My final interpretation is a bit far-fetched, but there is a sound basis for it. Interpretation #3: The Abbies and the Humans Are Interbreeding But what else are we supposed to think? That mother Abbie wasn’t Margaret, so the scene could very well be set in the past or the future.

Or maybe the scary story is completely fabricated for the baby’s entertainment. Mama Abbies tell stories to their squirmy offspring just like the rest of us do. Perhaps the mental imagery was a vestige left over from Abbie lore of the days before all humans were eradicated in (pick a century) the year 2116. Perhaps that final scene of the crying baby is meant to infer that Wayward Pines never existed in the first place. Interpretation #2: Wayward Pines Was A Dream They have continued to live their lives as before. One interpretation is that the Abbies survived the aftermath of Wayward Pines’ second implosion as well as the onslaught of bubonic plague, typhoid, and marburg that Kerry exposed them to. In the final scene, there is no indication of what year it is and not a single human to be seen. Interpretation #1: The Abbies Bounced Back Regardless of the intellectual intention, what are we supposed to believe literally happened as inferred by that final scene? I have some ideas, and I’ll bet you do as well. spiritual essence of the episode, but even at that I felt I was stretching. It took me at least 24 hours after my first viewing of the finale screener to glean the scientific vs. And then the curtain falls? Okay, I need to get past this, right? So let’s think of what we are supposed to believe this final scene is supposed to mean. Related: Wayward Pines Season 2 Finale Recap: Is the Anticlimactic Ending Another Beginning? Three Possible Interpretations of That Non-EndingĪ female Abbie with her chest welted in tribal symbols (which means she must be the leader) sits in a sunny glade comforting a squealing infant. What were we supposed to think happened? It’s just a big what the what …? Instead of a cliffy shocker with blood splashing across the camera lens, we got another day in the nursery school neighborhood of Mother Abbie. Did they go too deep this time, or not deep enough? Did what we saw in the final scene make any sense? Better yet, what in the hell even happened? If you had an overwhelming sense of underwhelm when the final credits rolled, you were not alone, fellow WP viewer. Wayward Pines went in a completely different direction with their season 2 finale than they did with their first.

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