Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
From Season 2. That final scene blew my mind when I first saw it and all in all
we have a lot to talk about. Throughout this video we're gonna be breaking it all down,
going over our theories and also what we thinks going on. Not even gonna ask you for the thumbs
up I wanna just go straight into that scene and talk about exactly what it means for the future.
In it we see Tabitha waking up in hospital and she's finally managed to make it back to the
outside world. Realising she's free shes suddenly with the horror that her families still trapped
there and she can't simply get back. Why this is so terrifying is that I doubt anyones gonna
believe her stories and there's no way to actually get back to the town through conventional means.
Now though the ending gives us a lot of questions it actually at least gives us
an answer and debunks a major theory. Throughout the last two seasons many
have suspected that the characters in the show are in fact dead. However that
clearly isn't the case as we have her waking up. So scrap your theories times,
this isn't simply purgatory and there are actually some clues about what could be going on here.
Now one thing that characters have said throughout the seasons is that this
might all potentially be a dream. That could be the case here as there are some things in
this scene that are connected to sleep and the idea of waking up.
Tabitha of course wakes up in the hospital after getting pushed out the lighthouse and
we discovert that she was found unconscious by hiker in the woods. The town itself is also
described as being like a nightmare and the monsters themselves could represent this too.
Cut back to the start of Episode 9 and we have Sara talking about the evil entities
that exist there and she theorises this when discussing what happening.
when people die their nightmares become part of the forest
This would explain the cicadas that her brother was afraid of and it could also explain the
civil war soldiers. Victor and his mother shared conversations about
this and when we look at the new deaths they're all connected to dreams. In the
first season all that people had to worry about was making sure their talisman was
secure so when the monsters did knocky nine doors they weren't in any trouble.
If they are fears then we could learn who these figures represent and they may potentially be
people from the real world that tormented those inside. Say one of them was a guy
who got too pushy with a girl or another was a boss that was abusive to his staff. People
would have a genuine fear of them and it could explain why they manifest like this.
Now the horror for season 2 has definitely
been elevated and we've had extra dimensions added into the show.
Boyd got worms.
I got worms
And characters like Paula were killed in their sleep. Again it ties back to this idea of dreams
and Elgin and Kenny had them manifesting last week. Elgin of course had a nightmare about
the town as he was arriving and I think that this whole thing shows the root cause of the problem.
Thems some sort of hypnosis over the town and the only way to get out is to go looking for answers.
episode 8 28 minutes looking for answers is our only way out
Now that's how Tabitha escapes and we also learn that Victors mother did the same thing too.
The lighthouse also represents several things symbolically and when we look at
literature it backs up the prior point. Now lighthouse are used to show safety
and a way out. Sailor lost at sea would use them to guide them home
and also navigate the rocks that could cause their ships to crash.
This allowed them to make it back to the shore similar to how Tabitha has made it back home.
On top of this in Jungian Archetypes it has a symbolic meaning too with a lighthouse standing
for an individuals consciouness. In his memoirs Jung put it as a light that can guide one out of
darkness and its potential use here could be to take tabitha out the dream. She's pushed out of
the tower by the boy in white who's acted like a guardian angel throughout this entire thing.
He saved Victor from the Massacre when he was a kid and also helped
the characters out at the end of Season 1.
Now Victors mother is someone we also know went after it and I actually think
that she's out in the real world. She went looking for the lighthouse and probably
had a similar journey to Tabitha. Victors Mother said she was going
to save the children and visions of them have plagued Tabitha throughout the show so far.
So I think she's very much going on the same journey as her and we might even discover that
she's out in the real world. Sure she'll be a lot older but I actually think Tabitha might
track her down. There will probbaly be stories of a woman escaping the town and then using
their knowledge they can send Tabitha back. I think it would be a real shame if it Victor
wasn't reunited with her and he's survived for so long that he deserves that happy ending.
Now they Victor discusses how he found her body by the bottle tree and I think that Tabitha's
body might be discovered too. In the from verse it makes sense that when someone transcends
that their body would be discovered cos in this world theyve just been pushed out of a
lighthouse. In order to get there they have to go through the faraway tree so I feel like upon
being pushed out they're then thrown out the tree as well. We know his mother at
least travelled into it so for her to end up on the ouside could be due to a similar thing.
So I think that in season 2 her family will come across her corpse and then
from here we'll see her in the outside world trying to get back. In the case of Mari we
saw how she was reunited with Kristi and it's possible that if you want it enough
that you can be taken there. There may also exist faraway trees in the real world which
could allow people to travel in and out of the town. This would mean that the people
running the show and working with those in control also have a way to get in and out.
Very loose theory times there but I think there are some pointers at what could be going on.
Now there's also the possibility that Victors sister Eloise is actually the one that she could
come across. Like his mother she was someone that was a key part of his childhood but we
never actually found out what her fate was. She was simply there in the flashbacks and
then disappeared when we cut to the present day. Now it is possible that she passed during the
massacre but there may be other things at work. Potentially her escape happened during this and
she was able to get out and flee which made Victor stop looking for her. I think in general that he's
pretty shook by his mothers death and anything that feels like it's gonna cause him to step
out of the quote unquote limits of the town is something that's gonna make him hold back.
He's pretty much institutionalised as he has lived here for as long as he
can remember and probably doesn't want to lose his home. Guys been
carrying that lunchbox round and they might use this as a way to find her.
Now I've also seen people discussing how when Tabitha looks in the window we get a
weird reflection back. I dunno if this is 100% the case as it could be the lighting but I have
seen theories saying that we get a blond woman in the glass which potentially could even be Eloise.
Now if we're going with the simulation theory then that's another possibility as well. Many
suspect that the town is either an experiment or simulation and Tabitha could've just woken
up in the next level. I'm not sure of that but if the reflection thing isn't
a reach then potentially that's why that was put there. It's also important to bear
in mind that the hospital is called St Anthony which we can see on background of the computer
screen. Anthony is known as the Patron Saint of Lost Things which Tabitha now represents.
Potentially we have more afoot here with saints potentially getting invovled which
the Boy in White could also represent. He appeared to Victor as a child and hasn't
aged since then so there is the possibility he could be an immortal guardian angel.
Now for the next part of the video I wanna talk about what else happens
in the finale and then give our review. If you enjoy the video make sure you susbcribe
to stick around like Kelly did otherwise you're gonna spend the night in the box.
Now we begin in the aftermath of the swarm taking over Julie, Randall and Marielle.
Found in an almost unresponsive state they react by screaming upon being touched.
This reminded me of Kelly when she was stuck to the tree and
eventually she descended into violently screaming once she hit a certain point.
Boyd and co decide to head out into the woods which is where they begin
to decipher the nursery rhyme. It says they come for three unless you
stop the melody and here in lies the key in how they get saved.
The idea of there being 3 has also been shown in the series before with there being three people
chained up in the case of the guy on the wall. Later on when Boyd is taken there we see Reggie,
Julie and Randall all chained up as well in similar positions to those people.
Destroying the music box also destroys the hold over them which is something
Sara gets told through the force speaking to her.
Elsewhere we see Donna at colony house who's been under the microscope this season. Randall
gave a lot of attention to her and suspected at one point she was working for the other team.
I dont think thats the case though and instead I think this is actually Tilley.
Huge shoutouts to Think story for pointing out that she said that she
had seven children and that there are seven kids who appear at the bottom of the well.
We see her here holding a prayer circle and earlier in the season she seemed to
know more than she should. She knew Boyd had just been out and also was aware that Fatima
was pregnant. Sure she couldve guessed by the fact that she was glowing but she
seems to be getting to be slowly seeping in to every aspect of the town. The idea
of her being an old vulnerable lady also means that people dont put their guard up
with her and she's may be a wolf in sheeps clothing spying on the town.
Now we have had the idea before that old and frail looking people can be dangerous and this
is something we've seen in the series before. If you cast you mind back to that first kill in the
first episode the monster came knocking in the guise of an old woman. This could've
bene foreshadowing whats to come and my moneys on Tilley as being the double agent.
Now in some happy news Fatima and Ellis decide to get married which actually shows
that some hope and a home can be made here. This happens in the room in which we first
met the characters back in episode 1 and its adorned with the artwork that they've
created over the seasons. I think it's only once you start looking for a way out that it
potentially presents itself but those who want to remain can live if they survive.
Now someone who's obsessing over everything is
Jade who's now started seeing the dead like how Boyd saw his wife.
Smashing bottles he attemps to build a 3D model of the symbol a vision of Tom tells him to go
into the tunnels to go looking for the symbol. This is where Tabitha saw it when she had her own
vision and the well entrance acts metaphorically much in the same way that the lighthouse does.
Potentially a way out and the symbol appearing here may show that thats
the case. They all sit around looking up at the sky and I was wondering if
this was some weird ritual carried out by the kids that keeps everyone here.
The idea of bottles kinda comes across as they of course are hanging up on the bottle tree itself.
Elsewhere we watch Reggie going on a murder spree and Boyd goes looking for a way to finally destroy
the music box. This is when Reggie springs him accusing him of causing Paulas death. Boyd manages
to kill him and eventually after lighting the torch up at the site of the dungeon he's
transported there. Seeing his wife she says that destroying the box will prolong their suffering
and that the people in the town will die an even more agonising death if he prolongs things.
I feel like there is the possibility that she may have been right in her
assumptions that it was a dream and potentially her death allowed her to
go into the real world. She may also just be a manipulation carried out by whatever
is going on here but Boy does stand up to her and upon destroying the box she goes
too. This frees the three and it also stops the constant buzzing that we've heard in the town.
Now as Boyd goes into the woods you might also
notice something different about the woods themselves.
Earlier in the series Victor said that the town had been in a constant state of Summer
but now things are turning to winter. I think that the longer the town has a mass populace
the more it starts to decay before it eventually dies off. This is why the massacre was carried
out in Victors childhood as it gave the town enough blood to go on for the next few decades.
There's a moment earlier in the season when Tabitha is climbing the lighthouse
and we can see years marked on some of the steps. I think that this marks out
the massacres and this potentially happens in cycles over and over and over again. A Bottle
was dropped during this scene linking back to the bottle tree which itself is a faraway
tree shown to us by the boy in white. Perhaps he's trying to get as many people out of the
next massacre as he can or he's sending someone else out to bring back help.
They definitely seem like they're ramping up and that we will likely
get another one happening very soon.
Now there's are seemingly good forces at work here that seem to want that to happen. We have
the boy in white and also other things in the town like the Talismans and so on. These stop
the evil forces from completely running amok and are likely the key to getting out of everything.
We know there are ways out in the case of Tabitha and it may be possible to travel out
by walking. When she makes it to the lighthouse she gets a high view over the area and we see the
cliffs that surround it in a circular fashion. I think passing these will allow one to escape.
The Boy in white has some insight to the things here happening over and over as
he was the one who told Victor to dig the correct amount of bodies before the attack
on Colony House. I kinda feel like the three sacrifices might be a way to appease the twon
which is what Boyds wife was alluding to. Carrying these out staves off the
massacre but stopping them causes it to happen. Whatever it is thats connected
to the worms is clearly very powerful as we had the monsters being killed by them.
There's also the fact that we have the dog constantly popping up and I have a theory
that this may be linked to the hikers that found tabitha. Potentially they go out on
their walks and take the little pooch with them which wanders in and out of the forest
between the barriers. This then allows it to tranverse between the two worlds and
Tabitha may even use it as a guide to get everyone out before we hit the next Massace.
Anyway as mentioned we end with Tabitha being pushed
out the lighthouse and now waking up somewhere completely different.
Now that ends my thoughts on the breakdown and as for my thoughts on the season I think this was
another banger filled with mystery, horror and things that kept me addicted to the show. I wanna
thank you guys for just constantly messaging me over the last 9 weeks being like 'hey you
should do from' 'are you doing from' 'will you do from' 100s of times a day every day.
I'd never seen the series and eventually I just caved and decided to put it on. From the
first scene I was completely hooked and the show took over my entire life. Me and my wife binge
watched the two seasons in the space of about 4 days and I've been hooked on it since then.
It feels like a mix between a stephen king classic and a
show like lost where the horror level has been bumped up to 11.
I honestly thought that the format from season 1 would be something that they
stuck with with the monsters just being in the woods trying to get them at night.
However they went above that in this entry and decided to add even more
horrors as the group went into the woods. Now the monsters arent the
scariest thing in the show and it's constantly getting better and better.
Now saying that the monsters still pack a punch too and that episode in which El gets stabbed
and they have to race to the hospital was the standout scene for me. Done in one take we get
the real scope of the area as they travel from one side to the other in a desperate
dash. Just seeing the monsters slowly walk to them reminds me how terrifying something can
be when it's moving slowly and this vastly outweighs using jumpscares in my opinion.
I talked about this in our Darth Vader video from last year but one thing they
do with the character is that they never have him running. He's always just walking slowly and it's
a technique that's been used on characters like Michael Myers and also the Terminator.
Just makes them terrifying and I thought the stuff with the new characters were great too.
Bringing in a literal bus load of people added a lot to the show and we had Randall adding an
extra dimension to it. A conspiracy theorist he started asking the questions I'd been asking
and seeing him slowly letting his paranoia get the best of him was a great addition.
All in all this was a brilliant show and I can't overstate how much I enjoyed it.
I'm so happy you guys recommended it to me and
I'll definitely be around to talk about the next one.
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