remember when mike spent literal years alone in space talking to worms and desperately trying to find people on earth who are still alive until he attempts to commit suicide but gets saved by the fact that he still has one worm left, which he named after his brother (who he think is dead!!!) and then almost dies falling back to earth but survives to be reunited with his brother only to die of the virus that killed off the rest of the world Ha Ha
I try not to use the words “___ deserved better” lightly, but FUCK Mike deserved better
#It’s strange because in any other show Mike’s death would have seemed needlessly edgy and shocking #(you know the type of thing I mean) #but in this show…it just really didn’t #as sad as it makes me I suppose that was essentially the point however #Sometimes people just die and the best they can hope for is that their loved ones are safe and all reconciled with
avoiding bc I like to be surprised but bummed that he’s really dead – rly didn’t feel like the end to me :/
I know that a big theme of the show is that there isn’t always necessarily closure, but…Mike’s death as it stands doesn’t really have any closure to it. I want that, at least. :(
Some random sad little details I noticed whilst screencapping TLMOE series 2:
Phil let Mike sleep in his bed as soon as he started getting sick (presumably Carol did too, although she doesn’t actually seem to sleep with her husband half the time.)
Gordon actually had a family pre-virus, although granted he looks a little photoshopped in there
Phil has that family picture that we saw in the pilot and a few other times in a frame by his bed (it’s there on the left, I promise)
Mike has a framed one on the spaceship too (below the map, can you see it?) which might well have been the thing he was looking at when he glanced around the interior one last time before attempting suicide, which is what this screenshot is of, ouch
Pat appears to have been a tennis champion pre-virus, which serves to make the hazmat suit tennis scene really sad in addition to surreally funny
Actually, what I will say is, to me, I can’t imagine a better, more
emotionally satisfying ending than what we did. I’m not saying that
everybody will find it emotionally satisfying. [Jason]’s one of my best friends, like a brother, so watching this is a very emotional thing for me and also the end of this really wonderful period I got to work with
him. So to bring him back after doing that, we want to be true to the
viewers and not jerk them around. We would only do something like that
if there was a really good reason for it.
Okay so, he’s probably dead, BUT there is a huge part of me that stubbornly clings to him being alive because:
1. idk about you but I spent a lot of time rooting for Mike and Phil to find each other again and for him to come back and then get the damn virus is too much for me. TLMOE is probably going to do it. But still.
2. Watching tv has taught me golden rules: “No face, no case.” “No body, no proof.” “Unless you see them die on screen, they ain’t dead” (and depending on the show the last one might not even be true lmfao). But bottom line: if I don’t see a character physically die, in my mind they’re still out there and alive.
3. Seriously wouldn’t it be awesome if the group thinks they’re all caught by Pat’s crew and then boom comes Mike Miller??? (Although with this show he’d probably save them and then die with Phil by his side lmfao)
4. Not a reason for him living but I need more Jason Sudeikis on my screen.
He’s still probably dead though.
It’s so hard to call because I know Will Forte did an interview where he said something like, even though it was ambiguous he thought the ending was beautiful and he wasn’t sure about going back on it? And obviously Jason Sudeikis is in EVERYTHING right now (I looked up the film Race because I want to see it tomorrow, and guess what? He’s in that too) so he’d probably never be able to be a TV show regular, but…
…I think ultimately I want Mike’s existence/death to mean something? As it is, it’s just an unfair striking down that makes Phil a better person, and that’s valid, but…I guess I assumed he’d be more instrumental to the show in a way, like it would turn out his space worms were cultivating a possible complete eradication cure of the virus or something. I still wonder about Phil-worm, currently still in the hands of Pat I believe…
ANYWAY best case scenario: he turns up alive at some crucial point, yay! Worst case scenario: show gets cancelled before we ever find out
