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I may be an idiot but Im confused.

posted 12 years ago by slouchypaul
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Who was that lady the sheriff was talking to in the bar? I guess she was the magic man.

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[–] Nosvainers 11 years ago

Nobody knows exactly...was a horrible unfinished ending....i truely loved this show. I think they were all being paid off by Mrs Haplin (who runs the whole town and basically forces everyone to obey her and keep outsiders out). I think she needed the fear of the serial killer to help keep people in line. I don't think her son (who ran the brad factory) knew about it, but he feared it might be her. She either sent her grand kid away too to take any suspicion away from her. Anyway we'll never get answers to questions in a story ABC created and asked us to watch. Because networks can't keep people's attention for more the 10 minute intervals, we're stuck watching dancing contests, dating shows, and half famous people jumping off diving boards. All you network people can lick my hairy b@ll$ack...cause your all a bunch of ratings wh*ores who could care less about the dedicated viewers who tune in to follow the story. I watched exactly 22 minutes of the Red Widow and I was already able to see it would t last longer than the episodes that were already taped and I turned it off...

[–] prydain17 11 years ago

ABC has to cancel some shows because they lose money on them but at least they usually try to have one really fun, different show and their experiments in the horror/supernatural genre might be short-lived but are enjoyable enough to me that I don't for a second regret watching them. The River and 666 Park Avenue were both really great shows I thought, maybe heavily flawed but I always enjoy these types of shows. Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone, Eastwick... and even non fantasy-oriented shows sometimes.

However I do think ABC is partially to blame because their advertising department sucks as a whole. You have to watch the 3 minute trailers of their shows - which are only released online - to get an idea of what they may actually be. I think FOX is better (of the broadcast networks) at making their shows look appealing to the demographic they are meant for. CBS also but I hate their shows, so that's saying something.

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[–] DusterJ79 10 years ago

it's been a while since I watched the show, but I'm pretty sure the woman at the end wasn't the Magic man, it was that one characters mother that was supposed to be dead.

Unfortunately it's been a few years since I watched so the names have escaped me, I just know one person's mother was supposed to have died years ago, but she wasn't really dead but instead it was the person the sheriff was talking to..

It was all spelled out in the show, if you couldn't figure it out I'd suggest you go re-watch the last 2 or 3 shows and it explains who the woman is.

[–] aldiboronti 10 years ago

Yes, that was Dallas Alice at the end, the supposedly dead wife of the old Sheriff and mother of the new one. She bore the shape of the hammer mark on her head where she'd been struck, presumably by Peggy Haplin, who thought she'd killed her. Peggy Haplin remarked to the old Sheriff when he was in hospital,"I thought we took care of that 6 years ago", referring to the Magic Man disappearances which had stopped at that time. I take that to mean that Dallas Alice was the Magic Man (that's confirmed at the end. See below.) and they had stopped her by killing her. The Sheriff knew she was still alive though. I'm guessing that after Peggy clubbed her with the hammer, thinking her dead she'd asked the Sheriff to dispose of the body. He, discovering she was still alive, had taken her to another town and, because he still loved her, had let her live, only warning her to stay away from Haplin. Which she apparently did for 6 years.

The reason that I'm so sure she is the Magic Man firstly the fact that Cicero, the bird associated with that figure, has a perch in her bar And secondly and most important of all, she admits it. Here are the final lines of the series: ('they' refers to the victims)

Sheriff: You didn't tell me they were still alive.
Alice: (smiling) You didn't ask.

Some of the stuff I can't explain. The significance of the Blue Door movie, how Big Dave ended up inside it, what dark secret the Haplins are hiding (again, connected with the movie), what connection Chloe's mother Susan (the person that she keeps calling and reporting to) has to Peggy Haplin and why Haplin is looking for her (she could have been part of a witches' coven with Peggy and the women at Chloe's boarding house, where the hammer was kept), whether this Chloe is the same one the old Sheriff talks about whenever he weirds out.

So many questions, never to be answered unless they do release a novel. I loved this series, thought it was very creepy, especially those Blue Door bits. I'd love to know how they put those old film sequences together and whether they're taken from genuine old films (I'm quite a fan of early film but I didn't recognize any of the sequences shown. If they were shot especially for the series I have to tip my hat to them because they look absolutely authentic.)