Original COTW ending

[icepixie]

:-O

Eeee. Someone managed to get ahold of the original ending to the dS finale. Read it here.

*GLEEEEEEEES* Once upon a time, my 'ship might actually have semi-sorta-almost come true!

(Also, I like the mirroring of the pilot there. Though Fraser and RayK dogsledding off into the sunset wasn't bad.)

Comments

[thiswaltz.livejournal.com]

oh oh thank you so much for linking to that! I think I'll substitute that ending in my head for the canon ending. CotW's real actual ending never felt right to me.

Not just from a ship-ish point of view but because I didn't like how everyone neatly dispersed, and I didn't like the out-of-the-blue RayV./Stella pairing, and Frannie having babies, and Meg going off to, what was it, covert ops stuff? that seemed OoC for her. But mainly, it really really bothered me that Fraser had apparently left the RCMP.

it could be seen, I suppose, as him finally putting his father's ghost to rest, and no longer feeling obligated to follow in his footsteps, and in many ways that was what the show was about. He read his father's journals, as saw his 'ghost' as a way to feel closer to a man he never really spent much time with... But I still think Fraser's goodness and responsibility and well, 'mountie-ness' was his innate character and not a sense of obligation. He was just so earnest.

So I'd much rather picturing him forever valiantly tracking down criminals in the great white north. Even is I did love that line about 'if we ever find the hand of Franklin, the reaching out one'

sorry for the ramble, I guess I was feeling philosophical about the show. XD

[icepixie]

Yeah, I think this just became my personal canon ending. So much better.