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The Faux-Finale (Spoilers)


Was obviously rewritten to extend this into a second season.

Originally, this was written as a film but the director deemed it impossible to fit into a 2hr running time so they hawked it around to buyers as a potential TV series.

When they were doing that, Netflix, Amazon etc weren't creating their own original content so they ended up at Sky Atlantic, whose reputation was fairly non-existent.

So they offered to fund it as long as it was padded out to 12 episodes, as the US market expects, and snagged some great actors to star in it to draw our moth-like existence to the flame. And it worked!

Now there's going to be a season 2, which was originally going to be a completely different story, but now will follow on from the faux-finale and feature some of the remaining characters from season 1.

And that's what I truly hate about the faux-finale. So many unanswered questions regarding the characters that we'd been following (with patience and fortitude) from the beginning.

No explanation for:
A) Liam trudging across town to murder Stoddart who he'd never met before.
B) How the larvae were transmitted and why their gestation/infection period varied from person to person (Liam/Shirley/Elena/Ronnie/Jason).
C) Why the doll thing that Henry and the taxidermist created had any effect on Liam.
D) Why there were only a few flies buzzing around in the underground mammoth cave that Juri fell into, since they breed quite quickly, supposedly.
E) Why or how the lab and the doc's body was cleansed of the flies but the young guy only got superficial burns (even his eyelashes were intact!)
F, G, H...) Fill in yourself. Be my guest.

So I'm obviously annoyed that after watching this season then at the end of it we're left with a whole bunch of unanswered questions, and it appears that the writers(s) for the second series have taken the money but aren't running.

Will any of the questions above be answered in season 2?

I doubt it.

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We never did find out about that pig.

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If the series continues, complaining about the lack of answers seems out of place. It was a nice horror story. But some of yuur questions are quite strange.

A - Which explanation there was for any killing? Stoddard seems to be just a casual victim and not something Liam planned. Plus, was him anyhow a killer in the same way as others?
B - It is a wasp. They do lay eggs on living beings. It is most likely how. How long was any gestation period?
C - No idea. Liam is a weirdo.
D - You must be the only person that counted the number of wasps there, but if anything, there shouldn't be any as they only had frozen mommoth flesh to reproduce inside there.
E - Miracle? They do mention he tried to protect himself from the explosion, no?

We should be glad the writters arent running. Hard to write this way.

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The faux-finale was essentially Broadchurch S1. The first season was trying to find out who murdered the boy and we thought we had the answer in the finale. S2 was S1 all over again - the trial was a game of pin the tail on anyone.

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Another one was the show "Utopia." Season 2 ran around in repetitive circles until ending at a cliffhanger rather than wrapping up the story. Then it was cancelled.

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Utopia wasn't "cancelled". David Fincher bought the rights to remake it and so Ch4 shelved plans to film season three. Then Fincher bailed.

So Fincher is a dick, basically.

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Why would they shelve the plans to continue the series they started because a company in another country was going to do a remake? If they thought they would do good business by making new episodes it seems like they would have done it.

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That's never how it works, though.

I suppose what happens is that the contracts involve the other company buying the rights to the story idea, so that the original company can no longer continue with the story/characters/setting, etc. they *used to* own.

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That sounds like a guess rather than necessarily fact.

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Plus why was Sheriff "Desperate" Dan in Stoddard's house when the new scientist guy discovered the body and boy?
Why didn't Markus report Angry Black Dude Frank to the police for torturing him?
The night Henry called the police frantic in his belief that the Sheriff and Hilda killed Pettigrew and Stoddard, why didn't he just print and send the photo of Pettigrew's chained arm to the mainland police?
Why did a tiny community seem to enjoy death metal en masse?
Why were weirdy beardy guy and his upper class daughter eating out of bins when they'd been on the run for about 12 hours?
Why did I sit through a seasons worth of this manure?

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Why did I sit through a season's worth of this manure?

This is indeed the question that doesn't have a satisfying answer

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I know this is late, but here are (most of) the explanations

A) Liam trudging across town to murder Stoddart who he'd never met before.
Liam was just kinda aimlessly wandering in the snow. Stoddard, a kid wandering around the Arctic Circle in just his pajama bottoms, and brought him in the house. Liam didn't specifically seek Stoddard out, it was a matter of wrong place, wrong time.

B) How the larvae were transmitted and why their gestation/infection period varied from person to person (Liam/Shirley/Elena/Ronnie/Jason).
It's not unusual for any kind of communicable disease for different people to have different incubation periods. When we were kids, my brother and I both got chicken pox from the same person and I got sick a week before he did and got much sicker.

C) Why the doll thing that Henry and the taxidermist created had any effect on Liam.
That I'm not sure of. I think the writers created something of a red herring to tease the audience with. I don't think it had an effect because it was mystical, I just think that the poor kid has brain damage and somehow locked onto this object If could have been a tactile thing or maybe in his brain, he recognized Henry as someone who took those pictures he liked.

D) Why there were only a few flies buzzing around in the underground mammoth cave that Juri fell into, since they breed quite quickly, supposedly.
The whole reason the flies got out in the first place is because the permafrost is melting (and they say there is no climate change....). One of the scientists (the woman I think) mentioned that as long as the mammoths were buried in the permafrost, the larvae were dormant. As the permafrost thawed, the larvae became, for lack of a better word, re-activated.

E) Why or how the lab and the doc's body was cleansed of the flies but the young guy only got superficial burns
First, those weren't superficial burns, from the look of the tissue damage it looked like 2nd degree burns on his chest and face. The doctor blew up because she was on oxygen and the tank was right next to her bed. If you notice, there are multiple explosions; one of them was her oxygen blowing up.

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