Spoiler alert for 1883 and Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 14, 'Life Is A Promise'
yellow stone The Season 5 finale concludes its most significant storylines with an ending that was previously revealed two years ago. The indigenous people of Montana finally stop the Department of the Interior's gas pipeline when they successfully move it in the episode's opening. Beth and Rip say goodbye to the Yellowstone cowboys, who have exciting ventures on the horizon. The ending also wraps up the story of Kevin Costner's John Dutton III, who died in yellow stone premiere of season 5, part 2.
Beth and Jamie's war in Yellowstone also ends, with the brothers involved in an intense fight. When Rip arrives, he holds Jamie down so Beth can stab him in cold blood, with John's daughter successfully avenging his death. However, none of these segments surpassed the fate of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, which Kayce sold to the Broken Rock Tribe. The perfect ending was pre-ordained in another Taylor Sheridan series, bringing the story full circle to 1883 spectators.
1883 established the prophecy regarding the fate of the Dutton ranch
Predetermined ending of Yellowstone in 1883
THE yellow stone season 5 finale ending ties with Sheridan's 1883 yellow stone prequel series chronicling the Dutton family's pioneering journey from Texas to Paradise Valley in Montana. It follows James and Margaret, who travel in a covered wagon with their children, John and Elsa, as they face the horrors of the desert. As James and Margaret's eldest son succumbs to a fatal wound, James searches for a place to buy her, promising to settle down and stay wherever Elsa's journey ends. That's why, James Dutton finds Paradise Valley in Montana. However, James' deal has a catch.
James hears about Paradise Valley from a Crow elder named Spotted Eagle, who tells John about his people's lush hunting valley. Graham Greene's character tells James that his family can settle in the valley so the father can lay his daughter to rest. However, Spotted Eagle warns that his people will grow in seven generations and take the valley back, to which James says they can have it. The predetermined prophecy yellow stoneThe ending of, foreshadowing that the Dutton family would hand over their ranch in seven generations. Therefore, yellow stone screenwriter Sheridan needed to stick to the ending he wrote.
How John Dutton's death paves the way for the prophecy to come to pass
John needed to die for the end of Yellowstone
With its predetermined ending, yellow stoneThe most significant events happened for a reason. Firstly, the series needed to include John Dutton's death in the yellow stone season 5 premiere, part 2, which opened up Beth and Kayce to making decisions without their father's influence. While John was alive, his sons were motivated to fight for the farm. After his death, however, Beth and Kayce are free to act on their wishes, which include abandoning the ranch or selling it, respectively. Kayce takes advantage of a solution that suits both six-generation Duttons. The solution also fulfills the family's predetermined destiny.
John's death left his children with no choice but to hand over the ranch. Regardless of John's influence and how it affects his decision, Beth and Kayce Can't Pay the Huge Inheritance Tax to Maintain the Ranch after his father dies. Admittedly, Beth and Kayce could have made a fortune by dividing up the farm and selling it to private owners. Instead, Kayce's solution meets their needs and his father's desire to keep the ranch in one piece while following through on James' promise. The ending also makes Thomas Rainwater's threat to John Dutton a reality. yellow stone Season 1, reflecting the prophecy.
Why selling Dutton Ranch is the best way to end Yellowstone
Taylor Sheridan tells a complete western
Selling the Dutton Ranch was the best way to end the series because it gives each character what they need while also fulfilling an important notion. James and Margaret Dutton's journey on their equivalent of the Oregon Trail was part of a westward expansion in the United States that displaced thriving indigenous communities such as the Spotted Eagle's Crow people. The colonization of indigenous lands depleted the resources that supported the Native American way of life, as settlers arrived in the region and fished its rivers and hunted its buffalo, which used every part of them to survive on the land sustainably.
yellow stone The Season 5 finale, which uplifts Montana's Indian community, is necessary for the series and for American media in general, which has traditionally misrepresented American Indians.
Furthermore, there is conflict between the communities, as shown in the opening scene, when Elsa fights Lakota warriors who surrounded her caravan and attacked violently. Still, it's because Lakota women and children were raped and killed, and the tracks lead to the Duttons' wagon train. That's why, Sheridan's series portrays the full reality of the American Westempowering indigenous people by telling their full story rather than casting blame. Therefore, yellow stone The Season 5 finale, which uplifts Montana's Indian community, is necessary for the series and for American media more broadly, which has traditionally misrepresented American Indians.