Jaditha nation, please accept my humble tribute 😌

(I did it you guys I wrote more jaditha look at us who would’ve thought)

And I hope I never see what your face looks like goin’. A face, I swear, that I could spend my whole life knowin’.

"when you cut a worm in half, it grows back into two worms." -> boyd stevens, s1e10

or alternatively, how the show uses a brief single throwaway line in the very first season to foreshadow a transformation that begins in season 2 and culminates in season 4.

sara and boyd's conversation in the forest feels mundane in the grand scheme of things, but it loops back into the narrative. worms are odd, strange creatures. sara wonders if they know where they are, or if they just enjoy burrowing themselves in the dirt regardless of it. her curiosity and the way she looks at the world may just be why the voices were able to reach her in the first place. boyd on the other hand, finds them weird regardless, and states the outlined line — the line that not only foreshadows his encounter with strange worms the very next seasons, but also the fate of his son's then-girlfriend.

martin slices him open and deposits the worms beneath his skin so he can die in peace. boyd slices smiley and deposits them into him — except smiley here, is the metaphorical worm. he's been, in a manner of speaking "cut in half." the rules of the town grew two more monsters from it. they used fatima to facilitate his resurrection and sped up her own fade into becoming a creature. by the end of season 4, she has become the second worm (a creature).

quick boyd stevens study

An average Victor sideplot:

At the end of season 3, I posted a theory that the monsters aren't the original monsters, and that there are new monsters each cycle made up of people from the previous cycle who were willing to sacrifice children.

After seeing Fatima become a monster, I think I was partly right.

Some of those monsters are people like Clara who took the bargain.

It wasn't just giving birth to smiley that turned Fatima into a monster. She also had to drink MIY blood. Clara also took MIY's blood.

And if Jade & Tabitha don't win this cycle, Clara isn't going home. She's going to become a monster.