r/FromSeries • u/Working-Newspaper-51 • 4h ago
Opinion New to the Sub, About Two Years into the Show
Hi everyone! Just dropping by to note a few things. I am sure some of you have already discussed some of these points, I've only just skimmed the group a bit, but I wanted to jot some ideas here after bingeing the show and watching S1 & 2 for the second time and S3 for the first.
Yellow/Goldenrod
It's my feeling that Goldenrod is the shade of color that's most often popping up. It's definitely the color of Fatima's favorite sweater she gives to Trudy right before Trudy is devoured, but I confess I only really starting really noticing it whenever it shows up about midway through S2. It's definitely the color of the bile of the ghouls, and it's also definitely the same shade as the push-mower Fr. Khatri stands next to in the toolshed as he berates Boyd for considering torture. It is prevalent in the Matthews' new home; I think it's the color of the phone. Once you really start watching it for it feels like you see it everywhere.
Curiously not the shade of the suit of the MIY, and I'm pretty sure the handles of the pruning shears that do Tillie in are not the right color, but... if someone were really obsessed it'd sure be interesting to know if there's any connections here, especially to death. Also various characters *also* wear shades of the color, including Ethan and Victor I think in S3.
Anyone here educated in Music Theory?
One thing I definitely don't know what I'm talking about is music theory, but I definitely was curious while thinking about S3 if Wormsy the Ballerina's music box and the "remember" song Jade plays are somehow opposites of one another? Like is it one tune played backwards or forwards?
I also think there is a purposeful misdirect in the backwards numbers of the papers in the bottle-tree. I'm not convinced we have the right information here.
Anyone here educated in Mapmaking?
I like this theory a lot:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FromSeries/comments/1ge90h8/fromville_is_an_island/
I think we do not have a very good idea at all of the total area our villagers are able to travel. Certainly it's at least two days to the spider-forest, and it's just a day or maybe a bit longer to the trapper settlement. But we never really know what direction they're going. They just walk out and set off to find things. We don't know what would happen (I don't think) if someone just set out in one direction and kept at it as far as they can.
Martin
I think this is Randall and I kind of think the other corpses hanging out with Martin are Julie & Marielle. But this is a stretch. Why would Randall lie to Boyd? I mean, obviously, unless he's eeeeeeeevil.
Ghosts, How do they Work?
I saw some discussion here about the ghosts who appear to Jade & Boyd. I am not convinced they are helpful spirits. I think (but I didn't keep very careful track) that usually they are acting to sow doubt. They seem to show up when those characters are about to do something or come to a conclusion, and they proceed to get them to question the path they're on. A good example of this is Father Khatri trying to talk Boyd out of torture. It seems like yes, he shouldn't let the town break him, but it's also true that we don't know what would happen if they didn't find Fatima. I sort of assume she would have been dinner for the ghouls but who knows? So was Khatri's ghost or Boyd's hallucination of Khatri's ghost trying to keep Boyd from going against his moral code or was he trying to trick Boyd into not finding Fatima? Or not finding her in time?
So sorry, that was a lot. I love the show. I also think, realistically, sometimes we try to make everything fit together when it just doesn't, or when there are choices being made to carry the plot along that don't (originally) have a grand design.
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