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Very disappointed (lots o' spoilers)

posted 12 years ago by the_frog_princess
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I absolutely loved this miniseries except for the end. It broke my heart that Virginia's mom turned out to be severely mentally ill and really tried to kill her as a little girl, but I totally get it that the author intended that bit of hard realism. I could swallow that bitter pill, especially as it painted her father in a new light. What I hate is that Virginia and the Wolf didn't stay together. They didn't have to live happily ever after, but they could have lived *reasonably* happily for a good long time, opened a restaurant, enjoyed their pup together. They get you all psyched up for her to finally get a steady relationship going and squash it. I'm sorry, but the explanation that sometimes even a short relationship can be really fulfilling just doesn't cut it. It's cheap. It's a cop out. What happened to the continuing theme that wolves mate for life? It was almost like she was being set up to repeat her mother's life, being saddled with an unwanted child. After all she went through what kind of growth did she experience if she was still unable to find a life?

[–] kylopod 12 years ago

Is this a joke? The Wolf and Virginia do stay together at the end. What version were you watching?

[–] annie421 12 years ago

I think it depends on how you interpret the ending because she says in a voice over their happy ending was immediately ruined by wars or something like that. So either they stayed together but their peace was ruined and they had to fight, wolf died, or they went their separate ways.

Personally I think they might have split up so that come sequel time they could have had a big reunion. But who knows, besides if they left it like that cynics might just think that they split up making her whole journey moot. Which is what probably pissed off the original poster.

[–] kylopod 12 years ago

I'd be curious to see the original quote. I certainly don't remember anything suggesting they broke up, and to go from "our happy ending was immediately ruined" to "Wolf and I ended our relationship" seems like a non sequitur to me.

What I understood was that the miniseries was leaving open the door for a sequel, but since it was a commercial failure that never happened.

[–] annie421 12 years ago

i agree. im just saying that quote might be what upset the original poster. kinda wish they made a sequel.

[–] angela_bees 12 years ago

I remember the quote.

'I'd like to say that Wolf and I lived happily ever after but our lives were almost immediately interupted by another crisis in the Kingdoms.'

I suppose you could look at it any number of ways. But I think it means that they didn't live 'happily ever after'. They had problems and difficulties, like normal couples in the real world.

I can't see Wolf leaving Virginia anyway, especially with a kid involved.

[–] Beatty003 12 years ago

Wrong. Her happy ending was interrupted and had to go back. They were leaving it open for a sequel not saying that Virgina and Wolf didn't end up together. There isn't any interpretation to the ending. It's extremely straight forward.

[–] annie421 12 years ago

Guys,.. I was just trying to argue that a person could misinterpret the ending. I agree with every one who says the happy ending being interrupted doesn't mean they didn't end up together.

[–] OmarLove 12 years ago

see, I always took virginia's line about being interrupted by another 'crisis in the kingdoms' as being a cute way of saying their peaceful few months of wedded bliss was interrupted by a handful of a part-wolf baby. But i dunno, I guess it was a sequel hook.

but i don't think it was meant to imply them splitting up.

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