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Kings: The Finale



Jack knew his reign was doomed when he realized God was not speaking to him. Silas realized his reign was doomed when God did speak to him (apparently, Silas can speak thunder and lightning)–and he realized that God really wanted David to be king.

In my view, Silas showed he had the stones to be king when he stared down all those soldiers and the weapons they pointed at him. Sure, he was accompanied by a bunch of tanks, but all it took was one soldier with a grudge and Silas really would have been dead, instead of just rumored to be.

Uncle Will went on the run, but his son Andrew did not. I’m still not quite sure what that kid was up to. Jack surprised everyone by sticking around, maybe because he was hoping his father would kill him. He was desperately unhappy, realized his dream of being king would never happen and his newfound friendship with crush David was over before it started. We’ve already established that Silas does not take kindly to betrayal and does not want to let him off that easy. Instead, he sentences Jack to marry his fiancee, who it didn’t take long for him to loathe–and stay married until there is an heir.

David and Michelle rekindle their snoozy kind of love, and are on their way out the door when Rev. Samuels appears to them. Or does he. Considering we saw him murdered (on Will’s orders, for daring to not show up at the coronation), is this Samuels a ghost? Personally, I think it’s God. David doesn’t want to be king, and would be able to write off thunder and butterflies as coincidences. However, he (mostly) trusts Samuels and would take his advice. So, the young lovers pledge their eternal love, and David runs off to Gath–alone. Queen Rose gets Michelle sent off for a year as “punishment,” nominally for helping her brother, but really so there is an excuse that she can be gone while having David’s baby.

We’ll have to imagine what happens next. I’d like to think Gath gets behind David’s cause, and they help him defeat Silas and unite the two countries in peace. He returns to find Jack a single father (his wife having died of suspicious, but unprovable means) of a headstrong, blond toddler son who Michelle looks at adoringly. Some medical emergency will occur where the kid will need blood or a kidney, and when David is a match, his true parentage will come out (that’s how it works in the soaps). Since he doesn’t seem to hold grudges, David will forgive all and he, Michelle and Jack will run Shiloh together.

And just maybe we’ll figure out what Andrew’s plan has been.

–Julie Domel

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Julie Domel

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