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An AMAZING SERIES, with an incredibly...


MEDIOCRE FINAL EPISODE.

When is Hollywood going to understand that we want RESOLUTION in a final episode, not have to wonder what really is going to happen. It's lazy writing done by those more self absorbed than wanting to write a REAL CONCLUSION!!!

To Riddley Scott, shame on you...tsk, tsk, tsk.

Now, they are making me write the ending in my mind, yet they're not paying me. I didn't watch it to do mental gymnastics. It's typical Hollywood believing they are more clever than they are. I wanted to be entertained, just like I was on every other episode.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

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They told you what's going to happen. Alicia will become the governor of Illinois. Get appointed to the Cabinet. Run for President.

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No, they alluded to that as a possible event down the road. They wanted an ending that satisfied everyone's imagination and succeeded at ambiguity.

(Spoiler Alert)The Confederacy LOSES the Civil War!!!!

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I actually quite liked the finale. Maybe they'll make a movie like Serenity :)

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I actually liked the ending. It wasn't an easy one... they could have tied it up with a bow and have Alicia run off into the sunset with jason... fine and dandy... but they didn't. The show alludes to it since as far back as season 4 I think when Cary talks about how Alicia has changed. When Alicia asks if that was a good thing or a bad thing he answers "probably neither, just necessary." It was Alicia changing.

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When are people going to realize that just because they don't like the direction of a show, it doesn't somehow make that "lazy writing".

You want lazy writing?

Alicia runs to Jason and has a happily ever after. She finds the right balance between work and relationships now that she's not married to Peter.
Diane and Alicia become extremely powerful and have the best firm in the State. Cary finds Kalinda; they get married.
Grace becomes a great lawyer, following her mother's footsteps.
Eli finds another woman candidate who ends up becoming the next president (after Hilary). Marissa becomes her secretary.
Zach finds success as an author and marries a different girl and stays in Europe.
Peter is shown regretting his decisions.

Bam! Lazy writing that anyone can come up with. With resolution and all.

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I can see that kind of ending for an 80s/90s show. If they had done that, I would have hated them. The Good Wife was good for all the things that remained unsaid, untold, the looks, smirks and silences that said much more than a thousand words. So I find it logical that most things were hinted and left to the imagination of the viewers.
They also could also give closure and get completely bonkers by proposing a totally different ending that shows all characters in 20 years:

Alicia: President of the US, absolutely bitter and cynical, married to a trophy husband, totally forgot the investigator

Diane: retired with her hubby in a country house near a lake, shooting guns; she turned Republican and became Alicia's political adversary in Illinois, catfights, the slap was just the first one of a long series

Cary: married to Nancy Crozier, who's passive agressive with him, 6 kids, teacher with brown corduroy trousers, wool cardigan, a pipe and a moustache

Kalinda: Alicia's first decision as POTUS was to have her killed

Grace: failed law school, forgot all the Christian stuff, does Kabbalah becomes her father's assistant, writes a book about her mother "The Not So Good Mother", does a trashy real TV show

Zach: married Luca Quinn, doesn't speak to his mother anymore

Eli: turned gay and married Colin Sweeney, who's always open to new experiments, became a sex slave and in charge of his dogs

Peter: in jail for another case of corruption, sentenced to 10 years

Will Gardner: he's not dead! he faked his death and reappears just as Alicia solemnly swears that she will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of her ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. She can keep her composure although she's deeply upset.

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>> An AMAZING SERIES, with an incredibly... MEDIOCRE FINAL EPISODE.

I completely agree

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