Last nights 6 feet under (spoilers and predictions)

[Dr. Furface]

I thought the ending almost ruined the whole damn show - I'd have ended it with Clair just driving off. Showing them all old and dying looked really phony and it didn't add anything to what had gone before. It just said 'that's all folks, we mean it'. I'd far rather they'd left it up to my imagination - it was the worst possible way to end the best tv series ever.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I thought the ending almost ruined the whole damn show - I'd have ended it with Clair just driving off. Showing them all old and dying looked really phony and it didn't add anything to what had gone before. It just said 'that's all folks, we mean it'. I'd far rather they'd left it up to my imagination - it was the worst possible way to end the best tv series ever.

I thought it was best possible ending.. really took me by surprise, and I haven't cried so hard in fucking years..

Kinda like the big bow actors take at the end of a stage production.

 

[potential]

Question ? was maggie in the abortion clinic when
the mum phoned ? because we didn't get to know what happened to her ?
driving off in a toyota prius ... the future ?

claire out living to 102 after all the drugs she gorged on...

 

[belboid]

we wondered that. or she was being told for sure she was pregnant - especially when it looked like Willa was going to die, it would seem a very SFU thing to do.

Just watched that bit and the end again (and cried at it again) and I'm still not sure. Mainly because there was only one other woman in the waiting room, as oppossed to two or three men. I dont think we'd have got to see what happened to her anyway, she wasn't a sufficiently main character, but it must have been pregnancy related in some way.

 

[vogonity]

What a wonderful episode! That final montage was dazzling.

 

[X-77]

I thought it was best possible ending.. really took me by surprise, and I haven't cried so hard in fucking years..

Kinda like the big bow actors take at the end of a stage production.

yeah, agree with this - superb and very unpredictable ending, plus really, really, really emotional (even when watching it for second time last night )

 

[D'wards]

Its 10pm on Tuesday night, bloody hell i'm at a loose end now.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I thought it was best possible ending.. really took me by surprise, and I haven't cried so hard in fucking years..

Kinda like the big bow actors take at the end of a stage production.

thats a perfect way to put it

 

[andy2002]

Finally saw the final episode last night. I enjoyed it because I'll always love those characters, but thought it was a very soapy ending and that although seeing them all die at the end made thematic sense it didn't quite work because none of them looked very convincing. In fact, seeing them keel over one by one all wearing daft make-up was funny rather than moving!

I ended up rather liking Ted, the bloke who Claire married. Yes, he was a horrible Republican but a decent bloke somewhere underneath all the right wing bullshit.

Having Keith get shot to death was a shit thing to do – hadn't David suffered enough? If ever a couple deserved to grow old together and die peacefully it was those two.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I ended up rather liking Ted, the bloke who Claire married. Yes, he was a horrible Republican but a decent bloke somewhere underneath all the right wing bullshit.

Having Keith get shot to death was a shit thing to do – hadn't David suffered enough? If ever a couple deserved to grow old together and die peacefully it was those two.

i know i liked Ted too...

and yeah the bit about Keith was sooooo upsetting.

they did deserve the 'happy ending' more than anyone else....

but the show wasnt about happy endings at all was it, so it sort of made sense too, if that makes sense.

 

[D'wards]

i know i liked Ted too...
)

Me too.

I liked the fact that George recovered from his mental illness and stayed with Ruth for the next 20 years, tho i can't see why Ruth pulled so many men during the series - its not the 50's any more, no matter how she dresses.