Or should I say, lack of ending. Every other major character, you know where they're going. Cullen to China. Mickey to San Francisco. The writer lady to Chicago. Durant to jail. But Eva just tamed her wild horse, then road off into the sunset. No clues as to what might happen to her. All we know is she won't be "whorin'". Which is good, of course. It just seems like a cheat on the part of the writers.
shareI wish she had gone with mickey but he deserves to be alone for what he has done.
shareNo . She was going back to live with the Native AMericans. She liked them and the way they treated her better than the way the white people did, men and women. I think it was a fitting end for her. And did Durant go to jail? We saw him years ahead broke and trying to hock that ring....
shareThat was my interpretation as well, that she was going back to her previous life. The scene with the dress said it all: She is not meant to be tamed. So she went where she could be wild.
shareI can't believe I didn't think of that!! Yes, of course she was going back to live with the Indians, after her speech to the editor. Now I feel better about what I thought was an ambiguous ending for her. I will assume she rode off to be with the Indians and lived happily ever after. Thanks for the image....
shareI think the ride symbolized her emotional and mental freedom- both from the memories of her captivity, and from the depressing business of whoring/ managing whores. I didn't get the impression that she was riding off for good, just that she was celebrating her new-found freedom. By sunset, she'll be back in town, planning the first steps of her new life.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae
No . She was going back to live with the Native AMericans. She liked them and the way they treated her better than the way the white people did, men and women. I think it was a fitting end for her
Reviewer at tvfanatic.com commented that it was like they weren't quite sure what to do with her...which may well be the case. I would have hoped that maybe she now has enough money to start a legit business in San Fran (or any of a dozen other places...) but that may not be realistic. I like the way she declined to follow on with Mickey. Good for her. The way she choked up thinking about her Mojave sister made me think she might return to them.
From an interview with Exec Prod John Wirth:
As for where Eva is heading when she rides away at the end, Wirth says, “She’s going West into the unknown.”
it was a silly cliche, I mean does she just ride off and meet back up with them like no biggie? haha
she did look sexy as hell on that horse though
"how's a fella go about gettin' a holt of the police?" -Karl
Not at all. Her ending was just her beginning.
Thats a clown question , BRO.......
CLOSE the FRIGGEN BORDER ALREADY!!!
She was going back to the Mojave people. She did not want to leave them but the army was looking for her. Had she stayed they would have died. She had an adopted Indian sister. Read a few Indian captive stories and you will see that many captives preferred to stay with their Indian families.
shareShe was obviously going to the Indians.........
If you are going to say that's speculation, well you are also speculating that Bohannon didn't die in the boat voyage and that Durant actually went to jail.
Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon described in 1973 ...@https://www.google.com/search?q=captive+syndrome
I was fine with it. Unlike some of the other characters, Eva didn't have an obvious destination. She turned down (smartly it seems) the chance to become a curiosity for tourists; she doesn't want to be, or run, prostitutes anymore, or become closer to Mickey. I'm sure she'll figure out something. The character has proven very adaptable.
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