Re-watching Wynonna Earp season 2 and a couple things keep bothering me.
1. Just how long have those demon spiders been guarding the first seal? Were they deliberately put there by someone? (Although I suppose no one other than Juan Carlo should have known it was there, and he didn’t strike me as the type to employ people-eating watchdogs.) Or was it that the power there was always a draw to all sorts of supernatural beasties and the spiders just got there first after Willa briefly opened the Ghost River Triangle? Squatters’ rights and all.
2. So was the tentacle-thing that grabbed Willa just full-size Mictian then? Because I was hoping for something a little more Cthulthu, especially with her making references to an ‘old one’. Still, I guess it would help explain the Order’s familiarity with Mictian and its MO.
3. Bass Reeves was cool and all, but that whole subplot came a bit out of nowhere. It was definitely one way to tip Doc off that the Stone Witch was dead (thereby ending whatever supernatural cloaking she had on him) but it would have been nice to have a bit more explanation on why/how Reeves and his posse have stuck around as ghosts. Extremely strong sense of duty? Another curse? Was Doc the only man who ever escaped him and this was their last unfinished business? Who knows?
(Same goes for that porcelain doll-thing: what its creepy-as-heck deal was, I have no idea.)
4. Does anybody know how Doc and Robert Svane's interaction in No Future in the Past works with Doc and Wyatt Earp's pre-Purgatory parting in The Blade (the one where Doc is convinced he's on his deathbed and says his final goodbyes to Wyatt)? As in, which one came first?
Because if the scene with Wyatt came first, Doc is looking a heckuva lot better when Svane brings Wyatt's message - but clearly still has tuberculosis, so he hadn't made the deal with the Stone Witch yet. Also, Svane makes it sound like Wyatt hasn't ridden to Purgatory yet, when in The Blade Wyatt was all of 5 minutes from heading out when he came to see Doc.
If it's the other way around, why would Doc say he's already made his peace with Wyatt Earp? Why would Wyatt stop in to see Doc and act like he had every expectation Doc would leave with him? Even for best friends, that was a pretty firm 'no' Doc gave to Svane, who (I assume) would have carried it back to Wyatt.
5. Finally, the fact that Wynonna's baby and Waverly could leave the Ghost River Triangle seems to be taken as solid evidence that neither could have a Revenant parent. Why? It's the curse that keeps the Revenants in the Triangle or face excruciating pain - and the curse was laid on those killed by Wyatt Earp (albeit not specifically with Peacemaker, as also shown by The Blade). Although the Revenants' demon-adjacent nature could conceivably get passed to any offspring they produce, why would the curse follow? Not that I mind Waverly and baby Alice not being part-Revenant, I just think it's a bit of a false equivocation to use them crossing the line as proof of that.
Anybody got answers for these?
