After taking some time to think about the finale, review previous episodes, and comb throw showrunner interviews, I put together a new theory trying to tie everything together! Check it out here: ► ua-cam.com/video/-ektd0ok_ao/v-deo.html
Don’t forget that Ridley Scott’s movies usually have religious undertones. The Snake/Serpent is the great deceiver, telling you what you want to hear or see, leading you down a path of destruction. It’s an abomination. It was born from Mothers betrayal and deception towards father, indulging in her selfish motives etc. We see parallels of this play out in real life actually.
I have a theory - maybe the cave painting showed androids taking snake-like creatures to earth to live there. The snake creatures tried to manipulate and enslave humans but were repelled by some human belief system or a type of God who cared for them, the humans continued living and prospering using the knowledge of the snake beings in relation to their God. While the snake creatures ultimately devolved on earth to snakes - and that's why humans have such a universal hate and fear for snakes.
@@alexsmith32012 so? Ridley Scott, once he was on board, could have easily made a few very slight adjustments in order to connect this to the Alien franchise. Also to the Blade Runner franchise. They ARE all connected now. Interesting side note: Someone howls like a wolf in the beginning of the Alien franchise (Prometheus), the beginning of this show, and the first Blade Runner movie. All of which were directed personally by Ridley Scott.
We should have all seen this coming! Have we not watched any of the movies in the Alien franchise? As soon as I saw it come out of her mouth... I was like “Ridley Scott you SOB”
I thought the same when the lander hit the planet in the first episode. With those weird looking helmets, father and mother reminded me of Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex while sperms :/
Agreed with this observation! Also, all the holes in the planet's core make me think snakes burrowed down there. Which makes me think they are attracted to the heat, and we know the "temple" produced heat.
Love it. It also seems like there are 2 intelligences battling. The one told Paul to remove the key from the lander. If Sue hadn't stopped him then mother and father couldnt have taken to the core then to the tropical zone. I think whats talking to paul was trying to keep the snake on the dead side of the planet and away from the warm side, where as a cold blooded creature it would thrive
I think Campion's growth has been into a more flexible mind, and tbh you're right he isn't much of a warrior, but he has stopped sides from overstepping a line at line, be it forcing a person to do one thing or killing anther. He didn't even eat the human flesh which is what the creatures are. He act knowledges the unknown, but doesn't worship it. How he handled his ghost sister was very strong imo.
Theory 1 SOL stands for Snake of the light, an intelligent species of flying snakes that dominated Keppler 22B, hunting the planets own version of "Neanderthal humans". Long ago in the planets history, the natives learnt to hide in the planet's geothermal cave systems (as the snakes were the apex predators of the planet), where they could eat the moss growing on the walls and stay warm. Gradually they devolved into 2 subtypes; the hooded figures and the more primal sub species that we see the earth children eating. The snakes soon died out but theoretically invented artificial intelligence to corrupt future intelligent beings in order to re-seed and birth a new generation of their kind (Mother in this case). Theory 2 The native humans of Keppler 22B were highly advanced in their technology and co existed with the snakes. A war broke out and 1 side managed to weaponize the snakes (this explains why there are 2 sub species of humanoids on the planet, with one being intelligent enough to conduct rituals and another "devolving" to the creatures that we see Mother and Father catch for the children to eat) and create the necromancers, that were used to birth and weaponize these snakes (which explains why there was a necromancer skull in the "space jockey" helmet that mother found and the visions that mother was susceptible to). Somehow, both sides annihilated their civilizations in the war that resulted in Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and sent a seed ship to our Earth, seeding our planet with evolutionary Human DNA amongst the local ape populations that resulted in the genetic fracture from ape to human (the Homo line of human species, Homo habilis, Neanderthal, Sapien etc). A few million years later and the same thing happens to our earth, but this time we send the ship carrying Mother and Father, thus creating a paradox of life and death, creation and destruction between the 2 planets. I prefer the 2nd theory more as this is basically Ridley Scot's neighborhood, with films like Prometheus where themes like the creators of Mankind being looked for and discovered, the only difference being these humans in Raised by Wolves are set in a post-apocalyptic future and the Alien universe isn't. Well, with all that being said this series was full of curveballs so expect anything, don't get disappointed and enjoy the show. Onetake, I love your breakdowns and concise videos and plus you have a really nice voice to listen to. Well done my guy, you've earned a subscriber. would love to watch more of ur vids.
Fascinating! Theory 2 suggests that Humans are trying to seed Keppler, when Keppler had previous seeded Earth. The snake! Ouroboros! The snake eating itself. The cycle of life and death. I personally believe that the snakes were the dominant species, and hunted early humans. At some point in their history, Keppler humans seeded Earth in an attempt to continue their species, while the snakes died out. They were apex predators capable of telepathy, however they were never able to create technology like humans. Their collective consciousness still exists, and they manipulated Mother into carrying the of future of THEIR species, not humans. Unless there is a metamorphosis stage unknown to us, this baby snake is different from its ancestors as it has a leech mouth instead of jaws like the skeletons, a clear sign to it being a hybrid carbon based life-form.
19:54 i think that thing is a pregnant android, cuz when she was giving birth she was spitting white liquid as well. 21:00 that scene looks like a sperm and an egg, its not the death of that snake, but the birth of it
19:54 - Good point, I was thinking that similar to Mother, maybe it also birthed a snake through its "snout"/ 21:00 Agreed - as I was cutting the footage into this review, I had that exact same thought!
It's crazy how fast this show has come and gone! I hope it's not a super long wait until next season. Even though the finale wasn't everything I hoped for, I still really enjoyed the show over all and will be enthusiastically waiting to see what's next. In the meantime, I'm happy that Britannia season 2 will finally be available to watch in the US. I watched season 1 a while ago (via Amazon Prime Video) and while I initially didn't think I'd end up liking it- I really did! For over a year after season 1 ended, I searched for a way to watch season 2 to no avail. But it will be available on Epix as of 10/4/20... Yay!!!
It is. That's why she was freaking out. That necromancer was used here in this entrapment box to gestate and give birth to a serpent. The humanoids surrounding that box in the vision might just be religious nuts who were instructed to do that under some higher intelligence's manipulation. Or they could be the higher intelligence themselves.
I was on the fence when I prepared the review - I definitely noticed markings in the skull and pulled up an image of a necromancer next to it. I ended up going with human (clearly with some modifications) but a few other commenters have also noted they think its a necromancer. So, I'm convinced that's probably the correct interpretation!
@@MrSidney9 Maybe that's how they procreate (though it's a far-fetched theory): They manipulate beings on other worlds to become religious nut jobs and make them build the necromancers until they destroy themselves. Then the survivors bring the necromancers back to Kepler 22b where they are used as incubators. Maybe they do it because they have no way of creating technology themselves. Maybe even, this has been going on for some time. This would explain why there are already humans on Kepler 22b: We are just witnessing one of the many iterations of this game. In this regard, Kepler 22b could have been feeding of humanity in a parasitic manner for a very long time.
The parallels to biblical stories are fascinating: the story of (1) Adam and Eve, with Adam as Father and Eve as Mother, and how Eve/Mother was tempted by a Snake (the devil), yet this is in reverse given that in the end of the season, Mother and Father end up IN the tropical zone/Eden. And (2) Mary and Joseph, Mary as Mother (an android having a virginal birth), Joseph as Father (How did Joseph feel that his wife was giving birth to someone else's baby?). Question(s): What are the pits to the Neanderthals ("th" is pronounced "t")? What are the pits to the snakes? Tally falling in the pit gave the Neanderthals access to her image, so do the Neanderthals having a connection to Keppler? Or were the pits the domain of the snakes and with them gone gave the Neanderthals access to these "abilities?"
to expoand on your bilbical comparison: The plot has elements of religious begninings of man vs the devil (but on keplar) mixed under the rivalry of two superiror ancient beings/enemies - sol and whoever is giving the orders to the demon cult: lets call it 'the whisperer' for now. If you have watch the Transformers movies and my knoweldge f that show is incomplete, and i am not connecting the two shows but using it as an example , then you will know of the two home planets (Earth and cybertron) but what you may not know is both planets are in fact dormant states for two anicent super poweful cosmic enemies. Everything else (the autobots,the autobot sorcers/creators, the decepticons, humans) are pretty much their creations or lesser beings. The decepticons are the foot soldiers of 1 of the 13 disciples of unicron (the fallen). Megatron being the fallens general and the descpticon/autobot war destroys cybetron. Anyway unicron (earth) s a universal bad being intent on derstorying cybertron and everything else in the unoverse, gaining as much power as it can etc . The rivalry spans long beofre the existence of either humans or the bots. The similarities bwtween the two shows here are that in this series The Whisperer may actually be the very planet itself (keplar). We have seen that it can control the heat output from the core by not burning people of its choosing. We have also travelled through the pits to/through the core of the planet, and there is no tech inbetwen so how was that heat being moldulated to choose who to burn? How did the lander survive travelling through hte core to the othe side without being incenerated? why are there countless tunnels to the core of the planet? And then there are strange voices and visions projected across the planet through methods unknown pretty much like the planet or whatever that is at the core is at the centre is alive. In tranformers unicorn has similar caverns like the pits . It had followers disciples, the dsiciples had the decepcon army, who are largely ignorant to who they work for. Here we have a chain of command ie whsiperer the black hoods, the demon cult, basic organic creatures, the sepents and also the ignorant to who they are fighting for aetheists. The mythraic are the army and creation of sol and the enemies of the whisperer. All their prayers are not reallt prayerrs but battle chants meant for self confidence and motivation to battle their true enemy - the army of whisperer. The mythraic androids are similar to the angels of god devoid of free will and there to serve. I would say the tropical zone was a place where sol may have created humans and the rivalry between the whisperer and sol threatneed human existence so sol gave them a code of conduct and scriptures, tech encrypted within the scriptures (ncrmancer tech) and sent them to earth. Not excalty god but defo their creator. Sol may already be dead consumeed by the whisperer seeing as we never see any evidence of its existence. The exodus of humans is a bit like adam and eve being cast out of eden in bibilical religions and the whisperer is the devil and the serpent here one of its forms/creatures. It is where the sroy of adam and eve evicted from the eden came from o earth religions. The whisperer exhibits typical devil like behavour associated with the devil - control of fire, giving bad suggestions, driving people to instanity (this was also a trait of unicron in the transformers) and it has a netowrk of pits like tunnels dug for the serpents to travel through. Serpents seeem tobe one of its core things. The black hoods are most likely disciples of the whisperr. On earth are the whisperer acts through the demon cult. The black hoods in the past under the whisperers orders, trapped an android (sols tech) hoping to spawn a powerful weapon of mass destruction much like the advanced tech of sol but one under its own control. Jelousy may be a factor. Mary did say to mother that people can be jeaous of wat that they didnt help create. A coincidence? It wants this advanced tech and it trapped an android impregnating it in the past. We dont know the result of that past attempt but it wouldnt need to resport to piracy and impegnating mother if it had tech as advanced as sols mythraic tech. So Sol and the whisperer are both creators, long time enemies, but sol has adanced creating capability and the whisperer has a more crude organic creating ability (the creatures, the organic serpents whose bones we saw previously).The previous pregnancy surrounded by the black hoods (demon cult) is the whisperers attempt at merging its own creations with sols tech. We have to specualte that all of the whisprers beings are more organic and lacking the scientific advances of the mythraic tech. Now that is has spwaned a serpent with necromancer tech it will reproduce more. Bad new for the humans. Like in transoformers the decpticons had no idea who they were truly woring for. They were fighting a war for a being (unicron) who was using them intent on destroying its nemesis which is their very home planet (cybertron) where they originated from and where they were created. In this series we have the aethesits as ignorant foot soldiers blindly fighting against sols mythraic army in a holy war. The mythraic dont even know they are fighiting to keep the human race alive they think they are fighting a religious war of ethics, control, righteousess, respect for sol etc. The whsiperer and its demon cult are secerelty build weapons of mass destruction (it now has a undestroyable necromancer serpent which can fly). I now undersntad why the mythraic say that wearing the armour of sol will protect them - the scientifc advancements of sols armour will prtoect them from the orgnic basic attacks of the whsiperers creatures. It is also why necromancers are made in a way to target and mass exterminate organic life - to protect humans from the various organic creatres of the whisperer. I get why the prayers are worded the way they are now. This war has been going on for along time and now, the mythraic have undone sols hard work of keeping them safe and have come back to their former home which is now hell where the sclaes are now tipping towards the evil whisperers side. Nowthat it has a necro serpent we will see more and this wlll obvilusly culminate in a final war waged by all stakeholders allegiant to one of both sides. In the future when this series eventually ends we will most likely see the destrcutuon of this planet and another immigration back to earth where the true history dissolves all enmity between the aethesists and the beleivers and they will rebuild earth from there.
I thought this, too. But how does she mysteriously appear/disappear at times, esp when Campion is locked up in the silo? Unless she was granted some sort of magick.
The small pentagon is a prison and the mask has a large opening in front of the mouth for the snake to come out. They use humans/androids as hosts for the snakes.
@@naya6593 the only thing which i love about was it was out of my thought i was shock if i be honest this first time a film make me like that weirdly i kind a like it
I was shocked but not THAT shocked because of who created the show..lol Prometheus had a lot of freaky snakes in it too and a woman giving birth to a fucked up creature.. so I knew the baby wasn't going to be what they wanted us to expect. But it was still VERY unsettling to watch 😳 (Especially while pregnant..)
I'm on the fence about this finale. Like you, I would have enjoyed closure on some plot lines or arcs. This finale felt rushed and it closed things that I didn't want closed yet. For example, killing off that engineer-like stranger so quickly... Like, really? It was anti-climactic to have him killed off in about 2 seconds... I'm also over Marcus already and couldn't believe that group of atheist soldiers were so readily KO'd. His descent into madness has been a trudge imo.
Ditto! Right with ya on these points. It is a great series with strong and well defined core ideas but something is lacking. It's like four well educated and well read people sat in a room and discussed this idea in a deep and philosophical way and then turned to a secretary taking notes who jus started work here last week and told her to go and write a series based on what they had been discussing. There jus seems to be a mis-step somewhere. There is jus a lil bit too much idea that lacks plotting. It's a classical and sophisticated idea being told slightly less sophisticaly. Killing off the mysterious native, like you point out, seemed like a massive waste. It made it nothing more than a convenient plot device rather than a revelation of something bigger, deeper. Things jus....happen.... in this series.
@@TheRockerX We probably will, Rocker, but this show needs some better writing. They aren't doing the core ideas justice. Too many nuggets and not enough chicken. Even jus a few more shots of the native, without dialogue, looking at something, us seeing its face and some sort of emotion play across it CUT. That would have been enough. It's bad form to ask 10 questions and only give 2 answers while also introducing 3 more questions. Sure, we aren't in Lost territory...YET and i'm liking the series but at the moment it is, as of a 1st season, a cross between a premium sci fi show and something from SYFY.
I refuse to believe that mother killed the watcher he was built up to be this ninja worrier his/her body was sleek and agile. To be killed so easily no i wont believe it. It clumsily walked towards mother, I think it knew she a snake in her but i still refuse to think it was the watcher lol
When Mother and Father were careening into the core, I thought "Oh good, this season established Campian as the one 'raised by wolves', and then we can see the story evolve in this group of kids, the Mithraic, and the atheists all in conflict on this new planet, and the androids are gone". It's not that I didn't like those characters, but advancing the story by killing off the androids is a bold move. But of course, they didn't do that, they have incredible plot armor, and next season might be retreading old ground.
Yeah there's something weird with that planet. Plus how the fuck does a pod go through the core of a planet and comes out unscathed. What kind of science is that.
@@MrSidney9 One that was being protected by this seemingly very powerful, but limited, superintelligence. Look how it raised rocks and manipulated the big stone thing in the desert. But it seems to be missing something, vessels to grow serpents that were its weapon against the humanoids who built necromancers to fight them. In the end, we're left with somewhat of a tie at the end as one of Mother's eyes is still around, which means she can fight the serpent, and they can make more over her. She's stopped trusting the AI now so likely she'll be onside next season, but Marcus is the wild card and will become the new "Mother" of season 2, the manipulated being used to fight of the arriving humans. Paul also, which will pit him against Campion, Romulus and Remus style.
I'm wondering if both her eyes may be intact. I think part of Marcus's current physical appearance could be a result of the eye he "choked on" interfacing with his biology.
There was no need for Paul's internal struggle to shoot his adoptive mother because he had just found out the she killed his real mother....that's the basis of his anger
But it has been made clear that Paul's real parents didn't care about him and showed him no love. Mary and Caleb on the other hand, his fake parents, grew very fond of Paul and really loved him for those 12 years in the simulation while in hibernation. Not to mention all the trouble they went through to save him from a necromancer. He threw all that out of the window without showing any hesitation before shooting Mary.
Eyris if you found out that people you trusted the most not only had lied to you for 12 years BUT had killed your real parents, I suspect you might not react well.
I know. And remember how Paul said they shouldn't go to the tropical zone... Paul was supposedly told by the intelligence to disable the ship they later use to try to get rid of the serpent... If the serpent was created by the intelligence, why would it not want the serpent to go there?... So many questions!
Since the ship being a spaceship it's survival could be unintentional, given that it already proofed to be very sturdy in the past, and they are made to withstand extreme heat anyway.
Guys, just being thoughtful, what if the voice which was tending to manipulate the people, is actually a time traveler! May be mother herself from the future trying to communicate with her past in the form of a voice.
I felt that Fathers dilemma scene made sense he is feeling an emotion of jealousy a very powerful emotion his way of dealing with was to talk it out and to play it out at one point I thought he might kill mother, him talking out loud made the scene more powerful when mother was going to kill herself and he went with her If father had not said out loud what he was thinking it would have lost punch. i find it strange that the parts that we see differently are to do with emotions and actions lets take Paul He is in his early 20s grew up in a religion that if you do not believe in Sol you are an unbeliever look what his religion did to earth he then spends 13 ish years in a sim. which reinforces that belief. He his faith is deep rooted he had never come into contact with anyone that believes other wise. his mother has been leaving little hints of disbelieve till out right saying that Sol is not real. Then Sol tells him the truth that these are not his parents plus they killed his real parents. You don't but it the he would not kill Mary I do totally. Campion I felt the reason why father said that Campion has become a warrior, mother wrapped him in a blanket they often had words about it he was in fact a mommy's boy. There were shots of Campion practising his sling shot, for him to run on his own the to sling shot his father showed father that Campion has grown up and realises that Campion can hold his own he even says as much when father and mother were killing themselves. when Campion was screaming at mother and father down the pit when he stopped and did that turn around I never saw it as the others nod meant that he was the leader I saw it as them saying its ok you still have us. I agree that probably why I never saw it as you are the leader as he has not shown any leader quality he comes across to me like a spoilt brat lol when father he will be a good leader or something like that I thought it meant when he was older Oh, OK, when mother found the thing in her vision and ripped the scull off I thought it was a Necromancer scull. Yeah that birth scene, I still can not get that out of my head my jaw was open all the way through the credits lol That snake looks completely different from the bones on the planet even when it had grown. I thought They were thinking about the children they had only one chance. It was still attached to mother sucking her life blood it was a leach at this point. Mother was holding onto it and knew it was stronger than her that is why she decided to kill herself father decided to go with her. if you read this far thank you
This episode totally changed the story. I was so into the show until Mother birth a giant snake - totally unexpected and didn’t feel in a good way. I really thought the baby will be hybrid human and Android.
I think you are missing the point of the exchange between Father and Campion, and the nods that everyone gave Campion after Mother and Father sacrificed themselves. The major theme of this show is family, particularly adopted families vs biological families and healthy parenting vs toxic/narcissistic parenting. Father isn't Campion's leader. He's his father. He's also a good father and realizes that the future is uncertain so he's absolutely going to be supportive of Campion taking initiative. Secondly the nods weren't nods of respect. Mother and Father weren't their 'leaders'. Their deaths were hard on the other kids, but that is because they were forming a makeshift family with them. The nods were more like 'Don't worry. You're with us.' They were nods of acknowledgement to let him know he still had a family.
See I think the scene with Father physically acting out his dilemma with Mother and the children was great because it showed that the inclusion of human emotion was too much for him to calculate mechanically. Human emotion, to a machine, defies logic and he has to externally work it out to make sense of his internal discontent. It helped convey the complexity of human emotions even to a machine.
Wow I really enjoyed all your reviews of RBW season one!! So glad to have found you to explain what is happening in this show. .. Which has become my new obsession‼️‼️
Maybe the creature in the cube might have been imprisoned or sacrificed to give birth to a (baby) giant snake. With how many holes there are, we can assume that this happened numerous times. Following that, the reason Mithraic scriptures contain instructions to make Necromancers, and they are (probably) of Sol's design, it's not too strange to conclude that the Necromancers are supposed to be the ultimate god-birthing creations. In the episode Mother is even questioned, will the baby fly like her. I think the original snakes did not, and it's linked specifically to her powers. To support that theory, old snakes look different from the one Mother gave birth to (look at the skeletons and fangs). Is it perhaps a perfected version?
I wish there was more dialog between Paul and Sue before he shot her. It seemed a bit rushed. If Sue was shown expressing some heartfelt emotion, if she gave him an honest, pained explanation, if she explained that her love for him is real and how/ why she loved him so much- it would've had more impact for me. I can understand him wanting to shoot her, but the actual shooting felt like it happened a bit too fast. I don't know how I feel about the sudden switch that seems to flip in some characters- like Marcus and Paul, and even Hunter. I don't think Campion has shown that he can lead, so I hope that isn't where the show is automatically going- though it could definitely be interpreted that way especially because Mother said "...And Campion will lead them". When father told him he had become quite the warrior I laughed- but then wondered if Father may have just said that to Campion to lift his spirits and show him that he was still special, even though Mother would soon have a new "baby". I don't understand why the heck there's STILL been no mention of Tempest's pregnancy!! It might be something minor, it may end up having nothing to do with the grand scheme of things in the end, but it's driving me nuts! When she, Hunter, and the other girl(the tooth collector) were sitting around the fire talking about Mother's baby, and debating whether or not it would be "divine" there was no comment about Tempest's baby!! Is she even still pregnant?! Did everyone forget?! How come Sue never did any checks on her to see if her baby was developing appropriately?! I mean, it's clear that Mother's pregnancy went by much, much faster and Tempest's is likely progressing in the typical way we'd expect for a human.... but COME ON! Is anyone ever going to acknowledge her stinking baby ever again?! Lol! It just seems so weird to me! They went through the trouble of revealing her pregnancy, revealed the awful way it happened, showed Mother's interest in protecting Tempest and baby... but then that was it. WHAT'S UP WITH TEMPEST'S BABY?!?! 😆😅😂🤔🤪🧐😡😖😂
Totally agree on Paul and Sue. I understand the logic of why he shot her and to some extent, I buy that he would so quickly turn on her. But, as you said, the sudden turns for each of the characters would land a lot better in my opinion, if there was a bit more of a transition. Yeah, looking back on the "warrior" comment, it might have been slight exaggeration from Father just to lift Campion's spirits. Also, yes - it is a taaaaad bizarre that Tempest's pregnancy has totally faded into the background haha. I guess some of it is overshadowed by Mother's miracle baby!
My thought is that Paul and Marcus are the only two who’ve heard the voice and been led (or manipulated) by it directly so they have that in common. So, they’re a unique breed of Mithraic who I could see joining forces (if the voice wants that). To your point though, I don’t think he’d go back to Marcus willingly.
I think Paul snapping was great. He's been getting abused by the false father, hearing Sol and finding out his parents were murdered was the tipping point.
I gotta fight for Father and his monologue, that we clearly saw him thinking out loud while crafting up new jokes. With that previous knowledge him thinking out loud for a super serious concept totally made sense for me.
Fair, I did forget about the scene of him thinking up jokes out loud so it was set up earlier. Honestly, it still feels a little hokey to me that he would need stick figures to assist in that thought process. Maybe if they weren’t there, the scene wouldn’t have felt so odd to me. In any case, I appreciated the dilemma overall and thought the actor sold it well.
@@OneTakeVids You're totally right about the stick figures though. Perhaps they were to show, when he throws the initial head, his decision to delete his memories and it just didn't play as well as was supposed to. I also agree about the actor. The only reason I posted my initial comment is because I truly believe that Father may be one of the best TV dads in recent history and I had to fight for him lol
The ending has ruined it for me a bit, now it’s just like every other alien film he made with someone having a alien baby, and she could of squashed that snake with her bare hands when it was only a small, surly!!! ! It would of been better if it was a hybrid baby not a poxy flying snake
I liked the flying snake partially because of how bizarre / unexpected it was. But, totally agree - I fee like I could've taken on that snake =D To be fair, if it's inherited some of Mother's properties, it probably is incredibly strong but I could've use some on-screen acknowledgement of that.
DISAPPOINTED Wanted to see the hybrid creation. Even wondered what type of intelligence and personality it would have. Booooooo Hey, maybe Mother and Father can have a baby. And their baby would have the power to destroy the evil serpent. The moment is lost. The show had the potential to be of substance, profound. Chessy
@@OneTakeVids Yeah that is what I thought too,she automatically ruled out killing it traditionally because she knows somehow that it is very powerful,but the way it wasn't afraid of mother I feel like that is a pretty good acknowledgement and also when you see it you immediately think of the giant serpent bones and from there you think that they are powerful.
They went down the pit because the serpent is nearly impossible to destroy. It was born from a necromancer so it's basically a god. What's crazy to me is that Sol manipulated EVERYONE just to get a necromancer to Kepler and be born again. It created a new religion (accidentally or intentionally) on Earth that nearly wiped out humanity just to have humans build it a new body.
Ok. The explanation from my side is as follows. The skull we see has patters the same as we have seen in necromancers body when she was opened which makes me think the skull that was in the pod was a necromancer. It is further confirmed by the fact we saw scene were the synthetic blood was spit out. We also know from cave drawings that necromancers travelled back to earth which explains how the original scriptures were on earth from which the necromancers were made. In terms of the subject of devaluation itself, I think it is caused by snakes feeding on those humans...
Do you have any other show in mind that you will be reviewing in place of Raised by Wolves?? I love your insightful breakdowns of each episode. They help me to better understand certain scenes, or at the very least, I enjoy seeing things from your point of view. Keep up the great work!
I think the broken down device that Mother found with the Android head was the primitive human's attempt at fulfilling "Sol's" desire - to birth snakes. The mouthpiece is clearly a nod to how Mother ultimately gives birth. Sol has been trying to achieve perfection with the snakes, primarily due to its contempt for the failures of humanity.
Okay this is an insane theory and it plays with a lot of time travel / paradoxical stuff that has been mentioned elsewhere. What if: Campion Sturgess the atheist programmer is Campion from Kepler 22b. In a creepy and messed up way, he “wants” mother. The events that transpire on Kepler that were about to see end up with Mother being sent back to earth as a necromancer for the Mithraic. In a loop he had sent her back to accomplish something different than what ended up happening.. Campion on Kepler is probably seeded directly from Earth Campion and knows his “past self / self” attempted this and how bad it got fucked so he tries again.
This was the worst episode of the whole season honestly. Bad cg. Everything after mother gives birth is just so rushed and wacky. It’s like they didn’t think they where gonna get a season 2
This episode changed the meaning of the entire show, it went from mostly grounded to total phantasy. Without hands, there cannot be a grounded idea of intelligence. An upright posture with hands free.
I bet you're right. The snake probably killed everyone or something, but when they got a continuation they had to scrap together an edit to leave it open ended. We only got one episode this week as well, every week there's been 2. Just kinda odd.
@@brucecmoore1657 It still remains a mystery as to who/what is the intelligence behind the cunning leading a necromancer to give birth to a serpent. Also, it's not the first time, the box that mother sees seems a lot like an entrapment device where a necromancer (as seen when she removed the mask) is forced to gestate and give birth to a serpent. The humanoids surrounding the box seem to be the intelligence behind that cunning, but they are yet to be revealed.
I think the thing in the box was a necromancer, the honeycomb spots on its skull looked like Mother when Campion was working on her. I think they trapped a necromancer in the box, put on a birthing helmet, because we saw the snake comes out of the mouth, and let it birth a snake in the same area mother was in
19:50 the scull that mother finds is a Necromancer head. Apparently the snakes are born at the demise of a Necromancer. That's why Mother is so disturb by her discovery.
The crawling creatures being devolved humans doesn't mean they have reversed the steps of evolution, but that they have shifted to a lower level (e.g. of intelligence). The reason could be something like malnourishment, genetic damage from radiation, or simply that higher intelligence (which requires more brain mass and thus more calories) isn't a net evolutionary advantage in that environment.
Thanks for another awesome breakdown! Did anyone else notice how at the end when the serpent files away you can see and hear birds fly off out of the trees, revealing that in this part of the planet there are other life forms.
I didn't expect to see the snake, but I did suspect that Mother was going to give birth some kind of monster baby because of how much blood it needs to consume. Also with the fact that Ridley Scott is involved in this, I expected an evil alien baby.
Your assessments are accurate. The writing of characters is not strong. Must be more challenging to write an episodic tv show vs a 2.5 hour movie. The characters have to make jumps to be what writer needs them to be for each episode AND the season AND the series. Marcus going atheist to believer seems like something that deserves 2 to 3 seasons. The androids seem to behave however they want ( the writers choice) to progress the story. Keep beating it up. We can still enjoy it. And we appreciate an honest take.
Did you notice how Mother's hair changed in some of the scenes in ep.10? It looked like there were some weird reshoots. I think that they had a hard time editing this episode.
The first civilization was on Kepler. Once they discovered this “dark matter” or what’s it called, they started worshiping “Sol”. They started a cult, and sacrificed humans to create these serpents (the mask on person in the cube, had quite a convenient “exit” hole where the mouth was don’t you agree?). The serpents started consuming the planet and whatnot, and the first civilization sent 2 “beings” with 9 embryos to earth to repopulate. Thus the missing link in earths evolutionary theory would be solved, with humanity coming into existence on earth. And here is where my starts getting a bit weird and shaky. While humanity was evolving on earth, the cultists on Kepler kept spawning these serpents. The population of Kepler either went underground to hide and avoid the flying snakes and during the centuries devolved into the creatures, while probably the religious sects got sacrificed or eaten, BUT not before they could finish constructing the big cube in the desert, which might serve as an amplifier of Sols power so it can start influencing the people from earth. And thus the Mithraic cult formed with the knowledge of the dark matter stuff, but before they could start sacrificing people and making serpents on Earth, a war erupted and they started focusing on Necromancers. NOW this is where it starts getting super complicated. Campion (who was religious) might have been “possessed” or at least influenced by Sol to leave the Mithraic and start constructing Mother to send her back to Kepler to “repopulate” it and start the cycle anew (???). At this point I give up because I have no additional info to deduce the end-game or the big plan. Hope you like my theory, and as always, great video, thanks for making it :D
Can you expand on your Decoding the Mithraic Mysteries video as many of your theories they seem to tie closely to what happened in the finale. However, you didn't go into depth on this point on this video. If the AI used Mother to create a super weapon, likely to take out arriving humans, was it lying to her about androids being the future? What is its overall goal in destroying Earth and bringing humans and android to Kepler? Maybe it needs help, but what else? Thanks!
Working on my next theory video now which ties all this together and expands on some of the ideas from Decoding the Mithraic Mysteries and What Lives on Keploer-22b. Should have it out tomorrow!
So my theory is that Kepler had two sides at war and one side was a cult of Sol that was technologically advanced who created the necromancers and the giant snakes which were also weapons of war. They had a devastating war which caused the cult to send androids and human embryos to Earth which led to the humans of Earth who worshipped Sol and decrypted the religious text to recreate the necromancers. In a mirror situation, Mother and Father were sent to Kepler with embryos to save the human race from the devastating war on Earth. There are remnants of the two sides still on Kepler, and the technology the cult of Sol on Kepler allowed them to infiltrate Mother in order to create a snake as a bid to win their war which is still going on although the survivors were few and deformed.
2:21 sol definitely wasnt the one who was causing that particular hallucination for Marcus, because Sol has only been shown to create visions/recreations of those who have fallen into the pit,wHunter has not fallen into the core and therefore I think the entire thing was a hallucination as his physiology attempts to wrangle with this necromancer eyeball inside of him. In a way, it almost seems like sol is a being/entity/what-have-you that has existed since the beginning of time, akin to the Engineers in prometheus, but lost its physical form on the Kepler22b at some point in history--presumably at the point when the planet was inhabited with non-flying snakes that were made extinct. It's possible that mother and father have been through this cycle an infinite amount of times, despite not having recollection of it, kepler22b may have attempted to seed life on earth by sending mother and father there, but each time the cycle was repeated, it inevitably lead to the destruction of earth and subsequently, travel to kepler 22b where the humans repeated the cycle of destroying the physical entities of Kepler22b. Because this kept happening, perhaps 'Sol' finally came to the realization over a long passage of time, just like the engineers did, that the repeated attempts to create civilization on earth have failed due to the flawed nature of human beings, and that this chain of events this whole season was set in motion to deliberately wipe out human beings as a race. Perhaps I'm drawing too many connections to Prometheus, but ridley scott is somewhat predictable and therefore I wouldn't be surprised if that became one of the central tenets of why Sol has enacted this plan. On a side note, we saw Marcus survive consuming one of the necromancer eyeballs, and he seems to now have these massive veins protruding from his forehead after surviving that event. If you recall, when the rapist prisoner somehow got the milk from mother, he obtained some type of supernatural strength from it. While Marcus has been struggling with hallucinations, I think this will eventually come into play. It's entirely possible that he is gradually obtaining some of the powers of the necromancer by having it's eyeball decomposing in his stomach and presumably, leaking out milk/other android compounds, into his blood.
P.S. Travis Fimmel can really pull off the crazy- dream-like hallucinations- going completely mad- including the half smiles that turn into snarls- with eerily intense eyes. His Ragnar character seems to have been great practice for this.
As far as i can remember, throughout her pregnancy, Mother often talks about how powerful she feels the "baby" is. How it was destined to be a powerful hybrid being. And the others in the group including Father in some capacity has agreed upon and acknowledged its potential to be extremely powerful. And now that the "baby" is born, Mother may have returned to her original programming or even developed further human-like protective instincts for the children, thus not risking to agitate/anger the snake where it can easily kill Campion and the other children. There are a few close up shots i think, which established how the snake is overpowering mother with its slithering grip shortly before Father found her.
The planet’s core is the ‘soul’ of the planet through which evolution is triggered. One of the metal cards that Mother found illustrates a sun-like drawing. When Mother kills one of Kepler’s native inhabitants, Father tests the corpse and claims that the inhabitant de-evolved (less human) and that the planet has an important history. If this inhabitant wasn’t killed by Mother it would have become one of the creatures used as food. When Mother and Father go through the pit with the Lander to enter the planet’s core (suicide) with the intention to kill the snake, there is a particular scene which actually matches the sun-like drawing. This drawing also resembles a human egg being fertilised. Instead of dying; Mother, Father and the Snake evolved infact the snake is much larger and the damage done to skin of Mother and Father is nowhere to be seen. They exit in the Tropic part of the planet which resembles to the Garden of Eden. The Mouse and Tally already went through this process and now are an evolved species. The Eyes of the necromancer represent Evil. As soon as Mother lost her Eyes, she behaved like a caring mother. The Eyes were stuffed in Marcus’s mouth and when he woke up from the beating, Marcus’s behaviour becomes worse and even kills two atheists. The illustration on the cave found by Paul shows a Lander departing Kepler travelling towards Earth with two (presumably) humans. This illustration represent the future and what ‘should’ happen. Interestingly, the two humans also have a halo. In my opinion one is Campion and the other is Tempest’s child. Campion is the chosen one by Mother whilst Tempest’s child the result of the evil-side of humanity.
The giant snake bones on the planet show a standard jaw structure while the snake born in this episode had a completely different mouth, like that of a lamprey. All of the tunnels seem to indicate that Keppler-22b snakes had historically been coming up from the core to the surface, but things came to a halt for some reason. So far, a lot of open unconnected strings to the story.
The rapid growth of the serpent was already explained: The full pregnancy happens in days, and Mary/Sue's tests confirm "cellular growths are off the charts. It's going to be one bad ass baby". Indeed, Mary-Sue, indeed.
A reviewer was goofing on Scott's use of those silver, form-fitting suits on the Android parents. I have to agree, to mimick humans in every detail and then have the silly jumpsuit costuming was strange. Even the Mithraic androids weren't dressed as SilverSurfers, not sure what the Showrunners were thinking there.
It's just for aesthetics. Or, the Campion Mother saw in her memory file wasn't a reliable memory at all and Mother and Father both came from a far stranger place than we thought
I’m going to be soooo pissed off if this is just a Prometheus prequel... This series is in thin ice for me. The last two episodes started to ruin it for me.
Both Atheist and religious engineers live on Kepler where they reside in different zones because the war between them exiled the religious groups to the dark side of the planet. The tropical area are the technology advanced space traveling pioneers. In the finale, the serpent is the necromancer created to eliminate atheists engineers in the tropical zone. It is a prophecy that this serpent is the savor of the religious engineers, however eventually it will be out of control and destroy the whole planet, so that’s why they changed their mind and try to kill it before mother gave birth. Somehow, I feel like Kepler is just another testing ground like Earth.
I'm dissapointed... 1. marcus turned into 100% fanatic too fast 2. Realy ? this child... flying snake.. 3. hooded person killed too easy. they could show us in other way that they are mankind like we are. hooded guy should run and just drop the skull 4. Mother and Father still alive... 5. Paul didnt't even doubt SOL's words about his parents.. OH MY SOL.. i'm really dissapointed
Mother's care protocol wouldn't let her kill the lamprey/snake, so she was going to fly into the pit. I think father knew that her care protocol wouldn't let her do that either, so he did it for her. I don't think father could have killed the lamprey/snake because mother was probably still more powerful than him at that moment.
I was thinking that too. In fact, it would be logically inconsistent if she could just snap its neck. She was shown to be unable to resist protecting it. Maybe she couldn't directly kill it, but trapping it was possible.
I think the engineer looking thing that mother killed was actually a human that is the “de-evolving”. He made the paintings in the cave. Because he seen this before with the other necromancer that was in the birthing box with the helmet. that is why he was trying to kill mother but she one shot him.
When mother gave birth to the serpent's it was the same shock I felt as when Ned Stark was beheaded I never expected her to give birth to such being this series is so good
Paul shooting Sue... big disappointment for me because I was slowly but surely becoming hardcore team Sue. I mean, I am already hardcore team Tempest... but Sue is a G, so she better make it!
I have a feeling she'll pull through! Would be really weird to me if they showed her still alive at the end of season 1 only to have her die right away in season 2 or between seasons. We'll see!
I forget which video I heard it in...maybe one of yours... but Aaron Guzikowski (may have) alluded to time travel possibility. If time travel is a factor... I was thinking maybe older Campion could be the parkouring creature we saw taking the tarot cards from Marcus.
If I think about Prometheus by Ridley Scott, where the Engineers create the Alien and there is a sort of ritual, here in the memory of Mother we see the same image but reversed. Some caped humanoids all around this geometric shape with this helmet that, as somebody said, it looks perfect to give birth to those snakes. So those guys are either the creators of this or the snakes influence them for reproduction, but if they are all around this thing it must be a reason... So probably, "Those guys" have a major key, this civilization, now become sort of rebellious (they dress in capes, have no real resources), on this planet. Let's also keep in mind the planet is divided into two areas and if Paul is manipulated by the snakes (he burnt the cards) told Sue not to go to the other part of the planet. And that we see several races already, Humanoids, Neanderthals, Creatures (are they maybe hybrids?), Necromancers, Androids and humans. I'm just not completely sure about de-evolution, it's this dark energy doing it? But Father is an android so what he says must be reliable. So it could also be some going back in time, because the graffiti are so perfectly describing what is happening somehow and what Mother saw in the birth vision was like she was going back in time. This may also explain (lol) somehow why some of their children didn't survive in first place and why they seem still "alive" on the other side. AH looking forward for the next season. And congrats for your videos, they're well done!
Maybe going through the planets core creates some kind of "time dilation" using the "serpent/worm holes", within the core itself?? Perhaps that's why the creature "grew" so rapidly creature..the serpent simply aged?
if I remember well it seems the technology to build the necromancer is coming from the ancients on earth, so when we see the painting on the wall with two droids or necromancers leaving Kepler to travel to earth does it mean the evolution and the religion on earth take their origins from Kepler people? a little bit like Adam and Eve kicked out from Eden (Kepler here) and so humans travelling to kepler is eventually a 'come back' to the origins?
The technology to build the necromancers came from Mithraic scriptures. They "found" these scriptures. The show implies the whole religion came from Kepler 22b, possibly, including Necromancer tech
I don't like the "serpent" design if it's supposed to be one of those things that we saw the bones of. First of all, it looks like a lamprey which is a fish. Second, the mouth bites horizontally, not vertically like the bones that we see. Maybe it will metamorphosize or something.
After taking some time to think about the finale, review previous episodes, and comb throw showrunner interviews, I put together a new theory trying to tie everything together! Check it out here:
► ua-cam.com/video/-ektd0ok_ao/v-deo.html
Don’t forget that Ridley Scott’s movies usually have religious undertones. The Snake/Serpent is the great deceiver, telling you what you want to hear or see, leading you down a path of destruction. It’s an abomination. It was born from Mothers betrayal and deception towards father, indulging in her selfish motives etc. We see parallels of this play out in real life actually.
Looking like Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden in reverse . . .
Sol is the Devil and he acts through the snake like in the story of Adam and eve
Wow, another good idea. Creepy
@@famouswolf526 I agree. They say "Sol is the light". And Lucifer translates as "the light-bringer".
I have a theory - maybe the cave painting showed androids taking snake-like creatures to earth to live there. The snake creatures tried to manipulate and enslave humans but were repelled by some human belief system or a type of God who cared for them, the humans continued living and prospering using the knowledge of the snake beings in relation to their God. While the snake creatures ultimately devolved on earth to snakes - and that's why humans have such a universal hate and fear for snakes.
Thats a cool theory actually!
The hooded figure looks a lot like the Engineers from Prometheus. An almost earlier version of their near perfect self.
It may be purely coincidental but the androids from Prometheus and Alien also have the same milky substance
@@Flacopro40 Ridley Scott is not the creator of the show though.
@@alexsmith32012 He is a co creator and producer of the show.
The hooded figure is no other than...obiwan kenobi..😝
@@alexsmith32012 so? Ridley Scott, once he was on board, could have easily made a few very slight adjustments in order to connect this to the Alien franchise. Also to the Blade Runner franchise. They ARE all connected now. Interesting side note: Someone howls like a wolf in the beginning of the Alien franchise (Prometheus), the beginning of this show, and the first Blade Runner movie. All of which were directed personally by Ridley Scott.
Whoever the hell had "flying snake" as the baby, can i please have the winning lottery numbers?
Word 😆
Riiight?!?! I made the mistake of watching this alone and pregnant in the middle of the night 😅
@@lala_lakeypoo yikes
We should have all seen this coming! Have we not watched any of the movies in the Alien franchise? As soon as I saw it come out of her mouth... I was like “Ridley Scott you SOB”
Did anybody notice how the lander hitting the core was zoomed out and kinda looks like a swimmer and an egg ?!?!
I thought the same when the lander hit the planet in the first episode. With those weird looking helmets, father and mother reminded me of Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex while sperms :/
Mother and Father are the core of the show for me and performances delivered perfectly every scene!
Agreed!
Remember there was a circular hole in the big pentagonal “temple,” Marcus put the guys hand in it? That looks like a snake door to me now.
Agreed with this observation! Also, all the holes in the planet's core make me think snakes burrowed down there. Which makes me think they are attracted to the heat, and we know the "temple" produced heat.
I agree
Love it. It also seems like there are 2 intelligences battling. The one told Paul to remove the key from the lander. If Sue hadn't stopped him then mother and father couldnt have taken to the core then to the tropical zone. I think whats talking to paul was trying to keep the snake on the dead side of the planet and away from the warm side, where as a cold blooded creature it would thrive
Karl langer - your a genius , just by you mentioning that my heads thinking about it all now from a different perspective , its all adding up now
This is hands down the best recap/review of the season's ending I've seen on UA-cam. Well done.
Wow thanks for the kind words Kraven!
I think Campion's growth has been into a more flexible mind, and tbh you're right he isn't much of a warrior, but he has stopped sides from overstepping a line at line, be it forcing a person to do one thing or killing anther. He didn't even eat the human flesh which is what the creatures are. He act knowledges the unknown, but doesn't worship it. How he handled his ghost sister was very strong imo.
Theory 1
SOL stands for Snake of the light, an intelligent species of flying snakes that dominated Keppler 22B, hunting the planets own version of "Neanderthal humans". Long ago in the planets history, the natives learnt to hide in the planet's geothermal cave systems (as the snakes were the apex predators of the planet), where they could eat the moss growing on the walls and stay warm. Gradually they devolved into 2 subtypes; the hooded figures and the more primal sub species that we see the earth children eating. The snakes soon died out but theoretically invented artificial intelligence to corrupt future intelligent beings in order to re-seed and birth a new generation of their kind (Mother in this case).
Theory 2
The native humans of Keppler 22B were highly advanced in their technology and co existed with the snakes. A war broke out and 1 side managed to weaponize the snakes (this explains why there are 2 sub species of humanoids on the planet, with one being intelligent enough to conduct rituals and another "devolving" to the creatures that we see Mother and Father catch for the children to eat) and create the necromancers, that were used to birth and weaponize these snakes (which explains why there was a necromancer skull in the "space jockey" helmet that mother found and the visions that mother was susceptible to). Somehow, both sides annihilated their civilizations in the war that resulted in Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and sent a seed ship to our Earth, seeding our planet with evolutionary Human DNA amongst the local ape populations that resulted in the genetic fracture from ape to human (the Homo line of human species, Homo habilis, Neanderthal, Sapien etc). A few million years later and the same thing happens to our earth, but this time we send the ship carrying Mother and Father, thus creating a paradox of life and death, creation and destruction between the 2 planets.
I prefer the 2nd theory more as this is basically Ridley Scot's neighborhood, with films like Prometheus where themes like the creators of Mankind being looked for and discovered, the only difference being these humans in Raised by Wolves are set in a post-apocalyptic future and the Alien universe isn't. Well, with all that being said this series was full of curveballs so expect anything, don't get disappointed and enjoy the show. Onetake, I love your breakdowns and concise videos and plus you have a really nice voice to listen to. Well done my guy, you've earned a subscriber. would love to watch more of ur vids.
SIR! THIS IS FUCKING EPIC! THANK YOU! RESPECT!
Fascinating! Theory 2 suggests that Humans are trying to seed Keppler, when Keppler had previous seeded Earth. The snake! Ouroboros! The snake eating itself. The cycle of life and death.
I personally believe that the snakes were the dominant species, and hunted early humans. At some point in their history, Keppler humans seeded Earth in an attempt to continue their species, while the snakes died out. They were apex predators capable of telepathy, however they were never able to create technology like humans. Their collective consciousness still exists, and they manipulated Mother into carrying the of future of THEIR species, not humans. Unless there is a metamorphosis stage unknown to us, this baby snake is different from its ancestors as it has a leech mouth instead of jaws like the skeletons, a clear sign to it being a hybrid carbon based life-form.
More Raised by Wolves videos please! Can't get enough
Serpent bones we've seen have jaw and teeth structure totally different from serpent baby
Thought the same thing whole time it was being born. The larger one looked like it could have a jaw.
19:54 i think that thing is a pregnant android, cuz when she was giving birth she was spitting white liquid as well.
21:00 that scene looks like a sperm and an egg, its not the death of that snake, but the birth of it
19:54 - Good point, I was thinking that similar to Mother, maybe it also birthed a snake through its "snout"/
21:00 Agreed - as I was cutting the footage into this review, I had that exact same thought!
It's crazy how fast this show has come and gone! I hope it's not a super long wait until next season. Even though the finale wasn't everything I hoped for, I still really enjoyed the show over all and will be enthusiastically waiting to see what's next.
In the meantime, I'm happy that Britannia season 2 will finally be available to watch in the US. I watched season 1 a while ago (via Amazon Prime Video) and while I initially didn't think I'd end up liking it- I really did! For over a year after season 1 ended, I searched for a way to watch season 2 to no avail. But it will be available on Epix as of 10/4/20... Yay!!!
They should have took the snake out into space. You got a freaking space ship! Android dont breathe lol
The flying android snake? That would have destroyed the lander and turned right around and headed back for the planet?
@@tinamoul how could it breathed in space? Or grab the mf and cut the head off. Lol but then it wouldn't be s2 lol.
The head in the helmet to me looked a butt load like a dead necromancer
It is. That's why she was freaking out. That necromancer was used here in this entrapment box to gestate and give birth to a serpent. The humanoids surrounding that box in the vision might just be religious nuts who were instructed to do that under some higher intelligence's manipulation. Or they could be the higher intelligence themselves.
@@MrSidney9 agreed with all that. Just sayin cause homie said he thought it was a dead human
I was on the fence when I prepared the review - I definitely noticed markings in the skull and pulled up an image of a necromancer next to it. I ended up going with human (clearly with some modifications) but a few other commenters have also noted they think its a necromancer. So, I'm convinced that's probably the correct interpretation!
@@OneTakeVids Sol asked Paul to burn the boards, that way mother does not see the memories of the birth
@@MrSidney9 Maybe that's how they procreate (though it's a far-fetched theory): They manipulate beings on other worlds to become religious nut jobs and make them build the necromancers until they destroy themselves. Then the survivors bring the necromancers back to Kepler 22b where they are used as incubators. Maybe they do it because they have no way of creating technology themselves. Maybe even, this has been going on for some time. This would explain why there are already humans on Kepler 22b: We are just witnessing one of the many iterations of this game. In this regard, Kepler 22b could have been feeding of humanity in a parasitic manner for a very long time.
The parallels to biblical stories are fascinating: the story of (1) Adam and Eve, with Adam as Father and Eve as Mother, and how Eve/Mother was tempted by a Snake (the devil), yet this is in reverse given that in the end of the season, Mother and Father end up IN the tropical zone/Eden. And (2) Mary and Joseph, Mary as Mother (an android having a virginal birth), Joseph as Father (How did Joseph feel that his wife was giving birth to someone else's baby?).
Question(s): What are the pits to the Neanderthals ("th" is pronounced "t")? What are the pits to the snakes? Tally falling in the pit gave the Neanderthals access to her image, so do the Neanderthals having a connection to Keppler? Or were the pits the domain of the snakes and with them gone gave the Neanderthals access to these "abilities?"
to expoand on your bilbical comparison:
The plot has elements of religious begninings of man vs the devil (but on keplar) mixed under the rivalry of two superiror ancient beings/enemies - sol and whoever is giving the orders to the demon cult: lets call it 'the whisperer' for now. If you have watch the Transformers movies and my knoweldge f that show is incomplete, and i am not connecting the two shows but using it as an example , then you will know of the two home planets (Earth and cybertron) but what you may not know is both planets are in fact dormant states for two anicent super poweful cosmic enemies. Everything else (the autobots,the autobot sorcers/creators, the decepticons, humans) are pretty much their creations or lesser beings. The decepticons are the foot soldiers of 1 of the 13 disciples of unicron (the fallen). Megatron being the fallens general and the descpticon/autobot war destroys cybetron. Anyway unicron (earth) s a universal bad being intent on derstorying cybertron and everything else in the unoverse, gaining as much power as it can etc . The rivalry spans long beofre the existence of either humans or the bots. The similarities bwtween the two shows here are that in this series The Whisperer may actually be the very planet itself (keplar). We have seen that it can control the heat output from the core by not burning people of its choosing. We have also travelled through the pits to/through the core of the planet, and there is no tech inbetwen so how was that heat being moldulated to choose who to burn? How did the lander survive travelling through hte core to the othe side without being incenerated? why are there countless tunnels to the core of the planet? And then there are strange voices and visions projected across the planet through methods unknown pretty much like the planet or whatever that is at the core is at the centre is alive. In tranformers unicorn has similar caverns like the pits . It had followers disciples, the dsiciples had the decepcon army, who are largely ignorant to who they work for. Here we have a chain of command ie whsiperer the black hoods, the demon cult, basic organic creatures, the sepents and also the ignorant to who they are fighting for aetheists. The mythraic are the army and creation of sol and the enemies of the whisperer. All their prayers are not reallt prayerrs but battle chants meant for self confidence and motivation to battle their true enemy - the army of whisperer. The mythraic androids are similar to the angels of god devoid of free will and there to serve.
I would say the tropical zone was a place where sol may have created humans and the rivalry between the whisperer and sol threatneed human existence so sol gave them a code of conduct and scriptures, tech encrypted within the scriptures (ncrmancer tech) and sent them to earth. Not excalty god but defo their creator. Sol may already be dead consumeed by the whisperer seeing as we never see any evidence of its existence. The exodus of humans is a bit like adam and eve being cast out of eden in bibilical religions and the whisperer is the devil and the serpent here one of its forms/creatures. It is where the sroy of adam and eve evicted from the eden came from o earth religions. The whisperer exhibits typical devil like behavour associated with the devil - control of fire, giving bad suggestions, driving people to instanity (this was also a trait of unicron in the transformers) and it has a netowrk of pits like tunnels dug for the serpents to travel through. Serpents seeem tobe one of its core things.
The black hoods are most likely disciples of the whisperr. On earth are the whisperer acts through the demon cult. The black hoods in the past under the whisperers orders, trapped an android (sols tech) hoping to spawn a powerful weapon of mass destruction much like the advanced tech of sol but one under its own control. Jelousy may be a factor. Mary did say to mother that people can be jeaous of wat that they didnt help create. A coincidence? It wants this advanced tech and it trapped an android impregnating it in the past. We dont know the result of that past attempt but it wouldnt need to resport to piracy and impegnating mother if it had tech as advanced as sols mythraic tech. So Sol and the whisperer are both creators, long time enemies, but sol has adanced creating capability and the whisperer has a more crude organic creating ability (the creatures, the organic serpents whose bones we saw previously).The previous pregnancy surrounded by the black hoods (demon cult) is the whisperers attempt at merging its own creations with sols tech. We have to specualte that all of the whisprers beings are more organic and lacking the scientific advances of the mythraic tech. Now that is has spwaned a serpent with necromancer tech it will reproduce more. Bad new for the humans.
Like in transoformers the decpticons had no idea who they were truly woring for. They were fighting a war for a being (unicron) who was using them intent on destroying its nemesis which is their very home planet (cybertron) where they originated from and where they were created. In this series we have the aethesits as ignorant foot soldiers blindly fighting against sols mythraic army in a holy war. The mythraic dont even know they are fighiting to keep the human race alive they think they are fighting a religious war of ethics, control, righteousess, respect for sol etc. The whsiperer and its demon cult are secerelty build weapons of mass destruction (it now has a undestroyable necromancer serpent which can fly). I now undersntad why the mythraic say that wearing the armour of sol will protect them - the scientifc advancements of sols armour will prtoect them from the orgnic basic attacks of the whsiperers creatures. It is also why necromancers are made in a way to target and mass exterminate organic life - to protect humans from the various organic creatres of the whisperer. I get why the prayers are worded the way they are now. This war has been going on for along time and now, the mythraic have undone sols hard work of keeping them safe and have come back to their former home which is now hell where the sclaes are now tipping towards the evil whisperers side. Nowthat it has a necro serpent we will see more and this wlll obvilusly culminate in a final war waged by all stakeholders allegiant to one of both sides.
In the future when this series eventually ends we will most likely see the destrcutuon of this planet and another immigration back to earth where the true history dissolves all enmity between the aethesists and the beleivers and they will rebuild earth from there.
Also I think that Tally did not die, but was abducted by one of the two humanoid groups
I thought this, too. But how does she mysteriously appear/disappear at times, esp when Campion is locked up in the silo? Unless she was granted some sort of magick.
The small pentagon is a prison and the mask has a large opening in front of the mouth for the snake to come out. They use humans/androids as hosts for the snakes.
Excellent take man. I didnt even realize how much some of those scenes didnt work for me either until you broke it down. I definitely just subbed😀
It shocked me when i see snake who eles feel like me 😱😱😱
dlshad omar omg me🙋🏾♀️I was not ready but it was great took me back to aliens❤️
me, too. Unbelieveable! It’s big snake 🐍 feeling unfair to mother’s expectation
It was lame.. I wanted baby Yoda
@@naya6593 the only thing which i love about was it was out of my thought i was shock if i be honest this first time a film make me like that weirdly i kind a like it
I was shocked but not THAT shocked because of who created the show..lol
Prometheus had a lot of freaky snakes in it too and a woman giving birth to a fucked up creature.. so I knew the baby wasn't going to be what they wanted us to expect. But it was still VERY unsettling to watch 😳 (Especially while pregnant..)
Your channel the first I searched after watching the finale. ^_^
Thanks for support! :)
When I saw close up of Mother when "giving birth" I knew something disgusting was coming. Great review!
same here and thanks Mike!
I'm on the fence about this finale. Like you, I would have enjoyed closure on some plot lines or arcs. This finale felt rushed and it closed things that I didn't want closed yet. For example, killing off that engineer-like stranger so quickly... Like, really? It was anti-climactic to have him killed off in about 2 seconds... I'm also over Marcus already and couldn't believe that group of atheist soldiers were so readily KO'd. His descent into madness has been a trudge imo.
Ditto! Right with ya on these points.
It is a great series with strong and well defined core ideas but something is lacking.
It's like four well educated and well read people sat in a room and discussed this idea in a deep and philosophical way and then turned to a secretary taking notes who jus started work here last week and told her to go and write a series based on what they had been discussing. There jus seems to be a mis-step somewhere.
There is jus a lil bit too much idea that lacks plotting. It's a classical and sophisticated idea being told slightly less sophisticaly.
Killing off the mysterious native, like you point out, seemed like a massive waste. It made it nothing more than a convenient plot device rather than a revelation of something bigger, deeper. Things jus....happen.... in this series.
@@mossadon Killing off the native so fast didn't bother me coz it's obvious we'll learn more about the natives of this planet in the second season
@@TheRockerX We probably will, Rocker, but this show needs some better writing. They aren't doing the core ideas justice.
Too many nuggets and not enough chicken. Even jus a few more shots of the native, without dialogue, looking at something, us seeing its face and some sort of emotion play across it CUT. That would have been enough. It's bad form to ask 10 questions and only give 2 answers while also introducing 3 more questions.
Sure, we aren't in Lost territory...YET and i'm liking the series but at the moment it is, as of a 1st season, a cross between a premium sci fi show and something from SYFY.
I refuse to believe that mother killed the watcher he was built up to be this ninja worrier his/her body was sleek and agile. To be killed so easily no i wont believe it. It clumsily walked towards mother, I think it knew she a snake in her but i still refuse to think it was the watcher lol
Wow your channel is the premier channel for raised with wolves! you really do have the best predictions and analysis!
Thanks Judy!!
When Mother and Father were careening into the core, I thought "Oh good, this season established Campian as the one 'raised by wolves', and then we can see the story evolve in this group of kids, the Mithraic, and the atheists all in conflict on this new planet, and the androids are gone". It's not that I didn't like those characters, but advancing the story by killing off the androids is a bold move. But of course, they didn't do that, they have incredible plot armor, and next season might be retreading old ground.
Mother and father we're melting going into the core... coming out not melting...😨😨
Maybe the core cloned anything that comes into it like the mouse.
Yeah there's something weird with that planet. Plus how the fuck does a pod go through the core of a planet and comes out unscathed. What kind of science is that.
@@MrSidney9 One that was being protected by this seemingly very powerful, but limited, superintelligence. Look how it raised rocks and manipulated the big stone thing in the desert. But it seems to be missing something, vessels to grow serpents that were its weapon against the humanoids who built necromancers to fight them. In the end, we're left with somewhat of a tie at the end as one of Mother's eyes is still around, which means she can fight the serpent, and they can make more over her. She's stopped trusting the AI now so likely she'll be onside next season, but Marcus is the wild card and will become the new "Mother" of season 2, the manipulated being used to fight of the arriving humans. Paul also, which will pit him against Campion, Romulus and Remus style.
@@MrSidney9 Yeah, as much as I didn't want them to die, I am confused about this, a lot! Maybe the core looks like magma but it is not?
I'm wondering if both her eyes may be intact. I think part of Marcus's current physical appearance could be a result of the eye he "choked on" interfacing with his biology.
Oh 😲....GREAT THEORY! YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND!!!
There was no need for Paul's internal struggle to shoot his adoptive mother because he had just found out the she killed his real mother....that's the basis of his anger
But it has been made clear that Paul's real parents didn't care about him and showed him no love. Mary and Caleb on the other hand, his fake parents, grew very fond of Paul and really loved him for those 12 years in the simulation while in hibernation. Not to mention all the trouble they went through to save him from a necromancer. He threw all that out of the window without showing any hesitation before shooting Mary.
Eyris if you found out that people you trusted the most not only had lied to you for 12 years BUT had killed your real parents, I suspect you might not react well.
That was totally unexpected, when they spit out of the pit, making them enter into the tropical zone!!
I know. And remember how Paul said they shouldn't go to the tropical zone... Paul was supposedly told by the intelligence to disable the ship they later use to try to get rid of the serpent... If the serpent was created by the intelligence, why would it not want the serpent to go there?... So many questions!
Since the ship being a spaceship it's survival could be unintentional, given that it already proofed to be very sturdy in the past, and they are made to withstand extreme heat anyway.
@Sarah Kim yes true! We almost forgot that 😂 😂
Guys, just being thoughtful, what if the voice which was tending to manipulate the people, is actually a time traveler! May be mother herself from the future trying to communicate with her past in the form of a voice.
I felt that Fathers dilemma scene made sense he is feeling an emotion of jealousy a very powerful emotion his way of dealing with was to talk it out and to play it out at one point I thought he might kill mother, him talking out loud made the scene more powerful when mother was going to kill herself and he went with her If father had not said out loud what he was thinking it would have lost punch.
i find it strange that the parts that we see differently are to do with emotions and actions lets take Paul He is in his early 20s grew up in a religion that if you do not believe in Sol you are an unbeliever look what his religion did to earth he then spends 13 ish years in a sim. which reinforces that belief. He his faith is deep rooted he had never come into contact with anyone that believes other wise. his mother has been leaving little hints of disbelieve till out right saying that Sol is not real. Then Sol tells him the truth that these are not his parents plus they killed his real parents. You don't but it the he would not kill Mary I do totally.
Campion I felt the reason why father said that Campion has become a warrior, mother wrapped him in a blanket they often had words about it he was in fact a mommy's boy. There were shots of Campion practising his sling shot, for him to run on his own the to sling shot his father showed father that Campion has grown up and realises that Campion can hold his own he even says as much when father and mother were killing themselves.
when Campion was screaming at mother and father down the pit when he stopped and did that turn around I never saw it as the others nod meant that he was the leader I saw it as them saying its ok you still have us. I agree that probably why I never saw it as you are the leader as he has not shown any leader quality he comes across to me like a spoilt brat lol when father he will be a good leader or something like that I thought it meant when he was older
Oh, OK, when mother found the thing in her vision and ripped the scull off I thought it was a Necromancer scull.
Yeah that birth scene, I still can not get that out of my head my jaw was open all the way through the credits lol That snake looks completely different from the bones on the planet even when it had grown.
I thought They were thinking about the children they had only one chance. It was still attached to mother sucking her life blood it was a leach at this point. Mother was holding onto it and knew it was stronger than her that is why she decided to kill herself father decided to go with her. if you read this far thank you
I called it. We came from Kepler and then went back. Humans are truly planet destroyers.
Yeah if you want a planet destroyed from the inside put humans on it
Father deserves the world.
This episode totally changed the story. I was so into the show until Mother birth a giant snake - totally unexpected and didn’t feel in a good way. I really thought the baby will be hybrid human and Android.
The story was always going into some higher intelligent beings behind all the persuasions in all humans and the mother android.
@@abymicheal1 Yeah, but a snake
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Father has been on the mission from day one
I think you are missing the point of the exchange between Father and Campion, and the nods that everyone gave Campion after Mother and Father sacrificed themselves. The major theme of this show is family, particularly adopted families vs biological families and healthy parenting vs toxic/narcissistic parenting. Father isn't Campion's leader. He's his father. He's also a good father and realizes that the future is uncertain so he's absolutely going to be supportive of Campion taking initiative. Secondly the nods weren't nods of respect. Mother and Father weren't their 'leaders'. Their deaths were hard on the other kids, but that is because they were forming a makeshift family with them. The nods were more like 'Don't worry. You're with us.' They were nods of acknowledgement to let him know he still had a family.
See I think the scene with Father physically acting out his dilemma with Mother and the children was great because it showed that the inclusion of human emotion was too much for him to calculate mechanically. Human emotion, to a machine, defies logic and he has to externally work it out to make sense of his internal discontent. It helped convey the complexity of human emotions even to a machine.
Wow I really enjoyed all your reviews of RBW season one!! So glad to have found you to explain what is happening in this show. .. Which has become my new obsession‼️‼️
Thanks Ms. T!
Maybe the creature in the cube might have been imprisoned or sacrificed to give birth to a (baby) giant snake. With how many holes there are, we can assume that this happened numerous times. Following that, the reason Mithraic scriptures contain instructions to make Necromancers, and they are (probably) of Sol's design, it's not too strange to conclude that the Necromancers are supposed to be the ultimate god-birthing creations. In the episode Mother is even questioned, will the baby fly like her. I think the original snakes did not, and it's linked specifically to her powers. To support that theory, old snakes look different from the one Mother gave birth to (look at the skeletons and fangs). Is it perhaps a perfected version?
I wish there was more dialog between Paul and Sue before he shot her. It seemed a bit rushed. If Sue was shown expressing some heartfelt emotion, if she gave him an honest, pained explanation, if she explained that her love for him is real and how/ why she loved him so much- it would've had more impact for me. I can understand him wanting to shoot her, but the actual shooting felt like it happened a bit too fast. I don't know how I feel about the sudden switch that seems to flip in some characters- like Marcus and Paul, and even Hunter.
I don't think Campion has shown that he can lead, so I hope that isn't where the show is automatically going- though it could definitely be interpreted that way especially because Mother said "...And Campion will lead them".
When father told him he had become quite the warrior I laughed- but then wondered if Father may have just said that to Campion to lift his spirits and show him that he was still special, even though Mother would soon have a new "baby".
I don't understand why the heck there's STILL been no mention of Tempest's pregnancy!! It might be something minor, it may end up having nothing to do with the grand scheme of things in the end, but it's driving me nuts! When she, Hunter, and the other girl(the tooth collector) were sitting around the fire talking about Mother's baby, and debating whether or not it would be "divine" there was no comment about Tempest's baby!! Is she even still pregnant?! Did everyone forget?! How come Sue never did any checks on her to see if her baby was developing appropriately?! I mean, it's clear that Mother's pregnancy went by much, much faster and Tempest's is likely progressing in the typical way we'd expect for a human.... but COME ON! Is anyone ever going to acknowledge her stinking baby ever again?! Lol! It just seems so weird to me! They went through the trouble of revealing her pregnancy, revealed the awful way it happened, showed Mother's interest in protecting Tempest and baby... but then that was it.
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Totally agree on Paul and Sue. I understand the logic of why he shot her and to some extent, I buy that he would so quickly turn on her. But, as you said, the sudden turns for each of the characters would land a lot better in my opinion, if there was a bit more of a transition.
Yeah, looking back on the "warrior" comment, it might have been slight exaggeration from Father just to lift Campion's spirits.
Also, yes - it is a taaaaad bizarre that Tempest's pregnancy has totally faded into the background haha. I guess some of it is overshadowed by Mother's miracle baby!
glad i found your channel, like your analysis and will check out your other content. thank you
"Paul might go back to Marcus"
Why though...he knows its not his dad
My thought is that Paul and Marcus are the only two who’ve heard the voice and been led (or manipulated) by it directly so they have that in common. So, they’re a unique breed of Mithraic who I could see joining forces (if the voice wants that). To your point though, I don’t think he’d go back to Marcus willingly.
@@OneTakeVids thanks for the reply. Much appreciated!
I think Paul snapping was great. He's been getting abused by the false father, hearing Sol and finding out his parents were murdered was the tipping point.
I gotta fight for Father and his monologue, that we clearly saw him thinking out loud while crafting up new jokes. With that previous knowledge him thinking out loud for a super serious concept totally made sense for me.
Fair, I did forget about the scene of him thinking up jokes out loud so it was set up earlier. Honestly, it still feels a little hokey to me that he would need stick figures to assist in that thought process. Maybe if they weren’t there, the scene wouldn’t have felt so odd to me. In any case, I appreciated the dilemma overall and thought the actor sold it well.
@@OneTakeVids You're totally right about the stick figures though. Perhaps they were to show, when he throws the initial head, his decision to delete his memories and it just didn't play as well as was supposed to. I also agree about the actor. The only reason I posted my initial comment is because I truly believe that Father may be one of the best TV dads in recent history and I had to fight for him lol
Ommmgggg I literally binged the show all night and watched every freaking review/theory possible
Starting to watch prometheus now
The ending has ruined it for me a bit, now it’s just like every other alien film he made with someone having a alien baby, and she could of squashed that snake with her bare hands when it was only a small, surly!!!
! It would of been better if it was a hybrid baby not a poxy flying snake
I liked the flying snake partially because of how bizarre / unexpected it was. But, totally agree - I fee like I could've taken on that snake =D To be fair, if it's inherited some of Mother's properties, it probably is incredibly strong but I could've use some on-screen acknowledgement of that.
DISAPPOINTED
Wanted to see the hybrid creation.
Even wondered what type of intelligence and personality it would have. Booooooo
Hey, maybe Mother and Father can have a baby.
And their baby would have the power to destroy the evil serpent.
The moment is lost.
The show had the potential to be of substance, profound.
Chessy
@@OneTakeVids Yeah that is what I thought too,she automatically ruled out killing it traditionally because she knows somehow that it is very powerful,but the way it wasn't afraid of mother I feel like that is a pretty good acknowledgement and also when you see it you immediately think of the giant serpent bones and from there you think that they are powerful.
Yeah I tend to agree the last episode to me was the weakest.
Tempest looks like the female version of Grey Worm from GoT.
Y snake.. it should been baby Yoda.
They went down the pit because the serpent is nearly impossible to destroy. It was born from a necromancer so it's basically a god. What's crazy to me is that Sol manipulated EVERYONE just to get a necromancer to Kepler and be born again. It created a new religion (accidentally or intentionally) on Earth that nearly wiped out humanity just to have humans build it a new body.
I think Mother wasn't the first Necromancer to arrive on Kepler 22b.
Ok. The explanation from my side is as follows. The skull we see has patters the same as we have seen in necromancers body when she was opened which makes me think the skull that was in the pod was a necromancer. It is further confirmed by the fact we saw scene were the synthetic blood was spit out. We also know from cave drawings that necromancers travelled back to earth which explains how the original scriptures were on earth from which the necromancers were made. In terms of the subject of devaluation itself, I think it is caused by snakes feeding on those humans...
Do you have any other show in mind that you will be reviewing in place of Raised by Wolves?? I love your insightful breakdowns of each episode. They help me to better understand certain scenes, or at the very least, I enjoy seeing things from your point of view. Keep up the great work!
I think the broken down device that Mother found with the Android head was the primitive human's attempt at fulfilling "Sol's" desire - to birth snakes. The mouthpiece is clearly a nod to how Mother ultimately gives birth. Sol has been trying to achieve perfection with the snakes, primarily due to its contempt for the failures of humanity.
Okay this is an insane theory and it plays with a lot of time travel / paradoxical stuff that has been mentioned elsewhere.
What if: Campion Sturgess the atheist programmer is Campion from Kepler 22b. In a creepy and messed up way, he “wants” mother. The events that transpire on Kepler that were about to see end up with Mother being sent back to earth as a necromancer for the Mithraic. In a loop he had sent her back to accomplish something different than what ended up happening.. Campion on Kepler is probably seeded directly from Earth Campion and knows his “past self / self” attempted this and how bad it got fucked so he tries again.
The thing she gave birth to makes me think of the flying alpha predators from Peter Clines' Threshold book series.
This was the worst episode of the whole season honestly. Bad cg. Everything after mother gives birth is just so rushed and wacky. It’s like they didn’t think they where gonna get a season 2
This episode changed the meaning of the entire show, it went from mostly grounded to total phantasy. Without hands, there cannot be a grounded idea of intelligence. An upright posture with hands free.
@@brucecmoore1657 fantasy
I bet you're right. The snake probably killed everyone or something, but when they got a continuation they had to scrap together an edit to leave it open ended. We only got one episode this week as well, every week there's been 2. Just kinda odd.
@@Charles-Darwin The creator has a rough 5 season arc
@@brucecmoore1657 It still remains a mystery as to who/what is the intelligence behind the cunning leading a necromancer to give birth to a serpent. Also, it's not the first time, the box that mother sees seems a lot like an entrapment device where a necromancer (as seen when she removed the mask) is forced to gestate and give birth to a serpent. The humanoids surrounding the box seem to be the intelligence behind that cunning, but they are yet to be revealed.
I think the thing in the box was a necromancer, the honeycomb spots on its skull looked like Mother when Campion was working on her. I think they trapped a necromancer in the box, put on a birthing helmet, because we saw the snake comes out of the mouth, and let it birth a snake in the same area mother was in
Quetzalcoatl - serpent of precious feathers, born by a virgin named Chimalman, to whom the god Onteol appeared in a dream.
Quetzalcoatl was a heroic flying serpent god. Could the serpent in the show be a good guy?
19:50 the scull that mother finds is a Necromancer head. Apparently the snakes are born at the demise of a Necromancer. That's why Mother is so disturb by her discovery.
The crawling creatures being devolved humans doesn't mean they have reversed the steps of evolution, but that they have shifted to a lower level (e.g. of intelligence). The reason could be something like malnourishment, genetic damage from radiation, or simply that higher intelligence (which requires more brain mass and thus more calories) isn't a net evolutionary advantage in that environment.
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Thanks for another awesome breakdown! Did anyone else notice how at the end when the serpent files away you can see and hear birds fly off out of the trees, revealing that in this part of the planet there are other life forms.
I didn't expect to see the snake, but I did suspect that Mother was going to give birth some kind of monster baby because of how much blood it needs to consume. Also with the fact that Ridley Scott is involved in this, I expected an evil alien baby.
Your assessments are accurate. The writing of characters is not strong. Must be more challenging to write an episodic tv show vs a 2.5 hour movie. The characters have to make jumps to be what writer needs them to be for each episode AND the season AND the series.
Marcus going atheist to believer seems like something that deserves 2 to 3 seasons. The androids seem to behave however they want ( the writers choice) to progress the story.
Keep beating it up. We can still enjoy it. And we appreciate an honest take.
Did you notice how Mother's hair changed in some of the scenes in ep.10? It looked like there were some weird reshoots. I think that they had a hard time editing this episode.
The first civilization was on Kepler. Once they discovered this “dark matter” or what’s it called, they started worshiping “Sol”. They started a cult, and sacrificed humans to create these serpents (the mask on person in the cube, had quite a convenient “exit” hole where the mouth was don’t you agree?). The serpents started consuming the planet and whatnot, and the first civilization sent 2 “beings” with 9 embryos to earth to repopulate. Thus the missing link in earths evolutionary theory would be solved, with humanity coming into existence on earth. And here is where my starts getting a bit weird and shaky. While humanity was evolving on earth, the cultists on Kepler kept spawning these serpents. The population of Kepler either went underground to hide and avoid the flying snakes and during the centuries devolved into the creatures, while probably the religious sects got sacrificed or eaten, BUT not before they could finish constructing the big cube in the desert, which might serve as an amplifier of Sols power so it can start influencing the people from earth. And thus the Mithraic cult formed with the knowledge of the dark matter stuff, but before they could start sacrificing people and making serpents on Earth, a war erupted and they started focusing on Necromancers. NOW this is where it starts getting super complicated. Campion (who was religious) might have been “possessed” or at least influenced by Sol to leave the Mithraic and start constructing Mother to send her back to Kepler to “repopulate” it and start the cycle anew (???). At this point I give up because I have no additional info to deduce the end-game or the big plan. Hope you like my theory, and as always, great video, thanks for making it :D
Can you expand on your Decoding the Mithraic Mysteries video as many of your theories they seem to tie closely to what happened in the finale. However, you didn't go into depth on this point on this video. If the AI used Mother to create a super weapon, likely to take out arriving humans, was it lying to her about androids being the future? What is its overall goal in destroying Earth and bringing humans and android to Kepler? Maybe it needs help, but what else? Thanks!
Working on my next theory video now which ties all this together and expands on some of the ideas from Decoding the Mithraic Mysteries and What Lives on Keploer-22b. Should have it out tomorrow!
@@OneTakeVids Great, thanks.
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So my theory is that Kepler had two sides at war and one side was a cult of Sol that was technologically advanced who created the necromancers and the giant snakes which were also weapons of war. They had a devastating war which caused the cult to send androids and human embryos to Earth which led to the humans of Earth who worshipped Sol and decrypted the religious text to recreate the necromancers. In a mirror situation, Mother and Father were sent to Kepler with embryos to save the human race from the devastating war on Earth. There are remnants of the two sides still on Kepler, and the technology the cult of Sol on Kepler allowed them to infiltrate Mother in order to create a snake as a bid to win their war which is still going on although the survivors were few and deformed.
2:21 sol definitely wasnt the one who was causing that particular hallucination for Marcus, because Sol has only been shown to create visions/recreations of those who have fallen into the pit,wHunter has not fallen into the core and therefore I think the entire thing was a hallucination as his physiology attempts to wrangle with this necromancer eyeball inside of him. In a way, it almost seems like sol is a being/entity/what-have-you that has existed since the beginning of time, akin to the Engineers in prometheus, but lost its physical form on the Kepler22b at some point in history--presumably at the point when the planet was inhabited with non-flying snakes that were made extinct. It's possible that mother and father have been through this cycle an infinite amount of times, despite not having recollection of it, kepler22b may have attempted to seed life on earth by sending mother and father there, but each time the cycle was repeated, it inevitably lead to the destruction of earth and subsequently, travel to kepler 22b where the humans repeated the cycle of destroying the physical entities of Kepler22b. Because this kept happening, perhaps 'Sol' finally came to the realization over a long passage of time, just like the engineers did, that the repeated attempts to create civilization on earth have failed due to the flawed nature of human beings, and that this chain of events this whole season was set in motion to deliberately wipe out human beings as a race. Perhaps I'm drawing too many connections to Prometheus, but ridley scott is somewhat predictable and therefore I wouldn't be surprised if that became one of the central tenets of why Sol has enacted this plan.
On a side note, we saw Marcus survive consuming one of the necromancer eyeballs, and he seems to now have these massive veins protruding from his forehead after surviving that event. If you recall, when the rapist prisoner somehow got the milk from mother, he obtained some type of supernatural strength from it. While Marcus has been struggling with hallucinations, I think this will eventually come into play. It's entirely possible that he is gradually obtaining some of the powers of the necromancer by having it's eyeball decomposing in his stomach and presumably, leaking out milk/other android compounds, into his blood.
I feel like they are trying to build 7 or 8 seasons and will continue to keep you in suspense in order to sell you more shows.
P.S. Travis Fimmel can really pull off the crazy- dream-like hallucinations- going completely mad- including the half smiles that turn into snarls- with eerily intense eyes.
His Ragnar character seems to have been great practice for this.
Agreed! Despite my complains over their handling of Marcus' character, Fimmel has been fantastic all the way through!
As far as i can remember, throughout her pregnancy, Mother often talks about how powerful she feels the "baby" is. How it was destined to be a powerful hybrid being. And the others in the group including Father in some capacity has agreed upon and acknowledged its potential to be extremely powerful.
And now that the "baby" is born, Mother may have returned to her original programming or even developed further human-like protective instincts for the children, thus not risking to agitate/anger the snake where it can easily kill Campion and the other children. There are a few close up shots i think, which established how the snake is overpowering mother with its slithering grip shortly before Father found her.
What Father was going through, the jealousy, was it normal for units like him to go through or was it genuinely revolutionary?
I think its a nod to the bishop model from aliens, they developed attachments to people they work with
We didnt evolve from Neanderthals.
Our species existed at the same time and interbred.
That scene made no sense "devolving".
The planet’s core is the ‘soul’ of the planet through which evolution is triggered. One of the metal cards that Mother found illustrates a sun-like drawing. When Mother kills one of Kepler’s native inhabitants, Father tests the corpse and claims that the inhabitant de-evolved (less human) and that the planet has an important history. If this inhabitant wasn’t killed by Mother it would have become one of the creatures used as food. When Mother and Father go through the pit with the Lander to enter the planet’s core (suicide) with the intention to kill the snake, there is a particular scene which actually matches the sun-like drawing. This drawing also resembles a human egg being fertilised. Instead of dying; Mother, Father and the Snake evolved infact the snake is much larger and the damage done to skin of Mother and Father is nowhere to be seen. They exit in the Tropic part of the planet which resembles to the Garden of Eden. The Mouse and Tally already went through this process and now are an evolved species.
The Eyes of the necromancer represent Evil. As soon as Mother lost her Eyes, she behaved like a caring mother. The Eyes were stuffed in Marcus’s mouth and when he woke up from the beating, Marcus’s behaviour becomes worse and even kills two atheists.
The illustration on the cave found by Paul shows a Lander departing Kepler travelling towards Earth with two (presumably) humans. This illustration represent the future and what ‘should’ happen. Interestingly, the two humans also have a halo. In my opinion one is Campion and the other is Tempest’s child. Campion is the chosen one by Mother whilst Tempest’s child the result of the evil-side of humanity.
The giant snake bones on the planet show a standard jaw structure while the snake born in this episode had a completely different mouth, like that of a lamprey. All of the tunnels seem to indicate that Keppler-22b snakes had historically been coming up from the core to the surface, but things came to a halt for some reason. So far, a lot of open unconnected strings to the story.
The rapid growth of the serpent was already explained: The full pregnancy happens in days, and Mary/Sue's tests confirm "cellular growths are off the charts. It's going to be one bad ass baby". Indeed, Mary-Sue, indeed.
In a plot twist the android head is actually David from Prometheus....and the voice they hear is Ego the living planet!
A reviewer was goofing on Scott's use of those silver, form-fitting suits on the Android parents. I have to agree, to mimick humans in every detail and then have the silly jumpsuit costuming was strange. Even the Mithraic androids weren't dressed as SilverSurfers, not sure what the Showrunners were thinking there.
It's just for aesthetics. Or, the Campion Mother saw in her memory file wasn't a reliable memory at all and Mother and Father both came from a far stranger place than we thought
Snake in Paradise /Garden of Eden
I’m going to be soooo pissed off if this is just a Prometheus prequel... This series is in thin ice for me. The last two episodes started to ruin it for me.
Both Atheist and religious engineers live on Kepler where they reside in different zones because the war between them exiled the religious groups to the dark side of the planet. The tropical area are the technology advanced space traveling pioneers. In the finale, the serpent is the necromancer created to eliminate atheists engineers in the tropical zone. It is a prophecy that this serpent is the savor of the religious engineers, however eventually it will be out of control and destroy the whole planet, so that’s why they changed their mind and try to kill it before mother gave birth. Somehow, I feel like Kepler is just another testing ground like Earth.
I'm dissapointed...
1. marcus turned into 100% fanatic too fast
2. Realy ? this child... flying snake..
3. hooded person killed too easy. they could show us in other way that they are mankind like we are. hooded guy should run and just drop the skull
4. Mother and Father still alive...
5. Paul didnt't even doubt SOL's words about his parents..
OH MY SOL.. i'm really dissapointed
Mother's care protocol wouldn't let her kill the lamprey/snake, so she was going to fly into the pit. I think father knew that her care protocol wouldn't let her do that either, so he did it for her. I don't think father could have killed the lamprey/snake because mother was probably still more powerful than him at that moment.
I was thinking that too. In fact, it would be logically inconsistent if she could just snap its neck. She was shown to be unable to resist protecting it. Maybe she couldn't directly kill it, but trapping it was possible.
I think the engineer looking thing that mother killed was actually a human that is the “de-evolving”. He made the paintings in the cave. Because he seen this before with the other necromancer that was in the birthing box with the helmet. that is why he was trying to kill mother but she one shot him.
When mother gave birth to the serpent's it was the same shock I felt as when Ned Stark was beheaded I never expected her to give birth to such being this series is so good
And the acting was superb.
Paul shooting Sue... big disappointment for me because I was slowly but surely becoming hardcore team Sue. I mean, I am already hardcore team Tempest... but Sue is a G, so she better make it!
I have a feeling she'll pull through! Would be really weird to me if they showed her still alive at the end of season 1 only to have her die right away in season 2 or between seasons. We'll see!
The hooded creature is obviously Adam from Dark
Hahaha clearly!
I forget which video I heard it in...maybe one of yours... but Aaron Guzikowski (may have) alluded to time travel possibility. If time travel is a factor... I was thinking maybe older Campion could be the parkouring creature we saw taking the tarot cards from Marcus.
If I think about Prometheus by Ridley Scott, where the Engineers create the Alien and there is a sort of ritual, here in the memory of Mother we see the same image but reversed. Some caped humanoids all around this geometric shape with this helmet that, as somebody said, it looks perfect to give birth to those snakes. So those guys are either the creators of this or the snakes influence them for reproduction, but if they are all around this thing it must be a reason... So probably, "Those guys" have a major key, this civilization, now become sort of rebellious (they dress in capes, have no real resources), on this planet. Let's also keep in mind the planet is divided into two areas and if Paul is manipulated by the snakes (he burnt the cards) told Sue not to go to the other part of the planet. And that we see several races already, Humanoids, Neanderthals, Creatures (are they maybe hybrids?), Necromancers, Androids and humans. I'm just not completely sure about de-evolution, it's this dark energy doing it? But Father is an android so what he says must be reliable. So it could also be some going back in time, because the graffiti are so perfectly describing what is happening somehow and what Mother saw in the birth vision was like she was going back in time. This may also explain (lol) somehow why some of their children didn't survive in first place and why they seem still "alive" on the other side. AH looking forward for the next season. And congrats for your videos, they're well done!
They weren't spat out of the core. They flew through the core and came out on a different side of the planet.
You have a very good speaking voice🤗
Thanks!! :)
Maybe going through the planets core creates some kind of "time dilation" using the "serpent/worm holes", within the core itself?? Perhaps that's why the creature "grew" so rapidly creature..the serpent simply aged?
if I remember well it seems the technology to build the necromancer is coming from the ancients on earth, so when we see the painting on the wall with two droids or necromancers leaving Kepler to travel to earth does it mean the evolution and the religion on earth take their origins from Kepler people? a little bit like Adam and Eve kicked out from Eden (Kepler here) and so humans travelling to kepler is eventually a 'come back' to the origins?
The technology to build the necromancers came from Mithraic scriptures. They "found" these scriptures. The show implies the whole religion came from Kepler 22b, possibly, including Necromancer tech
at 15.56 the humanoid looks like one of the engineers that david killed in alien covenant
It was an Android skull that was in the helmet notice the fibers
I don't like the "serpent" design if it's supposed to be one of those things that we saw the bones of. First of all, it looks like a lamprey which is a fish. Second, the mouth bites horizontally, not vertically like the bones that we see. Maybe it will metamorphosize or something.
Agreed. The current design in almost the same as a lamprey fish. I find this design completely different from the skeletal remains we've seen.