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questions (especially if you've read the comics)

posted 5 years ago by exatera (3966)
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1) Why didn't Kinsey use the music box key on Sam Lasser when he came to Key House?

2) How exactly does the identity key work? I have to say I suspected all along that it all seemed too easy how they disposed of the echo (just like I knew something was off about that Gabe guy from the moment he appeared on screen), but I also don't understand how Dodge made Ellie look like her in the first place, because I thought that in order for the key to work it has to be your own personal intention.

3) Ellie mentioned that they found a way to retain their memories of magic into adulthood - what was that way? Is there more of a story to it that they are putting off till season 2?

4) What does an echo get out of killing people? I am referring to her encounter with the French guy at a night club - if she gets some kind of energy out of it, that really wasn't made clear.

5) Why was Rendell forcing Tyler to hang out with Sam? Not sure how that was supposed to genuinely help anybody, and that "I am not asking" was almost as bad as how Sam's father treated him.

[–] L1 (1316) 5 years ago

Now we can see why its becoming such a disaster.

[–] exatera (3966) 5 years ago

What is?

[–] noisebox666 (39) 5 years ago

Hi Exatera, first thing to know, the series took large liberties with the comic books.

attention spoilers!!!

1) the music box: yes, seems like the writers conveniently forgot about it. At that point, it is very far from the comics story line, since that key was most of the time with Dodge.

2) there is no identity key in the comics, but a gender key that allows to change your gender. And another one that allows to change your race.

3) in the comic books they don't remember the keys and Ellie is completely manipulated by Dodge with the head key. She doesn't have as much free will as in the series.

4) the echo does not get anything out of killing people. this sequence just shows how evil she is.

5) Yeah, that was completely inconsistent with the character and especially with his profession.

In the end I liked how they worked on the head key. In the comics you can see directly into anyone's head. That looks great on drawings but would have been impossible to figure on screen.
And I hated how the characters completely forgot to wonder about the keys in Dodge's possession when she is stunned and did not try to retrieve them. That was really lazy writing...

[–] exatera (3966) 5 years ago

Thank you, this is helpful.

Regarding #2: can you only change your own appearance with those keys though, or can you make a choice for another person as well?

[–] noisebox666 (39) 5 years ago

It is not really detailed. in the comics, the gender key is used mostly by Dodge and only on himself.
and the "ethnical" key, that looks like a mirror, is used once by Bode and it looks like he turned both himself and his sister into black people at the same time.