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Les Revenants / The Returned

stefcha

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There are some clues in the opening credits I reckon, in the reflection in the water you outside the school you see an extra child- maybe it's an alternate time line thing?

Also has something to do with electricity.

I think the behaviour of some of the characters is because they are dead, they all are unravelling at the existential-ness of it all.

Anyway I couldn't sleep last night because of this show, thanks France.

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So Victor is evil.

Yet also Julie's guardian angel, seemingly.

It is interesting that he seemed to switch places with the stabbing attacker. It could be just her hallucination and some playful editing, but.... and here is a new theory... what if Victor is the attacker, and Camille, and Simon, and all of the returned. What if he is just a strange demonic force that is 'playing' with the fears and torments of various people in the town - coming back as the people they have lost to cause havoc and settle scores. Why? Not sure.

Also of interest is that the lake is actually a dam resevoir. Makes me think an apocalyptic flooding is on the cards, washing the town from existance.

It has lost a little oomph in the plot department, and I fear the horror film tropes are going to overtake any subtlety or originality in the end, but I am still loving this show.

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barkbat

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Yes Pierre seems to have dedicated his whole life to finding these returnee lost sheep. Perhaps its just an innocent affirmation of his own faith in Christ. Knowing this show, its probably because he molested Victor and fears his return.

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I was a little upset with the episode yesterday. There was not much furthering of the plot I felt and the whole hunger thing sort of died down quite a lot.

I have no idea what happened with...

Victor swapping places with the attacker...he obviously killed Mrs Payet and ate something in her stomach, thought it was good how we went a bit more zombie....

There was very little from the lake, it's so incredibly slow moving.

New questions raised this week:

What's with the mark on Lenas back, and is it getting bigger? and why is she so freaked out by it?

Why doesn't the cop just SAY something to his wife, so annoying

Why was there roadkill in the bin at the twins house?

Why did a roach crawl up out of the plug hole?

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It's Pierre who I suspect most of all. He seems too knowing and smirking at everything, although I concede that may just be the actor's face and he can't help it.

If Pierre is a fundamentalist Christian then he probably thinks judgement day is upon us and an eternity of heaven awaits, so I'd be pretty smug if I were him.

I've been reading some theories and I do think the newness of the town and all the CCTV cameras are suspicious. I also think the twins did a swap-a-roo and maybe the younger one has forgotten?

So many questions! I do hope this isn't another Lost.

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stefcha

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Only watched this last night and it wasn't as gripping as the others. And I didn't really know what the fuck was going on. One thing I did notice though was

Victor's drawings, I can't recall the rest of them but there was one half hidden under the pile that was of the brothers. What if he is the cause of all of it somehow? He was certainly there for the bus crash, it looks like he's killed that irritating woman and he's not really looking out for Julie if he's giving her visions like that either.

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I wouldn't be so sure about Victor. This whole show seems very nicely done, and if everything turns out to be because of a SPOOKY MAGIC KID!!1!9! then it will be a serious disappointment.

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wullie

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So was Pierre giving Victor flashbacks or was he just one of the guys in ski masks back in the day? Either way, my distrust of smarmy Pierre is inspired. Walter Samuel playing the police chief has gone from good guy to seedy voyeur quickly too, he'll play up before long.

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I'm really enjoying this. I have no idea what it all means but hey ho. Obviously there are suicidal connections everywhere, I'm thinking there are powers at work causing people to kill themselves even if they have no desire to do that. We're led to believe Simon reacts negatively to the pregancy, but I don't think that was the case. Adele has tried to kill herself before. Victor's assumed guardian (can't remember her name) nearly stabbed herself to death, and her neighbor successfully did just that... the old man jumped off the dam... perhaps the bus driver didn't swerve to avoid Victor, but just suddenly decided to drive off the cliff intentionally? Does Victor being around influence people towards this? He's been back before (the bus crash), was he back when Adele tried previously?

Still doesn't explain the stomach eating man or saucy redheads back lurgee, or, or, or...

Loving it.

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wullie

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Pierre is definitely up to no good. Infact I think most of the characters are up to no good.

I've caught myself suspecting any character with either a confirmed name or line of meaningful dialogue. Thing is, I have no idea what I'm suspect them of yet and we're halfway through the series so I really look forward to each Sunday (with a little hint of trepidation that the series will end with absolutely nothing having been answered at all).

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I thought it was nice that it gave Victor sympathy just as everyone's thinking he must be an EVIL child. And I'm semi-convinced Lena is growing wings through that nasty back thing, tying back in with the moths escaping from the frame in episode 1.

Still loving the show, anyway.

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barkbat

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It's very entertaining, but I'm finding the plotting a little too slow. It just feels like the answers to new questions ratio is too skewed to the latter. I need answers damn it!

For me, it looks like Pierre and Mr.Costa were the criminals who killed Victor. Why? Seems a bit brutal for standard burglary. New theory! I suspect it was to get corpses for a reanimation project of some kind. And Victor was the first to be brought back. And the method involved water from the lake and power from the plant. And the flooding of the power plant inadvertently re-animated all the test subjects. And Costa killed himself because he was convinced they would report him as their killer. But Pierre, knowing of the twin's amnesia, has instead decided to collect them all so he can kill them all for good. Or something. New theory!

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Costa killed himself because his wife(?) came back and he killed her in the fire in the first episode.

You could tell it was Pierre playing the guy in ski mask from his eyes, even though it was supposed to be 35 years earlier.

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stefcha

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He stopped himself going further though, first signs of restraint. Almost didn't kill the deer either (although then evidently went to town on it). In fact, apart from Serge all the returned seemed to be showing a bit more of a darker side this episode

Also all those animals were crazy, wasn't imagining there'd be so many of them. What were they running from? The event in general? The's got not good written all over it, then!

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I thought they were animals that had re-animated under the water and drowned. Other animals have come back, the butterfly from the display case and the wolf in the shack so maybe all of the ones in lake came back too.

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