I couldn’t tell if any of the people hanging were recognizable.
Seriously, wtf?! They jumped over quite a bit at the end there, no?
Okay then. Why did I waste time on this thing?
Those kids are now running the town? How are they able to keep the town running? Are some of those high school kids doctors now? How did they make that statue?
That completely sucked. I just can’t believe that the ones in the mountain hideaway with the guards and all of life’s essentials at their disposal, were overtaken by the kids down in the town, who would’ve had to get past the abbies to gain control. No matter what, they only had limited supplies and, despite their arsenal, I’m sure the others had more. Not to mention surveillance to warn them of any breach to their security. So frigging lame.
And I also wandered who built the statue. Seriously? As to the bodies hanging? I think that was simply to let the viewers know that things had returned to the way they were… compliance by fear and force. If that was a ‘twist,’ I want my 10 hours back.
Why would the kids do that? The adults now know the truth, so it isn’t the old “ignorant and compliant” strategy. And they’re certainly not going to continue to try to break through the wall.
Let me write what I understood happen and all of you can tell me if I’m wrong. It was so dumb, I think it flew under my head(if that is an expression). Or maybe I’m too dumb to follow such a smartly and clearly plotted show.
Charlie and his Mom realize that the explosion in the elevator shaft was…well, lethal. Mom cries and Charlie runs back to see if Ethan survived(or if he can see him at all, really). Charlie cries out, “Dad!!!” An object flies up the shaft and knocks him out.
In the meantime…the older teens put all(all or just some?) the adults in the cryosleep chambers? What…like by force?
Some time passes and the “first generation” sets up the town again, only this time everyone knows about the monsters. They do bring some adults with them? And they continue to use the “don’t talk about the past or try to leave” mentality of the main villain? And make a statue of him somehow? And hang/execute anyone who questions too much, etc.?
And they agree to bring back Charlie, even though he was clearly against them in the end.
The end?
Was any of that right?
I think that’s about right. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but none of it does.
We still don’t know why they kept bodies in that decrepit house for so long.
We still don’t know how vehicles could be in anything close to working order after thousands of years.
When I got to the fourth or fifth episode where the whole abbey situation was revealed I thought the show was over. Then M Night Shyamalan outShyamalan’d himself by having two unsatisfying twist endings in the same movie!
He only directed the first episode. I think the rest was done by others, including the writing.
I think the end was decent, if unsatisfying. It is certainly different than anything else I’ve seen, so points for originality. Minus quite a few points for inconsistencies.
Yeah, and IMHO there have certainly been a number of other spooky, science-fiction-y shows that had finales that were much, much worse. Based on what I’ve read elsewhere online, it sounds like the ending of the TV series was also actually an improvement on the ending of the book series.
I haven’t read the books, but after watching the TV finale I looked up some summaries of them and it sounds like most of the nits people have been picking here come straight from the source material. However, there was one thing from the books that was sort of hinted at in the series but that I don’t think was ever actually revealed. I’ll spoiler it as I assume this is meant to be a surprise in the books, but it has to do with the effects of cryogenically suspending people: Apparently putting people back in cryosleep can cause them to lose the memories they’ve formed since the last time they came out of cryosleep. I’m not sure if this is just a side effect of the process or if Pilcher deliberately wipes people’s memories. Anyway, Ethan apparently has his memory wiped in this way a few times early in the books because he’s not settling in well in Wayward Pines.This would explain the remark the Juliette Lewis character made about how she “always” believed Ethan, and a few other things about the series make more sense in this light. [spoiler]For instance, the “operation” that Ethan supposedly needed early in the series was presumably another memory wipe. In the finale then Pam and Ben obviously didn’t lose their memories of Wayward Pines after being put in the tubes, but maybe the memory wipe is optional. The Wayward Pines we see at the very end might include some adults defrosted by the First Generation, but without their memories of what happened the last time around. That would explain the perceived need to continue enforcing Pilcher’s rules. (Or the First Generation could have just defrosted some of the other people who Pilcher still had in storage.)
This doesn’t make any real difference in terms of plot, but I think it makes Pilcher’s decision to punish the lenient surveillance guy and later start putting the other volunteers back into suspension more horrifying if this meant that they would/could lose their memories of everything that had happened since they were first thawed out.[/spoiler]
Seriously, if I could just unwatch from the part where Ben wakes up, I could imagine my own ending and be fine.
Because the ending they gave makes even less sense the entire rest of the show and THAT is saying something.
Were they thinking they would get a second season that would be about the struggle between the mountain adult and the teens? Then it was announced no second season, so they taped a new ending. Maybe?
I think that if they want to go with the ending they used, it should have been 85+ years or so that Charlie was asleep. An extremely old(100+) Amy should have walked in to visit him in the hospital, telling him that the new Town would not awaken him. She insisted and insisted and finally, they have awoken him and she is just able to see him before she dies.
He goes out and learns that the town is just as bad and rule-driven as before.
It still makes little sense, but it gives them enough time to make the statue, train to become adults, etc.
Apparently, there is still the possibility of a second season.
http://zap2it.com/2015/07/wayward-pines-season-2-specific-plan/
No, and none of the actors are contracted. However, even though it was planned as one season, they may not desperately extend it into a second.
If they wanted to do a second season maybe they shouldn’t have skipped over a whole seasons worth of plot in the last two minutes.
That was weird, and a completely different conclusion than in the books.
It was almost like they filmed two endings for the season. If they knew there was no chance at a second season they leave off the last scenes showing the kids in charge when it airs. But if they smell the possibility of a second season they tack that on so they have a hook into the next season that doesn’t really require the main actors from the first season.
I think the whole “Ben” scene at the end would be to set up a season 2 - I just hope they don’t go thru with it -
More interesting at the point just before that- IMHO.
You could be right unfortunately. The near reckoning at the beginning of ep 8 or 9 was the same kind of “set up” for that one episode. Didn’t make any sense to me at the time.