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roseannefan4ever14 · 02-21-2004, 12:46 PM

Do you wish Roseanne could of done someting else w/ her last episode? I mean in the final episode jackie was gay, dan died, becky w/david and darlene w/ mark- did not like that! I wish she could of done something different with her last episode. Any thoughts?

Brent88 · 02-21-2004, 01:19 PM

Last episode SUCKED. The whole last season(except for the birth of Darlene's Baby, and the first two episodes with the lottery) also SUCKED. I did kinda like the affair thing as well, but the episodes with Roseanne at the Spa, and all those non-Dan episodes were BAD!

Saiyan ChiChi · 03-01-2004, 12:44 AM

I haven't seen the last episode and I dont think I want to. I didn't really think much of the whole lottery thing because the Conners were such a realistic family, it wasn't so realistic when they won the lottery.

hch · 03-04-2004, 06:07 PM

You all said so yourselves, Season 9 was a fantasy! You knew that when the Conners won the lottery and had all of those adventures in Hollywood and places like that. Roseanne ended the show very well by saying that all of Season 9 was a fantasy. "Roseanne" was a realistic sitcom and she probably thought that by having an outlandish season, it was considered a break from the harsh, cruel real world. We probably needed that escape in our own lives, and Roseanne did that rather well. That's why she won creative ownership of her show. In a way, Season 9 was kinda like the dreaded "dream season" of "Dallas". Ooh lord, don't get me started on "Dallas" dream season.

Right on Roseanne!

dOMeStIC_ROseAnnE · 03-05-2004, 12:40 AM

I think that it was a REALLY stupid ending. I actually ignore the fact that it even happened.

I was talking to my sister yesterday while the episode where Dan cheated on Roseanne was on and we were both just like Dan wouldn't cheat on Roseanne! What were they thinking! I know it was supposed to be the plot twist in her "book", but that doesn't make me any happier.

I wish she would have ended it by saying that it was her life that she had been writing about all this time. That would be fine, but no Darlene and Mark, Jackie being gay, etc., That was just stupid.

But I still love some of the Season 9 episodes.

chris jacob · 03-06-2004, 05:03 PM

if beck was reall with david and dralene was really wwith mark and if dan reall did pass away I think the whole show was a lie was does every body elase think?

sniffmagikmarkrs · 03-07-2004, 01:05 AM

i haven't seen the last episodes yet, but from what i've heard, i think it wasn't the best way to end the series, but it was extremely creative and i commend roseanne for that

tanabi5790 · 03-08-2004, 08:37 PM

The last episode ended 30 minutes ago. I am still completely shocked .

It is still sinking in. I knew what was coming and I still wasn't prepared for it. I thought I knew this episode inside out without even having seen it but it still hit me like a canon ball. I taped it, although I don't think I will ever want to watch it again.

You see Roseanne so happy with her family and her remodeled house and everything, and then all of a sudden you see her walking through her old house, in her real life. It was just weird. Everything we had just watched on the TV was all in Roseanne's imagination.

I can't wait to see the first episode and re-live it all again. But I think that next time around, I'll just pass on season 9 altogether. When Nick@Nite gets to Darlene's wedding, I'll start only watching it on Oxygen. And when Oxygen gets to Darlene's wedding, I'll get back to Nick@Nite.

I still think that everybody should see it once.

RosieFan · 03-08-2004, 11:44 PM

I just saw the last episode tonight, and although the whole season was crazy, the ending does make up for it. It may not be a great way to end the show, with a huge lie, but it is just soooo amazing. I knew about the whole story, and i knew the exact dialog that Roseanne says at the end, but seeing it in action, its just a totally difference experience. It was just so sad to see what Roseanne had to say and the pople there to react to it. The part about Dan made me start crying to tell you honestly. It is just so sad to know that he was really gone, and you know how Roseanne must have been hurting. I thought it was a very clever way to end the show. its not like some normal ending of a sitcom where everyone lives happily ever after. There is truth behind this story, and even some surprises. But after knowing the truth, it makes you want to watch for clues throughout the whole show. And it really makes me wonder about mark and darlene, and becky with david. It just makes me want to know more about it. even though there is no possible way to do so. So all in all, the ending was great, and everyone has to watch it at least once, even if you had heard bad about it, or you didnt like the last season. It just concludes the show, and you dont want to miss it.

Brent88 · 03-09-2004, 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by dOMeStIC_ROseAnnE
I think that it was a REALLY stupid ending. I actually ignore the fact that it even happened.

I was talking to my sister yesterday while the episode where Dan cheated on Roseanne was on and we were both just like Dan wouldn't cheat on Roseanne! What were they thinking! I know it was supposed to be the plot twist in her "book", but that doesn't make me any happier.

I wish she would have ended it by saying that it was her life that she had been writing about all this time. That would be fine, but no Darlene and Mark, Jackie being gay, etc., That was just stupid.

But I still love some of the Season 9 episodes.

I can't stand to watch the final episode. I watched the first minute of Part 1(where they are in the baby's room) and then turned it off. I can't even watch both parts in their entirety. It was such a bad way to end a great series.

sniffmagikmarkrs · 03-09-2004, 01:00 AM

I loved the ending monologue thing, i didn't get to see the first part or half of the second part because i have track but i got home just in time to see the ending monologue thing, it was amazing and it almost made me cry, it was great, i love movies and shows that make me want to cry

yeah and i agree, the ending did make me wonder about the kids and that was what was great about the ending was that it left you hanging.

cjmg85 · 03-18-2004, 05:58 AM

No matter how many times I see the final episode, it always makes me cry, without fail, every single time, when she starts talking about Dan. Not just a few tears, but I mean really cry, like I just lost a close friend. Roseanne did a very good job.

You see, the entire series was Roseanne's book, based on her "real" life. (That is, Roseanne Conner wrote a book about her life, not the actual Roseanne).

The entire 9th season was pure fiction. She made that pretty clear in her monolouge. She lost Dan when he had his heart attack, and couldn't bare the pain, so she made him live in her book. She also said that when he died, she felt as though she had been cheated on, like he had left her for another, which explains all of the cheating episodes. And all of the fantasies she had were to help her cope. Like when she was seeing Wellman Jr. She said that she fantasized about being with another man but then felt guilty about it and so she had to pretend that it was for some other reason (saving the town in her book).

She also rearranged things in her book from her real life that she didn't like. Jackie has always been gay but for some reason Roseanne always saw her with a man, and she made it so.

She thought that the girls were more compatable with the opposite husband, so she did what any good mother would do, she fixed it. (Although personally, I think that Darlene and David were THE BEST TV COUPLE EVER).

She didn't really come with much of a revelation about DJ, but she said that Leon was not as interesting in real life as she made her in her book. And her mother was not gay at all, but she was still crazy.

And, do you remember the episode "war room"? She really did that but not because Dan had cheated, but because he was dead. She really only snapped out of her mourning when she saw that her family still really needed her, when Darlene's baby almost didn't make it.

And then, when she comes up from her writing room, in her house all alone, the way it was before the lottory winnings (which never actually happend) it was so sad, and then she sat there on her sofa all by herself while everyone else in the house slept on. So sad.

BTW, did any of you notice that when she said Dan died and then you can hear him calling her name, that was actually when he returned home from work late one night and was looking calling for her through the dark house. (From the end of the writing room episode in the second season).

A very magnificent and original ending. Sad, very very sad, but effective.

02-21-2004, 12:46 PM	#1
roseannefan4ever14 Roseanne + Dan= <3 Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 16, 2004 Location: with my looney friends in la la land Posts: 410	last episode? Do you wish Roseanne could of done someting else w/ her last episode? I mean in the final episode jackie was gay, dan died, becky w/david and darlene w/ mark- did not like that! I wish she could of done something different with her last episode. Any thoughts?

02-21-2004, 01:19 PM	#2
Brent88 Member Forum Star Join Date: Aug 01, 2003 Location: Alabama Posts: 16,174	Last episode SUCKED. The whole last season(except for the birth of Darlene's Baby, and the first two episodes with the lottery) also SUCKED. I did kinda like the affair thing as well, but the episodes with Roseanne at the Spa, and all those non-Dan episodes were BAD!
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03-01-2004, 12:44 AM	#3
Saiyan ChiChi Anime Fan Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 13, 2004 Posts: 75	I haven't seen the last episode and I dont think I want to. I didn't really think much of the whole lottery thing because the Conners were such a realistic family, it wasn't so realistic when they won the lottery.
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03-04-2004, 06:07 PM	#4
hch Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 07, 2001 Location: Montross, VA 22520 Posts: 983	That was the POINT! You all said so yourselves, Season 9 was a fantasy! You knew that when the Conners won the lottery and had all of those adventures in Hollywood and places like that. Roseanne ended the show very well by saying that all of Season 9 was a fantasy. "Roseanne" was a realistic sitcom and she probably thought that by having an outlandish season, it was considered a break from the harsh, cruel real world. We probably needed that escape in our own lives, and Roseanne did that rather well. That's why she won creative ownership of her show. In a way, Season 9 was kinda like the dreaded "dream season" of "Dallas". Ooh lord, don't get me started on "Dallas" dream season. Right on Roseanne!
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03-05-2004, 12:40 AM	#5
dOMeStIC_ROseAnnE Roseanne Fan Occasional Poster Join Date: Feb 20, 2004 Location: NE Posts: 56	I think that it was a REALLY stupid ending. I actually ignore the fact that it even happened. I was talking to my sister yesterday while the episode where Dan cheated on Roseanne was on and we were both just like Dan wouldn't cheat on Roseanne! What were they thinking! I know it was supposed to be the plot twist in her "book", but that doesn't make me any happier. I wish she would have ended it by saying that it was her life that she had been writing about all this time. That would be fine, but no Darlene and Mark, Jackie being gay, etc., That was just stupid. But I still love some of the Season 9 episodes.
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03-06-2004, 05:03 PM	#6
chris jacob Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 06, 2000 Location: Hartford Posts: 753	re. the laast episoe if beck was reall with david and dralene was really wwith mark and if dan reall did pass away I think the whole show was a lie was does every body elase think?
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03-07-2004, 01:05 AM	#7
sniffmagikmarkrs meant to be Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 08, 2004 Location: Lanford, Illinois Posts: 131	i haven't seen the last episodes yet, but from what i've heard, i think it wasn't the best way to end the series, but it was extremely creative and i commend roseanne for that
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03-08-2004, 08:37 PM	#8
tanabi5790 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 16, 2004 Location: the happiest place on earth! Posts: 265	The last episode ended 30 minutes ago. I am still completely shocked . It is still sinking in. I knew what was coming and I still wasn't prepared for it. I thought I knew this episode inside out without even having seen it but it still hit me like a canon ball. I taped it, although I don't think I will ever want to watch it again. You see Roseanne so happy with her family and her remodeled house and everything, and then all of a sudden you see her walking through her old house, in her real life. It was just weird. Everything we had just watched on the TV was all in Roseanne's imagination. I can't wait to see the first episode and re-live it all again. But I think that next time around, I'll just pass on season 9 altogether. When Nick@Nite gets to Darlene's wedding, I'll start only watching it on Oxygen. And when Oxygen gets to Darlene's wedding, I'll get back to Nick@Nite. I still think that everybody should see it once.
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03-08-2004, 11:44 PM	#9
RosieFan Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 07, 2004 Location: CT Posts: 13	I just saw the last episode tonight, and although the whole season was crazy, the ending does make up for it. It may not be a great way to end the show, with a huge lie, but it is just soooo amazing. I knew about the whole story, and i knew the exact dialog that Roseanne says at the end, but seeing it in action, its just a totally difference experience. It was just so sad to see what Roseanne had to say and the pople there to react to it. The part about Dan made me start crying to tell you honestly. It is just so sad to know that he was really gone, and you know how Roseanne must have been hurting. I thought it was a very clever way to end the show. its not like some normal ending of a sitcom where everyone lives happily ever after. There is truth behind this story, and even some surprises. But after knowing the truth, it makes you want to watch for clues throughout the whole show. And it really makes me wonder about mark and darlene, and becky with david. It just makes me want to know more about it. even though there is no possible way to do so. So all in all, the ending was great, and everyone has to watch it at least once, even if you had heard bad about it, or you didnt like the last season. It just concludes the show, and you dont want to miss it.

03-09-2004, 01:00 AM	#11
sniffmagikmarkrs meant to be Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 08, 2004 Location: Lanford, Illinois Posts: 131	I loved the ending monologue thing, i didn't get to see the first part or half of the second part because i have track but i got home just in time to see the ending monologue thing, it was amazing and it almost made me cry, it was great, i love movies and shows that make me want to cry yeah and i agree, the ending did make me wonder about the kids and that was what was great about the ending was that it left you hanging.

03-18-2004, 05:58 AM	#12
cjmg85 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Mar 18, 2004 Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Posts: 228	No matter how many times I see the final episode, it always makes me cry, without fail, every single time, when she starts talking about Dan. Not just a few tears, but I mean really cry, like I just lost a close friend. Roseanne did a very good job. You see, the entire series was Roseanne's book, based on her "real" life. (That is, Roseanne Conner wrote a book about her life, not the actual Roseanne). The entire 9th season was pure fiction. She made that pretty clear in her monolouge. She lost Dan when he had his heart attack, and couldn't bare the pain, so she made him live in her book. She also said that when he died, she felt as though she had been cheated on, like he had left her for another, which explains all of the cheating episodes. And all of the fantasies she had were to help her cope. Like when she was seeing Wellman Jr. She said that she fantasized about being with another man but then felt guilty about it and so she had to pretend that it was for some other reason (saving the town in her book). She also rearranged things in her book from her real life that she didn't like. Jackie has always been gay but for some reason Roseanne always saw her with a man, and she made it so. She thought that the girls were more compatable with the opposite husband, so she did what any good mother would do, she fixed it. (Although personally, I think that Darlene and David were THE BEST TV COUPLE EVER). She didn't really come with much of a revelation about DJ, but she said that Leon was not as interesting in real life as she made her in her book. And her mother was not gay at all, but she was still crazy. And, do you remember the episode "war room"? She really did that but not because Dan had cheated, but because he was dead. She really only snapped out of her mourning when she saw that her family still really needed her, when Darlene's baby almost didn't make it. And then, when she comes up from her writing room, in her house all alone, the way it was before the lottory winnings (which never actually happend) it was so sad, and then she sat there on her sofa all by herself while everyone else in the house slept on. So sad. BTW, did any of you notice that when she said Dan died and then you can hear him calling her name, that was actually when he returned home from work late one night and was looking calling for her through the dark house. (From the end of the writing room episode in the second season). A very magnificent and original ending. Sad, very very sad, but effective.