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Any one else annoyed by the Eva storyline ending?


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.

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I thought her ending was the most interesting. She's the only one who does what she wants. For herself. Not for someone else. Not because she had no choice.

What pisses me off is that it took the last episode for the writers to even think about mentioning her time with the Mojave.



For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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No clues as to what might happen to her

I think you missed the point, even though her character's ending wasn't as clear as others, but I think the riding off into the sunset was kind of clue that she was going back to the Native Americans, where she felt as equal. I thought that was a great scene the white horse and that last smile and that sense of freedom in Eva's face was made it work.

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I was glad she realized in time that she was just going to be exploited by being made a show of.

I know that her memories drove her to return to the Mojave Indians, BUT I felt very sad, because that's no longer where she belongs.

Do you really think they'll just accept her back? She wasn't theirs, she was a white captive. Now that she's been away from them for...how many years?...how likely is it that she can just go back to the life there?

It's more likely that she'll find out she no longer "belongs" anywhere.

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