*This post contains a SPOILER for Big Love. If you haven’t seen the ending yet, don’t read on unless you want me to completely ruin it for you with my non stop moaning and whining*
It’s been weeks. WEEKS.
I was sitting there, wondering how on Earth they were going to tie up a seasons worth of dramtics in one small hour, and then…they killed him. Really?
It was so disturbing, watching Bill die.
And so jarring. I wasn’t ready for it. I was just trying to resolve in my brain, all the schemes and story lines, and then boom…shot?
What about Joey and Wanda and the weird twin?
I still don’t have closure on this whole Casino debacle.
After everything that happens with Alby…it just ends…in the hallway of the Senate?
Where they just looking for a way to show of Margi’s real life new pixie hairstyle, and they assumed the best way to do it was make her a globe trotting widow with no apparent child rearing responsibilities?
Also, WHERE THE FUCK IS TEENIE!?
It was all so unsettling.
And I hated it.
Still. I still hate that ending.
Me too buddy. BUT I disagree on Bill dying. Dude is CREEPY – just look at the picture you picked. I wouldn’t let that guy within 47 miles of my vagina. So yeah, him dying was A-okay in my books. What was SO NOT OKAY? Margine’s hair. I am sorry but no. Just no.
Her ears are just too weird for that hair.
I am still very torn by it, too. So sad it’s all over.
See, I loved the ending. Because I always saw the whole point of the show as the relationships among the 3 women, and all of the problems in their lives were caused by Bill and his freaking ego. So once he was dead? They were all free. I loved that.
I have tried to get in that mindset. Really tried. But I just don’t see them as a whole with him gone.
I becamse more and more convinced he was gonna die as the finale got closer – there was simply no other way to tie up all of the loose ends with his marriage to Barb, the fact that he was about to go to jail, etc. And I liked what it said about the relationship between the women – the sister-wives were awesome (well, minus Niki sometimes, or a lot of the time), but Bill annoyed the crap out of me. But to have him die at the hands of freaking CARL? That bugged.
See, I didn’t see it coming. Maybe that was the issue, it was so out of left field. I see Carl walk up all annoying, and then WHAT!?
THANK YOU! OMG I was pissed. I mean, really?
Not to mention, out of ALL the people from the last five seasons who would have liked to have seen Bill dead, the NEIGHBOR ends up shooting him? Really?!? It was so out of left field. And I completely agree on the Margene thing too…so your husband gets murdered, and that seems like the best time to abandon your children to sail around the world or something. Right…
Yeah, I hated that he had all this confrontation and chances to die for a cause, and this is how they kill him? OVER FUCKING SOD!?
I didn’t like it either. Too many questions, too abrupt. Blargh. This must be what all those guys were bitching about when the sopranos ended. Damn you HBO.
See, I also watched Sopranos, and while I kinda hated the ending, (and I am about to sound weird), they didn’t kill them off, so in my head, they are still alive living their storylines.
Okay really good point. In my head, tv and movie people are always still living out their story lines. But, as I want them to. Much more satisfying. I *never* kill them off with a douchy neighbor.
I *HATE* the way they end series these days… No closure, no end of the story… It’s like they just run out of ideas and stop writing.
I think it’s why I cancelled cable.
I hate to expect at the end of the series, someone is dead. It’s just lame now. No shock value. The same way all doctor shows eventually have some sort of natural disaster or mass transit accident, followed by a sniper hidden in the hospital, and then eventually a musical episode.
I NEED NEW CONCEPTS.
Most of the shit that happened in the ending was bullshit. Fucking bullshit. What happened to Home Plus? Like you said the Casino? The rest of the Juniper Creek freakies?
Bullshit.
I agree, I really wanted to see where they were going to take Juniper Creek, and they showed nothing.
I thought the SAME exact thing about Margene’s haircut! haha. I’m still pretty pissed about the ending. I agree with Kellyn that the neighbor shooting him was total BS. I would love for Big Love to continue for years and years, but if forced to end it, how would you decide the ending?
Gosh, I don’t know how it should have ended….
I do think it needed another season, just for consistency reasons. Way to much to cram in.
I would have taken another season to:
– Detail the casino issue that magically disappeared.
-Watch the changes at Juniper Creek
– Followed Ben a bit more to see where his life was going to take him.
– Watch Alby’s trial unfold and see what happened to his mother
-Brought the missing family back (Joey, Wanda, Sarah, Teenie
Ummm….what else…
Agree with everything you said, but Natalie Maines singing God Only Knows at the end almost made it okay. LOVE her!
Ok THAT was amazing. If I wasn’t already crying my eyes out, i would have after that.
I can’t even think about it without getting furious. The writers need their hands cut off and and bitch slapped with them for that bullshit ending.
Oh I thought the ending was perfect! Bill HAD to die to really become the Prophet…Albee can’t fight a dead guy. Dead guy wins every time. Also, Bill never would’ve asked Barb for a blessing if he weren’t dying… she was able to fulfill her destiny.
I’m sad that it’s all over. Can’t handle it.
But liked the ending.
I am also sad it’s over, and sad to think that it can never come back.
I only watched bits of the show over the year, but I just had to say that I love all the gals’ hair in that pic above.
That is all.
I know, total sex hair.
Jesus Brittany, thanks for RUINING it for me. Heh.
I fucking WARNED YOU, Jen.
So I didn’t really want to know the ending since I’m at least a season behind. And yet I had to read. It’s a compulsion, much like ignoring my children to read blogs. That’s how I learned about the ending to the John Lithgow season of Dexter.
And also, that’s a stupid way to end Big Love. And Dexter, for that matter.
Ugh. I have ruined it for you. I would say keep watching it, because every moment of it is amazing. Just not the end.
Well you did have a disclaimer! I wasn’t sure I’d keep watching anyway. I kind of thought Bill was a douche.
Ugh! The Teenie part! I didn’t even notice.
Now I’m doubly mad at the whole finale.
o_o I just got chills…. UGH! I didn’t know he DIED!
I hate not having answers.
Seriously.
It’s like when Gilmore Girls ended and left us hanging, asking ourselves if Luke & Lorilei end up together or not.
I want to know what happened to Nikki’s daughter….did she run off with the hot school teacher?
And really, not seeing Teenie for like all of the final season pissed me off.
I’m confused, lost and damnit….I want answers!
I liked the ending. It validated my suspicion that Barb was the prophet the whole time. It wasn’t about accepting the Principle. It was about building a church that accepted those willing to raise their families and worship how they see fit. I did, however, take extreme issue with what they did to Lois in the final season. They made her such a nonfactor.
For the last several weeks I’ve been trying to figure out who is taking care of Margie’s kids.
This has been my priority.
I loved the ending. I felt it was a good way to end the show. Though, I’m sure some reunion show in a few years will happen, because of course it would.
Very sad it is all over – but soooo happy that I can replace it with the real polygamists on Sister Wives. If you haven’t watched it – it is a must see. Kody’s (the husband) hair is almost as disturbing as the weird ass “family”.
Kody’s hair IS disturbing. Unless you’re a 12-year surfer dude living Laguna Beach.
I actually laughed out loud when he was killed. I’ve despised Bill’s character from the beginning, and he got what was coming to him. Not as good of an ending as The Sopranos, but really good.
Because I’m in a polyamorous relationship, I loved Big Love. And I’m devastated by the ending. Still. Glad I’m not alone in my bothered-ness!
I don’t watch this show, but I can only ever think of Bill Pullman as Chet from Weird Science, who is turned into a grotesque pile of **** at the end of the film. With a second as the douche-y highlighted haired explorer in Titanic.
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I have such mixed feelings – I hate that so much was left hanging, but at the same time I think all the problems were caused by Bill in the first place so it was kinda fitting that he get killed. Especially because it was by the last person you’d have thought would do it for the nuttiest reason ever.
Margine’s hair would be absolutely adorable if she different ears. And I feel shitty writing that because what if the actress ever read it? I really like her and would hate to hurt her feelings.
There’s something wrong with me, isn’t there?