u/mostlylurking07

Edit: To clarify, I shouldn’t have just generalized other subs, as though it’s just here. I meant, non- creative subs. I am sure it happens in LCA and any other place where people are exercising creativity. But like my posts where I am asking a real estate question or writing about tv show or asking about a city, those aren’t getting shared. I also don’t think it’s a sub member, nor am I overly worried about it. I am just wondering like, are there content pirates who come into a fun sub like this and just send out content somewhere? I don’t *think* it’s a big deal, necessarily, but I do find it interesting and maybe concerning that a little post about AJ’s whereabouts would be shared 17 times. A few times I can easily imagine. We often share on the sub Itself, or in messages, or cross posts. But 17 seems like a lot.

Original post: So, I don’t ever look at the insights for any of my posts. I’m not super interested in the metrics or anything.

But today I did. And I saw that my post had been shared 4 times. Hmm.

I scrolled to some other posts. Posts in other communities- no shares. The post I made about AJ not being missing- 17 shares!!

Any thoughts on who is sharing our posts? Have any of you ever looked? Is it the same? Should we be worried? Are the images we created being used elsewhere?

I mean, the cast is ALL amazing in general. But I feel like mentioning the stunning performances of a few that really stood out to me.

Bianca Melchior- 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Honestly, I am stunned. She was brilliant. I throughly thought she was just going to be a one dimensional character. More like a caricature. But that was a testimony to her acting. She played it so beautifully, a superficial modern, attention-getting gal what was actually guarding her true self, because she was alone, and vulnerable. As she grew close to Cliff, as she started to feel safe, as she started to imagine a future, the mask dropped and Bianca Melchior played raw vulnerability with such honesty and authenticity and grace. Stunning performance. Probably why so many of us were gutted that she lost her Cliff.

Jefferson Brown (and Andie Mcdowell)

Our older Colton just brings such warmth to his scenes. He embodies the heart of the family. There is so much other wonderful acting, and he is seen far less often now, so it’s easy to forget that special warm kindness that emanates through Jefferson Brown as Colton. The five more minutes with Del was not significant just because we got to see them together again, but because that steady love that he brings to every scene brings it to life. But also big kudos to Andie McDowell on that scene. So many people love to hate on Del (not me) because they forget the 1999 Del that was the epitome of the perfect wife and mother and human that Colton was in love with. She was as light as that time in her five more minutes with Colton. The scene was perfection.

Vaughan Murrae-

I suggest going back to watch KC throughout the last three seasons to see the character development that Vaughan Murrae brought to KC. Honestly, when we first met KC in season 2, I thought perhaps Vaughan Murrae was a little forced in their acting? But upon later episodes, I realized they were playing KC that way- as thought they had rehearsed everything they were going to say. As a new time traveler, they were probably quite nervous. As they become more comfortable with TT, and more familiar with the past, and realize their part in the journey, they become a little more confident, a little less nervous,less wide-eyed. And this season, they speak up more freely, ask questions, express their own emotions. And Vaughan Murrae captures it all. But they absolutely shone in the last episode. The facial expressions alone, just wow. I cry every time I see them watching Jacob and Abby’s wedding. The expression is heartbreaking. I have to think the thing that’s changing has to do with their parents, and the moment watching the wedding is so bittersweet.

Some of us have been on this sub for years, when the numbers here were much smaller. We debated and disagreed about things, but but mostly just had lots of interesting and lively discussion about a show we all loved. I still recognize the names from those early years, even new variants of them, winking at you, GoodPerson.❤️

I do not recall the rudeness that I see here currently. It is a small group, but big enough to feel kind of loud. There is NO reason to mock and deride people because they have a theory, no matter how absurd that theory may be or may sound to you. People have reasons for why they came up with it. Likewise if people didn’t catch something, or made a mistake about something in the episode or series. A lot happened and there is a lot of confusion in general. It’s not hard to be kind. When I come across one of those threads, I’m like why don’t y’all just take your mean energy into a chat or something? Stop talking about people behind their back in front of their faces.

Debate freely. Disagree vigorously. But please let this sub return to what it once was. If anyone is here, it’s because they really do care about this show. For many people, it’s become a real part of their life, a comfort show, if you will. I would hate to see people leave or post less or be afraid to have an idea because there is a small subgroup of people here who don’t distinguish between debating ideas and insulting people.

TLDR: I wanted to see KC given better treatment as a character. They were denied connection with their Landry family and became treated as a prop.

Okay, I want to share a lot on a lot of the show, but I’m not gonna say too much. I know some of you were very happy with the ending and some of you were very happy overall with the season, and I don’t want to yuck on anyone’s yum. I’m just gonna focus on KC in here and it’s already gonna be an essay, so feel free to steer away if it’s too much.

Reddit can be such a negative space, but hopefully this will be taken in the spirit in which it is intended. This show is *sacred* to me and I have been with it from the beginning. I have watched it over and over and over as my comfort show and have invested lots of time into this and other socials, but also just tons of discussion and theorizing and laughing and crying and all the things with my family, plus many different efforts that involved a lot of writing to support the show getting its 5th (and its fourth, if you remember that) season. I am deeply invested in a way I have never been about a show before. I think many of us are that way.

So anyway, that said, each week I went in hoping and expecting the return of the show I have loved for three seasons. A couple of episodes I got it, but most I did not. And each week the anxiety and dread about the ending would build because I would think they are simply not giving enough time to advance necessary stories and to focus on necessary characters to give us a satisfying answer to each mystery, but mostly to be able to do so while maintaining the heart of the show. With mystery but no heart we get Tessa’s story. IMO, they fumbled that story every step of the way. Again I’m not here to rant about everything, so I’m going to leave it at that about that story.

But last night, my hopes for the show to create an ending that felt like the ending of season three were dashed. I’m just gonna give one example of why. KC? I think we needed so much more of KC.

We still don’t know what KC stands for (so why make that a plot point?), we don’t know where the Augustine comes from or why it ever mattered that they were all three families, we don’t know what the countdown was to or how everything was gonna change. So we have theories, right? And most of them are pretty sad. Death, divorce. Etc.

And that leads to the biggest issue I have with how they treated KC. KC entered the show as a wide eyed, eager kid excited about time travel. Excited to know their family. But they have appeared less and less and sort of became a “power player” making big moves to save their family. We loved that version of KC too. But this season, their journey parallels Alice, just kind of lurking around. Sure, they gave Jacob the “what’s in a name?” push and took Del to jump. But did their father and grandmother show any desire to connect with them after all they have done? No. KC was right to leave that Landry dinner a couple episodes ago upset. Kat, who they were so close to, yelled at them for nothing. Jacob didn’t even look at KC during that dinner. It doesn’t matter that he didn’t know who they are. For the love of everything beautiful, every Landry at that table knows that KC is a Landry. And where every Landry from the present has been greeted with warm hospitality from past Landrys - whether they are known to be time travelers or not- KC is yelled at, ignored, or pumped for information. KC is Alice’s much younger cousin. And here they are at Alice’s age, and it was a perfect opportunity for the show to give them some bonding as they are in very similar positions as “fixers”, and possibly as being in broken families, but we did not get that.

So last night they figure out who KC is (also, is Jacob just dense? He didn’t start to wonder after the meeting in the barn?), but still the show deprives us of any moment between father and child. Nothing, other than KC watching the wedding from a distance, and I might add, with a very bittersweet expression, only leading to further speculation about their present family life when coupled with the fact that they are wearing their mom’s ring. Jacob never sees them. We never get a chance run-in with Abby, just nothing. There was the tiny clip in the ring montage where they see Abby and Jacob kiss, but nothing else.

And as for the rest of KC’s story, we get very little screen time for them and even less insight into anything about their travels or their life. Massive disappointment. Especially because my own imagination pictures how close Del and KC must be in the present. That is their grandma, as much as she is Alice’s. They may be even more close as Del has less trauma and the opportunity to know KC throughout their life. But their taking Del to the pond was like two sentences of basically, “Okay, let’s go” and then that’s it. KC’s story was the perfect opportunity to blend mystery and heart, and honestly ,they missed the mark all season on it. IMO, they should have been Kat and Elliot’s kid, as so much relationship had already been established between them, and we the loyal audience would have been able to trust that they were good.

Anyway, I have loved KC for years. Many many of us have speculated about them. They deserved better treatment as a character. Especially because kudos to Vaughan Murrae for their excellent portrayal of KC. In season 2, I actually thought Vaughan Murrae was a little bit stiff but I see with their character development that they were perfectly showing a kid who had practiced how to act, was trying really hard to say the right thing,had studied the family. As they got older, more experienced, and less wide-eyed, we got to see KC let down their guard and be more authentic, a little more soulful, more mature. Their life was ripe for connection- I wish they had gotten it.

I haven’t seen too much said here about it, but Danny as letter writer just made no sense.

First of all, let’s just get out of the way that stalking someone by mail is incredibly disturbing behavior regardless of how justified he felt. Those letters scared Del, and led to Jacob leaving the farm which caused even more pain.

Moving on, why would KC imply that using the will would make the letters stop? What does that have to do with Danny?

Okay, on to why Danny was so angry. His whole explanation makes no sense. He says he lived with guilt ever since they were kids because he thought Jacob died because of his actions . But by accusing the family of using him as a scapegoat, it implies that they themselves had blamed Danny for what happened, which they never did. In fact, both Del and Jacob made a point of telling Danny that they did NOT hold him responsible for what happened. This is especially significant in that Del was especially compassionate in trying to protect Danny from Kat’s journalistic questioning, and even when Danny revealed what happened that night, Del responds with grace and compassion, even though she one hundred percent believes at that moment that Jacob likely did die falling over the cliff chasing that stuffed dog.

And for Jacob to have released him from blame is also significant because at the end of the day, it actually was Danny’s actions that caused little Jacob to be so upset that he decided to walk home from the carnival, initiating all the actions.

But what’s really wild about Danny’s anger is that he overheard a conversation where his best friend’s sister is distraught, telling her daughter that her brother has been beaten and is dying, and his thought is “oh my gosh, he’s not dead! They’ve just been lying!” It seems quite clear Jacob is in trouble and danger and likely may just have been found- which is the exact truth. He could have asked Kat or Del, but he just …seethes?

Danny’s takeaway implies that the family had been lying forever and letting him live with all that guilt, even though they tried to do the opposite. Even though they actually did think he was dead. Even though they even had a memorial for him. Even though the “world” in which he was living had brought him to near death and they had just found out.

When the family went on television to talk about it, they literally told almost the exact truth. The only lies were which body of water he was found near and that he was living in a different place rather than a different time.

None of Danny’s takeaways were correct, none justifies him being upset rather than relieved that his friend had been found and concerned that he was found near death.

And certainly nothing justifies that actions of threatening the family that followed, or why both Del and Jacob felt that they owed him an apology.