The high chair
I just finished episode 5. Since the teasers already revealed a lot, I was mostly just calmly watching the episode. But in the basement of the colonial house, my attention got stuck on the baby high chair. (Maybe because I have a toddler right now.)
It’s placed almost in the center of the shot. It could’ve been just a regular chair among the junk, but for some reason it’s specifically a baby high chair.
Boyd said that useful things end up in the diner, while useless things end up in the colonial house basement. Logically, a baby high chair would count as useless, because there are no small children in town. But there are several of these chairs in the diner.
We also know the children from the ritual were born in darkness and died in darkness. I doubt anyone was putting them in high chairs down in the caves.
So whose chairs are these, and why are they here?
In general, I have a lot of questions about how objects are distributed. Clothes and the camera ended up in the “useless” place (the colonial house basement), while the bracelet and statue ended up in the useful place.