re: FROM (MGM+) SEASON 4 OFFICIAL DISCUSSION THREAD (This show needs watchers!)

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What do you make of Acosta and the ambulance scene?

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Frustrating waste of time. Who gives a frick if she wants to drive the ambulance in circles for a few hours? Doesn't everyone else have more important shite to worry about? Let Acosta figure it out for herself. And don't pop all the tires on your ambulance. That scene was frustrating.

So Victor has drawn the Lake of Tears? Meaning he knows where it is?

Wonder if its near the lighthouse since lighthouses are typically near water and since the spiderwebs were out in that direction.

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Frustrating waste of time. Who gives a frick if she wants to drive the ambulance in circles for a few hours? Doesn't everyone else have more important shite to worry about? Let Acosta figure it out for herself. And don't pop all the tires on your ambulance. That scene was frustrating.

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I don't disagree with that, but at the same time you have to try to save a vehicle as important as the ambulance, and you don't want her burning gas for essentially no reason.

I said on the last page that I did notice in S1, when Jim and Tabitha were driving the loop over and over, that there was a railroad crossing. I wonder if that will ever come into play or if that is just something they filmed and forgot about. But that seems like a solid place to start if you wanted to walk in two directions and not get lost or lose track of how to get back.

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So Victor has drawn the Lake of Tears? Meaning he knows where it is?

Wonder if its near the lighthouse since lighthouses are typically near water and since the spiderwebs were out in that direction.

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Could be. The spiders comment from Ethan in S1E2 was interesting to me when I caught it last night. I had completely forgotten about him saying any of that, and I guess early on in the show I didn't pay as much attention to it and take notes like I do now. But clearly that seems to be connected with the spider shite that Boyd and Sara saw when they went on their little adventure in S1 or S2 (I forget when that was). And they also had the bright arse light shine on their tent too, which I assume has to do with the lighthouse.

And I remember having a theory that the Town and Victor's drawings were connected in some way. Like I don't know if Victor just draws shite he sees around the area, or if the Town actually manifests shite that Victor draws into real life. Because if it is the latter, then Victor will have a gigantic role moving forward and in helping people get out I'd think.

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you have to try to save a vehicle as important as the ambulance, and you don't want her burning gas for essentially no reason.

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They popped the tires

I thought Julie's trip through time was interesting and that she called out for Randall to pull her out. I was trying to remember if there was ever an instance of a character thinking they heard someone calling their name but I couldn't think of one. We also don't have any instances of any characters ever seeing story walker Julie so maybe she never makes contact with anyone

Thread got me to check out the show, first season is streaming on Prime for the next few days. Really enjoying season 1 so far.

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The nerdy church girl he turned himself into has a sneaky good body

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Her character is made to look homely, but she is an absolute dime.

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The nerdy church girl he turned himself into has a sneaky good body

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I noticed that this past episode as well.

Her name is Julia Doyle:

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I get that they want to save gas, but when it comes down to a choice between ruining tires and using up gas, you should be choosing to burn the gas as those tires are going to be a BITCH to replace there (whereas vehicles come in from time-to-time with gas to siphon).

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IMO tires are less important since there are tons of vehicles there over the years. Gas, however, is a prime commodity though. But I don't disagree with you more than I just would put a higher importance on gas than tires. But I definitely agree with this:

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They should have just let her ride the circle with the doc until the doc talked her down.

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Kristi got her talking about her personal shite, and that was the first step. You'd have to think after a few circles that she'd give up and accept it. Plus, pretty much everyone has that breakdown and does the same shite at some point after getting to the Town...Acosta's just happened a couple weeks after she got there instead of the first day or two. But my point is that pretty much everybody should understand what she's doing because they've most likely done the same thing.

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Speaking of MiY, is he the demon the townsfolk made the deal with?

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I believe this is correct, yes. I think the From Wiki link that I have in the OP states it as well. That's a super helpful link btw, it does a decent job of connecting everything and reminding you of shite in past episodes that connect to other episodes.

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KNOWLEDGE COMES AT A COST: In hindsight, this was always part of the issue. From the radio causing the storm to the Matthews' home caving in because Tabbitha couldn't stop digging, part of the theme seems to be to keep the captured folks as ignorant as possible and punish them severely when they gain knowledge.

What does that bode now that Tabbitha and Jade seemingly know everything? (or at least the history)

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I think the new dynamic in the Town will be Jade/Tabitha using what they know to figure out more shite, and then Town pushing back harder...we don't know what MiY/Sophia's plan is yet, but it seems like he's doing some recon as well (although I don't know if he really needs to do recon since he's sort of a supernatural entity that seems to know everything about people anyway).

But I suspect that at some point Jade and Tabitha will combine their collective knowledge with Julie's new powers and utilize that somehow. Or if not, that seems like it would be a good idea.

And I still can't help but think Victor plays HEAVILY into all of this somehow. I really hope he does anyway, as he's been relatively absent in the first two episodes so far this season.

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With all the talk about how story-walkers can't change the stories, I think it's pretty much a certainty that she will somehow do so (whether it saves her dad or not is the question).

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I agree with that. And I think she will somehow manage to save Jim and bring him back (not sure how that works timeline-wise, but if that's not what they are building towards then they've done a good job of fooling me).

I also want her to be able to affect things just so she can punch Ethan in his bitch arse mouth and tell him he was wrong.

Looking ahead this is just my crystal ball ... and I have not read any others' prognostications ...

At some point, we will get 1 or 2 episodes dedicated to what happened to the original townspeople and the choice they made in sacrifice their children. For those who are analogizing to Lost, that will be similar to the whole Jacob/MiB origin episode. Perhaps we'll also get the backstory to the MiY.

Tabitha and Jade will be in the episode(s) and will try and prevent the townies from doing whatever it is they will do to their children. Because they try and prevent it from happening, they're absolved of becoming monsters but they're sentenced to an eternity of trying to stop the cycle.

I think escape from the town requires another form of sacrifice and I think Victor has to be a part of that. Victor serves as some sort of stop gap preventing the humans from being able to escape. I think Christopher will make Victor understand what he must do. And Victor's self-sacrifice will be the opposite of what happened to the original children and that somehow will make escape possible.

Julie will somehow learn to time travel and save Jim but Jim will retain memory or knowledge of being "on the other side" that will somehow help.

My 2 cents ... I love the show. I agree Ethan is a shitshow.

I think a lot of what you said is highly probable.

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Julie will somehow learn to time travel and save Jim but Jim will retain memory or knowledge of being "on the other side" that will somehow help.

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I don't think this has a happy ending. The theme song is literally "whatever will be, will be." I don't think Julie can change anything and there's a decent chance that her attempts will somehow cause them all to end up there in the first place

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How is this season?

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Really good so far IMO. But I’m a sucker for this show and have a way longer leash for it than most. But the first couple have been really good for me.

Don’t wait. Get in there and jump into the discussion. I always say, as often as possible, that it needs more viewers and our threads need more participants to help figure out what the frick is going on.