Let's change the ending

Oh no, Laurie and Jo are totally unsuited to each other. The marriage would have been a disaster. Anyway he marries Amy and Jo marries Professor Bhaer, so it all ends happily anyway.

I wanted Jo to marry Laurie in Little Women and I wanted Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford to stay together in The Way We Were

Harry Potter should have married Hermione. Apparently
JK Rowling said as much .

West side Story - Tony lives happily ever after with Maria!

That way DD3 wouldn't sob uncontrollably at the end as she always does despite having seen the film and various stage shows countless times.

Titanic. Jack survives after all. That's what the GC said should have happened when they watched it

My elder granddaughter after reading Gone With The Wind said - I liked Scarlett, she was a feminist ?

Quite agree with you Misadventure, I have always thought him a dead bore and never understood why he is considered such a romantic hero.

I suppose Jane Eyre could end with - Reader, I said "No"

At the end of EastEnders tonight, I`d have liked Abbie to have come round, and Max to die of shock, I can`t stand him!

Jane10, yes, I was born with feet of clay and tendency to be over-sensible.

Very sensible M0nica!

Swan Lake. I would have the swans destroy Von Rothbart and his daughter Odile. What's the point of Odette and Siegfried dying? No way! They could marry and live happily ever after

Thank you Eglantine A bit old, yes, but when you look back in history disparate age marriages were not unusual nor unhappy. After all the excitement of her romance with Romeo, someone old and steady who will not go round encouraging her to take doses of dangerous drugs or attempting suicide every time something goes wrong could be quite pleasant.

Count Paris, M0nica.

Rich, respected, powerful. A bit old for a fourteen year old?

Bit more mundane, but I'd change the end of The Bodyguard and she'd get her man.

The one she turned down because she was in love with Romeo, or was he a count or duke or something else, I am too lazy this evening to check my facts. (I'm blaming the 'lurgy, as long as I can get away with it)

What Prince?

When Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead at her feet, she steps over him and goes off and marries the Prince after all.

I find Madam Butterfly unbelievably sad but I can't think how I would change the ending without more innocent people suffering ( Pinkertons wife)

Annie, write a novel! I'll buy it

I would have Angel struck with a disease in Brazil, come home , Tess nurse him , he will be so weak she will give him ice cold blanket baths, chicken soup with far too much salt reduce his fluids until he begs for mercy for being such a judgemental wimp.

Posted too early. Tess should have had her happy ever after with Angel and her seducer should have died.

Tess of the D'urbevilles, hated the ending when I read it in school. Seemed so unfair that she died . Put me off reading any more of Thomas Hardy's work.

Mill on the Floss. He abducts her, ruins her, indirectly causes her death and ends up sorry for himself and lovingly supported by his stupid fiancée.

'Frankly, my dear, I will love you for ever, no matter what - all I want is your love in return'.