The moment at the end was so predictable; I just knew Charles would show up with a ring just as Jack was planning to propose. So annoying and contrived. I am really hating this love triangle plot line, and I'd like to see far fewer scenes in the big city with Elizabeth's family.
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Tell your god to ready for blood.
I was so upset. The proposal took me completely by surprise. I don't think Elizabeth will accept.
shareIf she doesn't say no right away, it will be very hard for me to keep watching. She just told Jack she loved him and seemed to make the decision that she wants to stay in Hope Valley. I hope they let us viewers enjoy a season with much less drama between Jack and Elizabeth.
shareI hope not~!
shareYeah, I knew that was going to happen as soon as Charles and Viola talked. It was a pretty bad ending to the season.
I was so tempted to just fast forward through all the Hamilton and Bill Avery scenes in the finale. Actually, the only story lines I really enjoyed this season were Elizabeth/Jack and Abigail. Just about everything else was too cliché for my liking.
As others have said, I hope they get back to Elizabeth in the classroom and her relationships with the children and their families if there is a third season.
I totally fast forward all the Bill Avery and his horrible psycho wife scenes and I really don't care about Elizabeth's family, they are boring and snobby.
The only couples that interest me are Elizabeth and Jack & Lee & Rosemary. Funny, I couldn't stand Rosemary in the beginning, now I think she's adorable, and has lots of chemistry with Lee.
God loves you as if you were the only person on this earth.
Rosemary and her advice column is awful (to me). I think she completely over-acts in those scenes. I like her with Lee for the most part. He makes her seem not as fake.
shareI didn't like Rosemary at first either, but she's grown on me.
Hopefully the season 3 opener will have Elizabeth promptly turning Charles down. I'm not going to like it if they drag out this love triangle.
I agree with you completely. It took 100 episodes for Dr. Ogden and Detective William Murdoch to finally get together. I hope they can do better for Elizabeth and Jack~!
shareThe only couples that interest me are Elizabeth and Jack & Lee & Rosemary.
Hopefully the season 3 opener will have Elizabeth promptly turning Charles down.
I really dislike his character ever since she kindly asked him to back off and he basically said no, that he knows what's best for her better than she does. How condescending.
Yeah, that was so predictable. Actually most of the writing on this show is badly predictable. But I watch because I like E/J but S2 was a big disappointment. The show isn't anything great but S2 was a huge letdown from S1.
They need to get rid of Elizabeths family. There's some bad acting going on there with most of the actors. So fake.
Bring the action back to where it was in S1. The stories were cliched too but I was more invested in those stories and characters. For instance the widow whos son didn't want her to get involved with a new man. Nothing groundbreaking but still more entertaining than Jack Wagner and ex wife and the entire of Elizabeths family
It's unfortunate too, because it's definitely not the actors or at least not all of them. I've seen the guy that plays Elizabeth's father in other things, and he's a fairly good actor. I'm not saying he should be winning Emmys left and right, but he's much better than what we've seen here. It seems like almost all of the actors, even the regulars, are overplaying things this year. It reminds me of some kids movies or shows where the acting is so over the top, I assume since kids sometimes miss subtlety. Dear Hallmark, this is a show for adults. We don't need Rosemary pursing her lips like a 5 year old or fake laughing every other scene or Elizabeth's younger sister stomping her foot.
I really miss the genuine nature of the first season.
I wish I could "LIKE" this like on FB. I totally agree.
shareI think if I was Jack I would be walking away from Elizabeth, it really shouldn't be that hard to make a decision if you love someone. She either wants the rich life with Charles or the Frontier life with Jack.
It's like she loves Charles just as much as she loves Jack.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
Elizabeth needs to stand up to Charles, her sister, her mother and her "old man". She has some really great qualities. She doesn't need to spend her life as a "snoot" and live on the hillside in a "little box made of ticky tacki" as Pete Seeger said over 50 years ago in his song "Little Boxes". That is the life her parents and Charles would have her live. They are so wrapped up in their "high society" life style to realize what phonies they all are.
shareThat's the problem, she likes both lifestyles and it's like she's hedging her bets. Like when her younger sister wanted to run away with Jack's brother, she still thought she would have her trust fund to support them.
She lives a very privileged lifestyle and that would not be easy to give up. I also understand all the pressure she would be under as she does risk being isolated from her family and that would be difficult, especially back then.
But she still just needs to decide, please not another season of the back and forward! Surely in that era she would have been marked as a loose woman or something for doing that?!
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.