the voice comes from the intelligent 'Snake', it reach people by radioactive method, and it(they) maybe sol itself, so powerful to manipulate people's mind
Ridley Scott used game references like Destiny and Dark Souls through the show acoding to Amanda Collin in her last interview, the bones of Ahamkara dragons can mess up with the thoughts and lead to insanity in the Destiny series from Bungie as well on Raised by Wolves l, and actual Dragons or worms of Ahamkara they are very powerful, they are like Jins, granting wishes, just like the Mother's maker at the sleeping pods, aways mischievous and violent.
something that wasn't brought up that brings support to the notion that Campion will be a powerful force in the coming seasons against the serpent creature/force/energy, is that in addition to the serpent recoiling in Mother's stomach in response to Campion speaking to it, something that was brought up but never explained was that Campion was the only child who was able to survive eating the radioactive crops. All of the other original children on Kepler 22b were killed off by it at a very young age, but Campion continued to grow and prosper because of something special in his biology that allows him to tolerate radioactive food. The fact that he is named Campion, after the original Campion Sturges, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Campion Sturges knew about the falsity of 'Sol' because he somehow interacted in a way with the serpent energy/5th power and understood its' intentions, and performed some type of bioengineering to make Campion biologically superior than other humans in counteracting this evil serpent energy. After all, whenever any of the Mithraic believers heard the voice in their head--the guy who raped all the women on the Ark, Fake Marcus, or Paul--they were manipulatable enough to believe in Sol and act on the voices they heard. However, when the evil serpent energy tries to convince Campion to kill himself to join the other children, Campion resists and remains devout in his atheistic belief. I think this shows that Campion will be the only one who can truly defeat the serpent energy, and perhaps because Campion Sturges understood the neverending cycle that was occurring, realized that removing this dark photon energy from the future was a requirement for the survival of humankind into the future, and bioengineered Campion to be the one capable of doing so
Very interesting insight, but it needs just one small correction: Campion's belief system is progressing into some kind of pantheism or panentheism, not atheism. So he didn't "remain devout in his atheistic belief", but rather stuck with his pantheism or panentheism.
One thing in the video you said that I have to correct. Sue(Mary) didint actually learn to be a doctor in the sim. She was a doctor in the atheist army or whatever they're called, they just told the original Eminence she learned it in the sim so he wouldn't be suspicious.
thats what i came here to mention, also I dont remember then raising paul, i thought they were put in hibernation and he was already matured when he went in
The pod, that mother enters, where she meets virtual Campion , is the forbidden fruit. She is warned every time that the simulation is not suitable for androids.
@@soul1d it was terrible. like that terrible alien film, what was it called? leviathan. who writes this bollocks. philip k dick would be turning in his grave.
@@eviled2925 its symbolic...it has multiple layers...what we dont "understand" in context to a different view(tradition) is just the reality of us assuming how things should have been done ...so it makes sense for us👀 maybe ridley scott should write in a far far away reality so it can be a prototype reference for the most viewers out-there with borders around their view👀🥂🍻
@oh yess successful tv shows? Like what, a sitcom? These are basically shot as MOVIES with the best directors, actors, crew, CGI....Not like I'm an expert I'm just not following
I found it very interesting. It was like watching a highly logical but naive person figuring out for the first time that women care about children but have no real emotional attachment to men and how to deal with it. This is really mirrored in their whole relationship where Father understands he needs to be useful or Mother will get rid of him, and she even kills him when he does not agree with her. In those last scenes it finally comes to a conclusion when he realizes there was never anything between them beyond him serving her and the family and his emotional attachment to her was not shared. Even in the conversation after it's brought up again when he says that who she is now is not the same person as on the ship before there was children. Something most men experience after a child is brought into the equation. The whole "cheating" thing is just the final straw that causes him to realize what he had know all along, like he said when he questions if she had ever really cared for him. Then he finally accepts his role and goes back to wanting to "be useful" in the final scene. They're doing a very good job of mimicking a real human relationship. It's a very clever way of doing it in these tense times because if they had been humans the audience would have sided with one party over the other and people would have gotten upset and not been able to comprehend the whole perfectly mirrored and simplified human relationship they're having. Having it presented in this way can help people see that this is the natural progression of a human relationship without getting their personal feelings and ideas about what it should be like and who's to blame for what and so on involved. They use this trick in sci-fi all the time, they disassociate you from the actual message by using non-human characters, seems it still works pretty well.
Exactly definitely think the vid missed the mark on that as it was clearly shown that her "creator" made a promise of what her so called actual mission was.
@@royaltyblessed2454 Btw rewatching it now. No video I feel like mentioned that she has healing abilities. She healed Tempst with her finger after removing the tracker. Thought that was neat.
Yea but it wasn’t actually her creator it was the voice as she acknowledge when she said „i don’t think it’s was my creator, something else put this inside of me“
Aaron Torregrossa its his bodylanguage. We all link that to Ragnar :) ...he is trapped in this role or he change his way of moving and looking at people completely
@@abbysheyba8421 Ya he kills it in Warcraft. I don't mind seeing similarities in those roles.. One should just look at them as separate characters and then the issue is gone.
The Alien franchise is owned by Disney now (through Fox merger). So unless Disney licensed stuff to AT&T/HBO, the writers have to keep the universes separate.
After looking at the scene in this episode of the metal head by the old box... and after mother takes the helmet off, its appears to necromancer skull. My theory is in the past ,the hooded cult was using necromancers imprisoned in these boxes as incubators for these serpents. Looks like the metal helmets were put on the necros backwards to prevent them from using their scream powers . The combination of the metal box and helmet allows only one exit for the snake ....the back of necromancers skull. And if that was a necro head....why didn't mother grab the eyes out for her weapon mode?
I think, the helmet was properly fitted on the head of the android and the opening was on the face around the mouth. I also believe that it was the same thing with religion that lead to this. These snakes probably had some sort of telekinetic powers and played with the minds of the people who lived there making them build these androids to create a hybrid and there were actually 2 factions as it was on the Earth. I think those atheists sent two androids to earth to create humanity but somehow got the voice with them.
The snakes might be what powers their planets core, as snakes started going extinct(possibly their own fault), their planet began to slowly die. They became more violent causing them to become more religious. Then they tried to breed more snakes, which resulted in failure. The only option was to send a mission to the only other planet that could harbor life as they know it, earth. Campeon is the first one to figure this out and sends back mother and father.
Given all the religious undertone of the show, I wouldn't be surprised if the tropical zone was some kind of metaphor for the Garden of Eden. And they've literally let the manipulative serpent in.
I mean consider how big it's gonna end up being to fill out those holes in the ground. It's probably going to take quite a bit of time before it fully matures, still scary fast though lol.
Thats what I want to know. I think Campion is the lead candidate to kill the snake. He probably has some of Mothers abilities that we're not aware of yet. They are somewhat siblings
TheCrystella26 when he was dead as a baby she brought him back to life or did something after she cried on him, it could maybe explain him being the only one immune to the food.
"As long as it’s suckling, we’re safe. But it grows and I fear that once it has drained me from my milk, it will want blood.” What my wife said word for word after the birth of my first son! ☺
People's first instinct when hearing a voice in their head like this is "obviously it's god" instead of the much more real possibility of it just being a more advanced system of communication ... too real. "Magic is just science too advanced to be understood yet"
@@RevRyukin7 Well, mental illness can't really tell you things that are true though. If the voices in your head told you how to build super powerful androids that actually worked you'd probably believe them too. Pretty sure I'd consider joining a religion that where getting messages from God telling them how to construct actual spaceships, might still be skeptical but at that point I'd think it would be better to be safe than sorry. Besides, this voice clearly does more than just speak, that soldier dude hated those religious people and had spent his whole life killing them yet it didn't take the voice very long to convince him to switch sides and believe it was Sol.
@1234 well...that's the whole trick to writing a series, isn't it? you've got to constantly introduce new things in the show or the show gets stale. the things you introduce have to make sense with the rest of the world delivered, and once they're introduced, the consequences of the new things added complicate a story exponentially. few can do it well, and even they don't do it perfectly. unless the whole thing has been thot out and written to a book well in advance, it's going to be flawed. a lot of serial tv writing is done on the fly. when i think on how difficult it must be to write these shows, i don't get too mad about it when they slip up. so...take it for what it is, i guess. enjoy it while it makes some kind of sense. if it's good for only a handful of episodes, for you, then them's the breaks.
When Mother shouts, "Where is my baby? You said...", the "you" she is talking to is not the voice that other characters have been hearing. She's referring to Campion, her creator, who told her that she would be the mother of the new humanity.
But she knows that Cmapion is not the one who impregnated her? So why would she say that when she knows Campion is dead for a very long time, she was deceived and she realized that.
Sol is a giant snake god living in that shape thing in the desert, mother’s memory of the android being surrounded by worshippers was the birth of sol. Since the series has some Christian similarities, the new serpent (being half snake and half android) runs parallel to Jesus being divine and mundane, however I would say this serpent is more like the devil posing as God.
Definitely. I suspect they've crash landed on a world populated by giant, intelligent serpents with really weird life cycles. That can now fly. Now they're truly like mice!
@@kdilli6426 They're most likely one and the same. What we know so far is that they didn't invent the technology that was given to them by their god, but was discovered, most likely from this "god".
@@AbrahamSamma They didn't crash land, they went there on purpose. It's not been revealed why they went to this particular planet, but it's pretty obvious they where guided there. With androids being built from "scriptures from Sol" back on Earth it seems the alien intelligence on this planet has been manipulating them since long before they left it Earth, it probably told them where to go.
Could be possible the skull which she sees in the end is actually her own skull because the skull looks that of android and probably she is the only android who has given birth to a serpent!!
Correction: Sue did not learn medicine in the sim. That was the excuse they gave when Mary's medical knowledge had to be explained as it was not part of Sue's service record.
Yes, that might happen. It's not terrible to leave some amount of mystery, but there are way too many specifically bizarre images that must be explained. Just showing crazy shit for it's own sake it totally unsatisfying, especially in this format. This is not an issue of Heavy Metal Magazine.
I liked the beginning and the general theme of the first few episodes, shit just got all mixed up and silly from there on, specially the last 3 episodes. Kind of dissapointing really.
@@jmg6887 actually i liked it it's not mixed up things all together maybe you need to watch more complex movies/series to get used to this one after all i respect your opinion PS: the only serie that is dissapointing to me was '' SEE" that's the only serie that it dissapoints me
Just watched 5 of these “ending explained” videos. By far this one aligns with my own theories as well. Best take IMO. Looper missed the second arrival of inhabitants were atheists. Good work.
I think there are 2 opposing forces fighting each other in Keplar, the snake people and the human people. I believe that they have been sending out forces to each planets that they colonize to try to defeat each other, making a cycle of creation and destruction. What happened here is that the snake people was successful in sabotaging human civilization on earth. To end the cycle, they've tricked the human survivors to go back to keplar to wipe them off completely.
No they haven't. It's still a mystery as to who the orphan child is at this point. Could be any of the children or tempests baby if she dies. It's very intriguing.
2:15 No, that was not the entities voice speaking to Mother. She was referring to what it told her in the Sim. You said "the future of humanity is growing inside of you" (episode 8).
It also might have learned about Marcus's true identity from Mother when it had access to her memories in the sim. So maybe it can only whisper in people's ears and cause visions. Was there anything else it knew that it couldn't have learned from Mother?
Also, thanks for explaining what was happening in the vision! You are right, the skull she finds is very similar to an android, maybe even specifically a Necromancer like her! I didn't make the connection the one in the vision that's trapped in dodecahedron was probably pregnant like the Mother! That makes a lot of sense! Maybe, the temple dodecahedron in the desert has one giant snake actually trapped in it too.
I love that someone else picked out on the Lost parallels in this show. RBW has lots of the same sort of plot mysteries driven by the same mechanisms as Lost. Throw ontop of that how every episode appears to answer some questions but introduce more at the same time makes this show pretty compelling and also frustrating in other ways :P
Solid writing? Yeah maybe in the first 4 episodes... after that it all goes in the shitter. Marcus/Caleb is just an example, one of the worst character arcs I’ve ever seen.
@@Sodabp I still like the show a lot, but as it was happening I was thinking about how dumb it was that the two androids who were obsessed with protecting the children just decided to randomly commit suicide in a very dumb fashion without a care in the world. Like would they actually abandon the kids like that?
It’s like Adam and Eve story snake speaking is “Sol”. There was probably a snake in black desert cube and speaking from the womb of Mother. Every time someone hears voice it sounds like a low budget Harry Potter snake language
you are missing something, the serpents in Kepler 22b never flew (small or big), they were organic 100%, but now they can since they are half organic and half necromancer, that was the whole point, to make the serpent hybrid and more powerful
@@Atermoiementeuse Yes, because a *pretty* flying alien snake born from an android which was manipulated by a mysterious voice would be more comprehensible
At this point it’s fair to assume that everything Mother remembers and has experienced in virtual could be totally fabricated by the voice/serpent(s). So there could be a big reveal when she finds out her actual personal history. So any random change in direction is on the table.
@@malkoc222 I see what you mean. It may mean nothing, but with all the possibilities with the voice, telepathy, AI, simulations, cycles repeating, and all the other little details of this world, there could be some connection to his trap and the mouth, even if it's just thematically.
The AJ Disney isn’t letting him continue his story with the alien franchise so he just said fine and went to HBO Max where he can tell a better more coherent version with the same themes but room to go in a different direction.
Yes, the medic android explained that Necromancer tech was discovered by the Mithraic. What we have is a cult worshipping aliens as if they were a god. Eh, the show is veering dangerously close to Lost + Prometheus.
+ tbh, I was expecting a hybrid of something of a vampiric alien & android, not a literal serpent-like creature LOL + In Dark Souls series (games), the "primordial serpents" are a very intelligent smart & cunning serpent-like creatures that basically manipulate behind the scenes & have a pivotal roles to the world's (planet) destiny. So maybe this other godly beings who manipulate other intelligent beings are in similar effects, manipulating the minds for their own agenda? + I think Campion is "the leader" of the "pack" (yes, yes, obvious metaphor for wolves here), but he is not the "chosen one." There is really no "chosen one" as pretty much both Marcus & Paul confirmed to be infected with hallucination from other "godly beings" in the end, they do make their own paths. + Once again, I think both the "serpent" & the giant pentagon cube are different entities & I still think that pentagon cube is a super computer made by the native people to counter this other godly being's hallucination & whispers. + Looking at it again, it's not just Mithraic & Christianity mythos, but also somewhat Norse mythology. Jormungandr (giant serpent) is the child of Loki (The "trickster" god) & Angrboda (female jotunn/giantess). Not only that, Angrboda also birthed the "wolves" AKA Fenrir. If we take a look at this mythos, then: - Loki: Trickster god, hallucination being, the so called "Sol." - Angrboda: powerful jotunn, powerful android/necromancer, basically "Mother." Also named "Lamia," another greek mythlogy name after a hybrid snake creature. - Fenrir: the wolves. Campion & his pack - Odin: a prophetic god who lose his eye. Maybe it represent "Marcus?" He didn't lose his eye, but he was kinda dying from eating an eye, symbolically baptized in dying & rebirth from it. + the metal tarot card pretty much revealed also the past memories of the natives people trying to contained the "serpent" birth via that cube incubator. Once again kinda proved there is a conflict between pentagon cube & the godly beings that trying to birth a "serpent." This is also why the hallucination & whispers made Marcus didn't kill mother & stabbed himself, while Paul being whispered to burn the tarot cards.
Interesting for you to say dark souls universe because that is what I thought of first when I heard Sol and the Norse mythology is really interesting as it lines up pretty good now that you mention it.I would also add to this list the man playing god by creating life because this is one of Ridley Scotts favorite subjects.
I think Marcus may end up still being the Prophet, it's possible that something else was responsible for a few of his visions and signs. A few of them seem to stand out from the rest. For example: when he asks for a sign from Sol and sees the church burning (after Campion sets it alight); When he has a vision of the golden scalpel and his wife bleeding out from the stomach; when he peels off his own face; when he sees Hunter being bitten by the snake; and finally, when asking for another sign, he sees the lander and it leads him directly to the atheists. Those are all pretty different from the manipulative stuff from the serpent, instead of being about ensuring the birth of the snake, they seem to be warning him that he's on the wrong path. And that he needs to stop pretending to be something he's not. The burning of the church is almost like what he's doing is an abomination (because he's following a false god). Peeling his face off is telling him to stop pretending to be the Mithraic. Leading him back to the atheists and hoping he starts getting the hint (he's not lol).
I found it very amusing to hear and see Mother describe 'mating' in a very sophisticated fashion. Reminded me of the word "entanglement" by Jada P. Smith
I just hope they leave us with more answers than questions cuz its starting to feel like those shows that keep on showing random things and never explaining them.
Anyone else notice that mother and father flying into the molten core of the planet, not only resembled an egg and sperm (obviously) - but also the bit in the opening credits where the ship arrives from whatever version of hyperspace they have and falls towards the planet - beauty and destruction in one
Great analysis!! I noticed that skull was an Android too!! And the mask has a cylindrical opening as well, and the way we saw mother give birth seems like it must have been the same way for that android, and the natives just made it more ritualistic but the same process, and they both vomited white blood.
really? how is this scifi? the physics is all wrong.. - the "necromancer" sound waves make people disappear into thin air? how? where does their mass go? where's the insides? where's the bones? - snake swimming through the air? wtf? how? is it made out of some super light materials or what? how is it hovering? - snake growing 1000x the size in few seconds out of thin air. how? wtf? this is not sci-fi for me..
The snake reminds me of the Mayan snake god Kukulkan & it's design for the show looks like the creatures from the Stephen King movie Dreamcatcher...like, exactly.
Honestly, I was skimming through the comment section hoping for somebody to make the connection to the winged(flying) serpent god. The series is full of religious references, not only christian.
Excellent review! Ridley Scott's obsession with androids and aliens is almost always fascinating. I'm starting to suspect that those four legged creatures may also be devolved humans.
@@davidkugel It's really flawed. not only Mary should be able to suspect what it really was, but they also had so many inspection equipments inside of the aircraft ... ... I don't hate the idea of snake baby, but I think lacking logical explanation degraded this series.
To everyone saying devolution isn’t a term that’s not the point they are trying to tell you that the humans are losing their higher intelligence and reverting to a more primitive animalistic state But that’s a lot of words so devolving is used and a side not to all the devolving or devolution is 100% a word/term that can be used in this scenario
Agreed, its the shows way of saying the humans are regressing on this planet. This is not Earth. Like Father said, there are a lot of things we are ignorant of Keebler history.
Guys does no one notice that all the people hearing the voice hear it because of emotional distress. there is also my theory that this voice kills mentally unstable people. Like the guy burn by the rock. Yet it didn't burn that boys hand. If you are guilty (people with seriously hidden baggage)it feeds of of you. if you are innocent. It has no power over you. Hearing the voice is not a good thing it turns you crazy. Yet these people still think it is God and follow it
So, "The voice" told Paul to take Mother's eyes because she could easily vaporize the serpents I'm guessing. I'm a bit confused on the purpose of these serpents though as, if they feed on humans, they are so large that they would need a population in the millions or billions to keep fed. This is all so weird.
Pretty sure Paul took the eyes under Marcus' order to do so. I'm doubtful if mother becomes weaponized that she would be able to damage the serpent like she does humans.
Yeah. There are tons of the giant skeletons too, the creatures on that planet couldn't even keep one of them alive for very long, let alone a whole population of them. But there is still a lot of the planet we haven't seen yet, maybe other parts like the temperate zone have other big creatures they can feed on? Has to be something, it's not like they evolved those giant fangs for nothing.
You know that tune that Mother was humming? That was “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”. If you click the TH-cam link to verify wait for the chorus at about 0:50. th-cam.com/video/YcyiC79l910/w-d-xo.html
My predictions based on some hints.. • The Sol is a kind of AI or an alpha type necromencer or a very high tech alien's android. • Sol and the necromencer are originated from planet Kepler-22b. • The skull mother discovered in the cave right before she gave birth is a necromencer skull. • Marcus & Paul can hear the voice/whisper of Sol because there is a device planted in their head that Sol can connect to. • The serpent is Sol's pet.
Just looked up this vid after watching the season finale. Needles to say this episode dialed the weird up to 11, I have no idea what’s going on. Thanks for the vids, I’ll be sure to look back for past ones to try to find some light as to what it all means as I still find the series weird but enjoyable. Now to off watch the next episode of The Boys!
Ive just watched the entire series 1 today. OMFG. It is absolutely incredible. I’m literally buzzing. I loved it. Big up RIDLEY SCOTT. mind blown. Bring on S2 !!!!! Take a bow !!!!!!!! 👏
Mother: "We Communed in a Virtual Space, and while we did (Information was downloaded into my drives)" Well played Ridley Scott and Aaron Guzikowski.....well played.
@Thinkstory: An excellent analysis! Zero errors! In fact many other channels messed things up by misinterpretation of certain scenes. Looper screwed it up completely calling the Atheist ship at the end another Mithraic Ark. Anyways I would have liked to have seen you address Cody’s transformation after swallowing the white blood from Mothers eye that transformed him similar to Otho. You can see his veins have turned black and begun to bulge, likely giving him additional powers. Other than that, great job!
9 episodes just to see a flying deep sea fish come out of an androids mouth and learn nothing ...I don't mind a bit of mystery but this episode tells me the whole series is going to go on being just as unsatisfying...
It's the first season, which sets everything into play. It builds up the characters, their passions, their needs. It's the first chapter to a hopefully long story. You don't get the explanation to things in the first chapter, you have to read the entire book to learn.
@@poopsanchez6449 yea but its funny how most people dont find most of these characters interesting at all so at the end its all just very average stuff. Nice try tho.
@@hejstaima Who is most people? I found it incredibly interesting. Some of the best character development in any media is probably Ahsoka from Star Wars. She's had a lot of years to progress and initially, a lot of people hated her too. Like a lot. Now she's a really important character in the entire franchise and she started from a TV show. She's even made it to the Rise of Skywalker. The point is characters need to start off somewhere. That's why characters progress.
Exactly!!, love alien/Prometheus on its own but it’s already been done. But it feels the same as those , facehuger pregnancy, milky androids, the alien engineer dude from Prometheus , strong bad ass female who can’t get pregnant for some reason (Mary) the only new stuff is the religion and apocalypse themes. Dang it I felt like we were on a path to Metropolis the old groundbreaking masterpiece of a movie because of mother’s design. But no, no metrópolis for us.
As long as they tell their own story, who cares if they're connected. So far it definitely seems like they're cresting toward a totally original and new story, that may or may not tie into alien in a probably minor way. Even if it does connect in a big way, again, there's enough of an original story for it to stand on it's own, so connecting to alien would just be icing.
this show is heavily loaded with random references already, now I felt drowning with the last episode. I only hope Father would stop sacrificing himself so much in the second season
John Snow: look at these cave paintings mah queen. they've been here all this time... me watching this show: ahhhh.... maybe they traveled into the future where they have already populated kepler 22 with humans and necros. like planet of the apes. the huge giant snake could actually be the baby snake born this episode. and looks like paul and marcus will be leading the devolved humans. I fear maybe mother picked up her own skull and she will be forced to give birth to another snake in the future. that's my crazy theory
you missed the part where "the king" got his butt kicked and was fed the eyes, and the white fluid seen coming out his mouth. so are the eyes still intact? likely, yes. but it was odd that the last episode didn't include any such scene when "the king" woke up from his butt whooping. no scene ever showed him re-securing the eyes.
@@amphithere That's still called evolution. Evolution by natural selection is the change in a species over time due to natural selection and other pressures. However you survive in accordance with your environment is what you are likely to evolve to or adapt features to it. Evolution is misunderstood as linear progression from simple to complex which often is interpreted as worse to better. But "better" has more to do with adaptation to your surroundings to survive and successfully continue to reproduce in a healthy number. It is not about having certain abilities that are independent of your environment. Eg: having legs is not necessarily a superior trait intrinsically. If the ground was made of jello, then it would be pretty useless, even though it might be more complicated in its design in comparison to crawling with your spine.
@@vizzy1923 You will have to define what going backwards means. It is kind of meaningless when it comes to evolution because it is not necessarily a linear thing!
@@zenithquasar9623 Like for example, the environment is set and you evolve to fit that environment, but suddenly, the environment changes and you evolve more to fit the changes. But then suddenly the environment goes back to it's original state so you would have to devolve back to what you originally were. IDK I'm legitimately asking, this is intriguing to me.
remember Marcus said before they wait Mother get in the pod? "It will make her be in a loop". Aight, Marcus was already talked by "Sol" and maybe he did something to the pod guided by "Sol", and boom, snake out.
One of the best show I’ve watched in awhile. Behind all the details of the show, the ultimate message is that life, human kind and its action is a constant replay no matter where they are. The biggest give on this is the red dome, that has all the story pictures, it’s showing that the story of all of them has already been written and played out and in a circular motion and eventually will go back and repeat.
The serpent is a proto-alien. Just like the aliens would pick up the characteristics of their hosts. Remember the dog like attributes of the alien when it came from a dog? And the aliens look like aliens from the movies, but only earlier in their evolution.
Think a lot of people have PTSD from Lost and automatically start hating a series when it raises questions lmao. They've been betrayed once, they can never trust a series to know where it's going again!
Brb, gonna be in sim hibernation until season 2!
Let me know what you thought of the season! Your theories and anything I missed.
Notification squad!!
the voice comes from the intelligent 'Snake', it reach people by radioactive method, and it(they) maybe sol itself, so powerful to manipulate people's mind
Ridley Scott used game references like Destiny and Dark Souls through the show acoding to Amanda Collin in her last interview, the bones of Ahamkara dragons can mess up with the thoughts and lead to insanity in the Destiny series from Bungie as well on Raised by Wolves l, and actual Dragons or worms of Ahamkara they are very powerful, they are like Jins, granting wishes, just like the Mother's maker at the sleeping pods, aways mischievous and violent.
#wow
I just want to know why mom and dad fell from the sky on the other side of the planet, shouldn't they have shot up from the ground?
something that wasn't brought up that brings support to the notion that Campion will be a powerful force in the coming seasons against the serpent creature/force/energy, is that in addition to the serpent recoiling in Mother's stomach in response to Campion speaking to it, something that was brought up but never explained was that Campion was the only child who was able to survive eating the radioactive crops. All of the other original children on Kepler 22b were killed off by it at a very young age, but Campion continued to grow and prosper because of something special in his biology that allows him to tolerate radioactive food.
The fact that he is named Campion, after the original Campion Sturges, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Campion Sturges knew about the falsity of 'Sol' because he somehow interacted in a way with the serpent energy/5th power and understood its' intentions, and performed some type of bioengineering to make Campion biologically superior than other humans in counteracting this evil serpent energy. After all, whenever any of the Mithraic believers heard the voice in their head--the guy who raped all the women on the Ark, Fake Marcus, or Paul--they were manipulatable enough to believe in Sol and act on the voices they heard. However, when the evil serpent energy tries to convince Campion to kill himself to join the other children, Campion resists and remains devout in his atheistic belief. I think this shows that Campion will be the only one who can truly defeat the serpent energy, and perhaps because Campion Sturges understood the neverending cycle that was occurring, realized that removing this dark photon energy from the future was a requirement for the survival of humankind into the future, and bioengineered Campion to be the one capable of doing so
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Good shiiiit !!!
Very interesting insight, but it needs just one small correction: Campion's belief system is progressing into some kind of pantheism or panentheism, not atheism. So he didn't "remain devout in his atheistic belief", but rather stuck with his pantheism or panentheism.
you are absolutely correct, this needs more likes!!
Wow! This actually explains alot
One thing in the video you said that I have to correct. Sue(Mary) didint actually learn to be a doctor in the sim. She was a doctor in the atheist army or whatever they're called, they just told the original Eminence she learned it in the sim so he wouldn't be suspicious.
thats what i came here to mention, also I dont remember then raising paul, i thought they were put in hibernation and he was already matured when he went in
Ditto, he totally missed that.
Correct, Sue was already a doctor/medic
TRUEEEE
Wait is her fake name sue and her real name Mary?
The pod, that mother enters, where she meets virtual Campion , is the forbidden fruit. She is warned every time that the simulation is not suitable for androids.
Yup, just sitting in the forest tempting her..... Good call
Interesting, makes sense.
Excellent point. It's also from the Tree of Knowledge
Yeah she slept with creator dude which put snake in her womb. Atheists and Creator will end of being the enemies in story
@@dambigfoot6844 it wasn't creator, it was something else.
I mean the necromancer bringing an extinct species back from the dead suddenly makes the name necromancer make sense.
What species is that creature?
giant psychic serpent, the old myths of Leviathan, Jörmungandr, Quetzalcoatl , eastern dragons, the serpent in the garden take your pick of myth
@@soul1d it was terrible. like that terrible alien film, what was it called? leviathan. who writes this bollocks. philip k dick would be turning in his grave.
@@eviled2925 its symbolic...it has multiple layers...what we dont "understand" in context to a different view(tradition) is just the reality of us assuming how things should have been done ...so it makes sense for us👀
maybe ridley scott should write in a far far away reality so it can be a prototype reference for the most viewers out-there with borders around their view👀🥂🍻
@@StarFox85 symbolic of a pretentious mind
"Knock knock"
"who's there?"
"You won't find out this season"
Exactly, but it was a damn fun watch!
@oh yess successful tv shows? Like what, a sitcom? These are basically shot as MOVIES with the best directors, actors, crew, CGI....Not like I'm an expert I'm just not following
@@StainSocial that's what I what TRYING to say lol, thank you
You said it, I was just adding my 2 cents!
Haha
I felt bad for Father. He had human jealousy and a human reaction to mother’s pregnancy. He even wanted his memories erased. Poor guy.
I can relate.
LOL I felt bad for laughing at that scene
Actually he's awesome...I thought for sure he was going to kill her
he's by far my fave character on the show honestly :')
He’s a robot 🤖 and a bad one at that. Didn’t even stay at the steering wheel, mother was always having to fix his follies UGH
When father was explaining his dilemma I was like sounds like he needs a divorce 😂
Right? Y'all need a custody agreement
It's like any father's dilemma during divorce lol that was hilarious.
Reminds me of Succession. "Sometimes I wonder if the sadness I'd feel without you would be less than the sadness I feel with you."
I found it very interesting. It was like watching a highly logical but naive person figuring out for the first time that women care about children but have no real emotional attachment to men and how to deal with it. This is really mirrored in their whole relationship where Father understands he needs to be useful or Mother will get rid of him, and she even kills him when he does not agree with her. In those last scenes it finally comes to a conclusion when he realizes there was never anything between them beyond him serving her and the family and his emotional attachment to her was not shared. Even in the conversation after it's brought up again when he says that who she is now is not the same person as on the ship before there was children. Something most men experience after a child is brought into the equation. The whole "cheating" thing is just the final straw that causes him to realize what he had know all along, like he said when he questions if she had ever really cared for him. Then he finally accepts his role and goes back to wanting to "be useful" in the final scene. They're doing a very good job of mimicking a real human relationship. It's a very clever way of doing it in these tense times because if they had been humans the audience would have sided with one party over the other and people would have gotten upset and not been able to comprehend the whole perfectly mirrored and simplified human relationship they're having. Having it presented in this way can help people see that this is the natural progression of a human relationship without getting their personal feelings and ideas about what it should be like and who's to blame for what and so on involved. They use this trick in sci-fi all the time, they disassociate you from the actual message by using non-human characters, seems it still works pretty well.
@@daniel4647 Truth!
Marcus losing his sanity gave me Ragnar vibe.
“Who wants to be king?” And “I’m the king of this world”
Yoooo, me too. Especially when he started to suffer withdrawal from yidu's medicinal leaves. "WHO WANTS TO BE KING?????"
Also when was conflicted by his Christian priest friend and his Nordic beliefs.
@@AmazingJayB51 I order the arrest of Floki for the murder of Athelstan 😭
@@tirenioluwagbemi-ogunleye4168 All I could see that episode was Ragnar near his end
So trueeee
Father is the only reason to watch this show at this point lol he need to find himself a good robot girl.
I liked Mary (Sue) too, even though Paul’s not her kid she genuinely loved him, same with Kaleb (Marcus), but he went crazy
Mother belong to the streets like jada
Marcus and father are my two favourite characters.
Omg facts!
you hold strong, king. know your worth
"We communed in a virtual space and while we did, information was downloaded into my drives."
Android speak for entanglements 😂
I tried that excuse with my wife...it didnt work 🤣
@@torchsnow629 😏
She so hi tech it was actually a quantum entanglement
Beautiful
😂😂😂😂
I think when Mother said "You said" when giving birth was directed at her maker. IMO
I concur
Exactly definitely think the vid missed the mark on that as it was clearly shown that her "creator" made a promise of what her so called actual mission was.
@@royaltyblessed2454 Btw rewatching it now. No video I feel like mentioned that she has healing abilities. She healed Tempst with her finger after removing the tracker. Thought that was neat.
@@Samwyse616 Ah good catch interesting to see what they do with that (if at all)
Yea but it wasn’t actually her creator it was the voice as she acknowledge when she said „i don’t think it’s was my creator, something else put this inside of me“
Poor Travis seems like he’s playing Ragnar again, mannerisms and everything. Every time he said “good boy”
Aaron Torregrossa its his bodylanguage. We all link that to Ragnar :) ...he is trapped in this role or he change his way of moving and looking at people completely
Blag Nerd yeah and the eyes too lol
thai is his body language
It's just how he is, watch his other movies like Warcraft
@@abbysheyba8421 Ya he kills it in Warcraft. I don't mind seeing similarities in those roles.. One should just look at them as separate characters and then the issue is gone.
Who else thought that the creature protruding out of Mothers mouth was a Xenomorph? Considering Ridley Scott is executive producer on this show.
The Alien franchise is owned by Disney now (through Fox merger). So unless Disney licensed stuff to AT&T/HBO, the writers have to keep the universes separate.
It did remind me of a chestburster for a split second until I seen its full form, then I knew it was tremors on mars lol
Well, Ridley Scott did say he wanted to make the Alien movies about the androids now, so I'm pretty sure this is just him fufilling that idea.
The pale humanoid reminds of the pale aliens from Prometheus.
@@tyn6211 fu***ing mouse owns everything -_-
After looking at the scene in this episode of the metal head by the old box... and after mother takes the helmet off, its appears to necromancer skull. My theory is in the past ,the hooded cult was using necromancers imprisoned in these boxes as incubators for these serpents. Looks like the metal helmets were put on the necros backwards to prevent them from using their scream powers . The combination of the metal box and helmet allows only one exit for the snake ....the back of necromancers skull.
And if that was a necro head....why didn't mother grab the eyes out for her weapon mode?
Noice! 👍🏼
I think, the helmet was properly fitted on the head of the android and the opening was on the face around the mouth. I also believe that it was the same thing with religion that lead to this. These snakes probably had some sort of telekinetic powers and played with the minds of the people who lived there making them build these androids to create a hybrid and there were actually 2 factions as it was on the Earth. I think those atheists sent two androids to earth to create humanity but somehow got the voice with them.
spot on, sacrificial device, and apparently the hooded cult have the Ahamkara worms as Gods.
Good shit
The snakes might be what powers their planets core, as snakes started going extinct(possibly their own fault), their planet began to slowly die. They became more violent causing them to become more religious. Then they tried to breed more snakes, which resulted in failure. The only option was to send a mission to the only other planet that could harbor life as they know it, earth. Campeon is the first one to figure this out and sends back mother and father.
Telepathic flying snakes that mature in a matter of hours, scary stuff
Given all the religious undertone of the show, I wouldn't be surprised if the tropical zone was some kind of metaphor for the Garden of Eden. And they've literally let the manipulative serpent in.
it grew faster than those necromorph things in prometheus and covenant like wtf lol
I mean consider how big it's gonna end up being to fill out those holes in the ground. It's probably going to take quite a bit of time before it fully matures, still scary fast though lol.
it grew out of thin air.. what a joke..
@@kyjo72682 It actually grew after they went through the planet's core and there was something in those cave paintings about that too.
Sooo is anyone going to mention how Campion’s voice was able to hurt the snake or at least provoke a reaction while it was in mother’s stomach?
Thats what I want to know. I think Campion is the lead candidate to kill the snake. He probably has some of Mothers abilities that we're not aware of yet. They are somewhat siblings
@@TheCrystella26 the siblings part had me laughing out loud
@@TheCrystella26 hahaha you got me at siblings. Hahahaha.
TheCrystella26 when he was dead as a baby she brought him back to life or did something after she cried on him, it could maybe explain him being the only one immune to the food.
@@Shakespearitus oh yes. I bet Campion has some of Mother's traits too.
"As long as it’s suckling, we’re safe. But it grows and I fear that once it has drained me from my milk, it will want blood.”
What my wife said word for word after the birth of my first son! ☺
lmaaao
People's first instinct when hearing a voice in their head like this is "obviously it's god" instead of the much more real possibility of it just being a more advanced system of communication ... too real. "Magic is just science too advanced to be understood yet"
Or the most realistic/obvious answer: mental illness.
@@RevRyukin7 Well, mental illness can't really tell you things that are true though. If the voices in your head told you how to build super powerful androids that actually worked you'd probably believe them too. Pretty sure I'd consider joining a religion that where getting messages from God telling them how to construct actual spaceships, might still be skeptical but at that point I'd think it would be better to be safe than sorry. Besides, this voice clearly does more than just speak, that soldier dude hated those religious people and had spent his whole life killing them yet it didn't take the voice very long to convince him to switch sides and believe it was Sol.
See targeted individuals.
*much more real possibility*
@@RevRyukin7 😂😂😂
this story feels like it's too open ended to been fully planned from the start.
Kinda like Ridley Scott alien "prequel".. gave you a bunch of question but never really answered any of the important one..
The writer said he has already written the outline of 5 seasons(which he pitched when pitching the series).
@1234 they got greenlit after episode 4 or 5 midway through the season..
@1234 well...that's the whole trick to writing a series, isn't it? you've got to constantly introduce new things in the show or the show gets stale. the things you introduce have to make sense with the rest of the world delivered, and once they're introduced, the consequences of the new things added complicate a story exponentially.
few can do it well, and even they don't do it perfectly. unless the whole thing has been thot out and written to a book well in advance, it's going to be flawed. a lot of serial tv writing is done on the fly.
when i think on how difficult it must be to write these shows, i don't get too mad about it when they slip up. so...take it for what it is, i guess. enjoy it while it makes some kind of sense.
if it's good for only a handful of episodes, for you, then them's the breaks.
yeah every good show die off after ss2 lol
When Mother shouts, "Where is my baby? You said...", the "you" she is talking to is not the voice that other characters have been hearing. She's referring to Campion, her creator, who told her that she would be the mother of the new humanity.
But she knows that Cmapion is not the one who impregnated her? So why would she say that when she knows Campion is dead for a very long time, she was deceived and she realized that.
Thats a good theory, but in absense of follow up addressing that plot point, we have to conclude that it is most likely "Sol". Logically, it adds up.
Tuned in immediately, I've been waiting all day for this one!
As soon as I saw the holes I knew it would end with a giant worm. Praise be to Shai-Hulud, I mean, Sol!
Sol-Hulud*
Also in this show Paul (Paul atreides) has a pet mouse, the Muad'Dib's
@@darthstarkiller6605 lol I was legit thinking about the Prometheus and Dune ripoff aspect of using serpents
I knew it!! They made the holes!!
This show reflects how evil the religious fanatic can be..
Ridley Scott has his Prometheus style in this series, the scene, the atmosphere, everything
Sol is a giant snake god living in that shape thing in the desert, mother’s memory of the android being surrounded by worshippers was the birth of sol. Since the series has some Christian similarities, the new serpent (being half snake and half android) runs parallel to Jesus being divine and mundane, however I would say this serpent is more like the devil posing as God.
Yepp i definitely think it's a fake god posing as sol
Definitely. I suspect they've crash landed on a world populated by giant, intelligent serpents with really weird life cycles. That can now fly. Now they're truly like mice!
@@kdilli6426
They're most likely one and the same. What we know so far is that they didn't invent the technology that was given to them by their god, but was discovered, most likely from this "god".
@@AbrahamSamma They didn't crash land, they went there on purpose. It's not been revealed why they went to this particular planet, but it's pretty obvious they where guided there. With androids being built from "scriptures from Sol" back on Earth it seems the alien intelligence on this planet has been manipulating them since long before they left it Earth, it probably told them where to go.
Could be possible the skull which she sees in the end is actually her own skull because the skull looks that of android and probably she is the only android who has given birth to a serpent!!
Correction: Sue did not learn medicine in the sim.
That was the excuse they gave when Mary's medical knowledge had to be explained as it was not part of Sue's service record.
I fear this is going to be just like Prometheus and Covenant: a beautiful mess of themes and images and no resolution to any of your questions.
It looks like an expensive show (due to great CGI). I too worry that it gets cancelled by S2 ad we get no resolution.
Exactly its starting to feel like those shows that never explain anything.
Hopefully that is not the case considering it is in series format as apposed to a 2 hour movie.
Much more story can be conveyed in the series format.
lets hope not :) or it will be a wonderful waste of time for some of us
Yes, that might happen. It's not terrible to leave some amount of mystery, but there are way too many specifically bizarre images that must be explained. Just showing crazy shit for it's own sake it totally unsatisfying, especially in this format. This is not an issue of Heavy Metal Magazine.
Yeah the show got weird in a hurry.
Classic Hollywood train wreck.
It was weird from the beginning.
I liked the beginning and the general theme of the first few episodes, shit just got all mixed up and silly from there on, specially the last 3 episodes. Kind of dissapointing really.
@@jmg6887 Exactly. I had high hopes for it. It had that fresh feel to it. If you have ever watched the 100, its the same way.
@@jmg6887 actually i liked it it's not mixed up things all together maybe you need to watch more complex movies/series to get used to this one after all i respect your opinion
PS: the only serie that is dissapointing to me was '' SEE" that's the only serie that it dissapoints me
Just watched 5 of these “ending explained” videos. By far this one aligns with my own theories as well. Best take IMO. Looper missed the second arrival of inhabitants were atheists. Good work.
Your explanations and theories are way better than Heavy Spoilers. Good job!
It also feels like theyve forgotten about the whole prophecy about a an orphan child.
idk if you missed the part where a beast came out of the mother?
I think there are 2 opposing forces fighting each other in Keplar, the snake people and the human people. I believe that they have been sending out forces to each planets that they colonize to try to defeat each other, making a cycle of creation and destruction. What happened here is that the snake people was successful in sabotaging human civilization on earth. To end the cycle, they've tricked the human survivors to go back to keplar to wipe them off completely.
No they haven't. It's still a mystery as to who the orphan child is at this point. Could be any of the children or tempests baby if she dies. It's very intriguing.
@@Crazyoldman84 yeah. I'm getting the prince who was promised vibes
I think Paul is the orphan child
2:15 No, that was not the entities voice speaking to Mother. She was referring to what it told her in the Sim. You said "the future of humanity is growing inside of you" (episode 8).
It also might have learned about Marcus's true identity from Mother when it had access to her memories in the sim. So maybe it can only whisper in people's ears and cause visions. Was there anything else it knew that it couldn't have learned from Mother?
He's talking about the reveal that they are one and the same, which we did not previously know factually.
Also, thanks for explaining what was happening in the vision! You are right, the skull she finds is very similar to an android, maybe even specifically a Necromancer like her! I didn't make the connection the one in the vision that's trapped in dodecahedron was probably pregnant like the Mother! That makes a lot of sense! Maybe, the temple dodecahedron in the desert has one giant snake actually trapped in it too.
Ohh I like that! Kinda hope there is another giant snake in the big one.
Releassssse meee 🐍
I love that someone else picked out on the Lost parallels in this show. RBW has lots of the same sort of plot mysteries driven by the same mechanisms as Lost. Throw ontop of that how every episode appears to answer some questions but introduce more at the same time makes this show pretty compelling and also frustrating in other ways :P
The Mystery Box is a well know plot concept among authors. J.J. Abrams did a TED talk on this.
It keeps the recipient engaged.
I must say the CGI is fine, it served the storytelling purpose. But of course it was helped by solid writings.
the cgi of this episode is horrible, the rest of the serie was decent
Solid writing? Yeah maybe in the first 4 episodes... after that it all goes in the shitter. Marcus/Caleb is just an example, one of the worst character arcs I’ve ever seen.
@@Sodabp I still like the show a lot, but as it was happening I was thinking about how dumb it was that the two androids who were obsessed with protecting the children just decided to randomly commit suicide in a very dumb fashion without a care in the world. Like would they actually abandon the kids like that?
@@BoomerElite4u yeah it was weird as fuck... As well as many other things
CGI is good in my opinion, wrritings are shit
It’s like Adam and Eve story snake speaking is “Sol”. There was probably a snake in black desert cube and speaking from the womb of Mother. Every time someone hears voice it sounds like a low budget Harry Potter snake language
you are missing something, the serpents in Kepler 22b never flew (small or big), they were organic 100%, but now they can since they are half organic and half necromancer, that was the whole point, to make the serpent hybrid and more powerful
He did say that 4:40, you missed it.
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How do you know that is the case of the previous serpents?
@@TangoNevada due to huge amount of holes in the land
@@seanc1094 you are correct
But they have used Necromancers for this before, Mother wasn't the first.
???? How is it bad cgi. What more did you
want for an alien snake creature
Less snakey? Less floaty? I think you're right.
I agree I don't know how it could have been better but its really fugly
@@Atermoiementeuse
Yes, because a *pretty* flying alien snake born from an android which was manipulated by a mysterious voice would be more comprehensible
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 Bro I don't want it to be pretty I want it to not hurt my eyes like Catwoman did
People always complain bout CGI it’s mad annoying
At this point it’s fair to assume that everything Mother remembers and has experienced in virtual could be totally fabricated by the voice/serpent(s). So there could be a big reveal when she finds out her actual personal history. So any random change in direction is on the table.
that snakes teeth looks like Paul's hand made trap
no they dont. they look like the mouth of a remora.
@@cashox4 no they don't? haha easy man I'm just sayin, not trying to prove anything here:D
@@malkoc222 I see what you mean. It may mean nothing, but with all the possibilities with the voice, telepathy, AI, simulations, cycles repeating, and all the other little details of this world, there could be some connection to his trap and the mouth, even if it's just thematically.
I thought so too!
Paul's trap was made from the dead snake fossil's mouthpiece. So it is the same thing.
"Download into my drives." I'm going to remember that one. lol
Androids ✔
Future ✔
Mysterious planet✔
Body horror birth✔
At this point it's basically Aliens/Prometheus in a new packaging
The AJ Disney isn’t letting him continue his story with the alien franchise so he just said fine and went to HBO Max where he can tell a better more coherent version with the same themes but room to go in a different direction.
@@BillNyeGuy too bad the alien universe is just so more thought provoking and interesting
Yes, the medic android explained that Necromancer tech was discovered by the Mithraic. What we have is a cult worshipping aliens as if they were a god. Eh, the show is veering dangerously close to Lost + Prometheus.
@@Snusblues
The Alien universe is, yeah. But there's like years of history behind it. This canon is new, give it a chance.
@@Snusblues It really isn't though. This one adds ancient Roman religion to the mix which is pretty awesome.
Best explanation video I’ve seen on this show!! Awesome! Thank you for the effort put into this video!
+ tbh, I was expecting a hybrid of something of a vampiric alien & android, not a literal serpent-like creature LOL
+ In Dark Souls series (games), the "primordial serpents" are a very intelligent smart & cunning serpent-like creatures that basically manipulate behind the scenes & have a pivotal roles to the world's (planet) destiny. So maybe this other godly beings who manipulate other intelligent beings are in similar effects, manipulating the minds for their own agenda?
+ I think Campion is "the leader" of the "pack" (yes, yes, obvious metaphor for wolves here), but he is not the "chosen one." There is really no "chosen one" as pretty much both Marcus & Paul confirmed to be infected with hallucination from other "godly beings" in the end, they do make their own paths.
+ Once again, I think both the "serpent" & the giant pentagon cube are different entities & I still think that pentagon cube is a super computer made by the native people to counter this other godly being's hallucination & whispers.
+ Looking at it again, it's not just Mithraic & Christianity mythos, but also somewhat Norse mythology. Jormungandr (giant serpent) is the child of Loki (The "trickster" god) & Angrboda (female jotunn/giantess). Not only that, Angrboda also birthed the "wolves" AKA Fenrir. If we take a look at this mythos, then:
- Loki: Trickster god, hallucination being, the so called "Sol."
- Angrboda: powerful jotunn, powerful android/necromancer, basically "Mother." Also named "Lamia," another greek mythlogy name after a hybrid snake creature.
- Fenrir: the wolves. Campion & his pack
- Odin: a prophetic god who lose his eye. Maybe it represent "Marcus?" He didn't lose his eye, but he was kinda dying from eating an eye, symbolically baptized in dying & rebirth from it.
+ the metal tarot card pretty much revealed also the past memories of the natives people trying to contained the "serpent" birth via that cube incubator. Once again kinda proved there is a conflict between pentagon cube & the godly beings that trying to birth a "serpent." This is also why the hallucination & whispers made Marcus didn't kill mother & stabbed himself, while Paul being whispered to burn the tarot cards.
pretty cool!
Interesting for you to say dark souls universe because that is what I thought of first when I heard Sol and the Norse mythology is really interesting as it lines up pretty good now that you mention it.I would also add to this list the man playing god by creating life because this is one of Ridley Scotts favorite subjects.
Praise the Sol.
I think Marcus may end up still being the Prophet, it's possible that something else was responsible for a few of his visions and signs. A few of them seem to stand out from the rest. For example: when he asks for a sign from Sol and sees the church burning (after Campion sets it alight); When he has a vision of the golden scalpel and his wife bleeding out from the stomach; when he peels off his own face; when he sees Hunter being bitten by the snake; and finally, when asking for another sign, he sees the lander and it leads him directly to the atheists.
Those are all pretty different from the manipulative stuff from the serpent, instead of being about ensuring the birth of the snake, they seem to be warning him that he's on the wrong path. And that he needs to stop pretending to be something he's not. The burning of the church is almost like what he's doing is an abomination (because he's following a false god). Peeling his face off is telling him to stop pretending to be the Mithraic. Leading him back to the atheists and hoping he starts getting the hint (he's not lol).
I wanted to know why the devolved humans would help produce the serpent. Remember the dodecahedron with the necromancer?
I found it very amusing to hear and see Mother describe 'mating' in a very sophisticated fashion. Reminded me of the word "entanglement" by Jada P. Smith
"How the little piggies would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered."
-Ragnar\Caleb\Marcus
I just hope they leave us with more answers than questions cuz its starting to feel like those shows that keep on showing random things and never explaining them.
Lost... in Space
Anyone else notice that mother and father flying into the molten core of the planet, not only resembled an egg and sperm (obviously) - but also the bit in the opening credits where the ship arrives from whatever version of hyperspace they have and falls towards the planet - beauty and destruction in one
Great analysis!! I noticed that skull was an Android too!! And the mask has a cylindrical opening as well, and the way we saw mother give birth seems like it must have been the same way for that android, and the natives just made it more ritualistic but the same process, and they both vomited white blood.
SCIFI IS BACK BABY
really? how is this scifi? the physics is all wrong..
- the "necromancer" sound waves make people disappear into thin air? how? where does their mass go? where's the insides? where's the bones?
- snake swimming through the air? wtf? how? is it made out of some super light materials or what? how is it hovering?
- snake growing 1000x the size in few seconds out of thin air. how? wtf?
this is not sci-fi for me..
@@kyjo72682 u know sci - fi means science FICTION right? Oh yea and they aren't on Earth so........
The worm has Powers. It's a telepath and a telekinetic parasite
Yaldabaoth
The snake reminds me of the Mayan snake god Kukulkan & it's design for the show looks like the creatures from the Stephen King movie Dreamcatcher...like, exactly.
"Hey...i have this old CG file from my older brother who worked on Dreamcatcher..."
"Great. That'll save us some money. That is now our serpent."
It's modelled on a Lamprey - a type of parasitic eel.
I immediately thought of Dreamcatcher when it came out of her lol
Honestly, I was skimming through the comment section hoping for somebody to make the connection to the winged(flying) serpent god.
The series is full of religious references, not only christian.
Excellent review! Ridley Scott's obsession with androids and aliens is almost always fascinating.
I'm starting to suspect that those four legged creatures may also be devolved humans.
Mother's baby remind me of the baby from Eraserhead, disturbing
I agree with you.Mother give birth to a lamprey.
or Mr. Gray from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher...
This show made me wanna survive 2020 to be able to see season 2.
@taxation is theft memes news & more and now it's 2022, hopefully we get season 2 this year
I just noticed the head Mother pulled from the helmet.. Looked to have those braids she has when in battle mode..
I think it's hard to explain why they couldn't have an ultrasonography inspection on Mother, then they found what the baby is by earlier ... ...
I thought the same thing. You would think Mary could tell the difference between a human-like and a snake embryo.
@@davidkugel It's really flawed. not only Mary should be able to suspect what it really was, but they also had so many inspection equipments inside of the aircraft ... ... I don't hate the idea of snake baby, but I think lacking logical explanation degraded this series.
I just realized Mother got pregnant in a vision like the holy Mary
To everyone saying devolution isn’t a term that’s not the point they are trying to tell you that the humans are losing their higher intelligence and reverting to a more primitive animalistic state
But that’s a lot of words so devolving is used and a side not to all the devolving or devolution is 100% a word/term that can be used in this scenario
Yeah,I understood that and I keep thinking that those creatures were also the same species only in a later stage of the devolution.
Agreed, its the shows way of saying the humans are regressing on this planet. This is not Earth. Like Father said, there are a lot of things we are ignorant of Keebler history.
Guys does no one notice that all the people hearing the voice hear it because of emotional distress. there is also my theory that this voice kills mentally unstable people. Like the guy burn by the rock. Yet it didn't burn that boys hand. If you are guilty (people with seriously hidden baggage)it feeds of of you. if you are innocent. It has no power over you. Hearing the voice is not a good thing it turns you crazy. Yet these people still think it is God and follow it
that's deep!
Ridley Scott really is fixated on Aliens and Prometheus. How many incarnations is he going to churn out??
This series gives me west world vibes not on the surface but key concepts
Mother looks a lot like Dolores
Mother's "child" looked exactly like a G'ould from Stargate
Not really. Goa'ulds are noticeably different and they don't get big really.
0:00 the real powers of Love Sausage in The Boys.
So, "The voice" told Paul to take Mother's eyes because she could easily vaporize the serpents I'm guessing. I'm a bit confused on the purpose of these serpents though as, if they feed on humans, they are so large that they would need a population in the millions or billions to keep fed. This is all so weird.
Pretty sure Paul took the eyes under Marcus' order to do so. I'm doubtful if mother becomes weaponized that she would be able to damage the serpent like she does humans.
Yeah. There are tons of the giant skeletons too, the creatures on that planet couldn't even keep one of them alive for very long, let alone a whole population of them. But there is still a lot of the planet we haven't seen yet, maybe other parts like the temperate zone have other big creatures they can feed on? Has to be something, it's not like they evolved those giant fangs for nothing.
Btw: The snake flies with the same sound as mother flies in Necromancer form - (metallic vibrations sound effect)
Yeah he took some of her "powers"
Each episode I was expecting mother to break into song with, “Here comes the rain again.” Yet. It never came.
You know that tune that Mother was humming? That was “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”. If you click the TH-cam link to verify wait for the chorus at about 0:50. th-cam.com/video/YcyiC79l910/w-d-xo.html
Everybody is talking about the show
Give some appreciation for elaborator man!☺️
He's explained it beautifully!
My predictions based on some hints..
• The Sol is a kind of AI or an alpha type necromencer or a very high tech alien's android.
• Sol and the necromencer are originated from planet Kepler-22b.
• The skull mother discovered in the cave right before she gave birth is a necromencer skull.
• Marcus & Paul can hear the voice/whisper of Sol because there is a device planted in their head that Sol can connect to.
• The serpent is Sol's pet.
Also, Androids can endure an endless about of damage and have an seemingly endless supply of White Goo Blood.
Most unique sci fi ever.
Loved it, can't wait for season 2
_"I've had it with these monkey fighting snakes, on this Monday to Friday plane."_ - Cable TV Cut
Your comments are so uncalled for but i love them. They’re hilarious😂
Just looked up this vid after watching the season finale. Needles to say this episode dialed the weird up to 11, I have no idea what’s going on. Thanks for the vids, I’ll be sure to look back for past ones to try to find some light as to what it all means as I still find the series weird but enjoyable. Now to off watch the next episode of The Boys!
Ive just watched the entire series 1 today. OMFG. It is absolutely incredible. I’m literally buzzing. I loved it. Big up RIDLEY SCOTT. mind blown. Bring on S2 !!!!! Take a bow !!!!!!!! 👏
Mother: "We Communed in a Virtual Space, and while we did (Information was downloaded into my drives)"
Well played Ridley Scott and Aaron Guzikowski.....well played.
Thank you for doing breakdowns on this show!! After watching your first one, I started watching it. I love this show!
Looks like a creature from the good old Dreamcather movie.
You are right. Totally looks like a shitweasel
GREAT VID 👍🏽🤣
been waiting on this... this show is crazier than cat shxt. i tried explaining the story to myself out loud and i sounded insane.
@Thinkstory: An excellent analysis! Zero errors! In fact many other channels messed things up by misinterpretation of certain scenes. Looper screwed it up completely calling the Atheist ship at the end another Mithraic Ark. Anyways I would have liked to have seen you address Cody’s transformation after swallowing the white blood from Mothers eye that transformed him similar to Otho. You can see his veins have turned black and begun to bulge, likely giving him additional powers. Other than that, great job!
9 episodes just to see a flying deep sea fish come out of an androids mouth and learn nothing ...I don't mind a bit of mystery but this episode tells me the whole series is going to go on being just as unsatisfying...
It's the first season, which sets everything into play. It builds up the characters, their passions, their needs. It's the first chapter to a hopefully long story. You don't get the explanation to things in the first chapter, you have to read the entire book to learn.
@@poopsanchez6449 exactly
@@poopsanchez6449 yea but its funny how most people dont find most of these characters interesting at all so at the end its all just very average stuff. Nice try tho.
@@hejstaima
Who is most people? I found it incredibly interesting. Some of the best character development in any media is probably Ahsoka from Star Wars. She's had a lot of years to progress and initially, a lot of people hated her too. Like a lot. Now she's a really important character in the entire franchise and she started from a TV show. She's even made it to the Rise of Skywalker.
The point is characters need to start off somewhere. That's why characters progress.
Take time my dude it's called ending on a cliffhanger. Also it answers that mother was wrong it was not her creator nor sol that has been doing this.
When you order Alien burger, but get Cthulhu nuget instead.
more like a jesus salad with lsd
If this series somehow connected to Aliens or Prometheus. Man, i'm gonna be so pissed off.
Exactly!!, love alien/Prometheus on its own but it’s already been done. But it feels the same as those , facehuger pregnancy, milky androids, the alien engineer dude from Prometheus , strong bad ass female who can’t get pregnant for some reason (Mary) the only new stuff is the religion and apocalypse themes. Dang it I felt like we were on a path to Metropolis the old groundbreaking masterpiece of a movie because of mother’s design. But no, no metrópolis for us.
I hope it does! Epic!
@@DelimonOwO Yea, i can't lie that i'm actually shock when mother giving birth to some slimy ass weird looking snake.
like "What the fuck?"
As long as they tell their own story, who cares if they're connected. So far it definitely seems like they're cresting toward a totally original and new story, that may or may not tie into alien in a probably minor way. Even if it does connect in a big way, again, there's enough of an original story for it to stand on it's own, so connecting to alien would just be icing.
@@Unholy_Myth It's basically Sci-Fi Genesis with pieces from a few other OT books.
this show is heavily loaded with random references already, now I felt drowning with the last episode. I only hope Father would stop sacrificing himself so much in the second season
I lost count on how many times he died lol.
Funny; I already commented elsewhere that we ended up with "Lost" in Space.
Lol, me too
Mary was a medic in the army. She said she would use learning medicine in the sim as why she is able to be an accomplished doctor.
John Snow: look at these cave paintings mah queen. they've been here all this time...
me watching this show: ahhhh....
maybe they traveled into the future where they have already populated kepler 22 with humans and necros. like planet of the apes. the huge giant snake could actually be the baby snake born this episode. and looks like paul and marcus will be leading the devolved humans. I fear maybe mother picked up her own skull and she will be forced to give birth to another snake in the future. that's my crazy theory
Thanks, that was probably the best recap of anything I've seen!
you missed the part where "the king" got his butt kicked and was fed the eyes, and the white fluid seen coming out his mouth.
so are the eyes still intact? likely, yes.
but it was odd that the last episode didn't include any such scene when "the king" woke up from his butt whooping. no scene ever showed him re-securing the eyes.
The "voice of saul" started on the ship tho ...I think the arc brought it to the planet ...the creatures weren't seen before that either
That wasn’t the planet’s core, that was Sol. A malevolent being trapped inside hollow rock. Like Shakari in Star Trek,
I didn’t even think about the ancient serpents making the holes. Crazy thing is that this story is a repeat of history.
I hope they explain "devolution" because that's not a real concept that happens in nature.
@@amphithere That's still called evolution. Evolution by natural selection is the change in a species over time due to natural selection and other pressures. However you survive in accordance with your environment is what you are likely to evolve to or adapt features to it.
Evolution is misunderstood as linear progression from simple to complex which often is interpreted as worse to better. But "better" has more to do with adaptation to your surroundings to survive and successfully continue to reproduce in a healthy number. It is not about having certain abilities that are independent of your environment. Eg: having legs is not necessarily a superior trait intrinsically. If the ground was made of jello, then it would be pretty useless, even though it might be more complicated in its design in comparison to crawling with your spine.
Thank You - Simply put the word "Devolution" is a contradiction. Like Jumbo Shrimp or Military Intelligence.
So degradation and going backwards is not possible?
@@vizzy1923 You will have to define what going backwards means. It is kind of meaningless when it comes to evolution because it is not necessarily a linear thing!
@@zenithquasar9623 Like for example, the environment is set and you evolve to fit that environment, but suddenly, the environment changes and you evolve more to fit the changes. But then suddenly the environment goes back to it's original state so you would have to devolve back to what you originally were. IDK I'm legitimately asking, this is intriguing to me.
remember Marcus said before they wait Mother get in the pod? "It will make her be in a loop". Aight, Marcus was already talked by "Sol" and maybe he did something to the pod guided by "Sol", and boom, snake out.
Thank you Think Story for your Excellent Detailed Breakdown!💎 See you Season 2 for Raised by Wolves!🕊️💛🌿✨🤗
One of the best show I’ve watched in awhile. Behind all the details of the show, the ultimate message is that life, human kind and its action is a constant replay no matter where they are. The biggest give on this is the red dome, that has all the story pictures, it’s showing that the story of all of them has already been written and played out and in a circular motion and eventually will go back and repeat.
The serpent is a proto-alien. Just like the aliens would pick up the characteristics of their hosts. Remember the dog like attributes of the alien when it came from a dog? And the aliens look like aliens from the movies, but only earlier in their evolution.
And once the inhabitants of kepler 22b, were some kind of proto engineers, which somewhat ties this to the Alien franchise.
One of the best shows in a long time by a long shot
i was totally thinking of Lost too while watching this finale hehe, god help us
LOST Explained th-cam.com/video/baeFWWhO0i8/w-d-xo.html
Think a lot of people have PTSD from Lost and automatically start hating a series when it raises questions lmao. They've been betrayed once, they can never trust a series to know where it's going again!
So,all the humans are candidates then?
Great Job!!! This video helped me understand a key mystery.