oh my god. this show came out when i was like 12 and i watched it on and off, but now that i'm older and have the whole series on netflix i've really been enjoying watching it before i go to sleep every night. last night i watched the last episode and i cried for like a freaking HOUR hahaha i am soo not over it. arrgh WHYYY!! :(
shareThe series finale is def. gut-wrenching. Esp. because it ends with showing how the cast members had grown over the course of 7 years!! It kinda made me feel the weight of 7-years. I watched the episodes since the first episode and lived in three different countries over the course of the show running.
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I hate the series finale so much that I pretend that it didnt exist.
The worst part about killing Joe off is that the whole show was going to be seen again and now we know he doesn't live more than 7 more years! Bummer! What was the point of that? Just to piss people off? Just because some writer was n a bad mood is no reason to screw up the whole show. It's just like in Bones. Sweets gets killed off because the writers didn't want him to leave the show to pursue other offers. He was so loved in the show and then they kill him off. I blame all the arrogant spoiled writers for ruining shows that way. Unnecessary!
shareTo know Alison lived her life alone and that Joe waited silently for her just stank! Why didn't he just hang around in ghost form? At least she would've had some company.
Joe is arguably the loveliest tv husband of all time. To dispatch him like that was cruel to the viewers- and his wife- who adored him.
I didn't find it edgy or brave of the show's writers. I found it cheap and a betrayal to the fans who envied Alison for her wonderful husband (and let's face it, there are A LOT of us).
I couldn't agree more. It's been years now, since I watched the finale when it originally aired, and I'm still upset by it!
It was the family unit that they showed throughout the series that made it so endearing for me. So, to think of Alison having to spend the remainder of her life without Joe, and to raise their daughters alone, was unbearable.
And the final scene, where she's alone in her bedroom in a nursing home, eating Jell-O out of a plastic cup, depressed me beyond belief. I felt as though she was forgotten, left there to die.
I really don't understand why the writers chose that ending for the show.
you're not alone. Medium was and is my most favorite show but i couldn't watch it again since then.
shareHated the ending too, especially after the episode with the toxic neighborhood, where the future showed Marie dying of cancer. Joe was present in that future scene, suggesting that he would live to a much older age than what was presented in the finale. And then for them to end the series the way they did. Hated it.
shareI just started this series anew, and still love it. But yes, I hated the ending so much that I couldn't watch any of them for years ... Perhaps the quality tanked some when the ownership changed (like Sliders), and it might have been better had it stayed with NBC? I'm still hoping they'll ignore or change it and come your out with a follow-up (like a series2 or movie).
shareI wish the show had concluded with season six as originally planned, because the conclusion was far more fitting with the tone of the show and left us with hope for the family. A show like this really should have kept the finale light, warm, and simple. No mystery, no major drama.
How I would have done it:
First half - briefly focus on Allison's time at the DA office, but with a greater emphasis on her struggles with juggling school and still spending time with the family. Show how Joe and the kids also adapt to this change. The first half ends with the family at Allison's graduation.
Last half - show flashes of the family as they all grow older. Show Allison actually working as a lawyer; one of the kids graduating from high school or college, and another getting married; and a much older Allison and Joe playing with their grandchildren. The finale would end with Joe passing away from old age with the family at his bedside. Allison dies a few years later, cue the "You waited" scene.
That would have been far more satisfying than what we got.
shareThe thing I never cared for with the ending was that they killed off Joe. Why? Especially when you consider that in real life, Alison Dubois is still happily married to her husband. Couldn't they think of a better way than just go with shear shock value?
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