Lovecraft Country
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But what about kids and adolescents in times of terror?
Since shes a kid, she hasnt been able to alter her situation or scenery like the adults have.
Even worse, after the events ofI Am.,Hippolyta is nowhere to be found.
Of course, Diana isnt ignorant.
She is a young, smart girl privy to the world around her.
She knows how the world treats Black boys; shes watching the worst of it unfold right now.
And she knows how the world treats Black girls; shes lived it.
Yet none of our adults think to ask her how she is feeling.
The episode plays with that erasure of Dee as the adults are distracted by their own problems.
Ruby finds herself wanting affection in this time of grief.
I wanna create my own space, she later tells Leti.
Magic can give her the freedom to build that space, and she believes Christina can teach her how.
Meanwhile, Leti hasnt yet told Atticus shes pregnant.
Leti intuits that Ji-Ahs return means that she must still love him, and this causes increased tension.
Christina wont give Atticus that power, but shewilltransfer it to Leti.
Christina brands Leti with the scar weve seen on William; this Mark of Cain will protect her.
Christina, even, has received more interaction from our adult characters than Diana has.
Atticus, Leti, and Ruby all come to her for help.
Christina matter-of-factly says, No, and she means it.
She continues, I dont care about Emmett Till …
I dont care that half this citys on the brink because of it.
This speaks to her hubris and lack of empathy.Why would she care?
Still, it seems that Rubys provocations make her think.
Christina is dragged into the river, but almost immediately after, jumps out.
Her invulnerability was always going to allow her to survive.
This brutality cant affect her in the same way.
We see her crying after, clutching at her Mark of Cain.
Does she finally feel something?
Does she realize that she never will?
Inside of a Braithwhite mausoleum, Atticus trades the key from the orrery for help from Christina about spellwork.
She shows him the protection symbol hell need to trace near wherever he casts a spell.
Its here we finally get information about what the endgame might look like for the series.
He believes the author to be his son and believes he was sent to the future.
This book ends with Christinas character sacrificing him on the autumnal equinox to become immortal.
When Atticus asks Christina about the equinox, it stops her in her tracks.
Atticus finally has some calmer, more tender moments with his father.
The pastor was sent to an asylum and lobotomized, and Montrose didnt wantthatto be his future.
Montrose decided to have a family instead, telling Atticus that he had desires but never acted on them.
After the spell is said aloud, nothing seems to happen.
Overwhelmed, Dee flees when no one is looking.
Outside of some closed storefronts, she is stopped by Captain Lancaster and another police officer.
Theyve found her comic next to the dead officer in Kansas and want to know where her mother is.
Heartbreakingly, when asked what she knows about magic, she responds, Fantasy books?
The officers put a spell on her, using Captain Lancasters spit.
Its gross and it prevents her from speaking to anyone else about what they discussed.
Shes been silenced by the adults around her yet again.
With the spell comes a set of ghouls to haunt her.
Its an unsettling introduction to the magic for her.
What happens if it gets me?
she asks the captain after biking to the police precinct.
She waits for Topsy and Bopsy to come for her, brandishing a metal pipe as a weapon.
Before they arrive, she begins to draw them, pages and pages of their imagery.
She cant speak about them, but shecanuse her comic skills to let people know whats happening.
Montrose walks in on her screaming and fighting what looks to him like nothing.
This black shoggoth proceeds to maim and kill all of the officers.
Its bloody carnage of the police that have been tailing our characters the entire season.
Atticus has finally used some magic of his own.
Leftover Country
Christina: Good luck, cousin.
This is the first episode that holds all of our characters story threads together at once.
Im hoping Dees okay after all this.
Hippolyta, despite hinting that shed be returning last episode, isnt back in Chicago.
Did she decide to stay after all?
Is she stuck there, due to a broken machine?
We see Ruby transformintoHillary for the first time, rather than justout ofher.Its an interesting visual!
Dee: Yeah, I know what an orrery is.
Also Dee: Fuck you, pig!
Still Dee: … And it fucking stinks in here!
This is a nod to the IRL novel.
Notably, Atticus says a hooded woman gave the book to him amid white people rioting.
Gaywatch: Christina to Ruby: But thats not what I saw when I was fucking you.
