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Originally Posted by Igster
Ha ha...politely disagree. Like that.
Still think it would be a cool ending, but I like goofy endings like that. And not always just for comedies. The ending of The Mist (another Stephen King short story) was awesome and something you never would expect. I'm not sure how many people would expect Rick in a coma as the storyline.
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Yes, but that ending (movie wise) wasn't hokey or overdone, in fact it was truly terrifying, something even King said after he saw it, praising it over his own ending.
In fact it was so raw and disturbing it put a lot of people off the movie. For me, it turned an average movie up till that point, to a fantastic one, and is one of the best five movie endings of all time IMO.
But don't you see how that's the exact opposite of the coma (really rehash of 'it's all just a dream') ending you suggest? In the coma ending, there is no real consequence, and everything goes back to the way it was. Even if the idea wasn't done to death, it's still anti-climactic and doesn't leave you with any purpose to the whole series other than it being fun to watch, which hopefully it was. It waters down any lessons or growth that the characters may have had, erases their trials and tribulations, and kinda makes a mockery of the whole thing.
In the theatrical ending of The Mist it took consequences and rammed it down your throat in the most uncomfortable way. It took what was a loving caring man, truly only trying to do the right thing, and left him tortured forever.
And as for people not expecting Rick to be in a coma, it would only because they wouldn't believe the writers would dare do that because it's such a cop out and has been done to death. Maybe you have been around as long as some, but trust me when I say it's an old idea and has been done many times, and people are sick of it. Purely idea wise it's horribly predictable, and as I said from a writing standpoint it's lazy, and really makes a mockery of the whole journey. Which again, has less importance in a comedy, but really kinda is a big middle finger in a drama.
It's the sort of thing you see all the time in kids cartoons and such. And that's where it should stay,