[fandom] Roseanne

[escritoireazul]

For all the crap that gets said about Roseanne's final season (much of it deserved), the season finale is absolutely heart breaking. Writing your way out of depression, changing things you think are wrong about the world, purging your pain. Sure, you can look at it as them jerking the audience around (a la, IT WAS A DREAM?!) but I don't. Or, if I do, I think it's worth it for the last half of the final episode.

The series itself was incredible. I've been rewatching it awhile now, thanks to dvr, and I can't believe how many things it tackled with such grace and charm. The last season, yes, very odd, but that final episode - heart breaking.

Especially the theme song, sung a cappela (I think by Phoebe Snow).

If what doesn't kill us is making us stronger
we're gonna last longer
than the greatest wall in China
or that rabbit with the drum.

If there's one thing that I've learned
while waiting for my turn
it's that in each life some rain falls
but you also get some sun.

We'll make out better than okay,
hear what I say,
yeah, any day.

I wish I had that version. I'd put it on my iPod to help get me through.

Comments

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

When the camera was going around the table showing how she'd changed things - that was amazing. I think one of the best bits of TV ever.

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

You know that Joss Whedon was a writer for Roseanne, right? I think back in the second season.

[deifire]

I'd forgotten how much I missed that show. Darlene was my first big television girl crush.

I just watched that last bit of the last episode on YouTube, and I think a marathon from the beginning might be in order. After I get my Yuletides done, that is.

[midnightwriting.livejournal.com]

The series finale of Roseanne KILLS me. Sometimes when it comes on (for awhile the show was cycling so fast through Nick at Nite that I was seeing the entire series every couple of months, back during an insomnia bout) I can't even bring myself to watch it. ESPECIALLY since the last season or two were so crazy and Dan's character really got put through the ringer, to have that ending? It just breaks my heart. And when you think about Roseanne's brain taking that crazy trip to deal with the loss of Dan... God. Kills me.

[wizefics.livejournal.com]

Awwww. *hugs*

I'm all teary at this.