Me: I really wish FROM would integrate the casual intimacy Kristi and Marielle would have with one another as a long-term couple.
Also me watching FROM 4x09: Not . . . not like this. Not in "death flags????" territory.
Alarms immediately went off in my head when Kristi and Marielle casually said goodbye with lived-in "I love you"s and a kiss--when they have never been shown on-screen to do so up to this point (despite my many requests and thinking about how these two rarely touch in small ways like this when taking their leave of each other when I would probably be constantly, subconsciously reassuring myself of my partner's existence before leaving any room because we'd been forcibly separated for 6 months and the last time we said goodbye before that, we didn't know it was going to be goodbye--it was traumatic!)--after they've spent a whole season, if not more, pretty much estranged in physical distance to each other and were just fighting like an hour earlier in the most earnest manner we've seen them argue. The argument was derailed, of course, but this actually felt jarringly out of character for how they've been shown on-screen--gotta emphasize on-screen--up to this point. This was such a sudden and unexpected sweet moment between them that I was like: Is this a farewell gift from the writing???? (And in deciding to finally include this, they demonstrate to me that the production could have slipped in these moments the whole time. They just haven't.)
It's, um, giving whiplash and Ethan's "I like it when you're around" to Donna. Which also immediately alarmed me, because you can't just say that out of nowhere without consequences in a narrative, especially horror.
It was a false flag in the end, and Kenny had a false flag moment too, and maybe Boyd is false flag waving by the writing's explicit proposal to separate Kristi and Marielle in the season finale:
But, you know, brace yourselves, friends, and good luck, ladies, is what I'm saying. I'm not sure if the show is willing to go through with deaths of notable characters at this point instead of putting all of them in the final season, but the season has balked twice at pitches already, is three times striking out?
Though making it out alive doesn't have to mean making it out whole. This feels dependent on where the writing is taking Fatima, who has been left in the dark and ignorance about her condition. Although now that I've said that, Fatima could be in danger from Marielle if Marielle is forced to act or defend herself. (Did Ellis decide not to stay at the clinic with Fatima, after all?) We'll see . . . .
Shout out to Marielle for knowing exactly where the epinephrine was in the medicine cabinet because the only background activity they ever have Marielle do around the clinic is busy work sorting and cataloging supplies. No idle hands, idle thoughts for that woman.
Not a fan of the out-of-the-blue reveal about Clara having struck a deal with the Man in Yellow that was never hinted at prior to its introduction into the narrative. Even less of a fan of the constant cryptic bullshit vague talk spouted by the Boy in White.
Use your damn words and explain why the Bottle Tree is important, child, for the love of my sanity and patience and Victor's ability to stop the others! If you told us and Victor why the Bottle Tree is important as is, Victor could explain to the others instead of just going, "You can't do that!!! Just because!!!" This is why my interest in the plot/lore itself has fallen off. This withholding is waved in my face season after season. For no reason I can see except unimaginative writing.
(Victor appealing to Miranda and Eloise for help with people skills was very sweet, though. "Go away. This is private." XD)
Anywho, this penultimate episode felt less hectic than those of previous seasons. The residents felt much more harried and stressed and harassed about some crisis in the previous seasons: the radio drama in S1, death via dreams and three characters comatose in S2, Fatima's kidnapping/disappearance in S3. This feels like an almost leisurely approach to the tunnels infiltration and bones excavation expedition by comparison?
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