This was a great ending
Im gonna miss this show so much and im so happy they told us what happened to them after. This was a really great show
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I'm going to miss it too!! And all the actors/actresses
shareI will miss it as well! I wasn't sure about it in the beginning, but I looked forward to it every week. I too appreciated that we were told what happened to each wife!
shareWell now I'm in tears. That was a great ending, so moving. I was on the edge of my seat watching Apollo 11 unfold on the screen. The whole time, I was wishing I had been alive at the time to witness it my self. I felt such pride and patriotism. Even though we all knew Apollo 13 ended successfully, I was still riveted and felt their anxiety.
Watching the women say goodbye to each other as well as to the viewers broke my heart bit I feel very fulfilled. I feel like these 10 episodes took me on an full emotional journey. If it stays just as a self contained mini-series and doesn't return, I'll miss it but feel it went out by hitting all the right notes. Bravo!
" Well now I'm in tears. "
I got teary at the end too. I too loved this series and will miss it! I wish the story could have continued next summer...but since it wasn't going to... I'm glad they gave us a true finale...and let us know what happened to the women.
I love this type of series... and am always sad to see them end... ('Pan Am', 'Bomb Girls'). Because I always wonder if there will be something like it again. I am glad 'Call the Midwife' is still being made.
Watching the women say goodbye to each other as well as to the viewers broke my heart bit I feel very fulfilled. I feel like these 10 episodes took me on an full emotional journey.
Thanks for noting that! For reasons I can't explain I've found every episode the last half of the series to be "gut wrenching" so I chose to dvr last night and have yet to watch it until I'm ready for the tissues.
I see now that I made a wise choice. :D
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I'm glad they ended it without leaving us hanging. It took a couple episodes for me to get into it but then I loved it. Sad to see it go.
shareI thought it was a good final episode. It took some liberties with specific facts, though I thought they generally made sense, as they conveyed a more general truth, but with the concision necessary to an hour-long TV show.
Only one that I didn't really get was the description of the Apollo 13/14 swap. In real life, Shepard didn't slide to 14 and get replaced by his backup, but they just traded the whole three-man crews. Lovell was never backup to Shepard: he was prime crew (CMP) on 8, backup to Neil Armstrong on 11, then prime crew as commander of 14, which became 13 when they swapped the order - which (except for the 13/14 swap) was pretty much SOP.
Also, a small note on the "only 7 of 30 marriages survived:" keep in mind that 8 of them didn't survive not on account of divorce but because the astronaut didn't (3 died in Apollo 1, 4 in T38s and 1 in a Volkswagen). Also I guess there were only ever 29 marriages, if you account for the fact that Jack Swigert never married. The pool also omits the fourth class (the five scientists), but that's probably a reasonable choice to avoid confusion.
Oh yeah: I'm not sure how Deke Slayton suddenly turned into Chris Kraft during Apollo 13, particularly since some of us already saw Ed Harris play a pretty similar scene.
Remember, Ed Harris did not play Chris Craft in "Apollo 13". He played the flight director, Gene Kranz. No one actually played Chris Craft.
Yeah, the part about 30 marriages but only 7 at the end got me as well. They were referring to Groups 1-3, so only 7 died, not 8. (Grissom, White, See, Bassett, Chaffee, Freeman, Williams). Jack Swigert was in Group 5.
The final marital tally from the Group 1-3 guys after Apollo was 7 dead, 16 divorced, 7 still married.
Right on all counts, of course.
I guess there was a pretty significant statistical fudge in omitting the "Original 19" from the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo astronauts, as they accounted for a bunch of Apollo crewmembers (as well as the sole Volkswagen fatality).
I'll attempt to claim some atonement for my errors in a whole other direction by recognizing First Aid Kit (I think) performing part of the score.
Also: they tidied up Armstrong's one big line.
Love this show! Tonight episode was great! I will be waiting on the DVD to come out.
I cried a little.... I will miss these great women. I loved seeing things through their eyes.
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