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What happened to the Girls? Might have gone right over my head.


Anyone?
And while youre at it, can someone also explain why Appleyard chick changes her cold, mean demeanor to run frantically up the Rock, to try to find her girls? And then jumps? Wth?

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Who the hell knows? I watched a round table discussion with the show runner and director, and even they don't agree on what happened, so how are we supposed to? To me this is just an excuse for lousy, sloppy writing.

My guess about Appleyard is we're supposed to believe that once she found out she'd been running away from someone who'd been dead for years, that changed her. Still doesn't make sense. Again, bad, sloppy writing.

When I was only 2 episodes in, I wondered why its rating was so low. Now I know.

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Agreed.

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This show changed much of the characterizations from the book. But the ending was in the original story.

Appleyard is losing her school. All the top students were being pulled out because of the Hanging Rock scandal. Sarah's "accident" would have been the last straw. So she went to Hanging Rock and had an accident herself.

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I commented here 3 years ago but finally I think you stated the right answer on this.

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