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I've been watching it. It's a strange story that's full of symbolism. The hard part is trying to follow all the side issues. I anticipate a battle between good and evil. Which is good and which is evil?
Edit: Remember Theologian? He claimed he was a bishop in the Knights Templar.
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Ha! I forgot I'd started this thing. I think Theologian left right before I joined, but I've seen some of his stuff. Would be interesting to hear his take on it.
Things are definitely getting interesting. I don't think it's much of a stretch at this point to say Brother Justin is on the side of Evil. But who knows.
Tonight we find out Management came on right after Scudder left, and is on a hunt to find him. Scudder's been sending Ben his dreams, and even addresses Lodz through one.
A few things worth noting. Justin and his sister came from Russia. The mystery guy we see in Ben's dreams who is some sort of counterpart to Scudder is apparently Russian (he wears a Russian uniform in the WWI dream sequences). The bear that starts to attack Scudder/Ben (and subsequently mauls the Russian) is wearing a hat with Cyrillic writing on it. Then Lodz shows up in the middle of the battle looking for the bear. In another dream, we see the mystery Russian in a medical tent, with claw marks on his face, and missing an arm and both legs. Then tonight we're told that everything goes back to "something terrible" that happened in "the old country".
The fact that we know almost nothing about the Russian makes me wonder if he's not in fact Management. Noteworthy is the vision(?) Ben had of the bear's hat hanging on the side of Management's trailer at the end of one episode. Perhaps the "battle of good against evil" in the last generation never came to a proper conclusion because Lodz's bear screwed things up (that sounds simplistic I know). Anyway, now the Russian/Management is looking for Scudder so that they can settle things once and for all and bring order to the universe. After all, the world is pretty screwed up at the moment, with the Depression and the Dust Bowl and all. Maybe it's a result of the imbalance caused by the battle not being finished.
Meanwhile, the next generation (Ben and Justin) are well on their way to realizing their own destiny. Justin's quite a few steps ahead of Ben right now, but Ben's starting to learn.
And what of the Templars? In Justin's vision in the "wilderness", the children (young Justin and Iris) keep going on about the "assassins" sent to kill them. They also say their father is an "evil man". What little I know about the Nights of the Templar, they were the ones who were the protectors of Christians, among MANY other things. If the Russian was Justin's and Iris' father, perhaps the Templars did indeed send someone after the children as a "pre-emptive" strike so to speak.
Where the Tattooed Man fits into all of this, I don't have a clue.
Then again, I need to get a life.