IMO, the ending was crap! It not fit in with the theme of realism in society. And too little people died. The ending just cuts off so abruptly that it shocks me, leaving me unsatisfied. I would have thought that Chik Kei Yi, having made such suspenseful and intriguing endings in DOP and WAB, would come up with such a weak ending as this. After watching the promo, I feel cheated.
The real ending:
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I am okay with Jessica being happy and willing to let go, but it all happens too fast. Sylvia goes unpunished and gets her man - does she deserve anything? She's crazy and obsessed with Calvin. Constance being safe - no prob with that, it's just boring.
Bosco gets such a stupid role. Every now and then he comes out, but he lacks impact on the story. Great, he starts suspecting everybody and makes Elise leave. I thought that would be a starting point but then it just stops there. He doesn't do anything more evil. But i like the scene where he meets the contestants and thinks back to his past.
Terrence - does he ever do anything in the series except be angry or get framed? Oh yeah, he left Derek to die, but he doesn't get his punishment either. Why does he deserve a chance with Consatnce?
Calvin is pathetic. First he tries and punish Sylvia then he leaves his wife and unborn child. For what? He treat Catherine with so much indifference. As she said, she did nto force him to marry her. He agreed. How can he not even care about hsi unborn child with Catherine when he was so angry when Sylvia lost his child.
And what on earth did Ah Wo do to deserve such an ending? He is stupid beyond limits and deserves to be alone. But does he deserve being "blind"? I never liked this character - no impact on storyline.
And the mum? I'd rather she died on the couch than wake up. Do you really think that the 3 sisters, after betraying each other so much can still get along? I hate that family group hug scene at the end. It harder to tsomach than the family scenes in Moonlight Resonance.
The series is too long, and the story goes weak after *ahem* dies in ep 68
, but really does plummet after ep 80. More characters need to die in such genres and "The gem of life" does not deliever a good enidng. I hope there is an alternate ending. There are so many deleted scenes. There are so many unused characters - bad choice in trying to fit in a star-studded cast when the developmenet is not that great.
My ideal ending would be -
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Constance does get hit by the van and dies. Jessica goes remorseful afterwards and kills herself in the deleted bathtub suicide scene. Sylvia goes nuts (I think she deserves some punishment for pushing her emotionally unstable sister over the edge and ruining her other sister's chances of reconciling her marriage) and stays in a mental hospital. The mum can walk past their 3 rooms and think back tot he past but finds all 3 rooms empty.
Terrence takes over Ego Sky but is lonely, Bosco gets Mellissa's group, and Calvin goes to jail for injuring Sunny. Bosco becomes so unscrupulous that Ah Wo leaves him. Ah Wo can stay single, but Elise comes back in the end.