[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

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

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