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deeply effected by finale....

posted 12 years ago by krizia-walker
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im a 20 year old female whos been a fan of the show since day 1. i feel like im over-reacting but im extremely saddened by the finale. I finished watching the series about an hour ago, had been watching it from the beginning several weeks ago. i watched the first 5 seasons when it was on tv, missing several episodes here and there so i thought i'd start again.

ive been crying for the past hour. i know its just a tv show, but it makes me so depressed to think that all the hundreds of people dead and alive allison has helped wouldnt insure her enough good karma to grow old with her husband. the dubois family was the most convincing tv family ive ever seen portrayed and im sure all the avid viewers grew to love them and feel like part of the family like i did. I just feel like its cruel and unusual to end such a great show like this. im legitimately saddened, i dont know if ill ever get over it

[–] WirelessBrain 12 years ago

I felt the exact same way when I first watch the finale. We grew to love this family and watching Allison take the loss of Joe was extremely painful. It'll get better I promise. Just think of the ending... Now they get to spend eternity together : )

[–] justitia 12 years ago

I just finished the finale. I don't have a TV and never heard of Medium -- even though I am generally familiar with what is on TV because of People Magazine and the like.

What everyone says here -- what a real family the TV Dubois seemed like -- the intimacy, the stages of their children, the day-to-day issues. The show was absorbing for that alone. And then on top of that, the ingenuity of raising real issues of ethical and social dilemmas throughout the series through the medium (no pun intended) of psychic knowledge that comes in bits and pieces -- that lacks uncertainty.

I kept coming on the boards here as I had questions about the show -- studiously avoiding the ones that talked about the finale.

I was deeply moved by it -- saddened but truly found it uplifting and spiritual somehow.

I don't understand what people are complaining about the finale for. Maybe it's because of youth - I am much older than most on the boards here and am dealing with my significant other whose disease is slowly causing him to drift away. But just as Alison can't bear to feel being alone without him - I feel the same way. And I know my partner keeps telling me that I can have a life without him -- just as Joe tells Alison -- though frankly I don't want to

I think it is beautiful that the final message of the show is that the Dubois' love is so deep and connected that it can continue after death. I don't believe in an afterlife -- but I do believe in a love that is felt that deeply and I am glad that they ended the show on that note.

[–] BrokenMirrorsbrokenMinds 12 years ago

I'm glad others enjoyed the finale and appreciated the spiritual aspects of it. I just viewed the finale today, and was quite shocked that they went the route they did...but I applaud them for it.

[–] Neelis 12 years ago

I could have seen it coming, the finale being titled Me Without You, but I had hoped it would mean something different. (Oddly, the girl in the episode Labour Pains kept talking about her husband Jeremy being alone without her, for a moment I thought this would be a two-part story when I saw that, then realized it didn't leave enough room for a new twist on the previous episode.)

I was slightly disappointed; I had expected this to be a double episode, it felt a bit rushed in the short timeframe it was given. (And the larger part of the episode being "all a dream," didn't go so well with me - Lost was ruined in a similar way - though much worse.) That being said, it was saddening to see Joe say goodbye to Allison in their bedroom.

The series didn't go out with a "bang", so to speak (in fact, I found season seven to be the least convincing of all seasons, when considering the crimes Allison helped solve), but it was not bad.

I guess I had hoped for a happier ending. (Though it did end happy, you could say, as they found each other again.)

Not sure yet what my final verdict is, no doubt I will watch it again during a later time.

EDIT: Somehow, reading the title for this episode (and avoiding all spoilers) I had half expected for Allison to die, and Joe and the girls to stay behind. It might have been more fitting that way. Ah, I don't know. It's time for me to catch some sleep! (And dream - nice dreams, I hope, not the ones with chaos and murder. ;)

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[–] krizia-walker 12 years ago

i was expecting mean replies, im glad you guys feel the same way. you are right about the ending, thats what im trying to remember most!

[–] vwlssknght 12 years ago

I was haunted by the series finale for days, if not weeks, after watching it when it originally aired. I can honestly say that no series finale has ever aroused such a profound sense of sadness in me.

While some argue that we know that Allison and Joe spend eternity together, it's how they showed Allison sitting, alone, in a nursing home eating JELL-O out of a plastic cup that really got to me. And then it was revealed that Joe hadn't come to Allison during all of the years between his physical death and that very moment. I immediately began painting a mental picture of what it must have been like for Allison to have suffered the loss of her husband and the burden of having to raise their children alone.

Like others here, it was the DuBois family unit, their relationships with each other, that made me fall in love with the show. With that said, the finale really did taint the entire series for me. I cannot watch an episode without thinking of what will eventually transpire.

I would rather the ending have been a dream sequence--a horrible, overused cliche in television land--than what we were given.

[–] Fox012 11 years ago

eating JELL-O out of a plastic cup that really got to me

well she hadn't the chance to go for the JELL-O.. just saying...

[–] Lyco499 11 years ago

I just finished re-watching the show and I'm still crying. I had the same reaction to the one series finale where Alison dreamt she died.

The thing is, psychologically it's been shown that people do develop pseudo-relationships with characters in TV shows. And when you take into account the intimacy, the amount of time spent with The Dubois family, the fact that they kept all the same actors so we watched the children grow up etc, avid viewers are bound to be emotionally effected. We went through so much with that family, children growing up, illness, redundancy etc etc.

I am sad that Alison never got to grow old with Joe, but he waited for her, though he didn't let her see him so she could move on, he must've been watching over her.

It's such a shame that the show got cancelled the way it did. It got a nice run so I'm not too sad about the fact it was cancelled like I sometimes am when something ends prematurely but it was the way they did it that annoyed me. The channel (forget which one made it, I'm from the UK) cut the season in half (bizarrely citing the "sexual" direction the show was going to take, that baffles me) so some elements felt sprung on you. There was no allusions, no two part finale, it was rather out of the blue, though I suppose that works.

I was also sad that we didn't get to see Ariel or Scanlon very much in the final season. Though I'm glad they did reappear.

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[–] monkfan21 11 years ago

I felt exactly the same way when I first saw the series finale :( Especially since Joe is one of my favorite characters

[–] tina24-326-961168 11 years ago

I just finished the show yesterday - was also a bit disappointed. Why there's always somebody who has to die in these shows ??? Why was it only 13 episodes ? It finishes too fast. Also I missed Ariel, they could put in a few episodes involving her in college. (Although I didn't understand how the hell she jumped from junior in high school directly to college, they just missed a whole year of her education ...) I don't know why it always feels like this that in all the similar tv shows they manage to screw up the final season. I watched Lost and Ghost whisperer last year, and this year - The O.C. At least for me the last seasons are always like too fast, too rushed, and not exactly satisfying at the end. I still love them all, but somehow at the end something's always missing - or not well told.

[–] pcoast10 11 years ago

I just finished watching the show last night on netflix...we watched almost every night. I too was so affected by this last episode....terribly sad about Joe and terribly angry that they chose to end the series this way. I agree with tina24, why does someone always have to die?? Don't we watch tv to be entertained? enlightened? encouraged? Having joe and allison together at the end was not helpful because i'm still reeling about joe. I loved the show and were it not for this last episode i would continue to watch it over and over...not its all tainted.

[–] tina24-326-961168 11 years ago

It was sad, also because his mother died in the season ... and at the end they say that the real Dubois are still together, living somewhere, and that's even more confusing. But anyway, we can't change that ...

[–] DirectorzCut 10 years ago

Oh my god, just saw the finale. It was not really bad as House's finale, but there is something about series getting undeserving endings.

Why did they need to kill Allison and Joe? The episode felt so unreal from the others we've seen. The series paled a bit when Joe got that engineering job and you could see that he, as well as the relationship with Allison, changed.

The end could've been about the revelation of her gift instead of using it a few seasons before. It would have been a more acceptable end in my opinion. And realistic though the real Allison is alive and known.

Medium is a masterpiece. Everything was perfect - the plot, the casting, the chemistry, the scripts and the acting. I like Ghost Whisperer as well but Medium felt more realistic and unique. The twists were so freaking good! And I felt so moved by it though I have a similar ability (which I rarely use due of scare).

*beep*, what am I supposed to do and watch now? Almost every series I follow has ended :(

[–] kate-hryn-rose 10 years ago

Medium is just another show that should not have been axed. I'm tired of stations axing the best shows on TV. Medium had plenty of shows left in it.

Very sad to see it go. Even though it's been a couple of years now, it is still one of the better show ever on TV.

[–] EinsteinRosenBridge 10 years ago

The ending still haunts me and not in a good way. It was a bad ending. Anyone saying else is rationalizing a sad ending.

Life is more important then death. The bottom line is that Joe died in a horrific plane crash and Allison was traumatized by it and the children were deprived of a father for the rest of their lives.

They got cute with an entirely inappropriate twist ending.

[–] samnmendean 10 years ago

I hated the ending too... Of course, I actually hated that it got canceled to begin with. Patty is such a talented actress, and all of the cast were amazing! I'm not one to like crime shows, but was able to fall in love with this one because Patty was the star, and because it was a crime show with a supernatural twist. I watch episodes of this show now days at night to fall asleep to. Such a wonderful show, but the one episode I never put on my playlist is the finale... If anything I think netflix should buy the rights to this show to do a spinoff... a spinoff that can capture what happened between Joe's death and the death of Alison. Tho a whole life apart was implied, it was never explicitly stated... When Alison said "You waited for me" that could have actually been her referring to perhaps a 'fight' her and Joe had only a week or 2 before... See? So anyway, the spinoff could be simply her, the kids, and Joe all living together in the house still.,.,. just like Joe's dad would come and talk to Alison all the time, well it could be that way with Joe too... They could write a 2 or 3 season ark where it starts with Alison finding out that Joe is still there, then slowly, one by one, the girls all find out hes there too. I could write a show like that for seasons and seasons and seasons.