S2E6: Was a pretty slow episode until Tempest's baby (HOLY WTF)...and Sue's singing. I mean seriously, Tempest's baby...what the flying F was that???!!!?
S2E7: As if they couldn't make Vrille any spookier. Everything is about to go sideways and bonkers. Spoiler So why did Marcus go full-on athiest again? What the hell happened to Sue. Is she now going to be flying serpent poo? I don't think she actually turned into the tree. Somehow, I think she was in the tree and now in the serpent. She'll absorb the serpent's powers and become opposition to Mother. Sooo many questions. I sure as hell hope they're filming S3 already. I don't want to wait two years for the continuation.
Behind and watched 2.6 Tree last night. May have lost my wife on the baby and tree stuff. Too intense/real for her tastes. I read a review that compared this show to Lost, and it was a thought I had a couple months ago. I just hope the ending isn't terrible like Lost's was.
Episode 2.7 was crazy AF. I also got a strong 1970’s sci-fi vibe from this episode, like a Sleestack was going to jump out next. One of the things I like about this show is that big things happen in every episode. There’s no fluff. One episode to go!
S2E8: Why must I wait for S3??? So many questions. So many directions. So many androids. Spoiler I'm really getting a vibe that cocoons mean something in this show. There are so many examples now...Mother getting absorbed by Grandmother's veil, Paul getting infected and wrapped up in the viral dots, the tree inside Number Seven evolving into something else after Seven dies, Tempest's baby being "absorbed" into the sea creature. This stands for something...but I haven't figured it out yet. Great episode to end the season. We finally get to see Grandmother...both physically and motivationally. She's not good. And WTF with upside down crucified Marcus who can fly??!? Plus, I really wanted to see what was down that hole...other than that devolved human thing. S3...please hurry!
Here's a Spotify link to a podcast that has interviews with Amanda Collin and Abubakar Salim. Pretty good listen...getting to hear Mother and Father's perspectives. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VNT2ISVaH1wyrfnfA9CoY?si=2c5a02f87ed94925
Ok, so I finally caught up and binge watched this show over the weekend. HOLY ****. It was as bonkers as I thought it would be but also really, really good. There's a lot there that I suspect if I were to examine too closely would fall apart, but I'm not doing that right now because I'm just enjoying the show as presented. But I do have some questions/comments that I'll spoiler: Spoiler So is Grandmother working for the entity or against it? She clearly wants to de-evolve the humans so they get out of the way, so to speak. But I'm not sure if that's to protect the humans from the entity, or to fulfill the vague plans that the entity has. I'm gonna miss Sue. That actress did a great job and I suspect she's fully gone now. The actors that play Mother and Father are so, so good. They walk that incredibly fine edge of displaying human emotions, but in a rigid way that indicates they are still androids that been experiencing these emotions in their own way. With most actors I suspect it would just come off as strange, wooden, bad acting. But with them it all feels very appropriate and I'm so glad because it would have torpedo'd the show otherwise. So was the Tree of Life basically a way to grow the "eyes" of Seven? The thing grows, absorbing Sue's life, and is then consumed by the serpent. Only at that point does it become dangerous, really. I get very confused when I try to understand the game plan that the Entity apparently has. Like all this stuff (the box with the seeds, etc) was created and left on the planet long ago...just in case people come back? So it can like activate it's defense system in a weirdly organic way? What does it mean that everyone ate the fruit from the tree? is that how everyone started de-evolving? Or was it something Grandmother did (having them eat the seaweed at the end - or perhaps play the new video game she introduced)? If the fruit is not what de-evolved them, then what did it mean for everyone to eat the fruit? Is that how the tree gained power enough to call the Serpent? Someone mentioned Lost earlier in this thread. To me, the better comparison is The Leftovers. It's by the same people, but I felt like did a much better job of combining the weird mysteries with character growth in a way that was enjoyable even if you didn't fully understand the "why" behind everything that happened. I'm preparing myself to never fully understand the reasons of the "how" of all the weird **** we see on this show, but the show is still good regardless. Anyway, my head is still swirling with that ending. It's interesting that that one Middle Man guy totally called the "Grandmother is going to de-evolve the humans" angle. I didn't see that one coming at all.
Based on an interview with the actress, I think so. Spoiler The tree is an 'antenna' that allows Sol/The Entity to penetrate the EF shield that surrounds the temperate zone. They covered this in the last two episodes. As for why Seven ate the tree...maybe it allowed the Entity to weaponize and control it in the temperate zone. Still need some clarification there. Lastly, Marcus was 'resurrected' while being crucified upside down on the Tree I'm not sure what ramifications eating the fruit of the Tree will have. I don't think Campion ate it and I know Paul didn't. Grandmother is devolving the humans with the new video game. I don't think she's working with the Entity, but working to preserve humans the best she can in the face Sol's crazy power. The humans are being devolved to a point where the Entity/Sol won't 'notice' them. Ergo, humans in their current state are a threat. Don't forget the dry-land Season 1 humanoids or the humanoid in the hood that was watching them from a distance. There's a lot with the humanoids we don't understand.
One other thing I forgot to ask about: I feel like the answer to what pulled that container of people into the acid ocean was presented as the acid monsters/de-evolved people. But that thing was yanked over and dragged in HARD. Like it would have required 30 or so of the sea creatures working together to MAYBE pull that thing the way it did. Is that just a kind of plot hole or is there going to be a further reveal that something else pulled the container and people into the acid ocean?
If the acid sea creatures are devolved humans...at some point, they will most likely try to communicate with the normal humans. Why else would that one have taken/saved Tempest's baby???...other than to protect one of their own? S3 is most likely going to have a big confrontation between Mother and Grandmother. Although there are so many directions the writers could go with this plot...will be a fun ride to see which direction they choose to go. I'm really anxious to see what is down that hole that Marcus was about to go down before Lucious tried to MurderDeathKill him.
I assumed it was just acting on instinct. Some kind of genetic memory that as a mother it's kind used to feed and care for babies that looked like that. But you may be right since there definitely seems to be some de-evolved humans that have a little more intelligence than the ones we saw come out of the sea this season.
Good one. There are some Lost-esque plot holes. I wonder if they'll ever sew that one up. I love how the show sort of forgets about acid, like when the humanoid picks up the baby. Tempest is horribly burned, but the baby is cool. Because they're (devolved) humans. And the humanoid's milk mutated the baby, so it might be part of the Grandmother android faction agenda.
