S1 E1 Rewatch observations (spoilers all seasons)
I have typed these up from my rabid note writing the other night. Looking forward to hearing everyone else’s thoughts and what you’ve seen on a rewatch?
Notes:
1st song to play in the series: “we gotta get out of this place”
Meagan and the doll/s
96 days without incident - was Abby’s death the last incident? Before Meagan and her mum and then everything that follows.
Norman, lake of tears, fairies, etc
“If there’s no such thing as monsters, then Norman is alive” - what if Julie story walks to the point of stopping the monsters from existing, then no one will have been killed by them?
Tree, crows, etc
Observed the music being played, pot throwing/claywork (like Fatima making her clay monster?) out the front of Colony House - recurring themes for the House
“Lauren Pratt, she was the one who”
“I know who she is”
Who WAS Lauren Pratt? This dialogue suggests something more I believe.
Train tracks - there’s got to be something here - relating to Jim being a roller coaster engineer? I think also has to be related to the way out - Tabitha talking about a switchback? Shoutout to u/stolengenius for the roller coaster switchback info
Ravens vs crows?
Sara - “that’s the part that’s cruel. Expecting to find the road that takes you home.”
I just found this line of dialogue to be particularly poignant now we know from Mari that there’s something evil and ancient that delights in the suffering of the people trapped in FromVille.
Arizona + New York plates - I forget who’s these were, only that they were important sounding state plates to me based off the characters
On meeting Jade he’s wearing some bracelets on his wrist - is one of them possibly like one that Tabitha has made, eg in a different lifetime that found its way to him?
Boyd and Ellis dialogue:
Ellis: “you know this is suicide”
Boyd: “take care of the family.”
I think Boyd will have to sacrifice himself in some way at the end of the show to end the cycle or help the others escape. The theme keeps coming back to saving the children. It very well could mean sacrificing all the parents and only allowing the children to escape.
Thomas mentioned - his death I believe was the “event” that gave the family their “break” in reality and helped draw them to the town.
Ethan’s seizure - like Sara’s seizure I believe these mean something. We know that Julie seizes when storywalking. Ethan said he saw the lake of tears. I believe he was storywalking and did, in fact, see the lake of tears. This is why in particular I think Jim tells him this as a spirit back at the van, post-death.