Roger being brought back from the dead<\/a> and rampaging through Colony House. That\u2019s quite a lot to process! I will grant you that I don\u2019t love how everyone is processing it, with Tabitha especially getting on my nerves, but I think we can all appreciate a bit of a comedown period while everyone works out what they\u2019re going to do next.<\/p>\nRoger having died twice is the least of anyone\u2019s problems, given the implications of that. The talismans obviously don\u2019t work against everything that\u2019s out to get the inhabitants of Fromville, and we\u2019ve clarified that the totems don\u2019t kill the Creatures, which Sophia is visibly reassured by. But there\u2019s more to it than that. After her psychological connection to Smiley, Fatima has manifest varicose veins all across her stomach, which don\u2019t seem to suggest anything imminently wrong with her, according to Kristi and Mari, but aren\u2019t happening for no reason. Mari even has the temerity to suggest that Fatima\u2019s burgeoning power might be a good thing, a way for them to fight back against the Creatures, but when Fatima returns to the clinic later, and her blood pressure and heart rate both suggest that she should technically be dead, Kristi\u2019s argument that this probably isn\u2019t\u00a0a good thing starts to hold a bit more water.<\/p>\n
At least Ethan is prepared \u2014 or trying to be, anyway. He took Victor\u2019s warning about him potentially ending up as the sole survivor of the current cycle quite seriously, and wants Victor to impart all the knowledge he can about how to survive if that reality transpires. Frankly, he doesn\u2019t have a great deal to offer beyond a truck full of canned peaches, a sharp stone, and some creepy stand-ins for his mother and Eloise, which Ethan can talk to if he gets lonely, but it\u2019s the thought that counts, and Ethan is buying it. Tabitha, however, is not, which leads me \u2014 not for the first time \u2014 to my biggest issue with her this season.<\/p>\n
I get Tabitha\u2019s impulse to protect Ethan by shielding him from potentially alarming information. But Tabitha is trapped in an inescapable nightmare locked by the bones of dead children and haunted by monsters, so now isn\u2019t the time for helicopter parenting. Ethan needs to have\u00a0some\u00a0idea of how to survive if it all goes wrong, and Tabitha\u2019s insistence that neither he nor Victor will ever be alone again just strikes me as painfully naive. Sure, it\u2019s a nice moment character-wise, especially seeing Tabitha being motherly to Victor, but this has been going on all season.<\/p>\n
Right on cue, when Tabitha gets home, she\u2019s lured by a ringing phone to the RV, where she\u2019s confronted by the Man in Yellow, who, thanks to Sophia\u2019s meddling, is back in his trademark outfit and has stuck Ethan\u2019s drawings all along the outside. The MIY is pretty ambiguous, as tends to be his way, but he implies that Tabitha is about to do something that has never been done before. Uncovering the bones of the children might be the key to their salvation, but it might also unleash an unimaginable amount of suffering. The suggestion is that the choice of which might be Tabitha\u2019s to make. I get the sense he\u2019s trying to compel her to intervene and prevent the bones from being recovered.<\/p>\n
And Boyd and Jade are coming up with a plan for that in\u00a0From\u00a0Season 4, Episode 8. The fact that the bone chamber only has one way in and out does present some logistical problems, though, and Boyd\u2019s wavering sanity makes him less inclined to go along with any plan that might needlessly risk too many lives. \u201cHeavy Is the Head\u201d has that title for a reason, and finds the pressures of leadership getting to Boyd more explicitly than ever, with his visions of Abby and Father Khatri only intensifying.<\/p>\n
And to be fair to Boyd, even the best version of Jade\u2019s master plan is pretty risky. After a bit of reminiscing, he realises that there was a hole in the chamber\u2019s roof covered by roots, which means the bottle tree grew atop it. His bright idea is to create two teams, one above and one below, and exactly time ripping out the bottle tree by its roots so that the team in the chamber doesn\u2019t get trapped. There are so many ways in which that might go wrong that Boyd can\u2019t help but dismiss it as \u201clandscaping\u201d instead of an actual plan, and he kind of has a point. But it might be the only option.<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s Henry, who I strongly suspect isn\u2019t going to see the end of this season. He\u2019s trying to keep himself busy and curb his drinking, but he also keeps having visions of himself waking up in a care centre to Victor and Victor\u2019s son, Sebastian. In that vision, he\u2019s told that a bad acid tab rendered him virtually comatose, suggesting that all of his experiences in Fromville have simply been a dream. The only way to fully disconnect from the dream and live his happiest life with all of his loved ones alive is to forcibly sever the imagined reality, which seems to be leading him rather uncomfortably to suicide. Will he see through the illusion before that? We\u2019ll have to wait and see, but early signs aren\u2019t looking very promising.<\/p>\n
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