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I think the Farway trees in From are heavily inspired by the dream or fairy-tale logic of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Not directly copied, but conceptually very similar.

The tree imagery in Wonderland and the Farway trees both feel less like normal objects and more like symbolic gateways. In both worlds, reality doesn’t behave according to physics, it behaves according to strange narrative or dream logic.

The Farway trees don’t work like sci-fi teleporters. They work like fairy-tale portals. You enter them without understanding how they function, and they take you somewhere unexpected based on rules nobody fully understands.

That’s very similar to Wonderland itself:

- impossible movement through space

- symbolic objects with hidden meaning

- dreamlike transitions

- childlike logic overriding realism

Even visually they feel connected. Twisted trees, strange objects, surreal atmosphere, hidden passageways it all feels closer to a dark fairy tale than science fiction.

This is also why I think the town itself operates using the logic of stories and childhood imagination rather than normal reality. The Farway trees are one of the biggest clues. They don’t feel technological at all. They feel mythological, almost like something a child would imagine after reading fantasy books.

And considering how much the show focuses on children, stories, quests, nursery-rhyme symbolism, toys, monsters at night, magical talismans, and dreamlike rules, I honestly think the Wonderland comparison is intentional.

My theory is that the town was somehow created or shaped by a child’s imagination. maybe Ethan, maybe another kid from long ago.

The more I think about it, the more EVERYTHING in the show feels like reality built from the way children understand the world.

Electricity works, but there are no real wires or power sources. That’s exactly how a child sees electricity: “wires make lights turn on.” No deeper logic needed.

Animals randomly appear from the woods because kids don’t think about ecosystems or farms or how animals survive. In their mind, animals just “live in the forest.”

The talismans feel straight out of children’s books and fairy tales. magical symbols that keep monsters away at night.

And the monsters themselves feel like pure childhood fear: they hide underground, come out after dark, smile unnaturally, steal people’s belongings, whisper through windows, and act more like nightmare creatures than real predators.

Even the weirdest parts of the show fit this: the ballerina, the music box, storywalking, Civil War soldiers, Fatima’s impossible pregnancy, the focus on children and stories everywhere…

None of it feels realistic. It feels symbolic, like dream logic.

And the craziest part is that the show literally starts with Julie talking to Ethan about monsters… and minutes later they end up trapped in a town full of monsters.

I honestly think Ethan is way more important than the show wants us to believe.

Farway trees feel straight out of Alice in Wonderland.

I think I finally figured out what From really is.