Cell Ending

[Samantha_]

As a reader, for me, there's more than one or two endings.

Given the time of the reboot, Johnny's humanity (so to speak) was probably restored. I'm not as sure he'd be the same, as before the pulse, with all facilities intact; and, that may effect him as he grows up.

Sequel?

That's just my take.

[kevinrodgers90]

"Cell" was a short novel...so I'd love to see a sequel...actually, there are quite a few King novels that are screaming for a sequel! Imagine if he started with sequels to "Carrie" and "Salem's Lot" and cranked 'em out in sequence...what a dream!

[ifsogirl88]

I don't have specifics as to how I'd have ended it. I think I would have had some explanation as to the hows and whys the Pulse was generated, and I would have resolved the questions as to what happens to the people affected.

John

I agree! I had the same issues with the book too.

[dantedreams.com]

The ending bothered me at first. It could have been both ways. I guess this way we can have what ever ending we want.

I guess SK says it ended positively. In the back of my mind I am sure he imagined it going bad in the end and was split.

I can totally imagine it going bad... I mean not only his son not getting better but Clay accidentally or on purpose 'pulsing' himself.

A total French/PKD type ending. Oh yeah

[the_constant_reader]

I just finished this about 20 min. ago, at first I was mad, but now that I think about it, I wouldn't have wanted it to end any other way. Good book, fast read. I hope the movie stays close to the book. I am usually mad after watching a movie based on a SK book. They never do it justice and end of The Mist movie about gave me a stroke and a heart attack. I wanted to stand and scream like Annie Wilkes at all the others in the theater. "Listen here Mr.Man, that's not the way the COCK - A - DOODIE book ends!!!!!". But I kept my cool and didnt kidnap and hobble the producers or anything.

[wheeler92]

What I dont get, remember him talking about Pixie Light and Dark in the begining, and how Pixie Dark only got her memory earsed because she was beside Pixie Light?

At the end wouldn't that happen to clay since I'm betting he could hear the phone from where hes standing...

[The Outsider]

The movie is supposed to be out in 2010 from what I've heard. And i guarantee that the movie ending, given the vagueness of the book's ending, will be a similarly-dark ending. My guess is, when Clay re-Pulses Johnny, Johnny will go insane-o and kill Clay or something weird like that. Or maybe ol' Hollywood will throw in some crazy plot twist. Who knows these days.

[SereneShadow]

If there's one thing about King's work that bugs me, it's usually the ending of the thing. For some reason I feel like some of those have shot me in the foot. But Cell, for me, had a great ending. I loved the way we don't know how it ends, and how the reader is allowed to use his/her imagination to follow through. Like Robbi said, "The Mist" was like that, too, and I fully enjoyed that as well. (The movie made me scream.)

[ScarecrowJoe]

ya know what, doods? i don't think cell had a happy ending. i know a lot of stuff about computers and they don't always work the same after you fix 'em. and the human brain isn't the same as a computer, anyway. i think that kid's toast, folx.

[JRM]

I honestly didn't think that was the ending to the book. I saw there were still about 10 pages left, but as I turned them, I realized it was just an excerpt to Linsey's Story! In a way I felt so robbed. However, after thinking about it, it felt RIGHT, ya know (Unfortunately, I don't think it would translate well on screen -- people will call foul on that)? Such as the ending to the movie adaption of The Mist . . . it just felt RIGHT (well, it was wrong, but you get the idea, lol). BUT, I was not OK with all the other unanswered questions; far too many hows and whys left unanswered.