Leftovers [HBO] [** Spoilers **]

I've enjoyed this series but I have to admit I was disappointed to read in this thread that according to the book, the disappearance is never explained. Does the book ending give you a really good idea of what happened with just a little room for ambiguity, or does it leave it all still a complete mystery? Do you think that the tv series might change the ending to give some sort of answer?

I will watch season 2 nonetheless as I am enjoying it, I don't mind a few unexplained mysteries but I think it will bug me not having some sort of final overall answer.

I don't know if it applies to all the people but there seems to be a trend that some of the people left behind felt burdened and a want to be free from their loved ones for even a short while at the time of the disappearance. Or just generally unhappy about things in their family life.

Kevin -not feeling fulfilled enough with own family. Does the 'trapped' deer in the flashback before the disappearance represent himself and his own feelings of being trapped in his marriage/family life? When the beautiful lady knocks down that deer, and he ultimately shoots it dead to put it out of it's misery he then goes on to cheat with that woman. Like he himself is no longer trapped either.

Laurie -don't think she was very happy about being pregnant due to the strains in the marriage and she hadn't even told Kevin.

Nora- Very stressed with the kids, no job, and feeling not valued by her husband as he didn't even remember her interview.

The old couple with their son who had Down Syndrome - must have spent all their lives caring for him and perhaps under a lot of stress doing so in their old age.

The woman with the crying baby at the start - clearly very unhappy and stressed at the time of the disappearance (that's not to say she was always stressed though)

Meg I'm not so sure about, lost her mother before the departure and didn't seem to enthused or happy with her engagement to her fiance. Would like to learn more about the relationship with her mum though before she died.

It's like any one of these people could have just mentally wished if even for just one second to just be free from what was burdening them. It especially looked that way for Nora when she was trying to dry the the phone and the kids were screaming.

Kevin's family didn't disappear but the woman he was sleeping with did though. Maybe he wanted to be free from that feeling of wanting more, feeling fulfilled. He wanted to be happy with his own wife and family although he did in a way end up losing all his family in other ways. His father to the mental institute, his wife to a cult, his son to Wayne, his daughter to being a very troubled teenager.

I also thought Nora's letter was a suicide note, and that the only thing that changed her mind might have being hugging Wayne's baby - the 'magic' healing hug might have been passed on (if it's real and he's not a fraud)

What's the story with Christine I wonder? Did she run away or 'disappear' like the others?

If Kevin wished for his family back, but Nora and the baby are on his step, if they are the new family does that mean he is going to lose Laurie and Tommy to suicide (because Tommy just left the baby on the step) or does Tommy want to join the Remnants so Kevin will then have lost his son that way?
Or will they maybe return home again?

Do Kevin's tattoos mean anything? He has a scissors on one wrist and what looks like a bull's eye target circle on the other. That other cult had bull's eye targets on their foreheads so that god could 'find' them. I didn't quite make out his back tattoo and can't remember what tattoo Tommy got either.

Was it aliens and are humans just turning to religious explanations in their attempt to make sense of something they don't understand?

I have so many questions, but I like a show that gives me all these things to wonder about.

Just a bit disappointed that there might be no conclusion.

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

The book gives no explanation whatsoever, and the producers have said the show won't either. It's fundamentally not about what happened, but what is happening to the leftovers.

I'm sure there'll be a conclusion when the show ends, it just won't be a 'explain where they went' conclusion. The premise of what has happened is so unlikely, just ask yourself what even fractionally-plausible explanation they could come up with?

Lindelof had this problem on Lost and the ending to that was a load of bollo<ks. Hopefully he'll have learnt his lesson, and they can concentrate on the characters/story without coming up with some hand-waving crap to explain where the people went.

Lost was one of my favorite tv series ever.

If there is no explanation for the disappearance then I would at least like to see some sort of conclusion for the characters, and how there lives seem to pan out.

I just finished the first season, I still don't have a clue what's going on..

The guilty remnant, dunno.

Kevins weird 'is it a dream or is it real or is it both' moments, dunno.

That weird tobacco chewin lad, dunno.

The deer/dogs, dunno.

And of course, the rapture itself. No idea whatsoever.

Basically the finale leaves with more questions than answers. I'm delighted there's gonna be another season, I really want to know what the fúck this show is about...