Wilfred Series Finale (spoilers)

[Mr Light]

SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL EPISODE!

Tonight was the final episode of Wilfred and the final revelation of who and or what Wilfred is.

There were so many revelations and twists in this episode I'm not entirely sure what the truth is.

I know at the end we saw that Wilfred exists in Ryan's imagination and that he was just projecting this behavior onto the actual dog.

And they seemed to say that Wilfred was NOT the dog-god Mataman... but that doesn't make sense since they also showed us the entire dog cult and the Baldwin brother was part of it as Grungel (the evil dog-god) and a human version of Wilfred was there... I don't see how all that can't be true when he would have no way of knowing all these things!

Also, why did Ryan survive his suicide attempt in this episode? Unless divine intervention.

So I'm going to choose to believe that Wilfred is Mataman...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ryan only had a sip from the milkshake.

Have you seen the Austalian version?

 

[Mr Light]

nope. I just skimmed the synopses of it and it sounds like they don't even bother to deal with the mystery of the talking dog, which is really the only thing that interested me about the show. that, and the incredibly gorgeous next door neighbor...

 

[Guy Gardener]

I thought the Mat Damon fetish was hilarious.

"What are the odds of that? TWO Gods named Mat Damon?"

 

[spinnerlys]

When Ryan looked into the cupboard near the end of the episode, he might have seen himself dead maybe and this is just the after life? The smile he put on his face seemed to be an "understanding it all now" one.

But then again, I haven't watched the series since season 2 I guess.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That "cupboard" was the stairs down to the basement where they had all their adventures.

2 seasons ago, one of the revelations was that the door to the basement did not exist, well it was a wardrobe and not a basement, the house does not have a basement, so every time Ryan thought that he was in the basement getting stoned with his neighbours dog, he was actually in a wardrobe getting stoned with his neighbours dog.

So when he opened the door and looked in, Ryan either saw a wardrobe, or he saw the basement. But it's left up to us to decide how we feel about if there is or is not abasement down there at this point in Ryan's mental collapse...

Ryan at one point in the final episode asks Wilfred "Is the Basement heaven?"

Did the basement turn into a couch on the beach?

 

[Mr Light]

I guess it's deliberately ambiguous, you're left to decide if

a) Ryan was insane all along and continued to hallcuinate Wilfred after the living dog died

or

b) Ryan was the chosen one of a dog-god cult and the dog-god continues to visit him after the host-dog died because his charge hasn't found happiness yet

I prefer to think B because it's more interesting, but it's probably A...

 

[Guy Gardener]

I think the imaginary basement turned into an imaginary beach because he's crazy.

He opens the door to the basement, looks in, and then they're on the beach.

Otherwise they're on the same imaginary couch they've always been on, on a beach.

 

[Mister Fandango]

Ryan survived the suicide attempt in the premiere because his sister had given him a placebo rather than the meds he wanted.

Ryan likely remembered Wilfred's face in the dog costume from when he was a toddler, hence him using that exact image and costume as part of his delusion. Ditto for Grungle.

I'm pretty sure Ryan also saw the closet rather than the basement when he opened the door, as it was taking place at the same time he was realizing everything else had been a delusion on his part.

And, in the end, he chose to be crazy rather than sane. And if I had a make-believe friend like that, I'd probably make a similar choice, too.

The only questions I still have relate to other characters. Why did his mother have an anthropormized(sp?) cat, and why did we see Wilfred see Bear as a bondage freak just a few episodes ago? Ryan never saw either of those things, so it couldn't have figured into his delusion.

 

[Mr Light]

Because he's really Mataman!

I can't decide if I like the ending or not. I basically watched the show for four years to get an answer on what Wilfred was. And it was left ambiguous. I was really digging the whole dog-god-cult story all season.

 

[Guy Gardener]

We saw bear as a dirty slut because those were Wilfred's memories.

Wilfred was telling a story.

Ryan can't see Wilfred's memories.