The Good Wife: How Should It End?

[LadyintheLoop]

I actually want Alicia to win the election just so that the show can end as it began, with SA Florrick indicted for corruption. Then Peter, called upon to be the Good Spouse, can discover urgent business elsewhere (like buying a ring for Ramona). 

[dr pepper]

Alicia loses, moves to DC with Eli. They both become professors at Georgetown.

 

Kalinda marries Elfman, they become fixers.

 

Diane becomes senator, serves 4 terms, then joins Chelsea Clinton's cabinet.

 

Canning has a miraculous recovery, marries David Lee.

 

Peter serves 2 terms as governor, manages to avaid further scandals or controversy, retires and becomes a mystery weiter.

 

Bishop attempts to go straight. It works for about 10 years, then his son sells him out to the cartels.

[Maherjunkie]

Please tell me there is no basis for this thread other than fun.

[cleo]

Funny, I keep thinking it should end quickly. I never understood hate watching before but this show is illustrating it for me. 

[TigerLynx]

I won't get the ending I wanted.  I wanted Alicia to tell Will she loves him, and for them to end up together.  This was back before the writers destroyed Will/Alicia before they really got a chance.  Now Will is dead.

 

I want Prady to win, Alicia to divorce Peter like she should have years ago, and for Diane, Cary and Alicia to make a success of their law firm.

[milkyaqua]

I like the Prady winning, Alicia divorcing Peter and making her law firm with Diane and Cary work.

 

I was never however an Alicia/Will fan.  I wanted her to dump her "past" romantically and that included Will.  I think Alicia needs some "me" time as far as romantic relationships go.  I would be fine and dandy with her being single when this show wraps up for good.

 

But that would never fly because viewers are attached to happy endings and probably wouldn't except Alicia as single in the end because they'd be left to "imagine" her romantic life after the show and wouldn't be happy about that.

Edited March 9, 2015 by milkyaqua

[Maherjunkie]

I want her to re-unite with Peter and see Grace be less annoying.

[milkyaqua]

Considering JM has said several times that Alicia needs to dump Peter...  But I can get on board with Grace being less annoying.

[Maherjunkie]

He's the only one I see chemistry with.

[TigerLynx]

I would hate to see Alicia end up with Peter.  That would be the worst ending imaginable.  Alicia should have dumped Peter years ago.

[Maherjunkie]

I never saw her with Will or these others.  They land with a thud to me.  He is the JR to her Sue Ellen.

[Kromm]

I think there was a fairly early desire in a lot of viewers (especially posting on TWoP) that Alicia wind up alone.  Of course people didn't predict they'd take a lame road like killing her romance.  The idea was SUPPOSED to be that it was a choice by her, not something forced upon her by circumstance.

 

Making her echo Peter's career path also fails, because the "power corrupts" subtext of the show doesn't make for a very compelling protagonist's journey.  We've all seen it before, and this show isn't doing it any better than most of those other places.  

 

Honestly, Alicia breaking off and starting her own law firm should have been the ENDGAME of the entire series, not some lame mid-point.  But if that was soured by the realities of network TV and the show running longer than expected, then perhaps it should have been as simple as Alicia being removed from her circumstances in the end.  The State's Attorney storyline is too on the nose with echoing Peter and is thus silly.  As cliched as it is, an "Alicia goes to Washington" storyline would have been better, because it could have simply been played as her sidestepping the whole popularity contest/election crap and accepting an appointment to something (there are so many agencies and influential organizations that it wouldn't have been hard to cobble together one as Alicia's "dream job" that would culminate in her leaving Chicago.

[readster]

Yeah, in my view, Alicia leaves her old life behind. Zach and Grace in college, Peter left to his own machinations in Illinois that no longer influence her life. She leaves Chicago to take a job someplace else away from the "drama" and Diane and Kerry running the lawfirm. 

[John Potts]

I'd like a scene where Alicia confesses to somebody, probably over a glass of wine (I'd say Kalinda, but that seems unlikely) "I've become the very thing I used to despise. I've got to get out of this life" and just quit. But I'm sure it's more likely we'll see Alicia as a high powered politician in Washington, despite her almost complete inability to master the political game.

Edited March 20, 2015 by John Potts

[Kromm]

I'd like a scene where Alicia confesses to somebody, probably over a lass of wine (I'd say Kalinda, but that seems unlikely) "I've become the very thing I used to despise. I've got to get out of this life" and just quit. But I'm sure it's more likely we'll see Alicia as a high powered politician in Washington, despite her almost complete inability to master the political game.

See, I'd almost think she'd make sense in Washington. But not as a politician. As a bureaucrat--and I'm not using that term in the worst sense of it, but instead in the one that simply means a public servant. I can easily see an "out" for her being an appointee to something important in Washington. It's the way to make Washington the "clean start" alternative to Chicago, since as you say, she sucks at politics and any position worthy of her growing rep in Chicago would require wall to wall politicking. Not that appointees don't still deal with politics galore, but its a different kind from those going through elections (and Alicia isn't nearly as bad at favor trading and schmoozing as long as votes aren't involved). Edited March 16, 2015 by Kromm

[kwnyc]

Since the whole first part of the season was having heavy hitters try to convince Alicia to run for office, it does make sense to see her have some political appointment. Now that they've kicked the tires a bit, so to speak, and seen that she's not particularly comfortable in a campaign, the higher ups in the Democratic party may decide she just needs more coaching (and hand her over to someone other than Eli...) OR they could decide she could do a better job as an appointee. There are a lot of of federal bureaus that could use a sharp lawyer (but we don't really know how good an administrator she is...and that's a huge part of an elected office OR an appointed one).

 

What say you, Donna Brazile?

[Maherjunkie]

Maybe the ghost of Caroline Kennedy visits and gives her a "Don't do it" speech.

[Ohmo]

Alicia loses the SA election (pleasepleaseplease).

 

This show has had its share of judges (Abernathy, the "in your opinion" judge, Judge Cuesta, etc.)  At the end of the series, something happens to a judge we already know (or one that is introduced in name only)  Diane and Alicia have a conversation, and Diane tells Alicia to run for judge and not miss out on an opportunity.  I can see Alicia winning a local judge's election.  We see a minimal campaign.  Alicia wins, and the series closes with her presiding over cases.  We'll see that she has developed some sort of personality "quirk" like the judges we have seen through the years.  Not sure what, but something.  This series has been about her life in Chicago and the dynamics of politics in Illinois.  I don't see her in DC when I picture the end of the series, and I still see her in law.

Edited March 18, 2015 by Ohmo

[Maherjunkie]

She's too boring to be a judge.  Let her be first lady of Illinois and lead a Stepford like existence.

[Black Knight]

I can guess what Alicia's "quirk" would be as a judge - constantly saying, "I'm sorry, what?" to the people in her courtroom.