I'm confused

Thanks to the lazy lazy writing of this movie, we don't know for sure. But here's my theory that allows me to watch the ending without wanting to bang my head against the wall:

Obviously, there's really strong indications that point to the SW's being robotic (the ATM wife, Sarah's remote, the robot Joanna on the table, etc). However, they also apparently still have their own brains, so what I think happens is that they transplant the women's brains into the robotic bodies (with the personality chips to make them all Stepfordy) and dispose of their human bodies.

"I get all tingly when you take control like that." -Dean Winchester

I wouldn't say "lazy writing" as much as "studio interference." The studio & test audiences didn't like the idea that the men had killed their wives to replace them with robots so they re-shot some stuff that shows them turning back to normal, contradicting what we've already seen.

I was wondering the exact same thing as the original poster! Huge plot hole.

Such a terribly bad movie. Nothing can replace the original.

I, too, was going to ask this same question. I don't understand how they are back to "normal" in robot bodies. The real women were then killed to my understanding. So confusing and so wrong.

You don't make friends with salad.

Bad writing, and the fact that the movie underwent numerous reshoots and rewrites following test screenings.

Reportedly, the original intention was indeed that the wives were robots, but then they hastily reshot the ending saying it was only chips in their brains, and leaving it unclear if they're in robot bodies or not. (Actually, putting brains in robot bodies undermines the story's point, but never mind...)

But in the end, it was just sloppy filmmaking, plain and simple. No deep meanings, no intentional camp, just plain shoddiness through and through.


Facts need to come before certainty.