If you wanted answers in the final season of our favorite time-traveling series, I think we may come up short.
“Blinded By the Light” only revealed enough information to create new questions, with very few answers.
And these aren’t little questions, but big, overarching ones with ramifications for the three most important families in Port Haven: the Landrys, the Goodwins, and the Augustines.
First of all, let’s talk about Elliot, Tessa, and how Del and Colton became the de facto influence in his life.
Wouldn’t it be awful for the pond to “refuse” you? I mean, it’s holding your family hostage, and then it refuses to give you answers? It makes you wonder how no one tried to fill that thing in over the centuries.
The Way Home Season 4 Episode 2 finally revealed the truth behind why Colton and Dell cared so much about Elliot. They thought Tessa had left him in their care. Del was truly shocked to learn it wasn’t intentional, as she had believed Tessa wanted them to act as his parents.
Little did they know at the time that she didn’t even manage that.
Maybe if they had found him beside the pond, things would have been different. Would an infant even have survived alone by the pond? How many people used it frequently? Was there enough foot traffic for Tessa to believe that if she didn’t return, someone would find him, so he wasn’t out there in the elements?
Did whoever took her in the pond make a promise that their return would be only moments later?
One thing is certain — Colton and Del, and now Del on her own, kept secrets from Elliot his entire life, in part to support Vic. That’s a little shocking, given what we’ve seen of his childhood. It wasn’t exactly ideal.
I never got the impression they were friends with Tessa, and Del admitted as much. But how on earth will they be able to satisfactorily explain all of this in only eight more episodes?
That’s part of what I hate about this being the last season. This story spans generations, and I wish there were more time to tell it.
Yes, movies are two hours long and tell a full story, but they’re more focused. This story has introduced several families across centuries. The scope of it is both magnificent and, in light of the cancellation, incredibly frustrating.
I mean, think about it. Kat and Alice are jumping back in time, trying to find answers to questions they have in the present, and, as Sadie LaFlamme-Snow said during our interview, each jump adds more questions rather than delivering answers.
That’s clearly why Chyler Leigh teased that we may not have the answers we seek (to keep some mystery and plug that the series is on Netflix as we hope for a save), but that the story would have a satisfactory ending.
Will it, though? Have they met us?
As a total aside, I’m rewatching House right now, and there is an episode in Season 7 where he meets an author of an incredibly popular YA book series that he loves.
When he discovers that she’s ending the series on a cliffhanger, he’s enraged. He rattles off many questions he wanted closure on, and the author just smiles wryly and says she feels that her character goes out as he lived, and it’s time to move on.
Well, call me Dr. House because I like answers. I can handle answers that leave the future open, but not the past. It feels irresponsible.
You all know how much I love Hallmark, but this cancellation cuts so deep that I don’t know when or if the wound will heal, even if the ending works. I guess we’ll find out in the next two months.
Will The Way Home Season 4 provide answers with regard to Cole’s traveling? I still don’t believe for a second that Del was unaware, and I think Colton’s aside to Alice in the tunnel was just another red herring to make us think he remains silent about it.
Every week, it seems like Del is revealing some hidden secret she kept with her long-dead husband. Even when she was angry at the world, she never let any of them slip. What makes us think she’s going to be an open book now?
And as lovely as it is to see the strength of Elliot and Del’s relationship and to hear her say she always wished she werero his mother, it’s also a little off-kilter, since he’s romantically involved with her daughter.
I can’t help but feel like the friendship angle trumps the romance any day of the week. I know how many of you disagree, but the feeling remains.
Not to mention that Elliot’s obsession with “perfection” seems destined to derail his happy ending. Even Del cautioned him to be careful with that quest.
We see throughout time that women in this town don’t find happy endings with romantic partners.
As there is no mention of Grayson Goodwin and Fern Landry in history, we can assume that it won’t be long-term, and my goodness, did Evelyn pick the worst partner ever as she sought to duplicate what she couldn’t have with Cole with another man?
Don’t tell me that Evelyn wasn’t looking for another heart like Colton’s when she chose the jackass she married. She was terribly off base.
And, of course, Del had a fairytale romance with a tragic ending. Women in Port Haven don’t have a good track record.
This episode was kind of fun in that both Alice and Kat traveled in time, 50 and 100 years back, respectively, and their experiences almost mirrored each other.
Hell, Fern and Evelyn even uttered the same words about there always being a party at Lingermore before the discussion about the tunnels began.
Fern Landry was the life of every party in 1926. She was beautiful and talented and on the arm of the wealthiest man in Port Haven, Grayson Goodwin.
From our vantage point, Grayson seems like a decent guy. But Kat saw things differently, partly because of her history with the family and partly because she saw Grayson talking to the two Oggy boys, a couple of bootleggers.
The conversation looked unpleasant, and since we know a death is coming, and have never heard of Grayson in relation to Fern, it’s easy to surmise that something goes terribly wrong in those tunnels.
Perhaps it claims Grayson’s life, sending Fern into a future far less enviable than the one she’s destined for during this hour.
It’s crazy that Alice found Tessa’s suitcase under an inch of dirt and stomped on a bullet casing that is probably 50 years old in the tunnels, but it could mean that whatever happens down there is far from natural.
Even if Fern had married Grayson, their future might not have been peachy. His movie, Cassandra of the Lighthouse, was hardly going to take the world by storm. He was in the “talkies are a fad” camp, so he might as well have been schilling Betamax in the early ’80s.
Fern adopted the story from that movie into her real life, using it as the foundation for her father’s child. Did we know that Grandma Fern had a baby out of wedlock and never revealed who the father was? How did I miss that?
But it brings up the possibility that the Landry and Goodwin lines could be crossed. And if that’s the case, Casey Goodwin doesn’t have to be directly related to Kat and Alice, which makes me wonder which family, exactly, is traveling in time.
Did Fern travel? She was aware of time travelers, but I never got the impression she ever attempted it herself. What if she couldn’t travel? What if traveling only began once the two families were in the same line?
Who are Evelyn’s parents, anyway? Why don’t we know anything about them? I’m not always the best at keeping my head above water with these mysteries, so if I’ve missed something, please let me know the details in the comments.
Could the Landrys and the Goodwins be even more intertwined than we thought? Or does traveling only work if they are? That could be interesting for a future in which Alice and Max fall in love, as it would strengthen the ties to the past.
(Where the hell IS Casey, anyway?)
So many questions, and I’m not hopeful for answers.
But where does “Blinded by the Light” leave us? With … more questions.
I was absolutely certain that the person who took Tessa into the pond was Griffin Landry until Colton dramatically said next to the fire that they had promised to keep the events surrounding Tessa’s disappearance secret and that he never wanted to think about “that person” again.
Even in the most extreme cases of family difficulties, you don’t refer to your brother as “that person,” but as your brother or even by his name.
That was just… weird. Clearly, we’ve got Griffin teed up to appear on The Way Home Season 4 Episode 3, but will he be a nasty piece of work and someone the family wants to wipe out of their lives?
Surely, there is much more to this story than we know so far. How will the tunnel events tie into Tessa’s life? Fern knew exactly who Tessa was once Kat called her Tessa Cooper. Did you see that look on her face?
Did she ignore the fact that she knew Tessa because of the Augustine name? She called for Tessa at the party, not Tessa Augustine.
But I’ve talked too much. I really need to hear from you! Are these same questions running through your head? Is history repeating itself too much? Will we get answers? Can they possibly satisfy our curiosity?
You know what to do next!
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