How Do You Think 'Mulberry' Would Have Ended? (SPOILERS)

Oooh, rpatter, what a great post! I really love the idea of Mulberry getting to be Hope, etc. It seems to be a better role for him, doesn't it?

I would, however, have liked to see Mulberry's revelation to Miss Farnaby of his true identity. I always got the feeling, however, that this would not be done. Maybe Burt would somehow discover his identity, but no one would believe him! That has some cute possibilites.

I especially liked your idea that you're in trouble if death holds you close. Brrr!

Good catch on the fact that Death states that he can't die. I wonder why Death ages though? Maybe he just can't die by accident? I think Death wants to retire and pass on the legacy. I wonder what Death does after retirement?

It would have been fun to explore the pasts of Mulberry and Death. I would have liked Death to describe more of his time in love with Spring. Did he become carefree for a time? With whom did Mulberry grow up? He seemed to know his dad, but didn't know his mother. Was he sent away to boarding school? Is there a school for children of such people as Death and Pestilence? Wouldn't you just love a peak at Pestilence's daughter, by the way? I'd love to have seen Mulberry's blind date with her!

Admittedly, the show ended... wimpily, the story lines just weren't resolved.

I like some of the ideas here, but they seem a bit complicated. It was a simple, gentle, lyrical show, it needed to keep that feel.

I love the idea of Mulberry as 'Hope', the sound of that rings true to me .. his story line needed to be resolved. Further episodes with Mum and Dad, and resolving that Mulberry is not Death (so Daddy doesn't get to retire yet - he'll have to recruit someone else... maybe Petulance's daughter...), establishing him as 'Hope' would resolve his story line. And then the series could end with a kind gentle death for Miss Farnaby, taken by Death, but with Hope by her side.

You're right about the simplicity, Ocean 2. I guess I was throwing out ideas for another whole season or two, not just one episode.

I just finished watching the series for the first time and was both saddened and relieved there was no finality to it. Glad because I was not looking forward to Rose's death but sad to not have an ending (which is one reason I love Brit Coms, they usually have endings).

I think either Mulberry goes back in time, marries Rose and their offspring will stay at Farnaby Manor, OR somehow Rose finds out who Mulberry is and he sends her gently, sweetly on her way.

I know I'd like someone like Mulberry to help me when I die.

Death as a father and son, and the mother being Spring, is not so much tangible as people seem to be taking it. Death the father won't retire to be taken over by his son.

It is essentially the same thing we get with each new year being an infant and the old year being the old man. No one ever goes, gee, who is the mother?

From Charotte's Web to the Smurfs, we have received the connections between Mother Earth (or Mother Nature) and Father Time, as tho they are a grandmotherly couple (what has steered this idealogy clear of American Gothic, I don't know).

Marvel comics established in its comic book line (at least back in the 1970s and early 1980s) that Eternity and Death were both corporeal beings and were rivals. Death was also a woman who would be courted by various galactic villians at some time or another.

It is along these lines that Mulberry and his dad reside.

That said, the accepting of death by Farnaby would probably be along the lines of On Borrowed Time (with Lionel Barrymore 'trapping' death up a tree) or Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which is about the way I have always envisioned Mulberry ending.

I don't think Farnaby would suddenly turn young. I don't think she and Mulberry would be romantically involved. The show seemed rooted in establishing a better relationship for Farnaby with her sisters.

That would be the resolution. I can't help but think that a sizable inheritance would go to Bert and Alice, perhaps moreso than the sisters?

Surely the show wouldn't have the sisters hire Bert and Alice. I see them as more crucial to events than merely comedy relief.

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I had just watched a special about the writers of Britcoms and they interviewed the gentleman who wrote "Mulberry" about his disappointment about not being able to bring closure to the series since it had been abruptly cancelled.

He was very choked up when he talked about it and said that Miss Farnaby would have become very ill and frail and would pass on peacefully in her sleep and then it would cut to her in the garden looking all refreshed and rosy cheeked coming upon Mulbery, who would be smiling and take her hand to bring her to the other side.

It would have been a very beautiful way to have ended the series although I do like everyone else's ideas as well.

I think Spring would have intervened and Mulberry and Miss Farnaby could have lived on as they were.