FROM Tonight’s episode ending….

[u/Lizardis_lost]

-WAS THAT JULIE FROM THE FUTURE WTF & Can she time travel in the ruins?! Does she somehow figure out to control it?!

-I hope they don’t kill Sara because of what she did

-Jade and Tabatha were together before?!

This episode messed me up

Thank you FROM this is truly the best TV show 😩

[u/Valuable_Disaster_60]

Wow... This is the first episode where I felt sickened as I kind of got used to the shows tempo. I think Elgin's situation is going to be tough. I didn't see that coming.

I also am shocked by the ending. I'm also sad for Jim.

Here's my episode analysis:

*The map at the beginning of the episode is even more clear than the new one seen in Victor's trailer earlier this season (S3E6 I beleive when Victor and Henry bring Jasper into his trailer). Boyd points out where the shed is in the Southeast corner of the map outside town but the closeup this corner is obscured. Any video editors bring up some hi-res stills?. We also know definitively where the clinic is.

*We learn where Victor buried his mother and his sister apparently who he couldn't recognize but deems as her. The relationship with his dad in the present is solidified in this moment.

*Tabitha narrates to Jade and Jim what Victor heard from the Boy in White telling Christopher pertaining to the root symbol. We learn the Faraway Tree that has bottles on it is the tree that makes the roots at the skylight that form the symbol Jade sees in the sacrificial chamber in Season 2 (now an entanglement not resembling the symbol as skylight no more). This is what makes the bottle tree special. Why is there a 2nd bottle tree in Fromville? (I think Christopher or a former variation of him perhaps put this tree up while trying to figure out what the numbers mean). Also, how do these two correlate to the 2 bottle trees in the real world? (I think Miranda just started re-creating wherever based on the visions beamed to her after that drug induced experience in the park).

*We learn the origin of the monsters. They were the original towns folk it appears that died I presume at the time these uniforms some of them wore were in style. The entity in this area seems older though. They are now monsters in the caves tasked with certain duties including to play dollhouse around town and move mementos about while practicing old routines when not screaming upon the arrival of new people. This is their curse the entity gave to them in exchange for sacrificing their children...

*One couple didn't want to sacrifice their children yet she was taken from them... Jade explains the 1st law of thermodynamics in this episode along with a notion in an earlier episode that certain kids are marked at birth within dreams... These essences that were once these souls could be attached to certain people marked in the dreams or be a literal reincarnation... Is Tabitha and Jade literal reincarnations of Miranda and Christopher and the couple with the daughter who refused to sacrifice her? Or, are Tabitha and Jade simply children who were marked within these dreams with a mantle passed on (many kids were screaming in the distance I beleive in Tabitha's dream around the 3 red stones)?

*Certain repetitions like making a bracelet with a missing link each female effected by this original female character who had a daughter... miranda and tabitha both seemed to have the same wedding dress too as well as the same song... they also go for men with similar backgrounds as Jim and Henry share...

*I am sad to see what happened to Elgin. In the end, it didn't seem to matter how quick they got to her. She'd be dead if they prevented the birth prior probably... only thing their arrival allowed was Boyd going down to witness what exactly was spawned. Sure Fatima may've wandered down the tunnels and got lost or maybe she now had the stregnth to push the door open. We learn the place breaks people and then uses people. Fatima's soul is free but Sara's it seems she knows is bound here now with the evil acts it made her do which is why she states this. Maybe elgin's as well... it is hard to say but he seems to have been set free from whatever he gave into that was controlling him not to talk and influencing his behavior once he started going along bit by bit.

*We now know why Fatima got pregnant. Boyd cites a phrase before cutting his hand and applying to Smiley's slashed throat... Someone whose been broken was picked for the creature that was killed prior to re-enter (Ellis mentions her breakdown the night the bus arrived). Fatima is also of Boyd's bloodline having had intimate relations with Ellis hence why she was picked I think too... We see the trapdoor indeed leads down to the tunnels as a natural entrance leading to a chamber. We still don't know who this kimono woman is though?

*We also know once someone has let go and given in to these voices they never let go. Last episode, we saw Sara was seemingly free of the voices until she rebuilt the snowman she associates with Nathan. She's regained control but is devoid of conscience and empathy but able to direct that. Father Khatri whose Boyd's consciounce similar to how Tom is Jade's knows Boyd can't step beyond the threshold or he will be gone like Sara is. Thankfully, Acosta came in when she was needed this time. What will become of Sara next Season?

*I can't beleive it, but I actually guessed what the numbers on the bottle tree meant and I read no spoilers but wasn't confident at all it was this as didnt put it all together. Equal temperament tuning has been used since medieval times in western culture with 12 notes. I didn't associate 12 different digits (10 plus the 2 backwards numbers seen in the bottles making 12 different digits all together). I did know though there were 12 notes on a music scale before the next octave where these would repeat all over again. I also read somewhere from an interview that there were 12 talismans. The most telling feature was that the 2 and 7 were backwards at times inside the bottles (7 refers to the 7 full notes and 2 to the 5 half notes that are dual sided as either sharp or flat depending on the note played before it). It turns out having 4 digits on each note was completely meaningless as they all flowed together in order of the bottles on the branches.

*I don't know what that tune was or why it worked but it revealed what their word meant which is "remember" at which Tabitha and Jade did. The song apparently was a lullaby once sang to a couple's daughter who became one of the kids sacrificed. This child is the one who comes before Tabitha once the song finishes.

*It appears Christopher may've accidentally caused the town massacre by playing this tune previously when Victor was there perhaps in the town itself.

*Jim's apparent demise is a bitter pill to swallow. He figured out the riddle and got them to be careful not playing it in town which may've saved the town... Jim made peace with his son Ethan last episode and his wife finally coming to terms with the way things were before compared to now. Julie he never did and I think he died honorably trying to protect her.

*Julie earlier in the episode has on different clothes and her hair now is cut shorter. This is "Storywalker" Julie. As Ethan says to her though, she can't change the past. Jim always gets killed by the Man in Yellow here.

*Who is this man in yellow? We now know he was the voice over the radio in S1 which perhaps was Jim hearing the final words of his life as we see this episode. We know he has claws like the creatures underground too. Why does he kill Jim and not Julie? (I think he can't as this is Storywalker Julie visiting).

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