Time travel baby.
Rewatching S3 E8.
Started thinking.
Martin doesn’t know Boyd until they meet in season 1-2.
Based on their initial back and forth.
Martin does, however, know Julie.
Julie does not know Martin.
Hence, Martin’s present chained up self has met a future Julie.
Conclusion: we will be seeing Martin again soon.
Hear me out.
I think I know somewhat what’s going on. How to connect all the dots.
How does all of this random shit connect?
Rewatching season 2, Sarah tells Kenny a story about how her brother was afraid of cicadas.
Midway, Tabitha goes with Victor to remember the night his mom died, saying it’s all drawings, that the pictures would remember so he wouldn’t have to. He then remembers his sister Eloise.
Critical exchange happens when Tabitha shares this and the drawings with my main man Jade:
Jade: Here…look at this…see this one? See the color of those uniforms? These are civil war soldiers, and why the fuck would a little girl draw pictures of….
Tabitha: no, no, no.THE PICTURES CAME FROM THE STORIES HIS MOTHER USED TO TELL.
Ok so Miranda’s story about a civil war soldier became the source a Jade vision in season 1.
Ok. So. Stories.
Then there’s the whole thing in season 3 about the children, how they told them a story to give them hope and they put that hope into the roots of the tree.
Julie is a story walker.
MIY chides Julie with the “didn’t anyone ever tell you can’t change a story once it’s been told.”
Ethan literally just saw ghost Jim who now says there is an actual lake of tears to be found. It probably just got created/added.
All of the things below came into being because they originated in stories and somehow this place can take the story connected to the individual and make it real.
So, all these things are stories people told and brought to this place.
Which means once people learn how to tell stories in this place they will have all the power.
So we got a story walker, now we need a story teller.
This town is like the basement from Cabin in the Woods basically. Everything is unconnected, unless you categorize all of this shit as “stories” that were told by someone who entered this place.
Music box monster / worms in blood / ballerina - Martin refers to it as “they”: story teller: unknown at this time
Story teller: bus driver/ or Elgin: goes, “They touch, they break, they steal. No one here is free. Here they come, they come for three, unless you stop the melody.”
Sidenote: Elgin had seizure
Also another side note: this little folk saying can’t come from the music monster. Why would you tell people how to beat you?
Cicadas: Sarah’s brother/ Sarah
Sidenote: Sarah had seizure
Night monsters/ faraway trees/ light tower - story teller: probably Jade/tabitha
Cramanockle/ lake of tears - story teller: Ethan
Sidenote: Ethan had seizure
Kimono lady corpse: story teller: unknown at this time