Discussion for finale of Flowers in the Attic: The Origin

[silverstarry]

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1x4: The Martyr

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[mistycreed]

Can I just say [Spoiler (click to open)]I was SO relieved that the gay characters got to live happily ever after and Joel didn't die.

[silverstarry]

Same, but it made me wonder how Lifetime thinks he went from his happily ever after world travels to the mean, bitter old man he was when he showed up in Seeds of Yesterday.

[false_hate]

I was sad to see Olivia fuck up her friendship with Nella so badly in the end.

[masterofmystery]

that insane family tree made a lot more sense in motion, i'll give the show that

[silverstarry]

It's definitely a lot easier to keep track of all that craziness when you see it unfold a little at a time. Seeing the family tree is A LOT.

[silverstarry]

I don't understand why they had Olivia kill and bury John in this mini series. He shows up in If There Be Thorns as Corrine's third husband (he blackmailed her into marrying him because he knew the family secrets and threatened to expose them). It also seemed weird that in the mini series, he tried to kiss Olivia after she confessed to killing Mrs. Stein. I guess murder is his kink? In the books, he was lusting after Corrine (not Olivia). I specifically remember that Corrine said he was being a creeper when she was 10 and he was 25

[mistycreed]

Yeah, I didn't understand killing off John Amos either. And while very cathartic to see Malcolm get his comeuppance, he can still speak in Flowers in the Attic. It makes no sense if Olivia is fully in control that 1) the children have to be hidden, 2) Corrine can't be added to the will.

[silverstarry]

It felt like nothing in the finale made sense and that they added in all of these new storylines to pad out the series to a fourth episode.

[mistycreed]

Exactly. Also, I feel like they kept Olivia too sympathetic. It makes no sense how even the Olivia we see at the end of the miniseries is as cold as the one in FitA. Like, I feel like this Olivia would be far more conflicted than the one we see who really only draws the line at murdering the children.

[sea_thoughts]

It sounds like the whole fourth episode was just wish fulfillment and they didn't give a shit about continuity with the previous stories. Why show Joel happy with his partner if he's going to be a bitter old man in SoY? It would have worked better if they'd done more to suggest that the old man who turns up years later isn't actually Joel and is just preying on Bart's insecurities, which is a theory I've seen people discuss and would make sense.