Dudebert95

A- I didn’t see the ending as a what if. El is dead. Mike’s job is to tell her story… to help the others deal with her decision to sacrifice herself. And he spun a tale of hope for the others. He himself knows it’s not true… why he cries as he puts up his binder. Just like the plans to get together… they all know it won’t happen, but it’s something they clung to at the time… as hope. (Again when they cry while saying they’re in). It’s a solid ending, not a door left open. The only spinoff would be with the younger kids. If they do anything else, like Els new world… the grade would instantly drop. Only reason for the minus… the next generation is weak. They didn’t really build characters except for two… they were mostly lemmings that just went along with the crowd, vs the whole point of the core group was they were each their own person. Leaving the future hope to them was a let down. And seems a chore to try to do that again… won’t recreate what the first group was.