Wayward pines- the rant

Warning the following rant is full of spoilers for the miniseries Wayward Pines. If you haven’t seen it and want to, then maybe you shouldn’t read this until you have. If you don’t plan on seeing it then read at your own risk. If you have seen it, then I’m curious if you agree with me?

Watching Wayward Pines is like reading a book by a trusted author who beautifully and carefully sets up the plot, a plot you invest your emotion in and then raps it up like the writer died and the producer threw something in to get it done.

The Idea behind M. Night Shyamalans “Wayward Pines” is a solid plot that is not unlike “The Village” but on a grander scale. We are slowly brought into the plot as it twists and turns from a suspense thriller into a sci-fy horror.

Here’s the gist. Humanity is starting to mutate into something horrible and only one scientist (David Pilcher) see’s it coming. So he secretly abducts thousands of people who are genetically immune to this mutation and places them, himself and a handful of volunteers into a cryogenic sleep for 2000 years. When the team awake they find Pilcher was right and humanity had evolved into… animals? They still look human-ish but would rather eat you like a zombie swarm then be your neighbor (the abbies). They built a town complete with a high electric fence and slowly woke people up to fill the town, not letting them know what was going on. And this is our jumping in point when CIA agent Ethan Burke wakes up in this weird town that nobody can leave.They did a great job slowly letting us all in on the main plot. Then ends the whole thing on a cryptic “convenient" twist that I found distasteful and…well…Lazy!

Pilchers master plan was unveiled to the whole town by Burke,  Pilcher responds by turning off the power to the whole town including the fences, letting in the Abbies to kill off the population. He then was going to wake up more people and start his plan again. But a few people escape into a bunker and make it into the main center built into the mountain, but not before being chased by abbies. Ethen sacrifices himself to save the rest (which I think could have been avoided) Ethen’s son (Ben) gets knocked out in the explosion. Pilcher is shot and a compromise is made between the new admin and the town folks “Leader” (Kate). watching this play out was great…then… Ben wakes up from being knocked out three years later and all the adults were on ice again and the kids were running the town, the end; wait…what?  The question‘Did I miss something?’ needs not be asked. The question is ‘What in the hell are you thinking M. Night Shyamalan!?!’

Dear M. Night Shyamalan  -

Look Sir, I’m a sell out too. I get writing and film making to earn your living, I really do, but don’t you think that you owe us, who follow you, a little more respect and certainly more effort than you are currently giving us? COME ON! If you’re going to bother throwing money and time at a project at least follow though coherently. I loved Wayward Pines! It was an awesome story line. I waited for each episode like my Baby’s wait for me to get them a treat but the finale of this show was like you got rip roaring drunk at the end of a great party, barfed and passed out!

Now look, I’ve read enough reviews on the finale to know that there is talk of a season two, but after reading a cryptic interview with M. Night Shyamalan, it’s a big if. The reviewers commented that this was the perfect cliff hanger to season two, but I disagree. There might not be a season two, further more even if there was, the ending is still a huge jump that stretches a twist to a snap.

Here Are a few “would have done” suggestions to my biggest beefs.

What happened-

1.       Ethan Burke sends his family up the elevator shaft ladder as the abbey’s are crashing up from under the elevator after it stalls. He stays behind to arm the pipe bombs, with a press button ignition; then presses the button exploding the shaft killing himself and all the abbey’s with in. Ethan’s son then pokes his head in the door and screams for his dad and gets knock out due to falling debris.

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S    Would have-

      Since every other pipe bomb that was built in the show have timer ignitions…Ethen sets the timer and gets the hell out of dodge, barely making the escape with  the help of his son who gets knocked out in the mayhem…

2.       What happend-

      After shooting doctor Pilcher, his sister assumes the role as administrator. She makes a deal with Kate who agree's to work together to save all the human race.

The boy wakes up three years later with the kids of  “the first generation” running the town, which was put back in order without the adults, who were all placed back into cryo sleep. Fear was the rule, complete with public hanging which was the punishment for breaking rules. - END

Would have-

The First generation enter into the bunker that was created for them revealing  a huge hoard of food and supplies. Their leader says. “Pilcher knew this day would come, the day of  great reckoning,  and left this for us” (which happened) then he turns on a light over a whole arsenal and says “He also gave us a plan to take back the mountain.” – End

Ben can wake up in a town run by the first generation in the ambiguous second season and the plot reviles the brain washed psychoses of the new leader ship as he try’s to wake up his dad (who didn’t die in my version) and the others. If the season’s never return the twist is that the war for the mountain is not over and is left to our imagination.

My hope is that the author (Blake Crouch) of the novel this series was based off refuses to allow any more shows to be made due to the fact that he's not done writing it, and the producer M. Night Shyamalan is to impatient to find out what is really going on before filming.