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Something about the Woodsmen


This isn't much really, but I think it ties into what we know about the Lodges so far.

There's a reason the Woodsmen kill the way they do.

Throughout the series we've seen the Lodge spirits associated repeatedly with electricity and power sockets. Cooper's reappearance showed us that the Lodge can use electric outlets as portals into the material world, but also that the Lodge can magically tap and manipulate several times the power we'd expect a socket to have (I mean, full body teleportation). And of course there's a scene that implies electric cables can capture the souls of the dead.

In Part 8, the reason Robert Broski's Woodsman kills the people in the radio station is not exactly out of evil. He doesn't have time for that. He has a specific goal to accomplish as quickly and efficiently as possible, and we're led to assume he goes in a straight line to the DJ's desk, leaving immediately once he's done. The episode is very careful to draw this impression. So why is he so fixated on the random people he meets on his way?

It's because the human brain generates very respectable amounts of power and the Woodsman sees it as a battery charge. This is why he tortures the DJ as long as he does - for him, it's like plugging into a power socket. It's only from the moment he grabs the DJ's head that the Woodsman can speak in full sentences or perform fine manual actions like adjusting the microphone.

As of S3, Garmonbozia is no longer the only motivator for Lodge spirits, and I'm guessing that the strange side of technology in the TP world will have a growing role in the next episodes, with the spiritual correspondences of electricity, airwaves and the split atom expanding the Lodge mythology even more...

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Yeah you could be on to something there. Very interesting.

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Keen observations.

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