Really? THAT'S now it ended? Was the show rushed because it was cancelled or something? How did it get such a crappy ending? I feel like I just wasted weeks of endless binge watching for NOTHING! WTF?
Would Alicia have ended up happily with WILL at the end of the series if the actor had not wanted off the show to be with his wife and his new baby?
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Evidently, that's the way the writers envisioned it, when they started the seven-season arc they had planned. (It wasn't "cancelled" -- they just did all the seasons they were planning to do and then stopped.) They saw it starting and ending with a slap in the hallway of a public event, coming full circle, so to speak.
Some liked it, some felt cheated, and some really didn't understand what happened at all. Some thought Jason had left her. Not necessarily. He might have just gone for a coffee while she was dealing with all her nonsense with Peter.
And after "the slap", when she gathered herself and turned to go back, some even thought she was going BACK TO PETER! After all that?? If that was the case, it really would have been a complete waste of seven years.
About Will, I think the writers had always had it in mind that Alicia would come to her senses, dump the dirtbag at last, and be happy with the man who had always loved her. But when Josh Charles wanted out, they just had to scramble to make other arrangements. In my opinion, the show never really recovered after Will left it.
"In my opinion, the show never really recovered after Will left it."
I have to agree with you. The dynamics on the show were altered drastically by Will´s death. It wasn´t the same after that.
I want to die in my sleep like my uncle. Not screaming and yelling like his passengers.
I really liked the ending, though it was not happy and it left me worrying about Alicia.
For a while I kept thinking about the ending of Gone with the Wind, where Scarlet finally realizes she loves Rhett and wants him back, only to find that it is too late, but after drying her tears resolves to figure out how to get him back "tomorrow."
But Alicia is made of stronger, less selfish, and more moral stuff than Scarlet. If Alicia wants to get Jason back, or earn Diane's forgiveness, or run for the US Senate, that last scene shows that she has the backbone to try. Most people would have collapsed into depression, which she almost did earlier in Season 7.
My worry: that she will become like Peter and do anything to win. She has already done that by betraying Diane and Kurt.
The whole show was an excellent depiction of how hard it is to be a clean politician or lawyer.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. – G.K. Chesterton
I finished watching the last season a few weeks ago and I know what you mean. It was a bit odd for an ending, but it leaves open the possibilities of spin-offs or revivals. It's also better than the alternative in which all questions are answered and the audience is content with what happened. Overall not a very satisfying ending but not weak.
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Didn't like the ending either. Just like a slap in the face. Again nothing is resolved. It came full circle, and back to square one.
Jason wanted something not complicated, and left.
That's exactly what I thought too having just watched it. However, the way she stood up, wiped away the tears, pulled down her jacket and walked out with determined stride....that says she is still intent on living a good life...._without_ the wife part.
I can see a spin off titled: The Good Life, yeah yeah cheesy. But it would be fun to see some kind of spin off. I'd love to see more of Alicia :o)
I Just Binged watch and I did not care for that ending or even much of season 7.
It felt like a different show.
I laughed at the ending.
Did she really think she was going to run into the sunset with Jason, and am I the only one that thought they had no chemistry.
I hate that Josh wanted to leave the show, as I agree with another poster.
I think Will and Alicia would have married and had a baby.
I didn't like how the ending turned her into a total beeeotch. They kept focusing in on her face, and she kept seeming to get harder and harder. It made me think she was turning into Hillary!!!
I didn't like that she sold out Diane. But I was still rooting for her. I did like her relationship with Jason, and would have been happy to see them together, but the ending made it ambiguous.
What I got from it was that for once she would be the pursuer, rather than the pursued. I guess that's better. Rather than having men chase after her, throwing her life into turmoil and great embarrassment with their reckless actions (something both Peter and Will did), she is now the one making the moves. She's no longer the stationary target for men to aspire to. She was now in motion, free to do whatever she wanted. So, maybe that's some kind of feminist ideal.