This is an overall dump of my thoughts during my first time viewing of From's second season's sixth episode, Pas de Deux.
I'm so fucking sick of your fucking drama, Kenny, fuck off. He's dead, cry and get over it!
Girlie pop, why are you a ballerina? Have you considered not? A ballerina full of worms, ok, sure, why not? (Should've been a can-can dancer! Ba dum tiss.)
Fatima, I need you to hold it together, girl.
MEANWHILE. Now stupid Kristi has to feel guilty that her fucking girlfriend had a relapse because of her. Also: girl, if you're stealing vital medicine from the town, you're going to end up in the box!
Okay, so Boyd thinks that the worms were feeding on Martin for years and wouldn't let him die. Obviously the worms couldn't have chained him up by themselves, tho... Maybe the ballerina hallucination is just something happening in the brain, and during the hallucination, the victim winds up chaining themself up? Or maybe the ballerina hallucination heralds a real entity that snatches/chains up whoever's infected? (Still don't know who threw the rope down to help Boyd out of the pit, because it definitely wasn't Martin himself...)
Boyd, dude... Uh, you can't be trusted with a gun if you can't tell reality from hallucination.
Meanwhile we've got Fatima mad at Ellis because he didn't tell her Sara was alive, and, like, girl. Get over it?
Okay, I'm so sick of the idiot man in the choker—oh, great, and now he's stabbed Ellis right in the fucking lung or some shit after dark. Put him in the box! (I've grown very pro-box lately. Frankly, there's just too many people around now, lmfao.)
Good try, Elgin. Hope this works for you. They can open the car doors, though, since you didn't bring a fucking talisman. And we're gonna be running low on fuel at some point, no?
Don't drive fast enough that we crash, dude! (On the plus side, these things don't run.) Ugh, they've gotta drain the blood out of his chest cavity, yuck and fuck.
Isn't O negative nearly a universal receiver? Or is it the universal donor?
Oh, shit. He's going to pass it onto a monster? Hmmm... I wonder if that could work? I wonder if it could work to take out more than one of them, even? Except it seems to be a one-to-one transfer... So? Where does it go after it kills a monster?
Oh my god and all the others are just staring at the infected one, that's so funny. Oh, damn, and he really is dead. I wasn't sure if it'd kill him since he's maybe-dead and/or nonhuman or if it would harm him, but he's big dead.
"Fear is the most important [emotion] of all [...] because without fear, we wouldn't know how to be brave." I think the previous scene just demonstrated the opposite, actually. Sure, that platitude works from Boyd's side of the equation (fear of losing his son gave him the courage to try his plan with the monster), but conversely, the plan with the monster only worked because the monster lacks fear. (And the others didn't seem to gain it from his death, either.) He seemed to feel pain, in the end, but there was an utter lack of fear (or disgust, hate, anger, etc.) about him, and while it made him an apex predator right until that moment... it killed him the moment he encountered a bigger fish.
Something to ponder.
Surprised more didn't come of the worms plotline, tho. (Will more come of the worms plotline?)
Also, it just occurred to me how much Ellis sounds like the male version of Alice...
Yeah, Fatima's falling apart. Big big falling apart. Oh, good, and she thinks she's pregnant. Great.
Ooh, but that's a great point: this leaves them with a monster corpse for the very first time! (But can they investigate it without someone contracting the worms? It's a blood-to-blood thing...)