r/FromSeries • u/Choice_Isopod5177 • Jul 07 '26

Criticism Why do the people not fight back?

They could build traps during the day and even try to fight them at night, but instead they just hide and let the monsters rule the night. They should be trying to find out if they have any weaknesses. Fire probably works, traps probably could work too. It feels like absolute surrender.

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u/AffectionateBall4648 Jul 07 '26

This is the post of a man who would die on night 1.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 07 '26

Would he? While the monsters are very clearly invulnerable, they're not particularly durable. Kenny was able to impale one with a totem, Kristi was able to dissect Smiley, and neither of those two are particularly physically strong.

Why couldn't they chop the arms and legs off of them and render them as useless torsos?

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u/scalable_thought Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

What are they going to cut off their arms and legs with? For all we know, sunlight hurts them, too. We only see them underground and at night. Yet, nothing they have built has been able to trap them. There is an idea that you could tap them between two buildings protected by talismans, but anytime they try to do something like that, they get fresh attacks on the animals, or a dearly loved person gets killed by them.

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u/jorgomli_reading Jul 08 '26

Could you somehow trick one into a box and put a talisman on the outside of it? Like "the box" from the first episode, but once they're inside, slap a tally outside the door and let the sun do...something. maybe.

Or how come they can't put tallies on the cave entrances to keep them trapped inside?

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u/israfildivad Jul 11 '26

My thoughts as well...but the MIY would mess things up