Nothing about what happened at the end of the last episode made sense and it seems like someone just wanted out.
I didn’t hate the finale as much as everyone else seems to have, but I didn’t love it. I’m ok with giving it a little space if it’s setting up a great S3-5. I do worry that it’s all downhill from here. I just don’t think it’s fatally injured yet.
I don’t know that anyone necessarily wanted out (the main character death seems to mirror the death at the end of season 1, past then, present now), except maybe the writers who wanted out of the stupid mess of a murder subplot they wrote themselves into in the present timeline. And you know what? I say good for them. It was utterly nonsensical how they resolved it, but fingers crossed they will stick to their guns and just let that be the end of it. It provided some good explorations of Shauna’s family dynamic in the present, and a nice subversion of expectations re: the husband, but that is now long since past and I wish they had just let them get away with it cold in the very beginning of the season, or else saved the consequences for something closer to the series finale.
But anyway, they have a chance to be done with it now, however implausibly, and I hope they will just let it be. I do, however, hope they will have the good taste to let season 3 be the last season.
Take us to rescue, maybe help us understand how/why the plane crashed to begin with (I’m betting it wasn’t an accident), and let us or the characters have some final catharsis on WTF happened and how it affected them. Go out strong.
I don’t think there are any more secrets from their time in the wilderness left that are big enough to justify more seasons. They turned cannibal, they created a hunt ritual, how precisely the rest of the missing died is pretty much small details.
I agree that the murder subplot had become tiresome. Of course the writers have now provided themselves with a new subplot, centering on ‘just how crazy are the Wood and Ricci characters, anyway?’ (I’m enjoying Wood’s performance and am willing to see where they go with his story.)
I agree with all that. The only real question I have is, do the writers have some way of making plausible what seems utterly ridiculous: that a large passenger jet could go down somewhere in (presumably) Canada and not be found for MONTHS–even if one of the nuttier passengers sabotaged the transmitter.
I mean, Canada is big, sure. But the plane’s flightpath would have been known up to some point before the crash; it’s not as though there are billions of square miles to search.
We shall see, I guess. They may just hand-wave that away (as they’ve been doing so far).
I have a sense there was a throwaway line about storm evasion or being off course, a la Cast Away. Even if there wasn’t, I’d just assume that.
Or… maybe Lottie’s dad wanted her dead so bad he was willing to underwrite a massive conspiracy and murder a team full of soccer players, plus coaches and crew, just to be rid of her?
Which, by the way, is my pet theory for the crash (plus a little extra). Lottie’s dad, the one who didn’t know how to show his love for her except by spending lavishly (such as by chartering a jet for the whole team) is in fact a sociopath and just wanted Lottie dead for… reasons. The crash was planned. Survival was not.
But I don’t honestly think he further went to the trouble of bribing a bunch of people to falsify records and prevent discovery of what he presumed would be nothing but wreckage and bodies. Bringing down a plane load of kids just to be rid of your mentally unwell daughter is one thing, but preventing the wreckage from being found? That would be crazy!
There is some evidence that schizophrenia runs in families. Dear old Dad may have been acting on what his Voices told him. Or if he wasn’t dealing with that disease, he might just have been some sort of religious fanatic, horrified that someone in his family was mentally ill (and wanting to get rid of her on that basis).
I agree that making him the source of falsification of records, etc., would be a bit much, though.
I get it about the ‘storm sends the plane off course’ argument, but even so…there wouldn’t be all that huge a circle, from the point of leaving the registered flightpath*, to be searched. The radius (and therefore the size of the circle) would be determined by the possible speed of the aircraft and by the limitations of how long the aircraft could stay in the air (fuel capacity), after all.
The showrunners may not want to acknowledge that, of course (which will be disappointing if true).
*and that point, thought admittedly not known for certain, would be subject to the atmospheric conditions extant at the time of the flight—which would be known.
The other answer to the plane not being found is that there is some sort of supernatural element keeping the girls from being found.
I’m curious how much more time they’ll spend the past storyline. They were lost for 19 months, about about 9-10 months have passed. It looks like winter is coming to an end so I’m assuming the scene from the first episode will be next winter. They’ll get rescued at the height of their cannibalistic cult.
Right, that’s what I’m thinking. The possibilities seem to be three, roughly speaking:
**The showrunners will simply ignore the implausibility of the survivors not being found (don’t satellites have thermal-imaging capability, for example?)
**The showrunners will address the implausibility, and explain it via some sort of conspiracy (most likely that Lottie’s father paid off some people), or
**The showrunners will address the implausibility and explain it via a supernatural force that ‘wanted’ the survivors to remain in the wilderness for 19 months.
Just recently binge watched the first 2 seasons, as I missed this series when it first started. Like the series. For the most part they picked good parallel actors to play the 25 year age difference of many of the characters. Even young Natalie took on many of Juliet Lewis’ speaking mannerisms, making it more authentic. The one portrayal that I had a hard time believing was Shauna. Teenage Shauna and adult Shauna come across as two very different characters.
Read that Season 3 probably won’t show up until sometime in 2025.
BUZZ BUZZ!
We’re back on Friday. Doing a rewatch so it’s all fresh. Crossing my fingers that the extra long break gave them time to prune it like a bonsai, shape it into perfection, instead of the break starving it and causing it to wither and die in quality
I hope they don’t spoil the opportunity they gave themselves by taking a broadsword to the present day murder mystery plot. Season 2 was a real hack job, but a hack job is better than gangrene, if you know what I mean. Maybe now they can get back to doing something interesting/coherent in the present day timeline.
I’m liking S2 watching it binge style, rather than waiting a week and not getting answers or not liking the answers I got (rip to so many people). I agree I’d rather the murder plot be gone. Maybe they’ll say Nat did it.
oops got ahead of myself. I rewatched the finale last night and it was pretty tied up … as far as we know. I guess I didn’t remember it with all the other things going on. And it’s been 2 years
Spoilering this because while the episode is available, it doesn’t technically air until tomorrow night.
That was about the worst trial and deliberation I have ever seen on tv and is exactly what one would expect from 90s teenage girls raised entirely on tv trials. They don’t even have Legally Blonde to pull from.
And I think Callie killed Lottie, but most so far are thinking Night-Taisa.
Nice ending for episode 6.
Yeah, I really wasn’t expecting that.
The screams we screamed. I’ve made a terrible mini-me because my teen and I screamed, then cackled and made dark jokes