This is an overall dump of my thoughts during my first time viewing of From's second season's tenth episode, Once Upon a Time….
This really is starting to feel like a grab-bag of spooky miscellany. I dunno what I'm supposed to do with this shit. I dunno if I'm supposed to trust that we're really going somewhere or if we're just throwing shit around and hoping that when it falls into place, it's a story. I'm enjoying it right now, but I'm just wary...
They're here to collect Randall's corpse? We're out here to die over an attempted murderer's body?
Ah, shit, and Randall ain't even dead. He's got the same crazy eyes and screaming shit as Marielle and Julie. Great. I wanted him dead! :(
I do still really enjoy the opening sequence. Though I remain astounded that they didn't change it to be more wormy this season, maybe while also keeping stuff like the Adam and Eve drawing.
"It's laughing at you. For bring it back to town. For setting it free. It wants to hurt us. It wants to make us suffer. It go so excited when it touched your arm. Julie and the others, they're dying. And when they die, it'll be too late." Apparently they have to make the music stop somehow or Julie, Randall, and Marielle will die? Okay, uh, good luck!
SHUT THE FUCK UP, JIM, YOU'RE NOT FUCKING SPECIAL. Shut the fuck up and let your damn wife solve this fucking mystery, you goddamn buffoon!
IDK, Boyd, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Like a "secretly scared to leave" kinda tree.
What does that mean? Why did you make that little sarcastic face when you said it wasn't anyone's fault. Whose fault do you think it was?
Jade, baby, what are you doing? Playing games with broken glass? Oh, good, and hallucinating the bartender. Lovely. lmao, and he just rolls his eyes and is like, yeah, okay, talking to a dead guy now. I fucking love Jade.
No, no, damn see I knew he was going to do that! Fuck. We've got a whole new Abby on our hands. I'm telling you, dude, we need to start weeding fuckers out. When people start to fucking fray, stick a pack of supplies on their back and send them off into the woods to go find help or a way out or whatever.
OH MY GOD, JADE'S USING MY LABYRINTH OF CRETE SPOOL OF THREAD IDEA. In the tunnels instead of the woods, granted, but STILL. (Except, uh, did anybody warn him that the tunnels are FULL OF SLEEPING MONSTERS?)
Oh, brother. We gotta deal with a fucking angry praying scene now. Skip it, Boyd! Nobody cares! (Bro, that's not what Last Rites is-slash-is-for... Even I know that...)
"Maybe what we did here will make it easier for the people who come next." Well, that's a nice way of looking at it. Press X to doubt, but cute optimism!
Oh, supposedly we're all going to explode in our sleep like Paula if Randall, Julie, and Marielle die.
MEANWHILE, there's still a madman with a gun roaming around somewhere. Can we please deal with that?
Oh, damn, well the symbol's fucking real. It's in some chamber with all the various ghost kids splayed out on like altars or some shit.
Victor found his dead mom at the base of the bottle tree. It's a farway tree. Apparently his mom said that one specifically takes you to the tower. Oh my god, and Victor packed his lunchbox full of snacks and shit and gave it to her, I just love him so much. Please don't die on your way back to town, dude!
But damn, Tabitha really did show up at the base of the lighthouse!
Hey, wait, a minute, Fatima, you can't get married while Julie's dying. (Then again, they didn't invite anyone but Donna and weren't even going to tell the sheriff about it.) But it's not a real wedding anyway; there's no religious or civil representation, soooooooooo?
But apparently his son's vows made something click for him, so here's hoping.
And now we gotta deal with dumbass Ethan and dumbass Jim talking about dumbass Heaven. Yuck.
Aaaand now we gotta deal with fucking... I dunno, Matthew or whatever his name is. (Dale's the guy who stabbed Ellis. This guy was... Rudy? Roger? Bobby? IDK. Too many characters!) Apparently he blames Boyd for Paula's death, which... isn't not true...?
Damn, he really fucking shot him. Where?? Shoulder?
Oh, wow, that's what the point of the three is for. Replacing Martin and the other two corpses.
"Hope is what makes you willing to suffer." Ow, damn. But also, there's no way you're really Abby, fuck off. You ain't fooling me, you fucking forest trickster! lmao
Now, regretfully: there's no way to make a man smashing a music box seem, like, epic or whatever. (But also, now we gotta deal with fucking Randall waking up... What's he even gonna remember?)
Oh, look, doggie. I'm still struggling to believe the doggies are actually good. Too suspicious! I don't believe you! You can't fool me so easily with your cute little doggie face!
Are we gonna end on whatever she finds in the lighthouse? So far, it's just a light. Old-fashioned as hell, too, it's a straight-up fire.
"I'm sorry, I really am. This is the only way." And then the boy in white pushes her out of the lighthouse. And she wakes up in a hospital??? Hikers found her unconscious in the woods. lmao, that's not what she wanted!