So I write this from a viewpoint of someone who hasn't watched the Novel, so I'm not gonna rate this in how well it follows the original script.
The series overall is exquisite, slow - compelling storytelling. Interesting, realistic characters which make you fall in love with them. Realism, the world makes sense, no weird jumps or "un-canon" behaviour.
I like this until the last 2-3 minutes - I assume that's how it's supposed to be, ending "good, but bad." Again, it must follow the the source material until the very end - I presume. But the very, very ending lacks... Anything, really.
She didn't get killed, as she was "possessed/had a split personality" - so she "wasn't guilty, from a moral standpoint" - thought that never was explained to the committee that should've pardoned her, as the doctor couldn't wrap his head around the nature of the hypnosis incident.
She didn't get to experience true happiness, as she might not "deserve" it, depending on your moral viewpoint - is she guilty? She wasn't herself, yet it was technically a side of her/someone within her body that would've even felt punished, as Mary Whitney (or the persona she assumed) herself said - as she felt like it was her, not Grace that did the terrible thing.
She also lied again, and proceeded to live with the - once - little boy, who loved her but betrayed her and couldn't forgive himself.
She didn't get to experience true love with Dr. Simon Jordan whom she actually had feelings for - and so did he. She didn't get punished for what she did either, her story, then, is a sad story of a girl who only experienced hardship, with no real moral message and neither a happy nor a really sad ending.
Good stories can have a extremely sad ending, it doesn't have to be a happy ending at all cost - but this ending was.. lack luster.
The Show without the last 3-5 minutes gets a 9/10 - hell, maybe a 10/10. But this ending is just.. ruins the experience - the story deserved a real ending, a good one - a tragic one - a surprising one.. This, feels like the ending was some kind of bad FanFiction of the actual ending.
The series overall is exquisite, slow - compelling storytelling. Interesting, realistic characters which make you fall in love with them. Realism, the world makes sense, no weird jumps or "un-canon" behaviour.
I like this until the last 2-3 minutes - I assume that's how it's supposed to be, ending "good, but bad." Again, it must follow the the source material until the very end - I presume. But the very, very ending lacks... Anything, really.
She didn't get killed, as she was "possessed/had a split personality" - so she "wasn't guilty, from a moral standpoint" - thought that never was explained to the committee that should've pardoned her, as the doctor couldn't wrap his head around the nature of the hypnosis incident.
She didn't get to experience true happiness, as she might not "deserve" it, depending on your moral viewpoint - is she guilty? She wasn't herself, yet it was technically a side of her/someone within her body that would've even felt punished, as Mary Whitney (or the persona she assumed) herself said - as she felt like it was her, not Grace that did the terrible thing.
She also lied again, and proceeded to live with the - once - little boy, who loved her but betrayed her and couldn't forgive himself.
She didn't get to experience true love with Dr. Simon Jordan whom she actually had feelings for - and so did he. She didn't get punished for what she did either, her story, then, is a sad story of a girl who only experienced hardship, with no real moral message and neither a happy nor a really sad ending.
Good stories can have a extremely sad ending, it doesn't have to be a happy ending at all cost - but this ending was.. lack luster.
The Show without the last 3-5 minutes gets a 9/10 - hell, maybe a 10/10. But this ending is just.. ruins the experience - the story deserved a real ending, a good one - a tragic one - a surprising one.. This, feels like the ending was some kind of bad FanFiction of the actual ending.