Let's see...Axl, who reunites with his ditzy wife from the eighth season (or maybe Cassidy from earlier) and Sue, who has reunited with Darrin, get married in a double-wedding.

Based on what I saw in ABC's promo, I'm not so sure I want to.

It's too tragic, even if things do work out for the Hecks.

I thought the Darrin character was sweet and the fact that he built that little house and wanted to marry Sue, was adorable.

The Middle's final script is complete (http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/22/the-middle-series-finale-script-complete/)
Co-creator DeAnn Heline posted a pic last night of the final script with the words "END OF SHOW/END OF SEASON END OF SERIES."

The Middle's final script is complete (http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/22/the-middle-series-finale-script-complete/)
Co-creator DeAnn Heline posted a pic last night of the final script with the words "END OF SHOW/END OF SEASON END OF SERIES."

Maybe Patty Heaton will wake up in bed next to Bob Newhart and turn on the lamp...

Then scream...

And quickly wake up again next to Ray Romano turn on a lamp and scream...

Maybe Patty Heaton will wake up in bed next to Bob Newhart and turn on the lamp...

Then scream...

And quickly wake up again next to Ray Romano turn on a lamp and scream...
Funny, but not original enough.

The house finally falls completely apart and implodes into the basement. Mike and Frankie take an apartment in Lexie's building or else crowd with Brick into the Winnebago with Axl and live on the site of the wreckage or park it in Big Mike's driveway.

As Sean continually gets c0#$-blocked each time he attempts to profess his love for Sue, their wedding, likewise, will somehow be interrupted.

Kenny launches a startup which gets acquired by a major Silicon Valley tech giant, making him a billionaire. Axl goes to work for him...

Wait for it...

...as the nanny for the soon-to-be-born child of Kenny's bride.

I toyed with the idea of Mike and Frankie getting a divorce, but that goes against the show's original premise that as an object in motion will stay in motion, the Hecks have grown comfortable with each other and with their life, and will stay that way until one of them dies. Besides that, there's the fact that Frankie is too lazy and Mike is too sedentary and set in his ways to shake things up so.

stevea, I'm curious myself about what a "The Middle" spin-off would look like, and which character would be starred. Brad, possibly. Sue, possibly; but to me, both Brad and Sue would be too much to take for 30 minutes. Hollywood loves medical shows so much that Goodwin and his dental practice might do. Or, a prequel on how Frankie and Mike met and courted.

Okay, I just thought of one that's not as tragic as the previous idea.

Sue and Sean finally wind up in the sack with each other. Both are very happy they had the chance to do so, but then Sue remembers her religious convictions and goes into full panic mode.

That may not be so original either.

... but it would be *SO* like Sue Heck.

... but it would be *SO* like Sue Heck.
It certainly would.

Okay, now for my original idea.

Some homophobic religious zealot starts shooting up people at East Indiana State who he thinks are gay whether they are or not. Brad is among the victims. A photograph of Sue grieving over his body reminiscent of the Kent State Massacre winds up in the newspapers and on the web and what not, which later leads to a repeat of the candlelight vigil scene from "The Rush" in Season 7. Sue's faith is of course completley shattered. Needless to say, the shooting touches everybody in Orson, even Axl. To make matters worse a bunch of 9/11 conspiracy freak-types start going on the web claiming the massacre was staged and accusing her and every witness, cop and EMS worker on the scene of being "crisis actors" working in some fiendish plot by the government. Axl tries to comfort her by admitting he never hated Brad simply because he was gay, but it doesn't seem to do help that much.


In a last-ditch effort, he barges in on Sean regardless of what he's doing at the time, and demands that he goes out with her, claiming he can't take listening to her "blubbering all the time" or something like that.

And then of course, you can have the two of them waking up in bed with one another.

I told you it was too tragic.

As I said on the other thread, I really liked what they did, other than going into the kids' futures. Now that they did that, though, having three Axls around the house would probably tax even the original Axl. Other than the peek into the future, I liked how they wrapped up Sue.

One thing I think was kind of hokey, was traveling some two-lane country road, which I guess eventually led to Colorado.

I still like my idea of a double ring marriage, but it would be Axl marrying Lexie (they kind of left that relationship high an dry), and Sue marrying Sean.

The Middle's perfect series finale was rare for a TV show (https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/05/the-middles-series-finale-will-be-remembered-as-on.html)
"Few shows have the chance to go out like The Middle (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/70443-s09e23-a-heck-of-a-ride/?do=getLastComment)—on their own terms with their ratings still strong, if not spectacular," says Amy Amatangelo. "As Sher said when I interviewed her, since The Middle was never a huge smash hit, the water-cooler show everyone was talking about, it never had the steep decline that befalls so many series. This season has seen the departure of both Scandal and New Girl, but a lot of the appreciations of those shows were about what they once meant to TV. Viewers returned to those series for one last hurrah." ALSO: The ending was absolutely perfect. (https://tv.avclub.com/this-is-the-way-the-middle-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-1826205448)

As I said on the other thread, I really liked what they did, other than going into the kids' futures. Now that they did that, though, having three Axls around the house would probably tax even the original Axl. Other than the peek into the future, I liked how they wrapped up Sue.

One thing I think was kind of hokey, was traveling some two-lane country road, which I guess eventually led to Colorado.

I still like my idea of a double ring marriage, but it would be Axl marrying Lexie (they kind of left that relationship high an dry), and Sue marrying Sean.
I didn't mind the flash-forwards, but the double marriage of Axl and Lexie and Sue and Sean would've been a good idea too. Somebody said they saw Lexie pregnant a fourth time at Sue's wedding. I'll have to check again. In the meantime, I'm already trying to come up with a theory over why Weird Ashely appeared on the Heck lawn to throw leaf clippings in his face, and tell him they'll see each other again.

Did anybody notice Brad found another boyfriend?


Also, I didn't say I liked my original idea better.

I think the flash forward was sweet but it also means that the kids didn't really grow. They each married someone they knew most of their lives.

I thought the Darrin character was sweet and the fact that he built that little house and wanted to marry Sue, was adorable.
Same here, I never accepted anyone as Sue's boyfriend after that. Worse, the Darrin character pretty much disappeared after that IIRC.