Finale
I didn't understand the finale at all!
shareJoin the club, you're not the only one. It was an unsatisfying ending if they don't make another season.
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Which part? It seemed pretty straightforward except they didn't explain Victor's origin.
shareExactly. The returned were two groups: people like Camille or Etienne or Milan who came back and had family and would appear to strangers to be "alive" and part of the town. Then there were the more zombie-like people like Esteban who were "that way" because they didn't have anyone in the present day who cared about them (in Esteban's case because his parents committed suicide when Camille lied to them about seeing Esteban).
Victor has the power to create reality but he doesn't have control over it very much. There's the great scene where Mr. Lewanski cracks his head open in the kitchen and Victor wills him back to life but in the process causes other undead to return as well.
All the main characters get a resolution: Milan realizes his whole philosophy about The Circle and joining their dead loved ones in the afterlife is wrong; Pierre accepts that he betrayed The Circle by not killing himself 35 years ago and does so in the present; Toni gets Serge to finally come to terms with being a serial killer. Characters like Camille, Etienne, Madame Costa and Simon accept that they are dead and that by staying they aren't allowing the living to move on. Julie is reunited with Victor as she's wanted for the whole show, Adele is united with Simon.
The only thing I really felt I wanted to know is where did Victor come from originally. We see he's already fixed at the age we always see him when he first shows up in the chronology to warn Etienne not to build the dam.
My interpretation was that Nathan, Adele & Simon's baby, was meant as a sort of mirror to Victor's origin. He is a child of a Returned and a living person with some sort of connection to the dead like Lucy- this is a leap on my part, but in season 1 it is implied that Adele sees Simon before he is brought back by Victor, and then sees Thomas in season 2, perhaps it is just a conceit or device for her character, but it so ties into the mythology. As for Lucy, she is something else entirely I think, some sort of guardian or guide. When she walks into Milan's bar and he asks her where she's from, there is something about the way she says "A long way from here" that I think is meant to suggest she is otherworldly, maybe.
But really it is a minor mystery, the mythology of the show is filled with gaps because I think the creators were themselves uninterested in developing it. It isn't a show about the paranormal or fantastic, those are only foundations. It's a show about loss.
I think certain things were explained or alluded to.
We see that Victor unintentionally brought them back from the dead, only wishing to bring his father back.
We know Victor was adopted as a child and as he said Nathan was like him, he therefore is most likely a child of someone who had returned in the past. So somehow that has given him powers to change reality, as he did with Julie and bring others back from the dead.
There was certainly plenty left unanswered.
Toni returned well after Victor had brought the others back, so would Sandrine return, will Audrey come back? How about all the police that were killed? What about Pierre?
What happened to Simon and Adele? They walked through the caves (I believe Adele saw Simon's true form here) then appeared in their wedding outfits.
Lucy's identity remains a mystery. She disappears with the others, then reappears with Nathan and leaves him on someone's doorstep (could something similar have happened to Victor as a baby?)
Who or what is Lucy? She believed she knew what she was doing by leading them, but she was wrong about Nathan all along.