re: American Horror Story S2 Finale

I think the ending scene showed that Lana was no better than the rest of them. She willingly went in to Briarcliff, knowing she could get caught. She essentially brought it all on herself but got her story. She probably should've raised BF Jr. to give him a chance but she was traumitized and too consumed in her career to do that. The 1975 flashback made me think she had a guilty conscience for giving him up for adoption.

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I think the ending scene showed that Lana was no better than the rest of them. She willingly went in to Briarcliff, knowing she could get caught. She essentially brought it all on herself but got her story. She probably should've raised BF Jr. to give him a chance but she was traumitized and too consumed in her career to do that. The 1975 flashback made me think she had a guilty conscience for giving him up for adoption.

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I agree, I just think the other theory is intriguing

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Lana is not Bloodyface. She was just admitting in the end that she was not innocent in the whole thing. She went looking for evil and found it. She gave up her son and kept looking to better her career. Basically Sister Jude was warning her that if you go looking for evil, you will find it but it will also find you.

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It was a warning, told from experience. I view Sister Jude as the primary protagonist of this season, and when she went looking for evil and human misery, she found it and was surrounded by it. It was not until she was rescued by Kit that she found six months of peace and joy -- because she was looking for that. She was telling Lana to leave so that she would not fall into the same morass of human misery she had also fallen into.

I loved the end, as it fit one of my primary criticisms of TV right now -- there are too many shows about horrible, miserable people who do horrible, miserable things and then wonder why they are horrible and miserable (Mad Men is by far the worst offender, mainly because Breaking Bad wants us to recoil from Walt). Here, Lana took responsibility for her own horror and misery. Sure, it was out of proportion to her actual sins, but she went looking for misery, and she found it.

In the final scene, she takes responsibility for it. She even took responsibility earlier for making a sad, pathetic man into a cult hero of a monster. She won't talk about Bloody Face not out of fear, but because she has turned her back on seeking out misery and evil. It just rots at you, and Bloody Face, Jr. is rotting from the inside.

Time festers all wounds. If you seek medical help, the wound goes away and maybe becomes a scar. But if you keep picking at the wound, and never heal thyself, it gets worth. The wound gets infected and it rots the skin. That is what Lana did with her life. She rotted, while Kit healed himself. Kit sought joy, and he was rewarded by God (or aliens). Jude found salvation. Lana found more misery and death. She kept picking at her wound.

That's what Bloody Face Jr. got from his mother. the need to seek out evil and pain. Ultimately, it must destroy him. And once Lana cauterizes the wound, she can finally stop seeking out pain. She's retiring from her work, but she's also retiring from that part of her life. She has moved on.

I found it an uplifting ending, and one that we desperately need. Take responsibility for our own sufferings. Seek out joy, and you will find it.

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I don't understand where the discussion even comes into play that Lana was bloodyface

NOTHING in the season led us to believe that...

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This times 10,000. If Lana was
Bloodyface, that would be the single most important discovery of the whole season. It literally changes everything about the story To say that the writers would reveal something that incredibly huge in a vague flashback in the last 3 minutes of the season that's completely open to interpretation is ridiculous.

Someone mentioned The Usual Suspects. There was absolutely no doubt after the last scene that Kevin Spacey was Kaiser Soze. Nothing to debate at all. I'm not trying to sound like an a-hole, but if you told the writers about the theory of Lana being Bloodyface they would laugh at you.

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Highly possible.

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Do you know what this statement means?

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did you watch the show it was almost impossible to figure out what was real and what wasn't.

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No, actually it wasn't. It may have seemed foggy at first, but they spelled it all out pretty clearly.

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Baloo

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Well said

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I found it an uplifting ending, and one that we desperately need. Take responsibility for our own sufferings. Seek out joy, and you will find it.

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Nice take on the finale.

I enjoyed the season as a whole, and think this finale was far superior to season 1. Even if you didn't care for the plot, the technical aspects of the finale were very impressive.

Now that I think about it...

The perfect song that should have been used in the background of Lana/Bloodyface Jr.


Bohemian Rhapsody

All I could hear when watching that scene over again.

When it comes to Season 3...