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Post by paleskinbeauty on Mar 22, 2011 11:04:58 GMT -5
I watched it again yesterday afternoon, alone with no distractions. I noticed a few things, I missed before.
Bill and Nicki are in bed and , he tells Nicki to "Ease up on Margene, she wants to give from her heart." Of coruse foreshadowing her leaving on her missions.
I just adore, when Barb is telling the others she didnt go through with the baptism and Nicki gets that "I just got a stick up my butt" look she gets and she asked "Does Bill know?" I love how Margene turns around and says, "Give it a rest!"
But the one that just made me so sad...After Barb and the ladies get home from teh new car trip, and Bill just lays into her about the old car and how she got rid of it and it was 'theirs'. My heart just cracked. I felt so sad. I think the divorce really messed with his head.
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Post by BigLovecalifgirl on Mar 22, 2011 11:23:23 GMT -5
I agree with you that he was hurting. That was painfully obvious and I felt so bad for him, but it was his own doing to a certain extent.
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Post by paleskinbeauty on Mar 22, 2011 11:31:52 GMT -5
To some extenst I agree, it was his own doing. But with Nicki and her destruction behind it. I honestly do not think he knew how much it would hurt.
Also, I noticed, at the end. Barb was teh only wife he looked at....really. yes we saw panned over shots of the other two, but Bill was locked with Barb.
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Post by LD no S on Mar 22, 2011 11:36:17 GMT -5
To some extenst I agree, it was his own doing. But with Nicki and her destruction behind it. I honestly do not think he knew how much it would hurt. Also, I noticed, at the end. Barb was teh only wife he looked at....really. yes we saw panned over shots of the other two, but Bill was locked with Barb. while i agree that Bill "loved Barb best," i believe he was "locked on" Barb because she was giving him his final blessing in this world ... |
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Post by kathy36610 on Mar 22, 2011 14:03:53 GMT -5
Stop it Y'all! I'm going to start crying again!
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Post by ladyfriend on Mar 22, 2011 14:57:39 GMT -5
My moving/sad moments from the finale for different characters:
-Definitely the car scene you have been talking about.
-Barb hugging Nikki on the bed (After my favorite exchange of the episode - Nikki saying she doesn't have 'an ounce of the milk of human kindness' and Barb's awesome facial expressions when she says 'I know').
-Barb choosing not to get baptized (it felt like she was giving up something profound for herself while also being a moving act of sacrifice for love).
-Frank and Lois' death scene (probably the only time in the entire series I actually liked Frank).
-Cara Lynn and Bill talking about love in her bedroom (it was good to see someone sympathize with CL)
-Obviously the death scene and then when Margie says how it breaks her heart that Bill wasn't there to see the ceremony with Sarah's baby
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Post by jules on Mar 22, 2011 16:21:36 GMT -5
For me, Bill locking eyes with Barb at the end just proved IMO that this is who he was in love with. As I have stated in many earlier posts, Bill loved Nicki and Margene, but he was "in love" with his Barb... His true love of the last 21 plus years... This to me was the most tender moment of the entire series. I watched for a second time just the ending yesterday and bawled like crazy. Honestly, it's going to be one of those episodes that I just won't be able to watch again unless I want a good cry because I know that I will cry a million times over. It will never get old to me.  .... Tearying up just writing that and reading this. The impact this show and characters had on me was so great that it suprises my inner core. |
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Post by kathy36610 on Mar 22, 2011 16:45:10 GMT -5
So true! That seemed like one of the little bits of humor in the end. I'm starting to smile again because the little imagination games we are playing where we write our own endings has it sort of coming out with a great silver lining. I'm going to keep imagining other endings!
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Post by ladyfriend on Mar 22, 2011 17:03:20 GMT -5
So true! That seemed like one of the little bits of humor in the end. I'm starting to smile again because the little imagination games we are playing where we write our own endings has it sort of coming out with a great silver lining. I'm going to keep imagining other endings!Me too. It makes the loss somewhat more bearable. The image of the Embry/Henrickson/Goren/Ana clan  --- can you imagine the drama, lol!!! |
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Post by ladyfriend on Mar 22, 2011 18:55:21 GMT -5
Absolutely right on ladyfriend, those were all great, great scenes. I would add the one in which Nicki is in the kitchen with Cara Lynn and talks to her about taking the chance to learn about the truth of love, and the feeling of danger.....it was one of the best times of a link showing between the two of them....at one point CL says something like, "how do you know that" because Nicki was speaking Cara Lynn's truth, and Nicki lets her know that she has been there too. Very touching and I was glad to have that added to my own personal Big Love experience, and with the scene with Barb and Nicki hugging while sitting on the bunk bed at the shelter, Nicki saying to Marg to call more because "Barb worries about you" when it is because Nicki worries, and others, they did manage to give us a little softer side of Nicki, not an easy accomplishment. Oh my, yes. That scene was beautiful on so many levels. The look on Cara Lynn's face when she asked Nikki 'how do you know that?' was really a beautiful moment. |
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--- can you imagine the drama, lol!!!