u/Honuoy

I wanted to analyze Victor's room as it was shown in the last episode (S04E03, Merrily We Go), when he is talking with Ethan. Victor had previously thrown a lot of things out the window, so presumably he kept the items that were most important to him.

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First, we see several miniature vehicles over the window, including an RV. There's another one on a small cabinet that appears to be a truck, possibly the one with cans of peaches that Victor used to hide in. There are two drawings on the wall: one depicting a road blocked by a fallen tree with a crow on it, and another probably showing the BiW.

There's also a drawing on a round surface, perhaps a record, hanging above the window. It shows six houses around a white circle containing a pentagon, with something blue in the center. Squiggly lines go down from the houses and get tangled up around the pentacle.

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As Victor mentions that he now has enough space to share the room with his father because he threw a lot of things out the window, Ethan looks at the objects placed on the nearby drawer. Let's do the same.

https://preview.redd.it/jinhgms1lizg1.png?width=3834&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ea973d93bc664ae942dcb62c22a5e8f6354bb14

There's a drawing with what appears to be four wrapped candies. There're also several figurines of soldiers, a charriot, a boat, a gun (a toy I imagine), and what looks to me like the bridge of a wooden ship model sticking out of a box?

https://preview.redd.it/b76h4r93lizg1.png?width=3834&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2bbd810e70aa22a1e39001c335314aae16927a7

So we see several visual themes that are repeated frequently in From:

- Vehicles: they seem to be the only way to enter the town; no one enters on foot, for example. Toy vehicles are found inside the lighthouse as well.

- Boats: Boyd's boat, the boat in the calendar in Donna's room, etc.

- Soldiers: Jade saw Civil War soldiers in his visions, and they also appear in several drawings.

- Circularity: a story that repeats cyclically, the merry-go-round where Victor first meets the BiW (a motif depicted in several drawings), the design of the talismans, etc.

Bonus: In some scenes with the Matthews, you can see a crokinole board (a Canadian board game) in the background. In S04E01, it's shown more clearly and seems to be combined with a different game around the border (perhaps similar to wahoo?) representing a circular race. There are horseshoes, the text "Lucky Horse Shoe," and a start/finish line.

https://preview.redd.it/ayna5ym7lizg1.png?width=3832&format=png&auto=webp&s=12de320253963b75a140bc6612bee4648d6c86b8

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I don't think most of these objects provide new information, they just reinforce ideas that have already been seen and discussed.

The houses with lines wrapping around a pentagon, though? That's new to me. What are your thoughts?

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u/Honuoy — 15 days ago