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I feel like I still don’t know Joel as a character even after this flashback. He never once came off as having visions or perhaps some sort of psychosis. A flashback is supposed to help me understand the character more but I feel like they shoved a random “issue” on to Joel so they could do something with Joel in the present day. For example, Cricket’s insecurities and need for validation from Alex made sense once we saw her flashback. Even Alex’s hyper-all-American-boy shtick made sense once we saw who he really was. For Joel, he says that the camera is the only way he could tell what’s real or not, but in the flashback we saw that he was interested in film making and recording everything around him before his brother died and before Joel himself saw the Tall Man. I just feel like I have nothing to latch on to when it comes to Joel. He’s not actually crazy since Holyoak is real so….what else is there for him?
100% agree with all of this. And what on earth is up with Deb? Is she being consumed by whatever evil this is just like Amy was? Because like Deb, Amy didn’t remember kissing young cop guy. Or was it all in Joel’s mind? We know he thought he saw Deb basically strip for him in the window when in fact that wasn’t the case and she covered up immediately. Like I still don’t quite understand why Elizabeth Mitchell would go for this part. She has yet to be integral to the story other than the fact that she had one of those masks. I really sincerely hope she’s aware of what’s going on and is very much behind this. Hopefully she gets a flashback soon.
We also still need to get a Blair flashback. Because of the way the story has been unfolding, it does make certain characters seem intriguing because we know the end game is near so whoever hasn’t gotten a flashback must be pretty damn important to how all this ends. So here’s to hoping people like Blair, and Deb, and Jesse, and Garrett are important to how this all shakes out. I’m also interested in knowing why only certain people have been able to see the tall man. Gotta be a reason.
But still my biggest problem with this show is WHY. Why is the tall man trying to kill Amy? Why is he haunting people in the first place? What is his motivation? I get they are keeping things close to the chest still, but I guess it’s just the way that the story is unfolding that has me quite puzzled as to WHY all this stuff is even happening in the first place.