If Ash wins, Baal and ’80s Ruby return with Ruby’s “babies” to the underworld. Baal/”Bill” (Joel Toebeck), whose body was destroyed by Pablo, is back again too! As he explains, he was able to affix himself to the dead body of Pablo (Ray Santiago), where in that guise he corralled a PCP-blasted Ash into traveling back in time a few episodes ago.Īsh proposes a mano-a-mano fistfight battle with Baal, sans Baal’s Dead One immortal demonic advantage. Of course, the feeling doesn’t last long.
Ash’s previously severed hand returns! And Pablo (Ray Santiago), whose chopped-up corpse had been cut in half a few episodes ago (and for whom our heroes traveled across time to save) is suddenly, miraculously alive again!Īll seems well and good for two shakes. Suddenly, certain modified-timeline changes are afoot. Modern Ruby doesn’t quite make it.Īsh and Kelly make a desperate run for Ash’s Oldsmobile “Classic,” parked just outside the cabin, amidst the commotion (per Good Ruby’s instructions). And who should follow them there but Ruby circa 1982, still an immortal Dead One hell-bent on unleashing her demon “Children” upon the planet. The hits just keep coming, as ’80s Ruby deals Modern/Good Ruby (who as you’ll no doubt remember is mortal now) fatal blow to the stomach. Poor Ash gets more intimate with Henrietta here than I’d imagine he would have liked.Īfter doing battle in the surrounding forest, Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) and Ruby (Lucy Lawless) return to the cabin in the woods that started it all, where Ash does battle with Henrietta in the basement. The Ol’ Prof, sadly, doesn’t quite make it past the grisly opening title graphics splash. His funniest opposition is Ted Raimi - twice this time, in his guises as both Henrietta Knowby, possessed wife of the power-mad Professor Raymond Knowby (Nicholas Hope), and as Chet, Ash’s old high school buddy. There’s been plenty of deadite action and cosmic battling that it kind of makes up for what could’ve been.The season deux finale of Starz’s ASH VS EVIL DEAD, from Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Craig DiGregorio, keeps the self-reflective gags going, as Bruce Campbell’s oafish hero Ash Williams battles foes old and new in his home town of Elk Grove, Michigan, circa 1982 (thanks to a Necronomicon-assisted time portal opening up). Until then I suppose we’ll always have the hints of apocalyptic chaos this third season has given us. If Bruce Campbell never gets to play Ash again, maybe we’ll be lucky enough to see him play a similar role in a battle against futuristic evil. But sadly it must’ve also been too good to be true since it never happened either time. The idea of Bruce Campbell’s Ash driving a futuristic Oldsmobile and racing against deadites in the wasteland is just so good of an idea. It’s unfortunate this never happened, because this is personally something I wanted to see before even the remake was released. It reportedly would’ve been like a mix between Fallout and Mad Max, with demons and robots alike roaming the wasteland. Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell were planning to send Ash into the future apocalypse – something that we only had a taste of in the alternate ending for Army of Darkness.
And, according to a source from Bloody-Disgusting, the new story was going to be huge. Evil Dead is officially cancelled, the series’ fourth season was still being developed up until the official announcement.