I feel I'm missing something... Let me guess.
Laurie literally had everything to protect after 40 years and then after only 4 years, she moved on after Michael Myers killed her daughter, right? Seems a bit unrealistic. I'm pretty sure Laurie would 99% take revenge instead of getting the writing room.
She had at least her grand daughter. This movie really surprised me. It was very well written compared to the last 2 movies
shareEasiest answer is — they simply didn’t want to make this final film (for now anyway) a full showdown between Michael & Laurie. I suppose they felt… that’s been done before. I get that, but the problem is that’s basically what they set up with Kills and you know that’s what audiences expected and wanted all along.
Now while I’m all for subverting expectations and doing something fresh, the direction they ultimately took didn’t do the two faces of this franchise total justice. I do think the whole Corey thing was interesting in its own right, however it would have worked better for a spin-off film or something — like a real Season of the Witch type deal. Instead, with Ends they made The Shape take a backseat in his own film and neither he nor Laurie were the real central figures in this installment (talk about misleading trailers). And yes, it was hard to buy that Laurie had move on rather quickly after what happened in the previous film. It just all felt… off. I didn’t exactly disliked Ends overall (I enjoyed it for the most part despite my disappointment with the focus on a new character), but it definitely didn’t feel like a proper and satisfying conclusion. On that note, this installment made me appreciate Kills even more (which I’ve always been fond of).