What sort of ending would satisfy you?

bear1

If the show were to end tomorrow, what sort of ending would you be happy with?
Read online that some suspect Rick is still in a coma which if that would be how it's end I'd feel shafted.
I'm wondering if a world war z type ending would be a good way to end the show?

bazz26

My money is on a Bobby Ewing shower type ending where it was all just a bad dream.

Wibbs

They discover that it's only the Americas that have been affected and the zombie apocalypse has been won by people and cured elsewhere. Didn't the doc at the CDC in the first season say the French were close to a cure? So people show up from across the rest of the world to help rebuild the New World.

Liamalone

I hope they're all in a new fangled virtual reality game gone wrong.

CalamariFritti

It’s gone past that stage where it can be brought to a good end I think. And I don’t really care anymore.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

A happy one.

Wait, what are we talking about?

storker

bazz26 wrote: »

My money is on a Bobby Ewing shower type ending where it was all just a bad dream.

Who had the bad dream. Rick or the viewer?

bear1

Wibbs wrote: »

They discover that it's only the Americas that have been affected and the zombie apocalypse has been won by people and cured elsewhere. Didn't the doc at the CDC in the first season say the French were close to a cure? So people show up from across the rest of the world to help rebuild the New World.

Something comes back to me about the CDC scene. Doesn't he give a hint as to what caused it also?

Keplar240B

"What are you guys doing? "

thierry14

bear1 wrote: »

Something comes back to me about the CDC scene. Doesn't he give a hint as to what caused it also?

Its a pity they don't do a few episodes with scientists or something and give us some clues

Getting very tiresome now.

bear1

thierry14 wrote: »

Its a pity they don't do a few episodes with scientists or something and give us some clues

Getting very tiresome now.

Could be cause they are leaving this sort of story for FTWD...
But it's hard to say, we shouldn't have to wait numerous seasons for something to happen.
I'd be happy with a sort of governmental cordoned off zone where humanity has carried on as normal and the team reaches the walls to enter.

w/s/p/c/

As the last above poster said, it would be good if they discover some kind of government safe zone (they are not too far from Washington?) where life has carried on and rebuilding has begun.  Rick and Co rock up and join in, story closed.  Maybe the chopper in last nights episode could be an indication of something like this?  Having not read the comics, I hope once the all out war is over its not a case of another rogue group appearing and a copy paste battle ensues (Woodbury/Terminus/Wolves/Saviours).

marvin80

I've stopped watching it and hoping it's just axed at the end of a season with no proper ending!!

jonon9

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

As the last above poster said, it would be good if they discover some kind of government safe zone (they are not too far from Washington?) where life has carried on and rebuilding has begun. Rick and Co rock up and join in, story closed. Maybe the chopper in last nights episode could be an indication of something like this? Having not read the comics, I hope once the all out war is over its not a case of another rogue group appearing and a copy paste battle ensues (Woodbury/Terminus/Wolves/Saviours).

That would be very painful to watch if it was just another group. TWD is in serious need of new locations and a stripped down group there is too many people. There needs to be an end, if its like this for the rest of the comics than its time to end TWD.

Lorelli!

They should let them defeat their enemies and find a new home. Give them a happy ever after and then at the end, cut to a clip of Rick, two months later scavenging and wandering around aimlessly as a zombie. The End

Lone Stone

a lord of the flies ending would be fantastic haha.

Agricola

The two dozen different groups of people I have no interest in and don't know the names of, apart from Rick n Daryl, get trapped in one big warehouse and all get eaten alive by 100s of zombies. Fade to black. The end.

Honestly I couldn't care less.

Lorelli!

Agricola wrote: »

The two dozen different groups of people I have no interest in and don't know the names of, apart from Rick n Daryl, get trapped in one big warehouse and all get eaten alive by 100s of zombies. Fade to black. The end.

Honestly I couldn't care less.

You care a little bit though because you opted to spare Rick and Daryl

Walter E GO

That idea that Rick wakes up from his operation in the hospital would be brilliant, and it turns out Hershel was his doctor, Carol's his nurse and Daryl's the redneck janitor. :P

bear1

Walter E GO wrote: »

That idea that Rick wakes up from his operation in the hospital would be brilliant, and it turns out Hershel was his doctor, Carol's his nurse and Daryl's the redneck janitor. :P

I'd feel cheated if that was the outcome.
Kinda like when lost ended, 5 seasons brilliantly done and then along came the 6th and **** all made sense... then the ending came and I believe the entire planet went "wait what?"

Lorelli!

bear1 wrote: »

I'd feel cheated if that was the outcome.
Kinda like when lost ended, 5 seasons brilliantly done and then along came the 6th and **** all made sense... then the ending came and I believe the entire planet went "wait what?"

I didn't watch Lost but I was thinking of it as a comparison the other day.

I think that initially Lost was intriguing for viewers because they related to the sudden tragedy of the plane crash like with The Walking Dead, the initial outbreak but like Lost, The Walking Dead is going downhill from there because the story is stuck in a circle with increasingly far fetched storylines and there's nowhere for the writers to go.

DeadHand

I’ve watched it from day one, just caught up with this latest series and... It’s laughable. Funny for the wrong reasons.

These gunfights are predictable, boring and farcical.

The Saviors, apparently a warrior class of ruthless survivors, consistently get crept up on, wander into ambushes, display storm trooper level accuracy, walk gormlessly into main character’s gunsights for slaughter, lose firefights even when outnumbering the enemy massively.

Morgan gets a body count bordering on genocidal with just a pistol wandering through wherever the hell he was as Saviors literally just walk in front of him one by one like a computer game on very easy mode.

Compare these to the firefights in Band of Brothers (a show made 16 years ago) in terms of realism, the clarity and logic of the tactics and combat, the tension.

And there is no tension anymore. They’ve totally lost the sense that anyone important could die at any moment. Ezekiel gets saved AT THE VERY LAST MOMENT by deus ex random ally, axe man and tiger- all within 30 minutes.

At no point did I believe he, or any relevant character, would die despite the deadly war situation.

I laughed like a drain at one stage when a random woman went down in one of the many mystifying engagements and the gay young fella screams ‘FRANCINE!!!!!!’ As if anyone in the world might care.

He then does himself a mercy by maybe dying, maybe not (who cares?) and it has as much impact as the death of Francine because his character hasn’t been developed beyond ‘I’m gay, look how worthy our show is!’

This show has too many characters, not enough menace and has overreached spectacularly.

It has lost its way badly.

Agricola

Lorelli! wrote: »

You care a little bit though because you opted to spare Rick and Daryl

No, I meant I know their names, not that I care whether they live or die at this stage!

Lorelli!

Agricola wrote: »

No, I meant I know their names, not that I care whether they live or die at this stage!

Oh sorry. I read it wrong

brianregan09

Do the classic zombie ending , Society is still working at high (political) level and they decide to nuke the whole place getting rid of all the undead and whatever survivors

arayess

the infection didn't happen it was a game show in the style of "the running man" or a violent survivor

Ficheall

The writers need to grow a pair and kill off a few main characters soon. It would have been nice had Darryl killed Rick in that tussle last week - would have made things interesting. Rick (and most of the other characters) just get on my nerves now.

lawlolawl

I hope the show continues to dip in the ratings and gets cancelled mid-season with no plot resolution because it is a bad show now.

Sleepy

I think it'd be good for the show to end with the entire cast being surrounded by a Zombie swarm. Fade to Black. Final scene opens and it's a zombie Judith toddling down the road.

It's the walker's world now, humanity was too stupid to survive them.

skipper_G

At this point I'd be satisfied with an ending, any ending. Every story needs a minimum of three things to work, Beginning, Middle & End.
In the beginning it was the outbreak, survival and the CDC. The middle is everything else since then, without any indication of a climax to the story how is one supposed to remain emotionally involved enough to make it to the end.....

bear1

How about an ending like 28 days later? One of the best zombie movies ever made and the ending leaves enough for the viewer to be satisfied.
Or.. go to the balls and take the dawn of the dead as an ending.
Think they are saved but end up being in deeper **** than the were.

longshanks

I say we take off, nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

DoozerT6

longshanks wrote: »

I say we take off, nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Game over, man!

sabhail

Should end post fight with some group, few main characters dead, rest gone in different directions...

willowthewisp

What I want to see is elimination/wearing off of the zombie gene, something like they find a corpse which has died in the last week or so but hasn’t turned....this for me would give the survivors at least some hope.
As it is currently there is no hope because no matter how safe they are/become there is always the risk that someone could die in their sleep and then just spread the death amongst their group.

roady rhodes

That seems plausible. The only reason i still watch it is to see the final outcome.
This current season has just been woeful.

DoozerT6

Yeah I had wondered what would happen if someone died unexpectedly in their sleep while the group are together and none of the others are prepared for it. They could attack at least one other person before the rest of the group were alerted by screams or whatever. I guess that's just a risk you run.

Lorelli!

willowthewisp wrote: »

What I want to see is elimination/wearing off of the zombie gene, something like they find a corpse which has died in the last week or so but hasn’t turned....this for me would give the survivors at least some hope.
As it is currently there is no hope because no matter how safe they are/become there is always the risk that someone could die in their sleep and then just spread the death amongst their group.

If they discovered someone dead but unaffected, it wouldn't really confirm anything though as there are usually a certain amount of the population immune to those things anyway.

Lorelli!

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Yeah I had wondered what would happen if someone died unexpectedly in their sleep while the group are together and none of the others are prepared for it. They could attack at least one other person before the rest of the group were alerted by screams or whatever. I guess that's just a risk you run.

They should have an episode where something like that happens unexpectedly.

Also no ones been bitten and had to be cared for while going through the fever/sickness for a long time. Remember the guy in S1 that chose to be left at the tree but they travelled with him for a while? I think that would happen more often.

willowthewisp

Lorelli! wrote: »

If they discovered someone dead but unaffected, it wouldn't really confirm anything though as there are usually a certain amount of the population immune to those things anyway.

We haven’t seen any instances of it yet though.

Lone Stone

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Yeah I had wondered what would happen if someone died unexpectedly in their sleep while the group are together and none of the others are prepared for it. They could attack at least one other person before the rest of the group were alerted by screams or whatever. I guess that's just a risk you run.

that actually happened back in the prison remember that kid that looked like milhouse ! from the Simpsons died from that virus and wandered out of the cell and attacked some one who was sleeping.

DoozerT6

Lone Stone wrote: »

that actually happened back in the prison remember that kid that looked like milhouse ! from the Simpsons died from that virus and wandered out of the cell and attacked some one who was sleeping.

Oh yeah!

Lorelli!

I haven't caught up on this series yet but I was reading a theory online that Rick and Carl are immune to the virus which I thought was interesting and could be a good idea.

When you die and the brain reactivates into a zombie brain, Ricks brain reactivates fully and is restored so he is a zombie but fully functioning. A bit far fetched but it could tie in with how he survived in the beginning at the hospital and how Carl survived when he was shot.

duffman13

Lorelli! wrote: »

I haven't caught up on this series yet but I was reading a theory online that Rick and Carl are immune to the virus which I thought was interesting and could be a good idea.

When you die and the brain reactivates into a zombie brain, Ricks brain reactivates fully and is restored so he is a zombie but fully functioning. A bit far fetched but it could tie in with how he survived in the beginning at the hospital and how Carl survived when he was shot.

You'll have to catch up so

At this stage I dont think we will get an ending, show feels like it's circling the drain

Lorelli!

duffman13 wrote: »

You'll have to catch up so

At this stage I dont think we will get an ending, show feels like it's circling the drain

Well that gives me motivation to catch up although I have heard some things that would probably just disprove the theory

facehugger99

A zombie picks up a stick and uses it as a tool - other zombies stop and look on in interest.

Fade to black, then cut to 1,000 Year later.

Zombies have created a new zombie civilisation. Camera pans around office buildings with zombies sitting at desks, parks with zombie kids on swings, a natural history museum with zombies wandering around looking at the exhibits. Camera pans around and it's all the main character and they've been stuffed and are on display. Zombie kid points at Rick and laughs.

Fin.

Lorelli!

facehugger99 wrote: »

A zombie picks up a stick and uses it as a tool - other zombies stop and look on in interest.

Fade to black, then cut to 1,000 Year later.

Zombies have created a new zombie civilisation. Camera pans around office buildings with zombies sitting at desks, parks with zombie kids on swings, a natural history museum with zombies wandering around looking at the exhibits. Camera pans around and it's all the main character and they've been stuffed and are on display. Zombie kid points at Rick and laughs.

Fin.

Stop robbing stuff from Planet of the Apes I suppose there are only seven stories

Lone Stone

facehugger99 wrote: »

A zombie picks up a stick and uses it as a tool - other zombies stop and look on in interest.

Fade to black, then cut to 1,000 Year later.

Zombies have created a new zombie civilisation. Camera pans around office buildings with zombies sitting at desks, parks with zombie kids on swings, a natural history museum with zombies wandering around looking at the exhibits. Camera pans around and it's all the main character and they've been stuffed and are on display. Zombie kid points at Rick and laughs.

Fin.

Then rick bites one of the zombie people and they start to get sick and turn back into a human and thus begins the human Apocalypse and all that has come before will come again...

bear1

4 months ago when I started the thread I had suggested that one of the theories is that Rick is in a coma and that if that's the ending I'd feel shafted.
4 months later and I'd take it just so the show ended.

Effects

I'd be most happy if it was just cancelled and nothing was resolved.