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I don't know what I'm doing.

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Ingrid, poor girl. She's convinced she's in Bridgerton and she's fully in Game of Thrones

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I do find it profoundly funny that what we thought was Primus Tachonis's masterstroke was actually him just going "put it all on black, let it riiiiiiiide!"

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Okay, but like, who was that show for? The only people who saw what happened were Gus's men and the Magpie security, who both have reason to believe Murray if she tells them it was all fake. Like, the rest of the party was long gone at that point.

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I like Dispatch

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If this isnt a boss fight down the road im leaving

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Occtis is slowly feeling the dred that he's going to have to hear "heartless" jokes whenever someone is upset at him until the end of time.

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WE ARE SO BACK

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brennan took Twink Death a little TOO literally

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How never having seen a single Dan and Phil video feels right now

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So how long before Brennan ends one of these by just killing one of the players in real life?

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Wicander at the end of episode 2

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Lost where the forest would grow, the children followed the pointed tail.

… You know, I’ve been seeing a lot of people assume that “where the forest would grow” must mean the forest surrounding the Shelter. I mean, it certainly makes sense considering this is a place we know the Dreemurr and Holiday Kids have explored in the past…

And the growing importance of the Shelter itself…

But I do think it’s not the only option right now. I mean, not only is the entirely of Hometown surrounded by a forest (not just the area near the Shelter), but….

The thing I keep coming back to is the words “where the forest would grow”. This is a ‘future in the past’ tense, the grammar here implies that the forest grew after the children got lost in that area. But obviously, the forest around Hometown doesn’t seem like something that could’ve grown after/during Kris’ childhood… those trees are decades old at least, right?

So for me that implies, like, maybe some sort of time-manipulation shenanigans, or something else that allows the forest to grow freakishly fast in just a few years? Or that the ‘poor children’ are not actually any of the kids we know, and this is actually about something that happened to one of the previous generations of Hometown, much farther in the past? Something that inspired the creation of the Shelter in the first place?

Or… maybe we are talking about an entirely different Forest? One that we do know appeared fairly recently in the blink of an eye?

While we’ve had all kinds of fields and castles and basements in the various Dark Worlds, this is the only “Forest” we’ve gotten so far. That would give us an actual place that fits the description of “where the Forest would grow”.

And while it doesn’t really make much sense to imagine kids getting lost inside a single classroom…. Well, what about an earlier Dark World opened in that same location? Since every Dark Fountain makes a different Dark World, even in the same place… and this is often perceived by the Darkners of those Dark Worlds as the passing of eons.

So an earlier version of the Card Kingdom (opened up by Baby Kris and/or Tiny Dess, for example) could’ve lacked the Forest location of the Card Kingdom we know and thus be the place “where the Forest would grow”….

And, like, while I understand the logic behind people associating that line with FRIEND… it is important to remember that the one explicit connection the game has made so far for this Phrase is with the Forgotten Man.

Who has been consistently depicted standing behind a Card Castle Forest Tree, long after that Dark World has passed.

I’m not dismissing the common Shelter-and-FRIEND interpretation of that line, far from it. I just think it’s important to consider alternative explanations, or at least that these two ideas could be combined somehow…

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I've also had the thought about "Lost where the forest would grow" actually being about the Scarlet Forest!

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Dana recently conformed that the Park family are Korean, but in that post she seemingly for no reason clarified that Olivia has white/silver hair, not blonde. Which makes me think that it's an important detail, because we see in the portrait that Olivia used to have black hair.

And how does hair turn white overnight? Shock or fear.

Olivia's mother didn't just die, Olivia saw her mother die and it turned her hair white. That's the level of trauma we're talking about here, something so traumatic that she had her mother's face scratched out of the family portrait.

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Something strikes me about it's how easily Gwen thrashed Sir Arthur. Olivia seemed fairly certain that he'd be able to handle it, implying that he's done so in the past, but once he catches up to her, even in this broken, battered, low power state, he gets flattened in five seconds.

So how has Gwen not escaped yet? If she has the ability to make the giant dark souls looking machine cry for momma in under a minute, what's keeping her there?

And it's probably because where is she going to go? Once she's located by Sir Arthur, even if she beats him, her cover is blown. She's lost the element of surprise and every transport off world is going to be locked down.

But now, she has people to protect. Sir Arthur hurt the only people in the world who treated her like more than an object, and would very likely kill them (I doubt Olivia wants witnesses) so now Gwen uses everything at her disposal to protect Frankie and Andi. Her knights.

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It's peak. It's simply peak fiction. Dana is back and more peak than ever before.

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So that moment! When Jax and Pomni were arguing. When he said he'd forget about her if she died. Her defeated look. Her "Okay... Okay."

And then she turns around, turns her back on him. We can't see her eyes, only her frown. So small, hardly there. And then the gun comes into the frame.

"I understand."

I'm not the only one who thought she was going to shoot herself. I know I'm not. I've seen the comments, the gushing, the posts.

But she didn't. She threw the gun at him, threw it away and fought back in her own terms, in her own way.

And I love her for that! Guys, guys you have to see how brilliant that was of Gooseworx!

The whole episode is built around guns. Guns are how you win. Guns are how you get eliminated. Gangle one wish was to go ballistic with a tommy gun. Pomni learned how to use cartoon mechanics with a gun. Zooble went Doc Oc terminator style with guns. Guns guns guns guns.

And then the end, the argument, and the ultimatum. Shoot Jax or shoot herself.

Understand, Jax didn't ever give Pomni any option but to shoot him. But the writer, through clever camera angle and character gestures, made us think there were only two options. Only two ways this confrontation could end.

To shoot Jax or shoot herself.

To shoot or shoot.

And most of us were so sure- SO SURE, Pomni was going to shoot herself.

But Pomni isn't Ragatha, willing to put her own well being aside to please or help others.

Pomni isn't Gangle, too afraid of others to stand up for herself.

Pomni is a wild card, able to find the secret third option nobody thought of.

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Love this analysis

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People have been talking Episode 6 to mean that Jax pushes people away because he's hurt, but I'm not so sure. Maybe that's a part of it, but much more specifically, Jax hates not being in control. He gets mad when the gun backfires on him, he gets mad when he gets put in the dress, the only things that seem to genuinely phase him are the things that make him the butt of the joke. That seems to be why he pushes people away, because if he lets himself get attached, he can't control his emotions. If he's always the one deciding to be the jerk, no one has a chance to do it back and take control away from him. I think Jax is going to be a far worse person than most people want to believe.