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Post by gorum on Apr 7, 2011 22:28:43 GMT -5
It still boggles my mind even now that the series is over that so many fans of this show wanted all the wives to leave Bill or whatever. HELLO! The show is ABOUT POLYGAMY! It was always promoted as such. When you started watching it, you knew that that was what it would always be about. If you wanted to watch shows about liberated women, we or lifetime has droves of them. Had the wives left Bill during the series, the show would have no longer been about polygamy, and it would have been stupid; just like any other bad soapy show that is on. Unfortunately, vocal posters like this (along with the jump the shark idiots) are why the show was cancelled in the first place. If you don't want to watch a show about polygamy, THEN DON'T WATCH A SHOW ABOUT POLYGAMY! It is not that difficult of a concept. This is the only show that has ever been produced on this subject matter and it exceeded all of my expectations by leaps and bounds. There will probably never be anything else like it.  (decent from soapbox) |
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Post by writerwannabe on Apr 23, 2011 22:31:32 GMT -5
@corajack. Keep on singing your song. You're a valuable part of this community and have great insight.
On the subject of Bill's death, it was not as shocking to me as Kathy's death. Kathy's death was when the show turned a corner and became a tragedy instead of a comedy. Tragedy in the Shakespeare sense. If no one dies, it's a comedy. If someone dies, it's a tragedy. With Shakespeare's plays you sometimes don't know for quite a while which one you're reading. Personally, I would have preferred for Big Love to remain a comedy. Not in the sense of having lots of laugh lines, but in the sense of telling a good story without resorting to killing off important characters just to keep the story line moving. I definitely stopped caring as much about Big Love when Kathy was killed. To me that was a signal that the writers were getting a little desperate. Turning Joey into a murderer, having Bill die in the street......just not anything like the way the series started with focus on the struggle to live out faith in a culture that rejects your faith.
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Post by novababy2 on Apr 24, 2011 1:22:12 GMT -5
I totally agree, that that horrible ending ruined ever rewatching the shows for me! My daughter got me to watching after Season 1, it was something we did together. She would come up every Sunday night, and we watched the show. After that horrible ending we can't watch the show any more, we've tried.
What a terrible thing to do to all of the loyal fans! The Hendricksons were extended family, and there was a death, with no closure for fans, just an image of Bill dying in the street, gunned down like a rabid dog. I hope the writers are happy, because they have lost "alot" of money in the resales of the final Season, from me anyway. Goodbye Big Love.......
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Post by Anne on Apr 28, 2011 2:48:14 GMT -5
I liked the show, and maybe I could have waded through the story again by rewatching the whole series some day. I loved the characters. It was a fun ride. But the really cheap ending ruins any possibility of that. No way could I rewatch all this again knowing how it ends. Bad ending, bad ending, just so cheap and cliched. BAD! lol  i have to completely disagree with this. after watching the series finale, i rewatched the series immediately. knowing that bill dies, watching it the second time around allowed me to see how the entire series is about the decline of bill's character. everything makes more sense from the beginning knowing he is going to die. bill is a great definition of a tragic hero. |
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Post by withay on Apr 28, 2011 13:46:48 GMT -5
I liked the show, and maybe I could have waded through the story again by rewatching the whole series some day. I loved the characters. It was a fun ride. But the really cheap ending ruins any possibility of that. No way could I rewatch all this again knowing how it ends. Bad ending, bad ending, just so cheap and cliched. BAD! lol i have to completely disagree with this. after watching the series finale, i rewatched the series immediately. knowing that bill dies, watching it the second time around allowed me to see how the entire series is about the decline of bill's character. everything makes more sense from the beginning knowing he is going to die. bill is a great definition of a tragic hero. I have to agree with you. It bothers me for someone to say that the ending was bad or cheap when it really is that their opinion is that it is bad or cheap. In my opinion the ending was good. Not great but still good. We all have a right to our own opinion and to say that the ending is bad, invalidates other opinions. |
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Post by Love on May 1, 2011 22:34:19 GMT -5
@ Withay You say quote: "It bothers me for someone to say...." Wow, I've read a lot of your posts and you actually are bothered that someone else has an opinion of their own that they found the series to end in a "cheap way." Sorry, Withay, but I think it may be timne to officially get a life. Seriously, I found that funny and sad (all at the same time.)   |
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Post by withay on May 1, 2011 23:12:15 GMT -5
@ Withay You say quote: "It bothers me for someone to say...." Wow, I've read a lot of your posts and you actually are bothered that someone else has an opinion of their own that they found the series to end in a "cheap way." Sorry, Withay, but I think it may be timne to officially get a life. Seriously, I found that funny and sad (all at the same time.) Read it again and try to comprehend. It does not bother me that someone has a different opinion than mine, It bothers me that they word their post as if their opinion is the only one that matters. If you have read my posts before, as you say you have, you should see that I have great respect for those with different opinions as long as they give others euqal respect. And if you think that those of us who have enjoyed posting here need to "get a life"...why are you here? |
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Post by ExMormonHere on May 10, 2013 12:26:10 GMT -5
First off to everyone, remember this is JUST a show it seems like many people here are taking this show WAY too seriously. Now I can understand how people didn't like that Bill died but there really was no other way around it, and no other ending that could have happened. Bill had to go away and having him go to prison would have been much worse, or having him abandon his family would have made him look terrible. Simply put, Bill had to go and there was no way around that. I am re-watching the show right now and enjoy it almost just as much as the first time. There is a theme throughout this entire series that almost no one talks about, it's OK to pick on polygamists but not gays, "insert any race", disabled and others who are different. I'm not a polygamist, but I don't condemn what they do (as long as all parties are of legal age and consent to do so) what people want to do in their bedrooms should not be the governments business. The whole series shows people condemning this family when they really have no business or right to do so, and shows the hypocrisy of condemning polygamy. The ending perfectly displayed what happens when we become full of hate towards others and let that hate consume our lives. Pam's husband became so consumed with jealousy and hate it lead him to murder, that happens in real life (if you can't handle that you should probably stick to mindless network TV) and it was a reminder of the dangers of becoming consumed with hate. So many people hated the Henrickson's for no reason at all and became consumed with that. I thought it was a perfect ending with a great lesson to be learned, hate and jealousy ruins lives. The five seasons it was on was a great few years of entertainment and fun. Also to the OP who said this was cheap and chiched you could not be anymore wrong, normal shows do not kill off main characters like that. You don't have to like it but it was not a cliche, having them all live happily ever after like a Disney movie would have been cliche and cheap.
Also I may have been more forgiving of the show at times because it was fun to see all these places in Utah that I grew up in and the cultural Mormon references that I am not sure if people who were not Mormon always got. The people who wrote this show did such a fantastic job researching Mormonism and polygamy that it made it an even better ride for someone who use to belong to Mormonism.
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