my empty graves case file 4 thoughts as i watch it a second time. it's gonna live in my brain forever now
so incredibly glad they found norah immediately
their initial reactions are so interesting, sort of indicative of their broader characters and what might be on their minds - will immediately glancing around for clues and further danger, isaac questioning where her dad is, lui trying to figure out if/how magic was involved
this being the second time will has to carry norah into the hospital during one of their investigations :( the second time she wakes up disoriented, surrounded by beeping machines
"i'm worried about being forced to fight magic with magic" lui's unintentional foreshadowing goes crazy
them starting to talk about not splitting up anymore and staying with norah in the hospital....... they're learning <3 and then they immediately split up again and send lui and isaac to the store lol but the thought was there
"is it really suspicious if we sidebar quickly" "maybe it's just not worth investigating" lmaooooo
lui being so done with the cop even as he tries to save his life lol
"i'll stay. i'll stay this time" william is trying to kill me with a thousand knives
lui's radical truth strategy continues not to work even a little bit with anyone
the return of janice!!!!!!!!!!! huge for me ily janice <3333
seems like they forgot lui theoretically works at this convenience store too lolll surely he should know where they stock salt
"i sometimes wonder why you think things are going to end up differently every time you do this"
isaac stealing benadryl oh nooooo. like a lot of things they say about isaac it's a bit but still makes me unimaginably sad. sunglasses emoji
morton salt. hey i buy that :)
"she's lucky she had you" let's all explode and die
norah waking up and seeing her mom crying and first thing asking if she's okay............. and then apologizing for "not listening"
mrs. fleetwood looking around for something to do or solve to help her daughter and to comfort herself.. very much speaks how she deals with other problems, and how norah was probably raised. she obviously loves norah and would do anything to help her but. sometimes you just need someone to sit by your bedside and hold your hand instead
i didn't expect dr. guerrero but it's suuuuch a good choice i love that
it's so interesting how there are other dead people popping up..... like mr. brooks was obviously partially in mr. abrahams' control, probably brought back intentionally, but the others we've seen seem. completely unrelated. i think later in the episode they bring up that maybe he left some kind of gateway open and now all sorts of dead people are coming back which i think is an interesting and likely idea
"i performed the operation on your leg" bro that can't be sanitary
somebody get norah some apple juice Right Now!!!!!!!!!!
if memory serves will dodges agnes duponte's attack with a 67 in ep 1....... now he fails with one with dr. guerrero. woaww the 67 parallels. beautiful world
the red and white alarm lights and sounds are scary. once again the production this season has been sooo goooooddd
"we're gonna sue, we're gonna make a million dollars" lmaooooo and i love mrs. wisp brooding like batman
seeing the wisps' reactions to william getting hurt makes me so sad knowing he'll die within the year :(
obsessed with norah weaponizing her injured state to get mr. wisp to leave
"isaac is a pro at sneaking people out of the hospital" ??
"you know me, i love my early morning walks through the snow" dawg
norah saying she wishes she learned more out there.. someone please tell her the world isn't on her shoulders pleasaasseee norah :((
"you think it's me?" "if it's you, then it's me too." isaac and norah friendship enthusiasts we are winning but at what cost
"i'm never gonna change" - condifiction, 2026
will and lui stealing blood from a hospital like 2010s vampires lol
"sometimes it feels like there isn't a dark god in the woods waiting to eat us all." "no, i don't ever feel that way."
norah being on the swim team when she was a kid................
everyone asking norah again and again if she's sure, trying to make sure she's okay, telling her she can back out at any time
the bloodbath involving killing an animal, holding yourself under the water for as long as you can bear. it's like it was built to torture her bizlychannel you're evil
thinking about norah saying "that animal died for nothing" about the dropped chicken in episode 1
the way the rabbit was eating out of the palm of norah's hand, the way it trusted her. it thrashed like she did in the forest, until they both went still
"maybe it'll be... cool" the way lui tries to rationalize it even while recognizing that's what he's doing and that it still feels wrong.. so obsessed with this choice from grizzly. in general i love lui's reaction to this ritual and how working so closely with magic is obviously changing his relationship to the occult and to power and will continue to effect him in the long run (even besides the physical effects we see at the end of the episode). grizzly the player you are
also i loveeeee the way milo plays norah all the time forever but especially this episode and ESPECIALLY these scenes omg. her physical acting is so good and norah's choices here are so interesting.. she has to do this, she has to be there. she has to help.
lui trying to take as much of the burden as possible from norah.. learning the ritual, catching and holding the bunny, placing his hands over hers as she holds the knife
norah apologizing to lui right before climbing into the bathtub :(
her holding onto the knife like a lifeline..... just like she uses the river to lead her home. what harms you will still bring you comfort
"norah, you pay the cost" sure hope it was......... worth the cost............ thanks i'll be here all night
going from the animal sacrifice immediately to isaac and will's dumb handshake is so funny
shout out sister rosemary. glad she made it to the map
"william, are we bad people?"
"it feels good when i earn it. i get dogs." okay
so interesting mrs. abrahams is the one still up and wandering around.. like girl what are you doing here
tbh i'm too tired rn to try and parse exactly what mr. abrahams' plan was and how the dark young relates to bringing his son back. i'll go back and read through some transcripts tomorrow lol but rn my best guess is that it truly was an accident. like mr. abrahams asked god for his son and the dark young is what answered. or maybe he knew it would leave this gateway for the dead to come back through and was just hoping one of them would be his son. idk
them replaying isaac's screaming as william hears it from down in the basement jumpscared me lol
isaac always getting the shit kicked out of him lowkey but rarely losing sanity about it makes ME feel like im losing sanity. tbh. kid open your eyes this pain and fear is not normallll
"no, i - i had my eyes closed" norah.........................
william psychology roll while looking at his oldest friend
the hair dye cover is so incredibly funny. prime defenders everything is the same except william has splat red hair
love how lui keeps pushing his glasses up
"i'm real." "i trust you." what th ehelllll. will taking norah by the arm to lead her and try to keep her safe :( the comparison to the rabbit with the "i trust you".,.,,.,,,,,.. fucked up and evil
drawing the symbols and pouring out the salt and blood is so fun honestly the props have been one of my favorite parts of this season
the different ways the dark young tries to temp them to look are so interesting.. preying on lui's pride and curiosity, norah and isaac's desire to find and help their missing loved ones, william's closeness with and desire to stick by his friends
the way lui pauses the whole ritual to redraw a symbol lolll
isaac saying he's more confident after hearing his dad apologize because that would never happen in real life
william bout of madness let's go /frightened /sorrowful
will's anger being in part on his friends' behalf, for what they've lost and how they've suffered.. only to lead him to a place of violence where he goes against their wishes and lashes out when they protest
charlie slimecicle plays angry will so well
"i don't think he'd say no to you" owie
the roots of the trees wrapping around all of them.. your hometown never really lets you go :/
"i think that my friends are so much cooler than me" luiiiiiiiiiiii :( him finding a peaceful moment in trying to connect with his best friend
love william's poem i may look at it more closely in another post idk. that's a tomorrow project
i hope lui's ok :< hp-wise he should still be alive but it's hard to know the toll the magic has taken on him
what a bittersweet ending compared to the last season. which feels very in line with the rest of the tone but geeeez
ok i feel like an extra sherlock episode conspiracy theorist saying this........ but maybe there will be a little bit more idk. a little epilogue or smthing. i mostly say that bc of the way bizly says "that's where we'll end for tonight". like what are yall filming tomorrow
but no that's probably it lol and i loved the final episode :3 idk if we'll have any more upp or have any more references to them in prime defenders, but if that's the end of it altogether know that it's a show that will probably stick with me forever. i gotta go to beddd now and will write more about it in the morning <3 love you upp, love you fellow upp enjoyers