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Date Posted: 20:43:20 05/14/14 Wed
Author: Alicia
Subject: Thank you for posting this! Given the choice I would have went with the romantic ending, The sexy one makes me cringe lol.. (inside)
In reply to: Araninda 's message, "The Alternate Endings" on 03:38:39 05/14/14 Wed

Coming from a vantage point of knowing the end without knowing how they got there, and then watching the show over months vs years..

The ending at first seemed lacking, but then watching the show these last months-- beyond disappointing is an understatement... I don't watch Vukovich scenes so I can't speak to those, but his character immediately bothered me immensely as he was the anti-Harm, being portrayed as the new Harm. They built such great characters at the offset and by the end did their best to tear them down. The dynamics overall were mean..The characters broken. Harm's character was the thread, the conscience, the passion, the heart etc..etc.. and what his character brought out in the others was part of the soul of the show.. When they tried to negate that, they got the result they did...


Although I still can't figure out how Harm and Turner became so antagonistic toward each other, but I digress..

The best part of the ending to me was Harm making Captain on his way to eventually becoming the JAG. Before they dismantled the characters, that was one of the themes I saw.. in his evolving to living his own destiny vs that of his father's.

Though minor Mac's dress bothered me as it was the same one she was wearing in San Diego..

They went from barely communicating to let's get married..and it all pointed back to Harm's character as the reason they were not together..

The fate thing.. She enters his apt with the why have we let fate determine out futures, to only appear to go that route... the new 500 lb gorilla..and ignoring her strong desire to have a family... JAG was at the end of Harm's journey and a family was at the end of her's..with their roads becoming one.

Also bothersome to me was that he wouldn't go to London without Mattie, but didn't want to forgo his career for Mac..yet let's flip a coin...an I love you from her would have been nice as well..or the writers at least making her words less snide or some happiness at his promotion...

Splicing stuff in a rushed manner in a completed episode garnered the ending... Taking in some JAG history of the how they got there, in an interview circa 2006 DJE even noted the ending as disappointing...

In a pinch they should have resorted to a Lifeline reboot, at least that would have made some sense and some proper character closure...

With 10 years passing Harm would be prime JAG age.. its unfortunate that there isn't some type of reunion to correct the last couple of years...

Having just come to the show, it's fresh angst lol...

So after babbling on here... to me at least the romantic ending would have been more in character, putting back some of the fun and the warmth that was eroded.

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[> [> Agree with your comments here, Alicia. Well said. -- Dee, 16:38:50 08/16/14 Sat

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