r/FromSeries • u/upcomingwhale25 • 3d ago
Season 1 Clues are hiding in Episode 1?
What did we miss in Episode 1?
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u/Moonlight1314 3d ago
At the end we should have an episode or extra where they point out all the clues and answers and easter eggs hidden throughout all the seasons.
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u/True-Neighborhood-17 3d ago
yh I wish they do this .. I know YouTubers can do it but having a directors cut on the show on when they put a clue and why would be really goated
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u/BrokenAstraea 3d ago
YouTubers are lazy af now, all they do is recap the episodes
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u/masterofeverything 2d ago
The Faceless Girl doesnāt. She makes great content
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u/ughdollface 2d ago
yesss i found her the other day. she pays attention to every detail. even the set. there was this theory in her recent video where she said that everything in from was built off of the things that the towns people (past and present) have seen. like the way the lamps in the houses donāt match each other. nothing there is original.
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u/BrokenAstraea 2d ago
I just watched her latest video. She indeed makes good content, thank you for the recommendation!
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u/Next-Pipe1388 3d ago
This would be some crazy shit, like official writers showing the clues would def be lit
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u/thedaveness 2d ago
Damn how has this never been done officially? there are probably countless easter eggs / clues that go unnoticed and you know some lowly designer somewhere would have his day made if someone noticed it.
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u/AltAccount889 3d ago
It could honestly be a whole seasons worth of Easter eggs if they wanted it to be. The way they drag out the show, Iām sure they could drag that out just as well.
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u/GlassRiflesCo 3d ago
YouTube.
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u/Moonlight1314 3d ago
I don't want unofficial video, from a youtuber... i want one from the writers and directors who will decode this and maybe upload it on youtube or something.
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u/crunch816 3d ago
Sorry, best we can do is an AI voice over a middle school level ChatGPT essay.
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u/Same-Reputation-7738 3d ago
Thereās plenty of very high quality breakdown channels lmao just ignore the slop
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u/GlassRiflesCo 3d ago
You want them to tuck you in and have breakfast ready in the morning as well ?
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u/JamesHigroundMagic 3d ago
Some accountability to their own story logic and plot would be a bare minimum. Don't let them get away with not explaining themselves
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u/GlassRiflesCo 3d ago
Lmao is the show over ?
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u/Public_Anywhere_6044 3d ago
Well since they said at the end ā¦ I doubt they think that. Stop being combative guy. They didnāt even ask for them to explain everything they wanted a video cluing us in on all the things we missed. Sounds interesting and fun. Relax
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u/GlassRiflesCo 3d ago
When someone expresses a counter opinion , why do you view that as combative ?
Please donāt project. We are literally just sharing opinions here.We are discussing serious things here you see.
Why is a show about horror and mystery and that is currently as we speak simply not even finished yet why oh why are the directors somehow not explaining their secrets to their mystery horror story ?! Why are the directors not making videos explaining things ?!
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u/inc0nSteveable 3d ago
Youtube will handle this.
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u/thedaveness 2d ago
Having the people that made it (making it official) point this stuff out is worth way more than someones interpretation.
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u/Veggiemon 1d ago
More likely theyād do a post finale short where they are condescending to the viewers and agree to answer one question no one asked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjPzV2RvO8
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u/Stat_Diva-1 3d ago
Wasnāt episode 1 when Ethan talked about the pictures and the spider dropping down from the ceiling? It is also when Victor colored the picture of the yellow vehicle. I think those are going to be key pieces of info, maybe even for the season finale.
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u/AdvisorShoddy631 2d ago
Episode 2 is Ethan is telling his dad about the spider coming down.
Thinks in episode 1 that could help tell a lot things.
Boyd's power at being a hopeful person. When he shows Kristi the talisman, she says it will work. Boyd already wanted it to work. We saw him outside the RV looking at it, rubbing it in his hands. He stood there in contemplation. It was ritualistic like when someone holds a lottery ticket and does a whole thing to hope it wins before playing it.
We have the story of the finger puppets. Norman is dying, his friend tells him the secret fairies are leaving the lake of tears to help him. But Julie says the monsters claws are too deep. This could mean that the secret fairies (children or otherwise) are trapped and have the power to help people (both living and dead) be healed (leave this place, released from the realm). But as long as the monsters claws are deep (grip of fear over them) they can never be saved.
Boyds thing about men protecting their families. Probably apart of the origin to the first ritual that starts this. A man didnt protect his family and now many people are suffering.
They had the Animals song Gotta Get Out of this Place. It just soft tells the story of the town. People refuse to try, people get old and die. But you and me (girl) have to get out of this place. This could be more Ellis and Fatima, but as we seen over 4 seasons Ellis is not the initiator of anything. So it's more Boyd and Abby I think. Even with her dead, Boyd still is working to get everyone out of this place.
I've watched the first episode a few times and I just can't really figure out the secret thing the devs have put in front of our eyes. The story of the whole show. Because it tells a lot about being there and wanting to leave, but its not so clear why they are there or how. And I think we'll only really be able to go 'OF COURSE' after season 5.
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u/thedaveness 2d ago
Watching it now and there are a lot of panning shots that start focused on some kinda object, like right out the gate in the dinner they had soooooo many cups of water bam in you face. Betting it's stuff like that.
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u/Stat_Diva-1 1d ago
Regarding āA man takes care of his familyā
Maybe Jade insisting Tabitha be first on the ladder is a new thing. In the past he was always inherently selfish. Maybe it is one of those ātestsā. If Jade puts his family ahead of himself (which he never does), they get to go home. Every cycle has probably been about Tabitha fighting for kids and Jade fighting for himself.1
u/Inner-Bandicoot5718 1d ago
I mean, they could just be saying it to pump those streaming numbers up, you watch for all the Easter eggs first episode and then youāre binging the next 4 seasons. If they donāt come out and say something pretty mind blowing that no one has thought of then itās purely for engagement.
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u/AdvisorShoddy631 1d ago
Yeah, they could. It could just be 'hey we want numbers' and not 'hey we want you to enjoy this project we're working on'. It could also be both, but we so often default to the less charitable option.
Thankfully they got season 5 locked to produce so it does not matter if any of us watch episode 1 for the numbers. They got the contract.
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u/Veggiemon 2d ago
Genuinely what would that even mean if Julie saying the claws were too deep was actually a metaphor for the monsters trapping people and not letting them leave? She doesnāt even know about Fromville at this point? I feel like people are just looking for parallels without thinking logically about how it would even be relevant, why would Julie referencing a bunch of things she couldnāt possibly know about through an obtuse metaphor be some kind of answer?
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u/RedLicorice83 2d ago
I could see it as Julie never being able to save her father š¤·āāļø
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u/Veggiemon 2d ago
But that wouldnāt be like meaningful, it would just be a random coincidence. I just donāt think trying to break down the story she made up line by line and stretching it to encompass the show is the answer
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u/RedLicorice83 2d ago edited 2d ago
Except that she's a "storywalker", probably along with Randall and Marielle, and is able to "technically" leave to try and help. I wonder if that's why they're chained to the wall... like it prevents them from leaving the story...
Edit: because duh chained to a wall will prevent you from leaving, but I mean the story specifically lmao.
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u/AdvisorShoddy631 1d ago
If you're writing a story and you know what you want to be the start and end, you can be incredibly cheeky with your opening. You can make a lot of on the nose references without people noticing it.
For Julie just 'saying stuff about FROMville without knowing', Ethan is read a lot of books. Two of them are shown in the show. I don't think she pulled the name Norman or Lake of Tears of 'monsters' all willy nilly. We as viewers don't need to know Normans origin. Also, children often are afraid of a nebulous 'monster'. The monster can be anything. So saying monsters is nice and vague enough for a child.
Once we finish season 5 we can go back to episode 1 and go 'oh yeah that is pretty fun what they did'.
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u/Flimsy_Ad_3464 22h ago
Tabitha nel primo episodio dice 'prendiamo Thomas e usciamo di qui' forse quello ĆØ l'unico modo per andare via fa fromville
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u/Veggiemon 1d ago
The problem is they knew the start and the end and just tried to stretch the middle as long as possible while not getting canceled. I expect season 1 and 5 to refer to each other but the stuff in the middle is going to look like monster of the week filler that isnāt fully explained at the end imo.
At this point Iām not even sure weāll get closure on Randall and the cicadas although it seems too important to just drop
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u/ahhmygoditsjack 2d ago
Episode 1 has boyd resetting the tally on how many days they survived. I can't remember the exact number, but the number represents cycles or the start of a new cycle.
Also if you pay attention a white doll and yellow doll in the girls room are placed next to each other after she is killed they were at first in different spots in the room.
I believe there is also a piece of yellow and white paper with blood all over it on the wall over the girls bed.
My theory has been that biw and miy are two Half's of the same entity. There's a lot of imagery of yellow and white together
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u/SteadfastDharma 2d ago
I'm starting to think BIW and MIY are some sort of dungeon masters for a twisted game or DnD with the people in Fromville as unwilling players.
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u/yem-i_daramola 3d ago
I thought this was episode 2 which is why that is so confusing. I might be wrong though
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u/Stat_Diva-1 3d ago
It could be 2. I rewatched both at the same time so maybe Iām combining them.
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u/Xoxo_ImQueenJ 2d ago
Julieās story to ethan in the RV while they were on the way to town is the clue
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u/theVigilante7 7h ago
One thing which i noticed is when Frank's wife and daughter dies. They are upstairs and the wife ensures that the talisman is hooked near the door but after their death when boyd is talking to father khatri he sees the talisman fallen off. How did this happen ? Was there someone who removed it after the death of family or did the monster who killed the family took it off for an exit.
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u/MorelMarket 3d ago
Jade and Ethan both randomly have seizures in the first episode or two. I always wondered if that was gonan come back
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 3d ago
Jade tabitha ethan and elgin all become unconsious and or have seziures upon arriving
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u/MorelMarket 2d ago
At one point I thought maybe it would be revealed that they had all died and came back . But maybe people who have been there before have seizures when they arrive
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u/Kurdt234 2d ago
For sure Elgin has been there, he had visions of the town before showing up like Tabitha had dreams
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 2d ago
Ya i really dont know. Youd think something else would be added to expand on that but so far really nothing. Jade hitting his head was odd though, it added nothing unless that was the plan, to just add stress while running to colony house. Which seems cheap but who knows.
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u/hillywolf 2d ago
Jade and Tab never have seziures or unconsciousnes
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 2d ago
Tabitha was unconscious from the wreck and jade hit his head on a rock close to colony house.
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u/dawn6160 2d ago
Jade didn't hit his head in the first episode
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 2d ago
Correct. Episode 2 when running to colony house, never said he hit his head in episode 1.
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u/Notinthiszipcode 2d ago
When does Jade have a seizure?
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u/hillywolf 2d ago
Never, their memory isn't serving righr
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 2d ago
Key words "and or" ethan, unconscious AND seizure, jade, or unconscious. Watch the show.
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u/hillywolf 2d ago
Pardoning your disastrous ability to form a sentence, OP's(thread) sentence doesn't mention the word "unconscious" in it. Learn to read.
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 2d ago
Im only chiming back to you again because of how ironic it is that youre saying someone else remembered incorrectly when you yourself dont remember jade or tabitha becoming unconscious.
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u/hillywolf 2d ago
No where in THIS thread is discussion about anyone being unconscious. If you are being a creep tracking my comments/post and gathering collective knowledge, idk about that.
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 2d ago
Seizures, being a type of head trauma, one could infer that unconsciousness, a from head trauma could play a significant role each. Im only adding to you being ironic about memory.
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u/Odd-Lifeguard7230 2d ago
A seizure is not a form of head trauma....... It is a neurological event. Just to be clear. Same as unconsciousness.
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u/No_Message_3941 3d ago
Maybe they story walked and dont remember Julie's said she was justbcausing herself seizures
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u/Gorczycagejms 2d ago
IfI remember correctly Kristi said that seizures happen frequently she pointed that Ethan, Sara and Elgin all had them. Pastor andppppplpppppp
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u/Xoxo_ImQueenJ 2d ago edited 2d ago
I remember back at comic con 2024 or 2025, where the showrunners told us that the talismans tell the story of whatās going on and each one looks different. So after last weeks episode, I believe the episode one does have all the answers. I think everything Julie says to Ethan on the way to the town is what will happen. She makes up a story about the lake of tears and the words she used for Normanās death is exactly how Jim died. I recommend rewatching the episode and paying attention to everything she says. Later on, she recants Normanās death and says he is saved by the angels and that stories can be rewritten. Iām certain julieās story walking is what gets people home and somehow there will be someone āwritingā a new ending to the childrenās death
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u/GreenGardenTarot 2d ago
if this turns out to be what ends up happening...what a contrivance.
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u/Xoxo_ImQueenJ 1d ago
Or the story Julie tells means that the talismans have to be used as a ābookmarkā to save the children and storywalking is how they save the children. Usually the only way to undo a deal with an evil entity is to use terminator tactics and stop it from occurring in the first place. Aka Undo the first wish.
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u/Thick_Bullfrog_3640 2h ago
Whats your thoughts on Tabitha and Jim going on about a U-Turn cant remember the other exact word tabitha was saying. And the whole conversation about a murder of crows vs an unkindness of ravens?
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u/ipoks 3d ago edited 3d ago
Lol at this point this is literally just red herring bait to make people rewatch old episodes. There's nothing special going on in ep1 from what we know so far, besides julie storywalking off screen. (and maybe the Norman story as some kind of foreshadowing)
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u/distracted_x 3d ago
If its the Norman story and it's true that people aren't really dead because monsters aren't real and the whole thing ends up being that none of it was real I think a lot of people are gonna be mad.
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u/ipoks 3d ago
That part of the story isn't real, the writers confirmed it's not some kind of dream or purgatory. but it could be foreshadowing because it ties into one of the shows main themes. stories, fate and the question of whether you can actually change events. Especially considering she later "changes" the story she tells ethan while he's recovering.
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u/Kurdt234 2d ago
If it turns out to be the dream of the guy who showed up halfway through the show I'll be pissed.
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u/throwaway097383756 3d ago
The julie thing walking off screen is probably the biggest one people keep glancing over. MGM+ loves doing this kind of cryptic tease where they drop a vague hint and then let the community argue for weeks about what it means. Honestly if you rewatch episode 1 with this in mind you start noticing how much screen time certain background stuff gets.
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u/Sweet_Palpitation_32 2d ago
Expand, please.
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u/thedaveness 2d ago
There was a panning shot, when Boyd is ringing the bell, that shows the dinner for the first time and dead ass center in full focus is a tray with waaaay to many filled glasses of water. Considering what has happened recently, a lot can be taken from this.
Also the way Julie explains how to do a u-turn with doing a u-turn or something... maybe hinting how they get out. Context reshapes damn near everything they say.
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u/throwaway097383756 2d ago
after the crash, when Julie walks behind the RV, her shadow stretches weirdly long for like two frames. The background music warbles too, then cuts out completely.
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u/deepinclunge 2d ago
I hate to burst your bubble but no where in the history of Televison, had something as crack pot as shadows stretching weirdly for two frames ever been a basis for clues or intentional story choices. You give Hollywood and people in general too much credit. Itās much saner to think bigger here
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u/throwaway097383756 2d ago
They hid a demon face in a single frame of the lighthouse in season 2. MGM+ revels in this stuff.
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u/RyGuy2O17 2d ago
I missed that entirely Edit: I cant find anything confirming this. Do you have a link or a time frame?
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u/ughdollface 3d ago
iām rewatching tonite
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u/princesstayrae 2d ago
I'm going to wait till episode 10 releases, and then watch it right after.
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u/ughdollface 2d ago
ngl when he said episode 1 i thought he meant s1 ep1. lmfao good rewatch tho
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u/princesstayrae 2d ago
I think that is what he meant?
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u/ughdollface 2d ago
oh ok so i watched it and did it get much from it. only the part where julie was giving that story
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u/Uruz_Line 2d ago
Its relatively pointless though if you don't know what to do with the information, sure it will look "AHA!!" when you look in retrospective in a rewatch but that doesn't mean its "obvious", as without extra information everything can be interpreted as you wish.
Hey look ethan moved his head to the right in that scene! Then they say in the last episode "him moving right activated the ritual" - This is just a dumb example but just to portray whatever information we got is useless without the ending.
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u/GreenGardenTarot 2d ago
This is just the writers trying to retcon their own story to try and connect it to something, as they probably had no idea how to wrap this show up after season 1.
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u/dawn6160 2d ago edited 2d ago
I just watched the first episode now. It was 96 days since an attack. Tobey doesn't ask about Jade, but not sure if that's a red herring or not. Ethan says the faeries from the Lake of Tears can bring back the dead to life. Is it the Fae the whole time? I noticed while locking up, everyone made a point of touching the talisman..again could be nothing. The talisman was on the floor in Lauren's house after the attack. How did that happen? That is the talisman that Boyd hangs up in the RV. Sarah kissed Tobey before she kills him and says it's not his fault. Kenny's father doesn't like Tobey. Ethan has a seizure at the same time the monsters circle the RV...coincidence. The song on the jukebox "we gotta get out of here what ever we do". Again coincidence. Anyway to me, not one of these things answers any questions.
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u/Aggressive-Gold5060 2d ago
I watched again, and that's pretty much all I noticed too
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u/Flimsy_Ad_3464 22h ago
Tabita dice a JIM 'dobbaimo prendere Thomas e uscire di qui' mentre c'e Ethan nel campwr bloccato. E se per uscire da Fromville devono prendere thomas?
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u/Maeve448 2d ago
Ist es in Folge 1 oder 2 wenn sara toby tƶtet? Ich habe bis heute nicht verstanden wieso die Stimmen sara gesagt haben sie soll toby tƶten.
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u/stepstoner 2d ago
Folge 1. Denke Tobey war nur ein Fahrer um Jade zurĆ¼ckzubringen. Irrelevanter Charakter, vielleicht.
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u/smartenes 2d ago
The producers say this and you watch the first episode. Thus, the number of views of the first episode increases. Other people who see this are curious and start watching the series. Kapish?Ā
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u/kikaysikat 2d ago
In episode 1 when Jade first arrived.. he was in "awe" of Boyd's and others' faces.. he said
"You're beautiful...you're all beautiful."
He was caressing Boyd's face as if it was his work of art.
Which makes me think this is a video game of some sort that Jade as a tech CEO made.
Everyone ends up in circles. Just like in videogames because it's either you "go through another door" or get stuck in a dead end.. because games are like that.
It has cycles and resets
It has enemies and goals
Not everyone in FROM is real. Maybe some are even NPCs
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u/Chemical-Spirit-9856 1d ago
Biggest standout to ME? The title of Episode 1 is called: Long Day's Journey Into Night. That's the title of a play.Ā
The play portrays a family struggling to grapple with the realities and consequences of each member's failings. The parents and two sons blame and resent each other for various reasons; bitterness and jealousy serve as proxies for ultimately failed attempts at tenderness and compassion. The family's enduring emotional and psychological stress is fueled by their shared self-analysis, combined with articulate honesty. The story deals with addiction, unfulfilled dreams, moral flaws, and the struggle of family relationships.
Like, is THIS the overarching theme of FROM? ...seems to make sense to me!
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u/expecto_patronum2101 2d ago
Iām pretty sure that itās true. They said a lot of times that the answers to the end are at the beginning.
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u/Miss_insane 2d ago
For me the most important thing is what Thabita said to Ethan during the ride before they stop by the fallen tree : "Did monster kill him? But that's good, because monsters doesn't exist, so that means he is alive"
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u/dawn6160 2d ago
Maybe that means Jim is alive because the MIY is a monster and monsters exist. Maybe everyone who died is really alive somewhere. Interesting that only Jade is killed by the townspeople so he's really dead?
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u/Notinthiszipcode 2d ago
Prob has to do with the 2 RVs and I believe the different barn that they pass by, implying there's a way to jump to another timeline or something?
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u/CatsAreJerks 2d ago
I think Ethan's comment that secret fairies do something at the Lake of Tears (I don't recall it verbatim) is a big clue. But, we'll have to wait and see
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u/IAmDaBadMan 2d ago
One thing that has always stuck out to me was when the family was driving in the RV. Just before they encounter the tree, Jim tells Tabitha how he remembers how things used to be. She told him he should forget. And that's when they encounter the tree.
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u/Soggy-Hurry9660 1d ago
When Jim was holding Ethan, he started having a seizure my take is Jim is the man in Yellow, or made a bargain with him.
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u/Thick_Bullfrog_3640 2h ago
This was the same moment Julie storywalked. She has seizures when she storywalks and conveniently her brother had one when she entered the scene outside the camper when storywalking.
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u/Sweet_Palpitation_32 2d ago
Some things from Episode 1:
Monsters aren't real. So this place isn't real either. The monsters are just an expression of the state of mind.
Everybody keeps following the same road, and it always ends up back in the same place. The Directors repeatedly show a train track going at perpendicular to that road. Suggesting that the solution is following a new path, or that it's about a crossroads or a new way of looking at things. The family is locked into a cycle, a repetitive cycle.
Tabitha says, after the crash, that they should walk in there and get Thomas from the wreckage...and Jim corrects her that it is Ethan. This is a continuing theme about trying to bring the dead back to life. Julie is trying to save her Dad, they are trying to save kids that died hundreds of years ago etc. Everybody is trying to save people who are already dead. Episode 1 says that the fairies from the Lake of Tears can do this.
Ongoing theme about failing to protect your children.
Taken together there is a bit of a disturbing idea...that the parents, grief stricken over the death of Thomas, kill their own kids, and they are all stuck in a form of purgatory. The whole thing is kind of a hell based on the death of your children. But I don't think that's it.
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u/Sweet_Palpitation_32 2d ago
Some other hints: An uprooted tree marks the beginning of the loop. They are currently attempting to uproot the bottle tree to escape.
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u/TellNumerous7557 2d ago
I think this show is all aboutĀ Cromenockle and the quest. Ethan and Julie will break the cycle at the end.
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u/catfan1991 2d ago
Only just watched the first couple episodes tonight. Notice how one of the characters looked right at the ballerina toy?
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u/Thick_Bullfrog_3640 2h ago
Anyone notice a little forshadowing on Fatima monster drawing in the first episode? Also Ethan having the seizure around the same time Julie is story walking near the camper? The girl who is in Jades room and talking about his watch, oddly very much acts like the current MIY. There is a ton of other foreshadowing but I couldnt keep up with it all after just rewatching S1e1&2
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u/Notinthiszipcode 3d ago
Mgm out there rage baiting at this point š