Obviously Big Love finished a long time ago but I recently started watching it and just finished today. I was so disappointed with the ending, I did not see that coming. Who kills off one of the main characters?! I understand it was done to show how each wife had to become their own person without Bill but it was still a huge disappointment!!! Who's with me?
shareI hated the ending too.
shareI hated it too.
Ideally I would have had Bill become the next prophet and he and the women would do everything in their power to help free the people of Juniper Creek. With Barb's teaching background I wanted her to get involved in reopening the school in JC that they referenced Alby closing. Nicki would continue her work with counseling women and helping those who wanted to leave unhappy unions. Margene could have helped some of the women with getting jobs and finding other ways to feel better about themselves.
I just feel like there were so many possibilities with this show and they were all just thrown away because the people who were running the show pretty much stopped caring after the third season and basically wanted to move on to other things.
That would have worked. I had a few different ideas on how I wanted it to end. Had they all ended up together, your scenario is how I would have wanted it to end.
Personally, though, I liked the idea of Bill ending up alone. I wanted Margene to go off with the Goji Juice guy or with no one at all. She really started discovering who she was and wanted to be and I didn't really see how the family all fit in to that. I wanted Barb to end up with the native on the reservation. I thought that some of their scenes were positively electric and saw much more of a spark than between her and Bill. With Nikki, I was torn. Part of me wanted her to end up with the senator. I really liked her with him and seeing her discover what love was. I was shocked when she randomly declared that she loved Bill and thought that there had to be some catch or something. I would have liked to see her end up with him. But, I also loved her unholy union with Alby. Part of me loves the idea of her and Alby running Juniper Creek together. Had they ended it this way, it would have left the door open for a spin off with Alby, Nikki, Adalene, and the rest of the Juniper Creek crowd. You would know that things weren't really going to get better on the compound and would wonder what all those two would do if they were in charge. I especially think it would have been great if it had ended with Nikki and Alby running things and then Bill has to return since he no longer has a place in society after being outed. It could have ended with Alby and Nikki plotting and then they look up and see Bill in the doorway with his suitcase in hand looking desperate.
Agreed, Barb with the casino guy, margene travelling the world alone, nikki with the district attorney. . .
shareI'm fine with him being knocked off. I don't like how it was rushed, or what the results said about the family. His family was better off with him dead.
shareHis family was better off with him dead.Sad but true! The first time I watched this series, though, I didn't catch what a horrible creep he is... Having watched it over again, definitely creepy/sleazy/off somehow.
It's just personal preference, but I loved the way both Big Love and American Beauty used the side-on collision out of nowhere. They both had essentially the same character - this guy on the side, who just seems to be an annoyance, not part of the main story, but who has been quietly simmering to the proverbial boil all along. It was like all of the things in life, good, bad, or indifferent, that you just never see coming, because you thought they were tertiary at best.
shareI just watched the final episode. I cried my eyes out at the end. I thought the finale was sad but fitting
shareThe season finale didn't seem much of a finale to me. It seemed rushed and not all story lines were executed. If they wanted some shocker like killing bill I don't understand why the neighbor did it when he didn't seem that intrical in the story line.
And in the last scene where they are celebrating the baptism of Sara's baby where is Marg going? They say she needs to call more. Has she left to save the planet and brought her children along or are her sister wives taking care of them since they are all still married in their faiths eyes?
Although the ending wasn't completely satisfying, I really think they did the best they could. The series was so complex, with so many storylines, it was practically on the scale of 'War and Peace'.
As much as I loved it, it had to end eventually, and resolving every storyline was simply not possible.
Sure, they could have used a few episodes to tie everything together neatly, and had some giant climax, but I have to say, I was fine with the end, and it was a statement in itself. In a way, it was appropriate that the lowly neighbor killed Bill, the series went out quietly.
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they did the best they could. The series was so complex, with so many storylines... it had to end eventually, and resolving every storyline was simply not possible.I'm not going to compare it to a tome of Russian literature, ;) but I take your point. As I mentioned elsewhere on this thread, there were a million different people who'd have been happy to knock Bill off at the end - I question their choice, but I don't know what I would have preferred... Maybe if Ben rebelled on an epic scale. That would've been as "out there" as the neighbor, but not at all fan-friendly. What they chose didn't really require any extra explanation - like who cares what happened to Carl?? That gave the writers time to at least give a vague impression of what happened with the main characters. share
I assume Marg went off on the medical mission ship she was interested in. Bill had asked Nicki to see that Margie went if he went to jail.
shareHas she left to save the planet and brought her children along or are her sister wives taking care of them since they are all still married in their faiths eyes?
how she left her very young kids... It's like they forgot about her kids.I got the impression that Nicki was into the childcare deal while Margie was happier swooping in and out.
Who kills off one of the main characters?!
I hated the ending so much that every time something endsin a way i dont like i refer to it as "getting Carled"
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I was so effing pissed by the ending after it premiered. I was crying and wanting to throw things. lol
I understand now that without Bill- Margene, Nicki and Barb can find themselves. I like that, actually.
But on the other hand, I kinda would have liked Bill to become "True Prophet". For them to move into that new Big House and start fresh with the good people of Juniper Creek.
I'm torn.
I'll see how I feel after I finish it again this time 'round.
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