The Originally Intended Ending would've made me respect this much more!
From the beginning, I was terribly afraid that the filmmakers would opt for a *PATHETICALLY* predictable ending - the lead female character's husband dying, thereby giving the 'hero' a chance to get with her!!
After watching the film, I read that originally, Nathan Fillion's character was supposed to get 'infected' in the end and thus be SHOT TO DEATH by the 'heroine'. Now THAT would have been *PERFECT* - not only does Nathan Fillion die, but he's killed by the object of his adulterous affections.
The woman who lusted after 'The Married Man' is punished by being inhumanly violated, starved, turned into a giant human balloon to hold an army of aliens and then blown apart when the aliens are ready to strike. Yet, the MAN who lusted after 'The Married WOMAN' has everything to look forward to once his rival is mutated and killed, giving him a free pass to satiate his desires.
Seriously, why the Hell did they change the original ending? Did bloody Nathan Fillion insist that his character be allowed to *beep* the blonde forever after, instead of having his unholy head blown off?
That was **SUCH** a weak cop-out - catering to the lowest common denominator. The fact that I SAW the filmed ending coming, right from the onset, is the very reason I have no respect for the movie and for James Gunn - who *HAD* a brilliant ending originally, but chose to SELL HIS ARTISTIC INTEGRITY and pander to the expectations of viewers who want the guy to get the girl/*beep* the girl in the end.
If nothing else, it would have been FAR MORE *DRAMATICALLY* EFFECTIVE to have just Mrs. Grant and the young girl - 'the Widow' and 'the Virgin' - survive, with only each other as Family from that point onwards.
Kind of echoing a sense of Euripides' "Trojan Women".