But now that season 2 is in the books, let’s take a look back and go over what we learned this year as well as whatever questions we might still have leading into season 3.īefore we get into the details of the finale, let’s not neglect the Al-Zuras connection that’s still out there.
#THE MAJOR MANIFEST SERIES#
After it jettisoned unnecessary characters like Danny and Lourdes and the relationship drama they brought with them, the series went all in on its sci-fi mystery and ended up the better for it. “There could be a spooky haunting!” Karkanis suggests.When Manifest wrapped up its second season, our reviews overwhelmingly marked it as a more successful overall story than the show’s first run, and the finale was certainly a big part of that. Her character lives on through Cal, through Olive, through baby Eden, and of course through Ben as he tries to carry on without her.” And yes, the door is open to possibly see her again. This was part of our story, and her significance in Manifest remains as strong as ever. What the creator wants to make sure fans know is that they “did not make this decision lightly,” he says. And it’s why I’m sure people are tearing their hair out all over the world right now having seen what happened to Grace in that Season 3 finale. She, in that moment, and in so many moments, perfectly captured the power and the pain of every mother, every wife, every woman, and her ability to channel that emotional state again and again and again is why the audience is so deeply in love with Grace as a character and with Athena as an actress. Rake agrees, adding, “Athena basically broke her arm and still managed to give that unbelievably powerful performance. “It made the audience just lock in and realize the significance of them being in a way and how important those characters were to her character.” “That moment was so important because it made the audience realize that we can love these characters through her because of her love running towards us and her emotions that were coming out towards those characters,” Dallas says. That was also true of the family’s reunion in the pilot when Ben and Cal returned after 828 disappeared for five and a half years. Athena just knows where the heart and soul of a scene lies,” Rake adds, pointing to her performance in that scene, the last one they shot for the season, and remembering looking at the director and saying, “What Athena is giving us right now is exactly what this moment wants to be.” “I don’t know that I’ve ever worked with a more intuitive actor. “Also it would have been wrong to play that moment as, ‘Oh my God, Cal, look at you, you’re so tall now!'” “A mother knows her child,” Karkanis says. If you thought Grace didn’t look as shocked as she should have been by the new Cal, that was by design. The sacrifice he made in giving up those years is one “he’s made for everyone in the world,” not just his family and the other passengers.īut one person who didn’t really need an explanation was his mother. “It’s for Ben and the others to figure out where he’s been, why he was there, what happened there,” Rake says. Speaking of the inexplicable, there’s the matter of where Cal was after he disappeared near the end of Season 3 before returning, having aged. … So you can imagine Ben in Season 4 seeking vengeance for his wife, seeking meaning for the inexplicable, and it becomes the absolute driving force for his character not only in Season 4 but in the back half of the series.” “Why did this happen? Why would the Callings allow something so terrible and devastating to happen? And of course, it’s tied into so much other complicated stuff. “A Season 4 of Manifest for Ben is absolutely centered around processing, digesting, coming to emotional terms with such an unspeakable loss, and then trying to find a way to seek vengeance, to kind of justify the act in terms of finding some meaning out of it. It’s “the most fundamental, life-altering, devastating thing that could happen to ,” the creator says. We have to keep it to ourselves and let them be shocked when they turn the page.”īen still has to find out about Grace’s death at the end of the finale, he only suspects something has happened due to a Calling. He left it up to Karkanis, who said, “No, absolutely. “When Athena and I talked about it, we said to each other, ‘Should we tell the other actors?'” Rake recalls. The rest of the cast was as well, and that’s due to Karkanis. If you were shocked by what happened to Grace, you weren’t the only ones.
Through her, they discover that the Major has been stealing Saanvi's research and attempted to attack her. This leads to her siphoning info out of Saanvi when she talks about the callings. The Major mostly works behind the scenes in the following episodes and the second season posing as Ellen Raiger, a therapist who helps passenger Saanvi Bhal after she suffers PTSD from being assaulted by a member of the Believer's church. Vance is presumed killed in the raid and Fitz flees. With help from Ben's son Cal, a target of Fitz for having stronger callings they locate the facility and start a shootout involving Vance's men. An escapee of the facility meets with Michaela and the passengers realize that their telepathic calling abilities blessed by the flight are triggered by Fitz's experimentation practices. This is noticed as math instructor Ben Stone and NSA director Robert Vance work together to investigate the nature of flight 828, and Ben's sister Michaela and her ex-finacé Jared, members of NYPD find the base guarded by troops. She hides behind her status and has several scientists and soldiers on her pay to do her bidding and becomes a major threat to the characters on the run from her.Īlthough it's not confirmed, it's evident that Fitz somehow managed to predict the anomaly that occurred on Flight 828, as when the passengers left she readily ordered a handful of buses to take test subjects to a research facility.
#THE MAJOR MANIFEST SERIES#
General Kathryn Fitz, better known as the Major, is the central antagonist of the drama television series Manifest, serving as the main antagonist of season one, the central antagonist of season two, and a posthumous antagonist in season 3.įitz is a military general who abducted passengers from the missing Flight 828 and conduct psychologically torturous experiments in order to understand the supernatural calling phenomenon. ~ The Major revealing her true motivations to Saanvi. keep everybody's performance more organic and authentic.What's the point of powerful mutation if you can't replicate and weaponize it? Although if pressed, he confirmed he will drop hints about story points within the season to the cast, "not to reveal anything beyond the season, just to let them live in the present. "Some of the actors know more than others because some are incredibly curious, and others don't want to know a damn thing and they find that it's more organic for them to find it out in real-time," he said. So, with most of the big moves of the show having already been established, how much of the overarching story do the actors know in advance? According to Rake, nobody knows everything. "Because the audience in recent years has sometimes felt burned mythology shows couldn't continue to pay off," he said. and NBC, he felt it was important the executives knew he had an endgame in mind and a road map to get there. He explained that when he pitched the show to Warner Bros. " series finale has always been locked," he said, explaining that the "master arc of the series has existed from the beginning." Just as he's said before, Rake confirmed he intends for the show to run six seasons. That's a needle thread that continues to play throughout the season and beyond." "And just like in real life, I think a lot of people believe that faith and science are very much intertwined. "And then there's the related question: What does that mean for the other side of the debate?" he added. Rake, who noted that Season 3 picks up "about three months after the end of Season 2," also explained that the show has "been on this faith versus science debate" since its inception and will provide "some clarity about which side is winning that debate" in the first few episodes of the third season. We get to a point of clarity in regard to some of the most fundamental questions about the underlying mystery." "However, we frontload revelations associated with it so I think that viewers will find that in the first batch of episodes we come to some fundamental understandings. "The unveiling of the mystery regarding the tail fin is threaded throughout the season," Rake told SYFY WIRE and other members of the press at a virtual roundtable ahead of the show's Season 3 premiere on April 1. It will also answer some big questions that have been looming over the series from the start. Jeff Rake, creator and showrunner of the NBC sci-fi drama, has promised that the upcoming third season will center on the mystery of that familiar tail fin. The second season of Manifest ended with a jet tail fin being pulled out of the ocean, no doubt causing many fans to jump in disbelief from their spots on the couch.
Non-ADHD and non-autistic disabled people whose only idea of ADHD and autistic people is shaped by media depictions of a nerdy white boy or a quirky goth girl with low support needs: "Yeah ADHD and autism are destigmatized and we should ignore people with ADHD and autism in favor of real disabilities. I am very smart and progressive."
Lateral prejudice towards other disabled people will get us nowhere.
alastor having control issues and being afraid of abandonment and true intimacy so his closest friends are people weaker than him or he has some control over - or who need him 😌😌 seeking out power as a way to control things around him
i love stepping outside into the heat (95°) and coming to terms with the fact that it’s forecasted to be 13 degrees hotter in dallas on wednesday (108°)
I wish in general discussion of ADHD that executive dysfunction wasn't used to just mean difficulty with task switching and task initiation.
Like, there's so much more that is a part of executive functioning! Executive functioning includes impulse control, emotional regulation, working memory, attention, awareness of time, goal formation, planning, and that's not even all of it. It's a broad catogory of cognitive processes, not just a single symptom.
ADHD symptoms do mostly fall under executive dysfunction because ADHD is an executive functioning disorder.
In general terms, it's not wrong to include difficulties in task switching and initiation in executive dysfunction! They are certainly a part of that! But oversimplifying executive dysfunction to only be task switching and initiation difficulties isn't accurate and gives an inaccurate picture of ADHD as a whole (or at least, from what I've seen, it impacts the discussion surrounding ADHD negatively).
It might just be me. idk. But discussing precise problems while calling them by a blanket term can make it hard to identify what exactly the block is. For example, if I'm having trouble getting started on a task and I just say "oh I'm struggling with executive dysfunction right now" that doesn't tell me anything about what's wrong. But if I say "I'm struggling with task initiation; I keep meaning to do it but don't know where to start" then I can think through the steps to start. Or if it's motivation, "I'm struggling with motivation" means I can think of how to overcome that. "This is overwhelming" means I can plan. "I don't want to stop what I'm doing/this is a task switching problem" means I can decide if I need to finish the task at hand or trick my brain into swapping.
(This is a separate problem but then you also have people saying execytive dysfunction is laziness or results in laziness when they are meaning that difficulty with task initiation. Even if it was true that difficulty with task initiation was laziness (it's not), saying that executive dysfunction = laziness is so incorrect. That would mean poor short term memory = laziness. That would mean hyperactivity = laziness. That would mean emotional dysregulation = laziness. And none of these are even CLOSE to true. That's another issue though.)
btw not to make everything about My Fucking Guy but i honestly think one of the things that seperates q!phil out from the other islanders is the approach he takes to dealing with the lack of agency + control all the islanders have over whatever the fuck the federation's doing.
it shows up most prominently whenever tubbo is excitedly telling him about the 'progress' he's made with cucurucho or various investigations (ie: trapping him into a corner with the 'do you have free will' questions), and phil always shoots it down w an immediate 'that doesn't mean anything. curucuho will say anything to mess with you. you can't take anything he says as true.'
and it's not that phil is... a paticularly pessimistic character? he's just EXTREMELY practical. like, he's yet to give up on anyone EVER finding ANY answers (he was the one who initially gave the federation that one week ultimatum w the cage for a cage stream), he just doesn't trust the idea that curucuho is ever going to voluntarily give them. they're uncontrollable + senseless - you might as well argue with the weather.
and like, if that's how he sees the one (1) and only point of contact the islanders HAD with the federation for months, it explains a lot abt his characters lifestyle! ofc he sits on the wall all day, talking to his kids, and keeping his head down. he believes that the federation wants nothing more than to drag the islanders into sick games + tasks just so they can fuck with their head (ie: curucuho revealing he was the one cellbit gathered all that information for). and while he can't totally PREVENT any of that from ever impacting him, he can make sure his kids are well fed, well protected, and as happy + comfortable as he can manage. this is objectively not a perfect situation, there is a guaranteed amount of suffering + fear that he can't mitigate, but he can at least account for it.
like, he REFUSES to engage. whenever curucho shows up, he treats them with total ambivalence. he's not going to get riled up by anything they do, he's not going to get super attached to the guy, he's just gonna laugh it off and irish goodbye it when things drag on. the ONLY time he's strayed from that general guiding principle has been since he's lost his eggs, and can no longer afford to let the federation's fuckery go: those are his fucking kids.
hence the completely unprecedented levels of outward rage and sadness and terror he shows throughout the birdcage streams - almost all directed directly to cucurucho. it's all a completely fair + proportional response to the horror the islanders are being subjected to, but it feels so different bc until now, q!phil has been so dedicated to not reacting, and not giving the federation any sign that they're actually getting to him.
thinking of Steve who'll likely use his body as a shield.
thinking of Steve who'll probably push Dustin out of the way and gets attacked instead.
thinking of Steve slowly dying as Dustin screams, "you die, i die!"
thinking of Steve apologizing, using his last strength to say sorry, because Dustin just lost Eddie and now even in death he's still adding unto the burden.
thinking of Robin finishing her part of the plan, immediately clutching the walkie in her hand to radio Steve because she knows her bestfriend is a dingus who would do something stupid.
thinking of Robin only hearing Dustin answer the radio with a wailing sob, begging for help and running and abandoning her post to run to where they are.
thinking of Robin finding them, flashes of images of Dustin clutching Eddie swimming in her vision but now— now it's her soulmate in his arms.
thinking of Robin trying to stop the bleeding.
thinking of Robin crying as Steve tells her his last wishes, which includes taking care of Dustin, asking her to promise that she will continue on and do all the things they wanted to do together.
thinking of Robin letting out the most heart wrenching sob as Steve finally closes his eyes.
thinking of the Party. winning. killing Vecna. getting back Max.
thinking of Max waking up and asking, "Where's Steve?"
thinking of Max crying, screaming for all of them to leave the room.
thinking of Max clutching the letter she wrote for Steve, for when she dies, only for him to be the one to die.
thinking of Lucas not knowing if he even deserves to be happy that he got Max back because it feels like a transaction and Steve's life was the payment.
thinking of all of them, dressed in black, having a private funeral ceremony just for them.
thinking of Nancy and Jonathan having to pry Robin's body off Steve's coffin because she doesn't want to let go.
a silly thing i've noticed in the jordan vs sausage poll is sausage fans chiming in with "sausage didn't undergo [x] to lose this" and 90% of the time it's also something jordan suffered through. manifesting a goddess. becoming possessed. losing everything he ever cared about, including his goddess—who he watches die in front of him, despite dedicating his entire life to keeping her safe. i have never seen a better example of pitting two bad bitches against each other