I always thought the problem with the upbeat ending was a much larger problem in the fact that the love story really wasn't between D Wyatt and Josephine quite frankly that could've been left out in its entirety. It's a story about dock and Wyatt the end I was put off when they give any screen time to that story. It would've been better if the only scene about them was the first one and the last one cut out all the rest entirely and shorten the last one.