First Nora, then Matt, and now today it is......
Laurie's week. Yeah! I always had a soft spot in my heart for her.
Great conversation at the end with Kevin. And then she goes off scuba diving. Hmmm. What are we supposed to make out of that?
And what are we to assume happened to Nora? Obviously those two gals were not going to send her into the unknown, so what was that about?
Okay, my time is up. Your turn.
Well, Nora did tell Laurie that she could use scuba diving as a good way to kill herself and people could think it was an accident. So, unless there is anything to suggest otherwise, I think Laurie Garvey may have killed herself at the end of this episode.
The two doctors were probably going to send themselves into the Unknown, and Nora would probably try to stop them or make them take her first, with Matt watching her or something. Considering that she's alive years from now, as evident in episode one of this season, Nora will probably be convinced to not go through the machine. Unless, the end of episode one of this season was supposed to hint what is on the other side of the Unknown, who knows, maybe she will go through the machine in the next episode.
I thought I saw Nora in next week's previews. As for Laurie, yes, the impression is she is ending it all.......finally. I hope so.....I'm wanting closure now from someone. Lol
I was kind of hoping Nora would get zapped and get closure too, but it doesn't appear that way.
Season 3 has been weird for me too. I'm not enjoying it as much as season 2, but still interested to see how it all plays out and to see the final resolution of the departed. Will there be a flood like in Noah's day? I hope so. Lol what will Kevin see in Purgatory? I hope something exciting.
Or it is her brother that goes through and she stays. He's dying anyway so it makes sense he tests it out but if he gets to the same place Kevin does (assuming he dies again) then he can irritate him there also lol.
shareThis season started great but i wasn't feeling the last two episodes as a whole. I thought this last episode was one of the worst of the series.
shareIt was after Nora got rejected by the doctors in episode 4 when I started feeling like this season was starting to lose me, because I thought this season would be about Kevin risking himself to save her. Who knows? If Nora does kill herself in the next two episodes, maybe Kevin will find Nora in Purgatory, and help her get back. But now with Laurie having gone to kill herself, maybe he'll revive her? Maybe after seven years of being apart, they realize they still love each other? I don't know, I'm grasping for something here. I'm still enjoying the season, but I just don't know where the hell it's going.
shareThis episode seemed a bit odd. Was it because it didn't have a continuation of events and timeline in Australia jumped all over the place? Or maybe because we saw things through Laurie's eyes, and since she wasn't a believer it all seemed a bit incoherent. Perhaps this was meant to be like watching biblical events seen through the eyes of Judas.
Whatever it was, I didn't enjoy this episode as much as the others.
Anyone remember the woman at the beginning, the one that was in therapy with Laurie? It's the woman from the very beginning of the whole series. That's how the series started... with her at the laundromat, and her baby disappearing at the parking lot. I thought it was a nice touch.
I noticed that as well... so I'm wondering if everyone will come back!! Perhaps they've all been singing karaoke for the past few years.
shareI would be disappointed if there wasn't some kind of reunion in the last two episodes. 10 points more if they all start singing... lol
shareThere's a pub in London called the Blue Eyed Maid - worth looking up if you're in town. Anyway it has karaoke from 9pm every night and is usually packed to the rafters with people singing and dancing and a totally cracking night out, one of the best nights in London. If that's purgatory then I'm well up for it. I can knock out a Lily Allen or two.
I thought I read somewhere that as this was the last season they would answer all the questions... main thing is Kevin needs to get that rod out of his arse and everybody needs just to bloody cheer up and live life instead of whinging and moaning and being so bloody maudlin.
I wonder if it won't be like an alternate universe kinda thing. So to everyone else, perhaps Kevin, Nora et all disappeared... perhaps all the HAPPY people stayed put. And where Kevin/Nora are now is purgatory. Now that would be kinda cool :)
Also, I have to ask, didn't Jill go off to college? What is she doing back with Tommy? She seemed to indicate in the premiere of this season she would not be back for the anniversary of the Departure, so what is she doing with him? Is Tommy still on police duty? If so, how? He shot an armed man in the head. Wouldn't he have to take a few days to readjust after an event like that? Wasn't he also supposed to be seeing a therapist about that, shooting a man in the head? Or did Tommy go to see Jill at her college? If that's the case, who is keeping Miracle under control if its two main police officers are gone? What about the Gary Busey inflatable? Jokes aside about the Busey inflatable, if Tommy is still in town to know his dad and Nora took off to Australia, how the hell does he not know his mom, step-father, step-brother and the town's Reverend took off? They didn't tell him? Also, if Tommy's in charge of the police while his family is gone, is the town in disarray with Matt and Kevin gone? I would think it would, but considering Tommy's tone in the voicemail, no it doesn't sound like that at all. I got to say it's a shame both Tom and Jill have been pushed off to the side this season.
Also, a question I've had back since the first episode this season. What the hell was up with the hole being drilled into the service center where all the GR were holding up at? Prior to them getting blown up, someone drilled a hole into the wall. Was there a significance to this? Was it so Meg could watch the blast through the hole?
I guess I am craving the typical Hollywood ending where everything gets tied up in a bow, but I was disappointed in the lack of closure in this series.
My assumptions, and no, I'm not 100% certain of anything...
Nora: Called up her agency and had everyone arrested, since the scientists denied her the chance to see her family again. They obviously weren't going to willingly give her the "trip." And what was the reason for why they asked the interview questions? To oversimplify, were they afraid they would send a bad person to "Heaven?" This is my most questionable assumption.
Kevin: He let his father and the other people kill him, and he did not come back. That's why Laurie wasn't with him and had decided to kill herself. He obviously was going to allow them to do the experiment.
Laurie: She was on the water to kill herself, as she discussed prior, but the phone call from Jill calls into question whether she actually does or not. It was an uplifting positive call that let her know she is loved, and would make most people hesitate. Did she do it? That is the biggest question of the episode.
This episode, like with the rest of the entire series, left us with few answers. What I got from this show was that there was a "departure", yet the show focused on the everyday lives of the people left behind, and that meant that there will never be answers. Sure, they flirted with the supernatural aspect a few times, but it was never really resolved, and half the time it could easily be explained away by very natural means (such as Kevin having "visions"). So basically we are left with the same result that the people on the show are left with--lots of questions, no real answers... as intended.
I like a show that makes you think and doesn't give you the answers on a silver platter. However, this show never gives you the answers. There is no payoff. The final episode was disappointing for me.
I enjoyed reading your assumptions. I wonder why this time Kevin would not come back from the dead? I agree with you, this show was not about the departed but about the people left behind. Don't expect answers about the departed.
shareThanks, MrSpock. My thought is that Kevin was not a Jesus-like figure after all, and when they did their "experiment" on him, he died like anyone would. Now... that does not really explain Kevin surviving the poison and gunshot wound(?) last season. My memory is really too fuzzy to recall the details of either of those events... I probably need to go back and rewatch. I remember thinking at the time, though, that there was no rational explanation for his surviving the poison.
shareI don't know.....he is the star of the show, so I can't see him leaving this week with one week to follow. I guess it's possible to hold off this death until the finale, but I don't see that either. And, this doesn't explain how he could survive two other deaths but not this one. What is different? I just don't know amigo.
shareEveryone, please throw away everything I said above. :)
Someone told me this season only had 6 episodes, so I thought that WAS the finale! I thought that was it!
I see now we have two more episodes to look forward to, and I'm pretty glad. :)
Sooo, we're basically tying up all the personal stories of the characters. But instead of just a finaly ala Lost, we're getting a whole season... I'm not mad this time around though, because we weren't really promised an explanation (right?).
I liked Laurie's episode. And the conversation with Kevin. I could've watched another half hour of just that. And I think she killed herself. I hoped she'd change her mind after she talked with her kids, but the woman had her mind made up.
As for Nora, I'm assuming she's going to try and get into that machine. Beyond that, I have no idea what'll happen.
I might be in the minority, but I didn't enjoy season two, as much as I enjoyed the first one. And this one as well, I like better than the second one. That might change though, if I ever re-watch the whole series.
Yes, I too enjoyed this episode. Just seeing Laurie and Nora together exchanging dialog was worth it.
I'm thinking Kevin will agree to be drowned, but I don't think he will be going back to wherever he went the last time he died. I have no idea though so don't ask. I also don't think it will be a simple death and that's all folks, either.
I think Kevin with agree to be killed as well. Most of the characters seem very suicidal as it is. But I don't want to speculate what will happen either. We'll just have to wait and see.
shareWe finally found out what Kevin's Jr's task is. He will not be a Jesus-like savior, his only role is to go to the other side and learn the song. Kevin Sr. will be the savior. At least that's their plan. Younger Kevin seemed pretty okay with it, cause he really liked the hotel on the other side. He will probably meet Laurie there because it looks like she will go through with her suicide plan. David Burton a.k.a. God will also be there, being killed by a lion in previous episode.
So, either Kevin Sr, Kevin Jr or David Burton will save the world, but we still don't know which one, and how. (presuming Burton comes back from the hotel in time) Since Kevin Jr is the only one not arrogant enough to claim to be a savior, I have a feeling it's gonna be him.
Oh, and that manuscript miraculously survived the fire. That was unexpected.
I'm not sure if we're going to see David Burton again. But you never know.
Who saves the world? In Ep.1 Nora is bringing pigeons to that nun. I'm not that familiar with the Bible, but weren't pigeons a part of the flood story? So that leads me to believe that their plan doesn't really work, and that there is a flood. If Kevin Jr. kills himself, but doesn't come back, because he's not in Miracle (wasn't that ability linked to there?), that could be seen as Jesus-like sacrifice. And if one is inclined to believe that the flood is the thing that saves the world, he could be seen as the Saviour. That's just a theory though (hopefully one that makes some sense lol). I guess I did want to speculate...
As for the book, I guess we could call that Divine intervention.
Doves, I think. But pigeons are close enough lol.
Matt's theory is that Kevin Jr. ability to resurrect is linked to Miracle, Texas. Maybe Matt was wrong, who knows? We saw that Kevin Sr. survived poisoning in Australia, so why not Kevin Jr. as well... we'll find out in the next episode.
As for Burton, I would dismiss him as an unlikely saviour cause he's an arrogant prick, but we've been steadily given information and bits and pieces about him throughout the whole series, and that's why he remains on my list of suspects.
Haha. Oh, English, how you fail me! It is doves :)
All we really have to go on (or maybe just me, because I forget) is what the characters observe or theorize about. So any number of things can happen. We'll just have to wait and see.
And I completely forgot about David Burton, or that he's been mentioned throughout the series, so you might be right to keep him as a suspect.
I swear, sometimes I have the memory retention of a gold fish.