as it won’t be again

taking it in good faith the choice to have widow’s bay be completely uninhabited before the original european townsfolk arrived feels like an attempt by the writers to sidestep the historically thorny relationship between indigenous cultures and western horror, which isn’t an entirely unproblematic approach but arguably better than the alternative. my prediction is that if they do acknowledge indigenous history in the area it’ll probably be something along the lines of someone from the nearest band showing up to be like “yeah we told those dumbasses not to go there because that place was evil but they went anyways and look what happened. no we can’t help you, we were smart enough not to go there in the first place”. or there’ll be the imo more interesting reveal that the island straight up didn’t exist prior to the arrival of the settlers, that their desire for a pristine terra nullius led them straight into a trap. now that’s some good colonial horror