@JohnnyWarren, this is the fourth time I'm writing this ... It didn't appear when I tried to post it the first three times on your page I'm assuming you cut off the messages.
I'd give anything to see Mary thrive again. I'd even be willing to write season 4 myself as a novel and give it to braga and Simon to publish. They can even take the credit for it for all I care. I'd write Anne a redemption story and get tituba off the slave boat, assuming that's where she really is.
Also, was it ever confirmed what the Essex grand sacrifice ritual is called? I assumed it was called the ritual of grand sacrifice.
As far as I remember, it was just addressed to as their sacrifice.
Was it given a last season or they didn't renewed it?
Anyone who happen to log in can see any forum thread and join the conversation if they like. But many of them, understandably, left when the show ended.
I know. I crave discussion. Also, sorry about the Emojis. I was devastated.
@JohnnyWarren question I was curious about... Do you think that having a child character (little John / Satan) at the forefront of the show hurt it's ratings? I just thought of this the other day. I've noticed that a lot of times in American shows, child chaarcters tend to hurt rating bad.
It depends on the plot and the story arcs, in my opinion. You've stories centering, or partly centered, on child characters which are perfectly fine. Think of The Omen, The Exorcist, Stephen King's novels and films with kids or the recently hit TV series Stranger Things.
On the other hand, you've TV series where kids are forced into plot because writers can't/won't hiding an actress' pregnancy (camera angles can do miracles!) so her character must be pregnant too without any sense, or they are just poorly written, like "let's this ship have a child just because".
On a personal note, I really enjoy the trope of the demonic child. The twist on the assumed innocence of a child is cool when well done.
Another thing that i was thinking of was that i kinda wish they would have done a big time skip... Like, i just had this idea... they could have showed Salem 300 years in the future as a way to close the show. To tie in with the "what really happened " theme the show was originally going for rather than the cliffhanger ending we got.. Today, the house of the seven gables is a tourist attraction. I was envisioning a scene where there are like a group of tourists with a tour guide who is explaining the legend of the devil being brought to earth, etc. and then they're like "it's only a story..." And as the people walk into another room or go further down a hall or something, the camera shows the spirit of Mary walking across the hall and out of sight or something.
I suppose you could also have the spirit of Anne or maybe both and they're like locked in kind of eternal struggle or something. Like Mary chose to remain there after her death to keep Anne's spirit at bay or something so she couldn't do anything malicious. Idk.. I guess it depends on your view of the afterlife and if people literally go to hevaen or hell after death or if they're all waiting for the day of judgment like the Bible implies.
I just thought that would have been a better way to totally wrap it up instead of.te cliffhanger we got. This is just a head canon I had.
One other thing... I was curious avout this.
Were the people of the town still aware that Mary was alive in season 3? After the countess paid her bail at the end of season 2, what did they think happened to her?
That I remember, only the main characters knew she died. Hathorne hinted to a life of turmoil and a brothel, but I doubt they thought about her (or anyone else at the pillory) at all. I'd say living as a beggar in Knocker's Hole or left town out of shame.
My local family video store was closing and they were selling everything. I bought season 1 on DVd and was rewatching it for nostalgia. In ashes Ashes, when Mary is in her room crying over Alden being executed the enxt day and Issac randomly shows up uninvited and she starts crying and clinging to him and saying "I can't, I cant!" when he tells her to save Alden, it really hit me hard. I was crying with her... Then when he tells her "you're magic Mary..." And that she can do anything she wants, I was like THE FEELS. That scene is so beautiful.... It makes me sad to think what this should couldve been if the same writers from S1 were used for the later seasons.
This is when it was so good!!!!!!!! S1 was the only time AldenxMary was believable.
