u/ro524008

I think the answer to this show has been simple and laid out from the very beginning. Save the kids.

This got misinterpreted throughout the show making Tabitha and Jade think they need to save kids from centuries ago. However, we have also been told that you can’t change a story once it’s been told. Doesn’t it make sense that maybe, just maybe, the solution all along has been for parents to protect and save their own children?

The writers said that the answers at the end go back to the beginning. The first thing we see in this show is a father choose to stay out at a bar leading to his daughter being killed. Boyd tells at him and says “A man protects his family!”

We later find out that Boyd left his family searching for answers which led to his wife going crazy and nearly killing his son.

The trend continues over and over. Jim and Tabitha constantly abandoning their kids to search for answers. The MIY told Sara to hill Ethan and she almost got away with it. Victor’s mom left him and his sister. Jade has been abandoned by his father. The examples go on and on.

There has to be a reason that Henry came back to this town… and so far he has been the ONLY parent to stick close to, and try to be there for his son above all else. i believe this will lead to their salvation.

Ethan has been right about literally everything since the show started… but his parents refused to listen and kept going off on their own journeys. Now Jim is dead and Tabitha has been warned that she is running out of time. Maybe if Tabitha tries to save her own children for once- it will lead to more information on how to get home.

One thing that has bothered me about the appearance of Jim when Ethan sees in S4 E2 is that he doesn’t look the same as the last time Ethan saw him. The scar on his forehead from the house collapse is still healing… obviously this was purposely done. The makeup team wouldn’t go out of their way to recreate this scar for no reason.

So i went back to find when he matched this appearance and i found it. It’s S3 E1 - the first time Jim finds the settlement by the lake. He is wearing the same blue sweater under the green jacket and the forehead scar matches perfectly!

Is this proof that the lake of tears is real? At the very least his appearance is clearly pointing back to the settlement/lake while he is directing Ethan to find the lake of tears.

Thoughts/ Other reasons for this appearance?

Rewatching the show between episode releases and I noticed something in season 2. Ethan goes to visit Victor to apologize for letting Jade take things from him room, and Victor is in the middle of drawing a black face. It isn’t like the other completely black figures we have seen in other drawings, you can actually make out facial features. Victor says he is drawing “New stuff” that he saw on his journey with Tabitha in the caves/tunnels.

Has anyone seen any theories about this figure? And if Tabitha was there and saw this figure too like Victor says- is it possible that she knows more about these other monsters than she is letting on?

There has to be a reason that we didn’t see them interact with this creature, and knowing that this is “new” to Victor gives me pause…