This is an overall dump of my thoughts during my first time viewing of From's second season's first episode, Strangers in a Strange Land.
Are we flashing back or jumping forward? (Or dreaming?)
Dreaming. He's still stuck in the chimney or whatever. Oh, but hey—there's an open top! You should be able to climb. Push your back against the wall and start shimmying. You'll be exhausted but.
Wait, why does this guy on the bus seem to know where they are before they've even circled through the first time?
I've not watched the credits through well enough to tell if they're minutely different, but of all the shots I recognize, they're all the same. So I think the credits haven't changed, which is kinda surprising for a modern show? I'm not mad (they have a very [[The Black Tapes]] feel to them that I really enjoy), but still.
Huge hole in the wall of colony house, a whole cave-in at the family's house (into what Victor claims is "where they sleep"), and it didn't even occur to me that the sun is already setting as the bus got here. An entire bus full of people fucked. I'm thinking that if the town is really "angry," they brought the bus here specifically to kill a ton of people.
You're gonna beat a man up because he vomited while you were trying to assault him? You're too much of a piece of shit to get eaten by the monsters the first time, damn it, so I'm gonna have to watch more of this idiot. Yay...
And Jim still seems to think that everything's about him. Oh, your wife is "trapped in the basement," okay, well, the whole town is having an emergency and might not make it through the night, but, yeah, sure, let's make everything about the wife you were divorcing because you said so. We'll just drop everything and attend to you, how about that? Moron.
Oh, ew, is that one of those things sleeping? Now, why would you assume that any random voice talking to you isn't one of the monsters? But someone did throw down a rope, at least. Still kinda feels like a trap, tho...
Anyway! The idea that the town sent the storm to fuck with them because it was mad they were using the radio tower... doesn't work super well with the idea that the radio tower didn't actually connect them to anyone except some mysterious voice that's clearly either the town itself or a monsters of some kind.
BUT ALSO. Jade just had a hallucination of a scary dummy that fucking shrieked at him, and his response wasn't so much to get scared but to just bellow right back at it, and I love this lunatic man. I swear, I think if he were working with the sheriff (who also at least has a brain) instead of fucking dipshit Jim, we might actually wind up getting somewhere.
Meanwhile, poor Victor and the mom are literally in the tunnels surrounded by sleeping monsters so... (And one of them is the dummy that just showed up in Jade's hallucination.) Maybe the monsters are like astral projecting around the town while they're asleep, and that's how they're seeing/hearing things during the day?
They're calling him varyingly Elgin and Eljin, so which is it? Also, the family's house just fucking collapsed on the dad and who knows who else, sooooooo...
Oh, goodie, the bartender and one of the newbies is stuck under there, too. Wonderful.
(But can I tell you how little I care about these bus fuckers?)
A baseball just came out of nowhere in the tunnels? And Victor's losing it. And Gollum is down there!? And the monsters are waking up, eek. Good thing they don't run...
Oh, brother. Now we gotta deal with the doctor's girlfriend. That's a fucking coincidence. (Did the town snatch up this bus just to fuck up the deputy/doctor romance?)
Bro, seriously? You're hallucinating your son at the bottom of the well (chimney?), trying to lure you back down? Lord.
OMG, they're gonna leave them under the house overnight and hope that the monsters don't know they're there. (They should've already put the strip down forever ago, somewhere out of sight where they couldn't see. Then let the idiots get back on the bus just long enough to blow the tires. Then maybe anyone dumb enough to stay on the bus gets killed and anyone smart enough to listen or lucky enough to flee can get inside.)
That sounds like a very old voice. IS THAT GUY CHAINED TO A WALL? He certainly couldn't have thrown the rope down...
"I need you to kill me."
Uh, buddy, I feel like time should be taking care of that all on its own. (Can people not die of exposure/age here?)