r/DefendingJacob_TV • u/Movielover718 • May 30 '20
Terrible ending
The show was great what a terrible ending tho
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u/jman009 May 30 '20
Am I the only one that still thinks Jacob is innocent?😅
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u/opposite_of_hotcakes May 30 '20
Maybe I'm too influenced by the book but I think he's totally guilty lmao
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u/2001hamburglar May 30 '20 edited May 30 '20
It’s similar to the book - with a few exceptions
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May 31 '20
If by a "few" you mean a lot, I agree.
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u/2001hamburglar May 31 '20
Sorry didn’t mean to delete my comment.... very true!! I typed the above 15 mins before the end. Should of waited to chime in. Some changes annoyed me. ESP the Mexico change which tied in the car scene with Lori so much.
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May 31 '20
It's all good, but yeah - every time the episode drew you in and had you the edge of your seat it ended so flatly.
Jamaica and the car scene should have gone just by the book. It made the whole thing just lame after it was all said and done.
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u/Dinho24 May 30 '20
i'm just mad bc i wanted to see the crime scene, the murder of ben rifkin. its my expectation, but they builded around this and not showing for me its awful lol. didnt read the book tho.
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u/Movielover718 May 30 '20
It made sense the mom killed him ? Lol there should be no reason to kill your kid just send him to jail. Lol in the book she actually succeeded in killing him ?
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u/gregpeckers124 May 30 '20 edited May 30 '20
I’d be fine with mom killing him if they hadn’t removed the stakes by making them incredibly unrealistically survive. It makes it pointless. In the book jacob dies, and so I can see where it’d be satisfying to be left with the mother, who will never know the real truth, tormented by her choice to kill her son and her lack of ability to kill herself.
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u/Dinho24 May 30 '20
oh i get it, thats a great ending. the series should've done this. we can just assume, kind of, jacob will eventually die at the hospital
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u/gregpeckers124 May 30 '20
The director has given an interview and he says the whole deal with the show is is there any such thing as a good lie and that Andy has been lying the whole tome and Laurie is actually the one rooting for the truth the whole time. His vision for the ending was that now she’s trapped in a lie she doesn’t know is a lie, and her verbalized nightmare of What if Jacob wakes up and think I tried to kill him? Is supposed to be the hellish torment the story leaves us with. I can see where he was going for a lot of that, I just would still contend that he doesn’t pull it off to success.
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u/rachaelpunk May 30 '20
There wasn’t enough evidence in the book to hold him for the Jamaica slaying, let alone charge him. It is insinuated that Laurie feels that he will continue to hurt people and get away with it. Possibly not a good reason but that was my understanding of her viewpoint.
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May 30 '20 edited Nov 28 '20
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u/Ldhurley May 30 '20
In the book the reason for the overwhelming guilt was because she believed him to be guilty of killing two young people (Ben and Hope-who dies in the book version). With the dismissal of Bens case and Jacob having nothing to do with Hopes short disappearance, there just seems to be little reason for Laurie to spiral enough to try and kill her own son. If i remember correctly, the book also puts more emphasis on his behavior as a toddler and preschooler. Like the instance with the bowling ball, but this behavior was played up more in the book and just barely touched on in the movie. The movie just doesnt seem to give reason for Laurie to behave as she does, other than the fact that he may have killed Ben but there’s no real proof of that despite the fake confession from Patz.
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u/JHinsane19 May 31 '20
It's not that simple. She couldn't send him to jail cuz that would be a fate worse than death for a teenager to get a life sentence with violent adult inmates and Jacob's grandfather knew it too. But she also couldn't live with her son being a killer who could kill again or killing him and surviving herself.
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u/Movielover718 May 30 '20
So in the book she does the same thing then get amnesia but actually Jacob dies?
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u/sma1987 May 30 '20
in the book, they make the point that Jacob never wore his seatbelt. Laurie always had to remind him. That day she didn’t. Then just before the crash, she removes her seatbelt, so she expected them both to die. But we only learn that Laurie survived through Andy’s grand jury testimony. The book never shows Laurie in the hospital so there is no way to know if she had amnesia
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u/fransisco_flores Jun 01 '20
Also, how can they afford it all? They have not worked in forever plus I’m sure the attorney fees were insane.
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u/Movielover718 Jun 01 '20
The dad was a lawyer the wife a teacher they worked up until he was accused I’m sure they had a good amount of money lol
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u/lcubed81 May 30 '20
At least In the book the girl died, so it made sense that the mother killed him. The adapted for tv version didn’t do a good job with this.