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What Did Everyone Think of The Ending?


i just finished the series and was just curious how everybody liked the ending? did you guys think it was a good way to end it or should it have closed in some other way? i personally loved the whole series and felt the ending was quite touching.

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I just finished watching the rest of the series last night, and I thought it was quite good. Funny, too. But for a Final episode, I would have hoped for more cameos. Just bring everyone back. A lot more closure than just Dick and Mary, and [sort of] Sally and Don. There wasn't much reason why Sally and Don would have to break up just because he became a cop again.

Chyna's character Janice became Harry's girlfriend near the end of Season 5, but Season 6 completely forgot she existed. I also would have liked to see Tommy revisit old girlfriends August and Alissa. Might have been funny if he wanted to make ammends before leaving earth, and ends up unintentionally having sex with both of them.


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The ending SHOULD have been them deciding to stay on Earth and retire as aliens/purple tubes. That would have been the best rather than have them fly up again.

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The ending SHOULD have been them deciding to stay on Earth and retire as aliens/purple tubes. That would have been the best rather than have them fly up again.

That too. Course I think this was aiming at season finale, not series finale, so it's probably not what the cast and crew intended for a series finale. Shame they didn't make a TV movie.


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I just finished all 6 seasons.

I absolutely love this show. But it ran a good course. And I think it ended perfectly, everything came full circle, they left just as they had arrived. The mission completing felt a bit a bit abrupt though.

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I didn't like the alien abduction part. That sort of left a bad taste in my mouth.



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I loved the ending....it was hilarious and touching and tied it in with the first episode and the things they felt when they first arrived.

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I much prefer the abduction ending. To me it fit Dick's character and the entire premise and feel of the show much better. It's only fitting that it ends with the ultimate act of Dick ruining things for mary like always.

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It should have ended like this. When Dick got out of the car to knock out Mary, the rest of the crew should've left him behind. Leaving him stuck on Earth alone, then Mary should've woke up not knowning who he was so Dick could be with her and fall in love with her all over again. Something like.

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I have mixed feeling about the end. I feel that they did nearly everything well, and I'm equally happy having them leave and be a bit sad about going, as if they had remained on earth. But they handled Mary poorly. The writers clearly wanted Mary to remain at home instead of being on some bizarre planet with a bunch of purple tubes, but the didn't want her separation from Dick to be too painful and sad and leave viewers with a bitter taste. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. You can't just take away the memory of a person but leave them with their feelings of love and happiness, she'll be lost with all those holes in her memory, she'll wonder where that happiness and love went, her friends and colleagues will obviously bring Dick up at some point, especially since they'll be puzzled as to where he went. Haven't the writers ever heard the expression that it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? It makes me sad because in my opinion, they had one of the best TV relationships ever. It took time for her to warm to Dick, when he broke her heart, it took real time, effort and tenacity on Dick's part to win her back, they had ups and downs, and you could really feel the love between them, and they positively ruined in in the eleventh hour. I just have to cling on to the interpretation that maybe Dick didn't really know what he was doing (as he often doesn't).

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I had really hoped that they would have stayed on Earth indefinitely to continue their "research" to have the full human experience that lasted their lifetimes!

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Didn't like it. Should have ended with everyone on earth a alien from different
Planets.

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