Talk:Finishing the Hat/@comment-4555746-20120514192725/@comment-4998572-20120514201248

Life goes forward, people move on. 13+ years they all lived in the same neighborhood, that's pretty good.

The box isn't suppost to be a cliffhanger, in my opinion. I don't think that Marc wanted the box to become a question but instead prove the point that although the world goes on around us, people die and move on that everybody still has secrets that can never be hidden. It's the point of the show rapped up in a few seconds.

That being said, I could have done without the "box" scene. If they stopped it before it would have been great too. I would have loved an ending of, "...even the most desperate life is oh so wonderful" with them showing Mary Alice, as they did, and then just fading out. That would have been very touching and a great message. The box message is true, but not as touching and heartfelt as Mary Alice's last line of "even the most desperate life is oh so wonderful."