This is an overall dump of my thoughts during my first time viewing of From's second season's second episode, The Kindness of Strangers.
I feel like they probably would've had an easier time convincing some of the people to stay off the bus if they claimed the town was haunted. I think most people believe in ghost, but I don't think anyone actually believes in monsters. (I don't believe in either, but if you insist that it's not safe to be outside after dark in your town... well, I'm gonna read between the lines and go for caution. Like, maybe you're some nut and that's your way of saying it's a sundown town, I dunno!)
But with that said: I'm hoping we definitely don't see certain characters again. (Like that bus driver can go right ahead and die, holy shit. Talk about a corporate cocksuck. gEt BaCk On ThE bUs!!!!)
Oh, holy shit, there are other chained up people down here. I'm not killing you until I'm sure that I'm not gonna have to take your fucking place afterward!
He's Martin, apparently, and he says the creatures are going to come back. So why are they keeping him alive? I wouldn't be letting him out or killing him or shit. This whole town might be, like, powered by his misery or some shit. I'm not doing jack shit until I start hearing some fucking persuasive explanation.
"We have to be quiet," he says as he slams the door closed.
I don't even care about your relationship with the deputy, and now I'm supposed to care about your relationship with this new rando, too? No!
STOP TALKING TO EACH OTHER WHILE YOU'RE PINNED UNDER THE BUILDING, YOU IDIOTS. YOU'RE NOT PROTECTED AT ALL.
"You're talking, right? That means you can breathe." lol, told you this was R propaganda.
"You think those things that come out of the forest at night did this?" Uh, yeah, Martin, I did? "They're just the tip of the spear." Notoriously the most dangerous part?
Is that a diegetic music box, or creepy nondiegetic music? "There's darkness in the forest. Nightmares you can't even begin to imagine. Things we were never meant to see. Things that... You have to get out before the music stops." Oh, it IS a real music box.
(But again, if you tell me I've gotta escape somewhere before the music stops, you can bet your ass Imma do that. Thanks for the tip, Martin! Not looking to be chained to a wall with you!)
Oh, don't tear the talisman off the wall, you no-name nobody. And poor Fatima is outside try to get people to run/hide. But it's way too late, girl. It's way too late. Some might come begging for help once the screaming starts, but you've attracted so much attention to yourself that they're guarding your door now and you no longer have any hope of helping anyone...
Meanwhile, the thug in the diner's threatening to kill everyone unless he gets to go outside and take the deputy as a hostage, and the fucking monsters are politely knocking right on the other side of the door... Jesus.
"You ever wonder if Abby was right?" Excuse me, Martin?
Oh, no, is Martin going to fucking transform into something? Or give birth to some spiders or some shit? OH MY GOD HE'S GOT WORMS.
"My blood is your blood now," he says, and... dies? Well, I think you're infected with worms or some shit now, sheriff... Maybe? I'm not gonna say you got what you deserved, but, uh... bro did warn you.
Doggie! (I don't trust the doggies yet tho.)
Is that monsters playing the "oh wow pls help us" trick? Also look at bro having fun pretending to drive the bus. What kind of self-respecting vampire demon thing...?
Okay, so he's following the dogs but also yelling at them to slow down. (Which is a bad idea because there's tons of those things fucking marching around him in the damn woods. You're fucked, bro.)
I wonder if Victor also came by bus, since so many people seemed to die during that one day he remembers...
Weird for the sheriff but especially the suspicious boy to show up at Victor's storage space. Elgin or whatever his name is brought the monsters right there... If the sheriff hadn't had a talisman, they'd all be dead dead.
Okay, so the one guy under the house is dead. Now be quiet!
Welp, bartender's dead. Jim's gonna live, tho, because the worst ones always survive.
Where's Jade? Is Jade okay? I feel like we haven't seen Jade in forever. He's at the colony house, yeah?
Are you sure the sun's coming up? You're just judging by cracks of light. What if it's a trap?
Anyway, if you were under the house you should've just tried to go to sleep. Can't make too many conspicuous noises if you're asleep.
Well, bus driver, did you learn a lesson? Pity those people had to die because you told them to get back there.
lmao Victor knows about your worms, bro. Pity he never tells anyone anything particularly useful...