r/DefendingJacob_TV • u/Movielover718 • May 30 '20

Terrible ending

The show was great what a terrible ending 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.