quick thought on Haven 4.9

[imwalde]

I don't quite know what I make of this episode, because I'll have to see how the William revelation holds up when I rewatching the Bar(n) scenes from earlier in the season. But way to play creepy, Colin Ferguson! Who knew you had it in you?

The thought has not totally cohered in my brain, but I am thinking William and the original Audrey were in Haven as settlers or colonists or something way back in the day, and that William was somehow at the origin of the Troubles, and that people trying to stop them chose his lady love to be the savior/power the Barn's suppression as a punishment? This idea is partly inspired by Audrey's question to Agent Howard on if she was being punished. And maybe Agent Howard, in addition to being Audrey's minder, also prevented William from interfering? No idea what the sparks when they touch mean. Or what the flower turning into a pile of Trouble ear pebbles means. He seemed disappointed. If his original lady love's memories had resurfaced, would the flower have stayed a flower? Once again, I genuinely don't know where any of this is going, and that pleases me.

In other tv news, I continue to love Hart of Dixie. That show is a ray of sunshine on my tv. It is fucking delightful, and makes me so happy. I watch so many shows with high stakes and tension, I do love that the stakes of a given HOD episode might be, can the best friend and new boyfriend of the main character learn to get along? And Rachel Bilson is so gifted as a comedian, I just ♥ this show.

Comments

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed you had that thought last season! At that time I still didn't know if I thought there was an original Audrey, or if she was a creation made only to do this or what.

You make me think, though, about how Howard said it was important that she went in voluntarily. So maybe original Audrey did choose to save the town by entering the Barn, but that it was arranged that she alone could be the savior was a de facto punishment for William? Don't know!

(Do you ever see season one episodes and laugh when you remember how you thought things worked then? Why, she's an FBI agent investigating some weirdness, that's the whole show. Hahaha....)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

it was arranged that she alone could be the savior was a de facto punishment for William?

I like that. It was something in the discussion of Audrey going into the barn voluntarily that made me think of sacrifice. But now I'm wondering if she went into the Barn instead of killing William or killing someone else. Because the out that killing who she loves most can't be a new idea.

Do you ever see season one episodes and laugh when you remember how you thought things worked then? Why, she's an FBI agent investigating some weirdness, that's the whole show. Hahaha...

Funny because I quit watching S1 when it first aired because I didn't like that set-up. It bored me. Not enough Duke! hee. Even funnier, I quit watching right before it got interesting, but started again, for some reasons, during the AudreyTwo arc of S2. And watched with growing interest as the larger picture was revealed until The Tides that Bind which is still one of my favorite episodes and really brought the Troubles into focus. I rewatched from the beginning before S3, which was interesting because the hints at a larger mythos is there from the beginning.

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch S1 because the promo ads didn't grab me. But then someone on LJ (can't remember who) did a picspam pimping to encourage people to catch up before S2 started, and I saw pictures of Nathan and Duke, and decided to give the show a shot. Then I mainlined the show and it ate my brain, and I've been trying to figure out the mythos ever since!

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I will admit that my own fascination with early white settlers in New England and their interactions with the indigenous peoples influences my theories. It should also be know that the original version of my theory on the Barn and the first Audrey also included witches and a curse. ;D