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

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Right, they had to in order to stop her. My point is not letting her take it in the first place to conserve gas. Although you might want to keep the keys somewh

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I thought that too until I saw the gas station in the scene where Sarah met Sophia. I just assumed the town provided gas like they do water.

We just caught up on Season 4 today. This is the only show I’ve seen in a long time where they’ve been able to keep the quality up through every season. Not once have we lost interest.

The actress that plays Sophia is pretty damn good. She’s diabolical and innocent at the same time.

They did a damn good job of making her look homely. Then again most of the actresses are attractive and they’ve managed to tone down their looks a lot.

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They moved the story forward a smidge with the wedding ring. I'm not sure where it's going or if the infinity symbol inside it means anything though.

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That didn't move anything forward really though; it was just another mystery about it. I thought we'd at least get to see more about the hand coming out of the ground, who it was, etc. I suspect it's difficult to talk about since the people never seem to know if what they are seeing is actually real or if it is just in their imaginations. But still, if I'm Boyd I'm telling at least certain people that I was at Abby's grave and a fricking hand grabbed me and damn near drug me into the ground. But sharing information isn't a thing on this show too often.

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Boyd's boat? Remind me what happened there. He bought a boat and had a picture of it then it vanished from the picture?

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I don't remember anything about the boat disappearing from the picture. Just that Elgin's polaroid camera spit out a picture of Boyd's old house.

I was reading up a little on the From Wiki about Boyd, and maybe there is some connection between the boat and the Town. When we got Boyd's flashback to when he arrived to the Town, he and Abby and Ellis were in the car on a road trip and right when Abby surprised him with the boat key is when they almost hit the tree in the road. So maybe the boat is somehow significant. I'm not sure the boat is what is in the lake though...and the preview for next week didn't seem to look like a boat (although I didn't get a good look at it really). So I guess maybe it could be?

Also, reading just now about Boyd, it hit me that when Boyd was out stuck in the woods all night and found the talismans...when he returned to the Town with all of them in his hands/arms, that's when Abby went nuts and was shooting people. So that also does sort of play into the whole "if you figure out too much shite, the Town fights back" angle that they talked about in recent episodes. This Town is very hesitant to give anybody a win, and it seems like even when someone does get one, it very quickly strikes back with some downer shite to counterbalance the win.

Also, music seems to be important on this show. When they were riding in their car, right before Abby gives him the boat key, they were listening to "If I Had a Boat" by Lyle Lovett. And Abby was also singing that when she was shooting people on the main road. I've generally tried keeping notes of songs when I notice them in the show, but maybe that is worth looking more into at some point.

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I was confused by the scene with the rings. I assume they're trying to make us think that the same thing that happened to Boyd's wife is now happening to Fatima?

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Not sure on that either. The ring thing was odd, but I suspect the ring is somehow important (was it Abby's wedding ring??). And the way it was shot made me wonder if there were gonna be two rings...only for Boyd to see the one on the desk disappear once he had the actual ring in his hand.

I do suspect that the infinity symbol is just sort of an identifier, as wes mentioned above.

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For the questions in this thread about if the MIY was a converted member of the town...I don't think that's what they're getting at. It's the same thing as Sophia where no one knows the truth and just assumed she's new to the town. And when Victor was a child the MIY won and so Victor never found out the truth

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That's the backstory episode I want the most, when Victor is a boy and everyone dies. I assume MiY will be heavily involved in that. But I want some story on that, and I want to see how Victor managed to survive on his own for so long. I assume that shortly after everyone was killed, new people started arriving, but who knows.

I also wonder how much backstory we are gonna get about this place in general, and the supernatural aspects of it. I don't need it laid out on a platter, but I at least do hope we do get some info on it and what it is/how it came to be. And I hope it's more than just "the Devil built this place" or something like that (also assuming that MiY is not literally the devil).

Just wanted to point out that we're already at page 8. The discussion is definitely growing compared to previous seasons. This is fun

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How has this season been? I have not been able to watch and love the series

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Still very good

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Any more clarity of what is going on? or where they are? please just yes or no

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A little

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No

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Julie has to be a pretty major plot point moving forward.

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The storywalking has to end up being very important to them getting out or finding out what got them there. Otherwise it’s a waste of a storyline.

Marielle has been a sidenote since they got trapped in the ruins. They need to add her in somehow.

I also want to say when the expedition left to go to the lake they had two people with them I didn’t recognize. A redhead and some dude. Me and my wife both immediately said Redshirts and something bad is going to happen.

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And for a stupid reason, she didn’t solve the problem of getting grabbed by the hair at all.

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Ehh whatever, the reason was bc they needed to show that Julie was story walking in the Jim scene from season 3. Different hair was an easy way to show she was from a different time. Now they just needed an excuse to cut it off and tie that end up

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When the daughter story walked and the MIY was eating someone I’m curious if that was the time when Victor was a child. The story walking has to have a big payoff and be a major theme going forward.

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Which brings up a time-travel question...

When MiY/Sophia first meets Julie, does he recognize her as being the person from back then who interrupted his meal?

Or...

Did her travelling re-write things so that now he has the memory and will remember her the next time he sees her? (ie: it's only happened once, not a time loop)

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Did her travelling back in time create a divergent line (or some other explanation) so that the MiY/Sophia in the current time isn't the one who experienced the meeting with Julie in the past?

Sofia not only gorgeous but her body as well is omg. Even cute as church girl. MIY is gonna wreck the town. Victors dads death will be bad.

It's fricking terrible. You can read into this and that from each episode but if you're looking for entertainment each week, abandon ship. There's entire episodes with zero suspense, excitement, etc... it's now become a drawn out replica of Quantum Leap meets The Predator meets Oliver Twist.