here, and Sterling K. Brown assessed Randall's (possibly) huge political future over here. But right here, the cast members reveal what they thought of their character's final destination before This Is Us ventured off into the great unknown.