I'm completely confused by the finale. People here seem to think The Taylors actually moved and Jill got a job in Indiana and Tim left Tool Time. But in the last few minutes of the show, it seemed as if they were just daydreaming about moving the whole house, etc. I thought Tim took over as an executive producer of Tool Time. Does anyone else agree?
shareYes, I've been saying this for years--while the finale is somewhat vague, Jill refused to leave their house, and Tim's idea of moving it was just a daydream, obviously not real. So they stayed in Detroit and Tim remained with Tool Time. It seems obvious to me, but for whatever reason, most people don't see it that way. But the way I see it, the Taylors did not go to Indiana.
shareIt's pretty straightforward about them leaving for Indiana. As for the house gag, it's the final Tim-goes-over-the-top-again gag ever so of course it's big. I mean, people do know that you can move a house in real life, right?
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Sure, you can move (at least some) houses, but this was pretty obviously a (day)dream sequence. At least that's how I saw it. And it wasn't as if the Taylors were moving some mobile home. Combine that with the fact that NONE of them really wanted to move, Tim was offered complete control of Tool Time...yeah, I'm quite sure they stayed in Detroit. But, it wasn't exactly stated one way or another....
shareAnd it wasn't as if the Taylors were moving some mobile home
Its obvious that Tim was just dreaming at the end. Whether they move or not is really not known, but if they did move, it wasn't shown in the final episode.
Whoever thinks that the final sequence is them really moving obviously didn't pay much attention.
I read in an interview awhile back that it was left open for the viewer to decide if they left or not..
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i am just glad the network shot down Tim's original idea of having Wilson being a dream/ghost/illusion the whole time. I think the network wanted to avoid another Roseanne type ending at the time. I remember watching Tim Allen on inside the actor's studio talking about how he wanted that when they tore down the fence for the wedding nothing was there on Wilson's side.
shareI didn't know this, but yeah, that ending would have sucked. I think it ended perfectly. Well the dream sequence wasn't really needed, but it was still an almost-perfect ending.
The last scene with Tim and Jill talking alone after everyone has gone always makes me a little emotional.
Are you sure he wasn't joking? That wouldn't have made any sense as Wilson interacted frequently with everyone else on the show.
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I just watched the finale and no they didnt move.
Jill's last line was she didnt want to move, she liked her life and her home.
Tim's last line was "if we ever decide to move...." Then the thought balloon of the house on a tug boat.
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Them not moving wouldn't make any sense based on the previous three episodes, and would make Tim look a major a-hole as they had played up the whole "Jill sacrificed, now it's his turn" storyline.
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But if the last line in the entire series was "if we ever moved..." that certainly implies they DID NOT move in the finale. I have seen the finale a couple times recently and there is no mistaking what tim said.
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Bottom line is, they didn't show them leaving. Tim imagining the barge with the house on it was just that...Tim imagining it. On the other hand, it doesn't mean they weren't going to. It was open for the viewers' interpretation. Tim and Wilson took down the fence for Al's wedding, and they were talking like they weren't going to be neighbors anymore.
shareTim definitely moved the house to Indiana for Jill to take that job...end of discussion.
shareThey did not move. That's just a stupid fan theory with no basis whatsoever. The discussion Tim and Jill had at the end made it extremely clear that they were in agreement about staying. Tim just said "if we ever decided to move...", as in just hypothetically someday. They even showed a thought bubble pop up by his head before the house moving sequence. How much more obvious could it have been that it was just him imagining? I swear, some would still try to make this argument even if the whole cast screamed "THEY DID NOT MOVE!" right at the camera.
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lol I'm just calling out the BS as I see it. Yes it's just a show, but that's exactly why it's dumb to create these stupid theories without some hard evidence. Tim imagining the whole house being moved is not. And yes it was in his imagination. The thought bubble makes that pretty straight forward. And as I already said: the conversation Tim and Jill had right before that made it extremely clear that they were in agreement about staying. Jill said she didn't want to leave everything they had behind, and that she was confident she could still find work in Detroit. Tim gave no objections at that point.
Now if someone wants to interpret that perhaps later Tim and Jill would have decided to move then that's fine. That's your personal interpretation, which you're entitled to have, but you must still realize that's all it can be. It is not canon to the actual story unless it is seen on screen. And again, a scene occurring in someone's mind does not count for that.
And in regards to your earlier post about how not moving would make Tim look like an a-hole: I don't see how that's true at all. Tim was fully prepared to sacrifice his old life for Jill's career. His bags were all but packed and out the door. He even refused to tell Jill about his offer to be executive producer of Tool Time if he stayed which would have given him higher pay and far more creative control over the show. He did that because he suspected it would make Jill feel guilty about leaving, and he didn't want that. Of course she found out regardless, but even then Tim was concerned that she was only reconsidering out of guilt, but only agreed to stay once she firmly insisted that she wanted to. Tim was being completely selfless in that situation, and would have certainly made the move otherwise. If anything, if Tim refused to stay at that point seeing that's what Jill clearly wanted then I would argue that would have made him a the a-hole. At that point he would be refusing to respect Jill's wish to stay.
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"If we ever decide to move..."
They stayed. Tim took over as producer of Tool Time and Jill made a career in Detroit. They didn't leave. Jill said in the last scene clear as day. Them driving the house was a daydream scheme of Tim's that Jill definitely shot down. End of story.