Mad Dogs - The Finale

[netibiza]

What on earth was that all about? I loved the program but am totally and utterly confused.

[naomi24]

Why Netti?

[knowabit]

I don't watch it, but a couple of friends on Facebook said the same as you...

[netibiza]

Naomi - why? I think I have explained, it was confusing and not a lot of sense.

[naomi24]

I didn't find that. I thought it was really good - although I wish it had ended differently. I wanted them to make it.

[netibiza]

but who was that identical John Sims in the car who took off the Tony Blair mask, and basically why were they being chased, as they said, they weren't really criminals, just stole that money. I thought they would all die, but there is a chance that they could be revived one day (hopefully)

[naomi24]

Ah, I see what you mean. I didn’t know who he was either – but I thought I must have missed something earlier – that’s not unknown with me! It seemed the man in the wheelchair wanted revenge but didn’t want it simply. He was playing mind games with them and they were being chased just to let them know they weren’t off the hook. I hope the ending has left it open for more too. I really enjoyed it.

[netibiza]

Ah yes that is what I thought, but a bit extreme for revenge!

[naomi24]

I think he was a bit miffed. :o)

[lidlicker]

I was confused just like you netibiza ! If they killed the girlfriend at the villa and that woman in front of the car, they didn't they kill them all on the beach and bury them - all over ! and that John Sims lookalike !!??

[whiskersmgoo]

They were all shot on the beach, the final part is in Baxter's head, hence how the car suddenly has petrol, no one but Baxter talks, the second Baxter under the mask and Quinn just driving off a bridge.

It should have ended with the final shot being Baxter's view through the black bag but maybe the writer wanted be all philosophical/metaphorical with the final scene to get people interpreting it differently, when in actual fact it just makes it all a bit silly.

[soapnumpty]

I agree with Whiskers. I think they were shot on the beach and the bit after was in Baxter's head. After the beach scenes there were flashbacks which may have been their lives flashing before their eyes, and going off the end of the road I assumed was them passing over into the next life. It was a bit of a rubbish ending. No confrontation with the Tony Blair people or any stand off. I thought there might be a shoot out or some sort of confrontation.

[netibiza]

Ah so that's what it was all about, at one ppoint with the double John Sims I was thinking "Life on Mars" again"

Thank you for explaining it

[ToraToraTora]

What ever it was meant to be it was a terrible ending. After what has been a very entertaining show yet again some luvvy has knackered the ending for normal people. OK OK I get the whole, they are dead, thing but why did they have to make it so cryptic, lets hear the shots, then we know, then we can all do "baxter" bit with surety. Anyway why have Quinn prepared with a load of guns and then discover they mostly forgot the bullets, promise us a shoot out and give us an execution! aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh! PS like the Tony Blair masks!

[redcoat1000]

Dominic’s revenge was fulfilled. The lads were gunned down, and the sequence that followed the preparation for their executions was nothing but a depiction of their immediate afterlives. Them driving off in Quinn’s car was a metaphor for the departure of their souls (its eventual flight off the edge of the road could also be interpreted as them vacating this mortal plane), and the reason that Bax glanced himself beneath the Tony Blair mask was because of the self-inflicted nature of their fates, which was discussed just prior to their demise. Rick also briefly turned his gaze towards the masked man in the car, and in all likelihood, saw himself unmasked just as Bax had seen his self.

This might seem an outlandish notion, but then Mad Dogs has never lacked in that regard.