In the first episode, the teacher implies that everything the student did was because she wanted it that way. She even knew what he had said about wanting to see her under her clothes. How did she do all this? That was never explained.
shareI believe the teacher might have been a witch and was using mind control to get the young men to do what she wanted them to ( even if they thought it was their own ideas ) . I will have to watch this one again soon because I thought she did mention something about it in conversation to the most recent student before he died . Thanks sargon19552003 for your subject post .
shareNo, I just watched it and she doesn't say anything about witchcraft. I think the implication is just that she is very brilliant and uses psychological manipulation to subliminally plant the seeds of her plans into the students' minds.
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"People either loved us or they hated us...or they thought we were okay."
The art of seduction.
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Saw the movie last night (thank you YouTube).
Boy, even knowing the danger, she sure as L could seduce me.
A nice upper deck, shapely legs and a VERY tight fanny - oh my!
To the original poster: I wondered that also and figured since it was by Matheson, she had an other-wordly power, but it would have been nice if the script could have clued as to her having some witch-like talent.
Yeah it has to be a supernatural kind of thing. You can't use psychological prowess to make someone think something when you walk by. As soon as he said 'the thought came from nowhere' or whatever, I said 'she put it there, she's a witch who wants to seduce and kill him'. My g/f, who's seen the movie before goes, 'what the hell, have you seen this before?!'.
So we both thought it was witchcraft as well...
"What? Do you wanna just sit around and be wrong?" - Liz Lemon
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There is no witchcraft involved....if there was don't you think they would have showed it? It was seduction with a little help from drugs-in-the-drink.
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There's two implications; both of which are unclear:
That she's a witch or succubus and used her powers.
She's incredibly adept at psychological manipulation and used subtle cues to trigger feelings of lust and possessive-behavior in the student
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Ok now this thread is just stupid in my opinion. For the ones saying that she wasn't a witch or that no special powers were at work here, I was in the single digits back in the 70s when this movie would play regularly on TV. And even as a 7, 8, 9 year old, I could CLEARLY see that she had some sort of supernatural powers that she used on these men. Some things just don't need to be explicitly stated in order to understand what's happening. Come on now. 🤦🤦🤦🤦
shareShe showed some leg in the first scene and these students are very young. She might have seduced him...
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