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[quote=Anonymous]Excerpt from the statement by Robert and Michelle King on the end of the series

[quote]Yes, Alicia's story contains tragedy.  We still love her.  And we hope you do too.  The ending is supposed to be unsettling.  But we don't think characters need to avoid tragedy to be embraced.  We were tempted to have Alicia chase after a man in the end -- stop him from getting on a train or an airplane at the last minute, hold him, kiss him.  We like those endings.  But there was something false about it here.  It isn't who Alicia is.  In the end, the story of Alicia isn't about who she'll be with; it's about who she'll be.[/quote]

I agree with not ending the series on her chasing after her boyfriend or her husband, but I would have enjoyed a 60 minute finale of her and Ghost Will having fun in the manner of [i]Truly, Madly, Deeply[/i], having fun and solving legal puzzles together.

Having read the whole letter from the Kings, I guess I see what they were trying to do, but for me I feel like Breaking Bad just DID that x1000 and on meth and steroids, so it's maybe not as interesting as it might have been 5 years ago.  Oh, wait, did the heroine just betray her friend Diane without realizing what she had done?  Because down in Albuquerque there's a dude who betrayed everyone he loved while becoming a meth kingpin who burns people's faces off, just because he liked it.

For me, there is also an element of not believing Alicia wouldn't understand or acknowledge the position she was putting Diane in by cross examining her husband.  Alicia has become more powerful, but she is not really less sensitive than she was at the beginning of the series.  She still groks that people have feelings about her and generally doesn't try to stomp all over those feelings.  Like, in the finale she feels that Cary doesn't much like her anymore and won't help her, after a history of Cary seeming increasingly frustrated by her position on things.  She has to be convinced into talking to Cary.  It's hard to see that same person making the decision to discredit Diane's husband with rumors of an affair, no less, with no apology or acknowledgement of why Diane might be walking toward her completely incensed.  So I think this was bad writing, trying to force a resonant "slap" in to bookend the series, when I don't think the Alicia we know -- even Season 7 Alicia, would have betrayed Diane that way without a second thought or apology.

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