Everyone Thinks FROM Episode 9 Was Bad Writing. They're Wrong.

[00:00:00]Everybody's out here calling episode 9 bad writing because the people in town won't share what they know. And in this instance, I don't think that's bad writing at all. I think that's the man in yellow's plan working perfectly because this show already told us exactly how this is going to end with one line of dialogue back in episode 1.

[00:00:14]So, once we go layer by layer, you're going to see this episode completely different and you're going to see why this finale has already been decided.

[00:00:21]Welcome to the real spot. I'm Bobby Foster. Let's get to the real meaning.

[00:00:24]Let's start with this complaint itself cuz I do get why people are frustrated.

[00:00:28]Every episode it feels like somebody learns something huge and then they just sit on that information. They don't tell anybody or they tell the wrong person and then we're just at home screaming just talk to each other. But it's the easy thing to do to call that bad writing. I think that read is completely missing what this season is doing cuz this season has been entirely about one thing and that thing is distrust. Nobody believes in themselves, nobody believes in each other. So, nobody ever feels safe enough to open up. And when you look at it that way, the characters are not being written to be dumb. They're being written exactly like people would act when they're trapped in a place that is designed to destroy them, to trap them, to break them down. And that's the difference, right? Bad writing would be them acting like that for absolutely no reason other than to avoid moving the plot further or to keep the mystery going. This is the opposite of that.

[00:01:19]These are characters that are acting how real people would act when they're isolated and afraid, when they're lied to every single day, when they're manipulated every single day. So, I don't think the writers are failing here. This is like the show showing you the damage that the characters are facing from what's going on around them.

[00:01:36]And here's the proof cuz there's a point in this episode that people are critiquing, pointing it out as bad writing, but it's just evidence that all this is intentional. Cuz look at what happened when someone did open up.

[00:01:47]Victor goes and tells Boyd about the message that the boy in white gave him.

[00:01:50]A message about not taking down the tree. Victor took that risk. He did what we're all hoping the characters do, which is share the information they have. Not only did Boyd not listen to him, this man threw him in jail. So, this one time a character opens up, it does not go well for him. And that's not accidental. That's the point of everything going on. The show is teaching us and the characters that opening up does not get rewarded. That being vulnerable does not get rewarded.

[00:02:14]And also, I love this little meta moment they slipped in there cuz Boyd just straight up asked Victor why the boy in white isn't just helping if he wants to help, which is exactly what the fandom has been talking about for years with the boy in white just being so cryptic and he ain't really helping anybody out.

[00:02:29]So, that tells me the writers know our complaints and are doing this on purpose. So, be honest with me. If you were in Fromville, would you tell people the truth or would you hold everything close to the chest? Let me know in the comments. And like I said, be honest cuz it wouldn't be easy to trust people. And when it comes to that, let's talk about the person broken most by all this distrust right now. This person's lacking so much trust they think the world they are in is fake and that's Henry. The man in yellow is working on making Henry just not believe anything.

[00:02:59]To the point where Henry is now contemplating killing Victor, his own son, to be able to leave this world and go to that hallucination that he thinks is real. But, he doesn't know who to listen to. He doesn't know what's real and he is having a hard time deciding what's real or not. He just wants to go home, just like Clara. She can't trust anybody with the information that she has on the man in yellow cuz he promised her that she would get home if she just helped him. Now, I will say this. The man in yellow being able to manipulate people by dangling the carrot of I'll get you home is getting a little played out. I kind of wish he'd be playing on, you know, other strings other than just that one thing just to give some variety to what's going on. But, I get it though cuz honestly, what would be a bigger pull than saying I can get you out of Fromville? That's the one thing everyone in this town wants more than anything.

[00:03:45]So, I get it. Just from a writing perspective though, I just want that variety. It's getting a little monotonous. But, real quick before we get any further. If you're getting something from this breakdown, go ahead and like and subscribe cuz I cover from every single week and it genuinely helps getting these videos in front of other fans that are trying to figure out everything that's going on. Now, let's keep going cuz just when you think that the lesson is nobody ever listens, the show kind of flips that on you. And here's where it gets messed up.

[00:04:08]Sometimes listening is the right move.

[00:04:10]In this episode, Boyd listens to Tabitha when she says, "Look, it just needs to be me and Jade down there." And she must be right about that cuz when the man in yellow found out that was the case, he freaked out. So, she must be onto something. In also this episode, Boyd decided to listen to Jade that the tree had to come down. Now, that might backfire though. Boyd even listened to Tabitha about the man in yellow being back, which is what led him to wanting to take the tree down. Now, in my last episode, I talked about my theory of how I think the man in yellow wants them to take the tree down. And I feel like this episode kind of confirmed that cuz he wasn't trying to stop them. He was trying to keep them from being able to escape the cave though. But, he wasn't trying to stop them from going down there or ripping the tree out. But, now that he knows they're onto the right ritual part of taking the tree out, he is freaking out. So, I wonder what's going on there. But, when it comes to listening to people about how to stop this and get out of here, it's like every single choice you make is this coin flip between life or death. So, of course, you're not going to know when to listen to somebody or trust somebody.

[00:05:08]How could you? The stakes are so high.

[00:05:10]You want to make sure that you're making the right choice. That's why it took all season for Boyd to agree to go down into the caves. But, yeah, there's no right person to trust, no right person to listen to, no rules to follow to stay safe outside of the talismans anyway.

[00:05:23]And now they're not even feeling safe cuz of the talismans due to the dolls and Roger coming back. And that just plays into this whole place being so suffocating. So, of course, that is going to come into play with your decision-making and who you listen to and who you trust, even when it comes to yourself. And the man in yellow knows that and that's obviously his plan is to just create so much chaos and tell so many lies and do so much manipulation that no one knows what to do. So, if you're seeing what I'm seeing that this distrust is a design choice by the writers and not a mistake, drop a clapping emoji so I know we're on the same page. But, whether you choose to trust everybody or just shut everybody out, the show is about to prove that both of those options get punished anyway. And that's exactly why this Elgin thing is just so ironic. People are mad at him because he finds a picture, an old picture with Sophia on it, and the first person he goes to is Sophia about it. So, he did what people wanted, he went to go share it, he just shared it with the wrong person. He thought it was just a coincidence that this person looked like her, but he should have known better. And unfortunately, it now looks like Elgin and Clara are both about to be the Man in Yellow's puppets. So, once again, you have this information and you can share it with the wrong person. So, maybe he should have not shared it. Who Who would he know how to trust at this point? And that's the cruelty of this place, it punishes that instinct to do the right thing. Every time you think you're trying to save everybody, it's the Man in Yellow manipulating you into doing something horrible that he wants you to do. So, then you can't even trust your intuition. So, you just sit there too paralyzed to move. So, once again, I don't think this is bad writing. I think it's them showing they're in a lose-lose situation here, where speaking up and staying silent both get punished. And when all paths lead to that same outcome, we can understand what the Man in Yellow's actually doing here. Cuz really, he's barely lifting a finger.

[00:07:07]Cuz with the Man in Yellow's plan, he doesn't really have to attack anybody.

[00:07:10]He's just controlling all the pieces on the board. It looks like he controls the monsters, he has spies like Clara, right? He's making deals, he's doing this, doing that, blood rituals. Like Sophia said, she likes playing games and has a lot going right now. But, a lot of this is just to create chaos, it seems, to create that distrust. He wants people afraid. And what's more frightening than having monsters come out at night hunting you, and so you can't trust them, obviously, but then you can't even trust the people that are supposed to be on your team, you can't trust the humans around you. What are you supposed to do in that circumstance? And that kind of fear of not knowing what to do or who to trust, that's so much different than having to just board up a window cuz you see a monster coming through or hanging up a talisman. You could argue that it's more frightening not to trust your friend or your mom or your brother, whoever. That That's more frightening.

[00:08:01]And it all really goes back to the thesis that Julie gave us a couple episodes ago where she said the place throws so many lies in front of them, they don't know when they see the truth.

[00:08:10]So once again, all this not bad writing.

[00:08:12]It's the system of Fromville doing what it's supposed to be doing, isolating everybody, keeping them from sharing things. But here's the thing, good writing also brings everything full circle. So I'm assuming in the finale the characters are going to see the truth even if they don't want to. The lies are going to disappear and the only thing that's going to be left is the truth. The question is, is that going to happen in time to save anybody? And this is what I was telling you at the beginning, the show already told us exactly how this ends. So Fea said it out loud. She said this is her favorite part of the game cuz this is when they tear theirselves apart. That's been the blueprint of the whole season. When you look at everything that's happened from season 1 till now, her plan has been to get the humans to tear each other apart.

[00:08:53]This is why I had a theory that I don't think it was the monsters that were responsible for all those dead people in the street back when Victor was a kid. I think that might have been humans that killed everybody and then the man in yellow was just cleaning up, but we'll see. But every piece of information that people got that they didn't share cuz knowledge comes at a cost. Every time someone was quiet or didn't know what to do or distrust someone, that's all Sofia's plan of building it towards everybody tearing each other apart. So far, the man in yellow hasn't really had to lift a finger, only manipulate things here and there, but is he going to actually have to do things in the finale to make sure his plan comes to fruition?

[00:09:30]We shall have to see. But let me know what you think in the comments. Do you think we're finally going to get the truth in this finale or are we going to have to wait for season 5? Drop it in the comments cuz I read every single one and I love reading about y'all's theories. Also, go ahead and drop a fire emoji if you made it all the way through this video. I really appreciate everyone that watches these all the way through.

[00:09:48]So, follow me cuz I'll be covering the finale of From soon after it drops and I know there's going to be a lot of reveals and everything that we're going to have to talk about. It's going to be epic. This is the real spot. I'm Bobby Foster and we got to the real meaning.