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So did he love her for real at the end?


Someone here says the aunt's spell only made Shep go to Gill's apartment. She must've felt sure Shep would see Gill again and the old feelings would flood back in. But I'm not sure. It felt like he was under another spell. Is it trying to say that falling in love with anyone is like falling under a spell? I thought the true status of Shep's feelings in that last scene seems ambiguous to me.

Any thoughts?

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I think absolutely yes, on both parts, that they both felt real love towards each other at the end. She lost her magic. Shep had the spell removed. They were both "raw" so to speak, exposed and not enchanted. They fell in love for real, no strings.


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I'd forgotten the ending and somehow between (years) of not seeing this I thought that the spell didn't originally work and it turned out they were in love for real all the way through... decent alternative ending!!

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