Patty Tolan introducing herself by telling everyone a weird fact about history. Patty Tolan supplying a car because it makes more sense than lugging all the heavy equipment around by hand. Patty Tolan being the one who makes first contact with the antagonist. Patty Tolan yelling at them about the fast-approaching train and hauling them all out of danger. Patty Tolan joining the Ghostbusters because she thought it would be more like a book club where they could talk about history. Patty Tolan making sure everyone eats a sandwich because “low blood sugar is serious.” Patty Tolan supplying the uniforms to make sure they don’t get slimed again. Patty Tolan saying “Uh-huh. Room full of nightmares. Not going in there.” Patty Tolan keeping Holtzmann in line so she doesn’t kill everyone in a 20 foot radius with her experiments. Patty Tolan being emotionally supportive and understanding of Erin when she tells the “ghost girl” story. Patty Tolan knowing instantly the history of the Mercado hotel, confirming their suspicions about lay lines and identifying Rowan as the culprit. Patty Tolan catching Holtzmann before she falls out the window and then fighting possessed Abby one-handed. Patty Tolan slapping Rowan out of Abby. Patty Tolan constantly saving Holtzmann’s life in the Times Square battle and yelling “I got you baby!” and “Holtzy, get down!” at different points. Patty Tolan screaming “nobody hurts Kevin! Nobody!”. Patty Tolan having the idea to use the car to close the portal. Patty Tolan hauling Erin and Abby out of that portal before it closes. Patty Tolan being a nerdy, mild-mannered, easily frightened MTA worker whose practicality, encyclopaedic knowledge of history and instinctive protectiveness of her friends ends up saving New York and stopping the apocalypse. Patty. Tolan.
No idea yet who’s responsible for the two apparent murders so far. But I’m willing to go out on a limb and say I know who’s going to die in Chapter 3.
Putting it after a cut in case someone (presumably someone unfamiliar with my history of predicting things) views it as a spoiler.
HG Wells will be shuffling off his mortal Tesla coil by the end of Chapter 3.
My reasoning goes like this:
So far they’ve been killing off one character per episode, alternating boy/girl. If that pattern holds we’re due to lose a male character in Chapter 3. N=2 is a pretty low number for such a conclusion, but the even balance of characters suggests they might be doing that.
Looking at the trailer is instructive. I’d previously noticed that Louisa May was missing from all the trailer scenes other than those from Chapter 1, and wondered if she’d be next to go in Chapter 2. I didn’t post anything about it at the time, so you’ll have to take my word for it, but when she did in fact get killed in Chapter 2 it made me think that’s a pretty good way to predict future deaths.
Assuming we’re going to lose a male character in Chapter 3, the trailer suggests HG is the one with the worst chances. He’s missing from all the group shots we haven’t seen so far: “Who do you think we are? The Austens?”, the dancing scene, the “lie sandwich” scene, and the startled wheeling around at the end in the library/study.
The scenes we do see of HG in the trailer all seem to place him in jeopardy: poking his head up into the attic during his credit shot, and sitting amidst his apparatus, apparently having made a foreboding discovery, saying, “Oh, dear.” Possibly his exit line?
There’s also this: The silent “Next Episode” clip at the end of Chapter 2 begins with a closeup of HG. Going back and looking at the clip from Chapter 1, it began with a closeup of Louisa May. Is being highlighted in the Next Episode clip a bad sign for a character?
Since the show creators have been pretty active in liking/reblogging/responding to posts about the show, my predicting this sets up an interesting test: Will any of them like/respond to this post? When I offered a lamentably bad interpretation of what was being said in the Next Episode clip from Chapter 1, it picked up several responses, including MK’s droll “That’s it. You’ve done it.”
That was an easy one, because that post’s prediction was silly. If this post’s prediction about HG dying next is correct, though, how will they respond? Their first inclination would probably be to not make any response at all. But in the context of their previous activity that could be interpreted as a Dog That Didn’t Bark in the Night. So maybe they would respond. But they’d be constrained to respond in a way that doesn’t spill the beans while still looking like good clean fun when the prediction turns out to have been correct.
Of course, if the prediction is wrong they can just endorse it as correct, like they did before. But if they endorse it as correct, does that mean it must be incorrect? Would they endorse it as correct even though it actually is correct, just to throw me off?
There is Éowyn, daughter of
Éomund, his sister. She is fearless and high-hearted. All love her. Let
her be as lord to the Eorlingas, while we are gone.
Also relevant to this thread – @lies may recall that the other day, I was telling them that my perception of my parents’ ages had frozen at the moment I first saw them as people with their own brains, and not just food-and-care dispensers. So to me, you guys will always be, like, 35-40 years old.
But do you still see us as food-and-care dispensers? :-)
i have the japanese of an 8-year-old, but i’m pretty sure it’s closer to 4-year-old and i just got some lucky random guesses.
get out of my way, you pedneans. i’ve got words to emouscifate.
Let’s get sesquepedalian up in here.
Yes! As a non-English-major I figured I was going to be in trouble. But hang around you discerning chatterboxen long enough and I guess some of it rubs off.
I don’t post about this a lot, but I have a lot of days where I feel like the odds are impossible and I have trouble believing in myself and my work and ability to have a career in Hollywood. I’ve been having more of those days than not recently, and it can quickly become an overwhelming spiral. When that happens, sometimes it’s easier for me to remember that other people think I can do this, and believing that other people believe in me is sometimes easier than believing in myself.
Which is a roundabout way of saying a massive THANK YOU to all the wonderful people here on Tumblr who support me and my work and make me feel like things are a little less impossible than they are. I can’t tell you how much that means to me (though obviously I have just tried to.) You guys are my favorite. And also yay for programs like this, which take a chance on diverse young filmmakers when a lot of people in this industry don’t.
ok but who else is here for the lenore/george eliot (mary ann evans) ship tbh
I confess to a certain shippish inclination toward her and George (based on “Haunt these halls no more”), Fyodor (based on the vodka exchange), and HG (based on the curtsy). I was totally gearing up to ship her with whomever wound up on the receiving end of the look below, too, but for whatever reason Heminore didn’t happen for me.
