Ending of the Regulators? (spoilers)

[flaggwalkstheline]

I think that the thing in this books ending which truly got to me was tak's speech about how he/ it would come back to get them
right before the woman he/it is in head explodes
that freaked me out

[punkmonkey]

ya i just read the book, i kinda get the ending, but how were aufrey and seth seen in 1986 or whatever, seth wasnt even alive then!?

[h-harris]

I just finished the book..okay well I finished it a couple of weeks ago, but close enough... anyway, I was soooo broken hearted that Seth went through so much Sh** to have it ended but some dumb cu**... I needed a tissue there. I was glad to see that he was finally happy in the end though. Actually be able to be himself, IMHO, and have is Aunt Audrey with him at her Happy/Safe place ...it was good to have a sense of clouse there.

[MemnochTheDevil]

Yeah, I noticed the 10 year time difference too, and that it was before the events of the story too. It was Audrey's "happy place" that she shared with Jan that Seth returned them too in death, but it was probably a parallel universe to theirs.

It was weird that Tak said he would hunt them all down, like he hunted all the people in Desperation. Or like he would come back in another body and hunt them down in Regulators 2 or something. Creepy. But he was evidently destroyed at the end since he couldn't inhabit another body after he was forced out of Seth's.

[monte williams]

I just read The Regulators for the first time since its publication in 1996. I decided to write about the novel on my blog, and so I looked all over the internet for the movie poster from the Western film so that I could include it in my post, and I thought to myself, "How lame must this movie have been; it doesn't even have an entry on Wikipedia!"

I am embarrassed to admit that, despite my awareness that MotoKops 2200 isn't a real show, it never occurred to me that the Regulators film wasn't real.

Moving on, I found the novel's ending to be rather trite and tiresome. I won't go into specifics, 'cause I don't know how to obscure spoilers the way some of you have done, but to me, it was a failed attempt to shock the reader and lend the story, in its final act, some of the viciousness readers expect from Bachman. But King tried to have it both ways, and as a consequence the reader enjoys neither a happy nor a sad ending.

As for Tak's menacing taunts, I wouldn't read too much into them. It's just the obligatory dead-villain-pops-up-to-scare-the-audience-one-last-time moment. Skeletor promises to return after the credits of the live-action He-Man movie from the '80s; I'd suggest that Tak's return is just about as likely.

On the other hand, I noticed that one of the characters describes Tak as a "vampire" who sucks "psychic energy instead of blood”. Isn't "psychic vampires" the phrase King used to describe the villains from the upcoming sequel to The Shining?