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Season 1 The Harvest Doesn't Make Sense

posted 8 years ago by welshsweetie
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I've been rewatching season 1 lately and may have got confused or misunderstood the whole thing with the witches the harvest and the reaping.

My understanding was that 4 girls were chosen for the harvest as offerings to the ancestors. They were then killed, the power of each flowing into the next girl in line as they died and when the 4th girl died the power would flow back into the earth. Then would come the reaping, with the 4 girls being resurrected and the witches getting more power following the ritual.

But the outcome of the reaping on the show didn't make sense to me.

The Sabine/ Celeste character high jacked the power as Sophie completed the harvest so instead of the 4 harvest girls rising from the dead we had ancestral witches rising instead. So far so good.

But here's where I get confused:
Papa Tunde rose in place of Monique
Bastiana rose in place of the blonde girl whose name I can never remember
Genevieve rose in place of Cassie (who later became Ester)

When each of these witches died the harvest girl they had replaced came back. Again, so far so good.

But, when Sabine/ Celeste died Davina came back. How is this possible? Celeste wasn't dead, she was the one who completed the ritual to bring back the other three. She shouldn't have any connection to Davina at all. There should have been another 4th witch to rise from the dead to take Davina's place and Celeste would have, in effect been a 5th witch who simply performed the ritual.

Why does Celeste dying mean Davina rising again?
Have I completely missed something?

[–] cecejk 8 years ago

Maybe since Sabine hyjacked that power, when the power was released (by Celeste dying) it went back into the earth letting Davina rise.

I didn't understand much of the harvest. I got the same as you did on how things went down. But I never understood why the harvest girls seemed so powerful but the other witches seemed as weak as ever. Wasn't the purpose of the harvest to give them all power? Why would the ancestors grant Davina, who they considered a traitor, immense power but leave Kara and the others weak? Then it was said it was a failed harvest. So if it failed, did anybody get power from it?

[–] ThinkBfourUSpeak 8 years ago

Basically if you remember all those girls did come back at the end of the day but they were brainwashed except for Davina or maybe she was too seeing her antics afterwards.

There are two ways I look at this....

1) the harvest really works and it works for the witches who sacrificed themselves for it. Albeit it was highjacked but it was course corrected by the elders. The highjacking was Celeste/ Esther's plan. Other elder witches were not involved in that planning. Esther was controlling them.

2) Esther was in charge of witches by then so maybe she felt that those young girls deserved to come back since they were sacrificed for that particular purpose.

------Pulling someone down will never help you reach the top -----

[–] raven_knight 8 years ago

I vaguely remember them consecrating (sp?) Celeste's bones which then somehow made her part of the ancestors. Remember Elijah getting mad at Hayley because of that? I think that's how Davina & Celeste got the connection. It still doesn't quite make sense though.

[–] welshsweetie 8 years ago

Maybe since Sabine hyjacked that power, when the power was released (by Celeste dying) it went back into the earth letting Davina rise.

That's certainly an explanation, and one I hadn't thought of.

So if it failed, did anybody get power from it?

The way I understood it, the harvest did fail. The 4 harvest girls were meant to die and be resurrected, but by the time the 4th girl rose (with Ester in control of her body) both Monqiue and the other blonde girl had been killed by Marcel/ originals when they tried to sacrifice Hope. So the 4 harvest girls didn't rise together. Also, the witches in the second season didn't seem all that powerful to me, other than Ester and Finn.

I vaguely remember them consecrating (sp?) Celeste's bones which then somehow made her part of the ancestors. Remember Elijah getting mad at Hayley because of that? I think that's how Davina & Celeste got the connection. It still doesn't quite make sense though.

Yes, Elijah got mad at Hayley when Sophie attempted to consecrate Celeste only to find there was no magic in her bones (she still being alive of course) which then resulted in Ester being consecrated and Celeste hijacking the power. But I suppose, your right, when Celeste died for real she would then become an ancestor, wouldn't she, so that could be the connection to Davina.

By all accounts, it doesn't make much sense to me though, ;-)
Thanks everyone for your input, I thought I may have missed something glaringly obvious, but it appears not.