#from show

- I actually thought marielle’s death was good as a main character death. it hurt bad without making me furious. a good stakes-raiser, a good reminder of the consequences for fucking up around here. also a good reminder of just how crucial the talismans are. before you yell at me know that I’m a lesbian

- disappointed and upset by Whatever The Fuck just happened to fatima. I liked the idea that the monsters were people who sacrificed their children in exchange for immortality, which fatima did not do. also I love fatima and hate seeing bad things happen to her, and I don’t like the writing choice of “she suffers forever and then this shit happens”. the transformation scene WAS cool tho I’ll give them that. but yeah unless they do something really cool with it, I do not like it

Tabitha and Jade

Ok maybe everyone already knows this, but I think Tabitha and Jade aren't suposed to free the people in Fromville but be a cathalist to the new cycle of evil.

I don't have a full theory yet, but look.

They're shown oposing the Ritual from the beggining of time. At least I think it's them on the corner to the right.

Then they free 11 birds from the thomb

And then 11 monsters are drawn standing around some rotten crops (what's that house in the forest?)

The Ritual starts with the sacrifice of the children but involves all of these steps, and there's nothing new except now acording to YM they're digging out the children's (?) bones from the tomb.

The Monsters

Since the Monsters are not dressed in ancient fashion but from the 50's, and YM said from now on everyone will start tearing each other apart, plus what we saw with Clara on ep9, I think the Cycle is kind of a Ponzi scheme where a cohort of monsters need to give new monsters to the Forest in order for them to actually be free.

In this scenario, normal people face two options: become an immortal monster or get mauled and devoured by the Yellow Man.

The Lake of Tears

Victor's drawings show a big flood with people standing on the roof of a house under heavy rain (also there's another drawing of a spider in the rain, with Ethan also seeing a spider in his seazure-induced dream), and I think this is the Lake of Tears that brings the dead back into life to turn them into monsters.

Final questions

What took the monsters from the 50's so long to finish their cycle? Victor's family arrived around 1980, giving that cycle 30 plus years, when this new generation of people in Fromville has been at most three years trapped in there.