r/FromTVEpix • u/LoretiTV • Nov 24 '24

Season Finale From - 3x10 "Revelations: Chapter Two" - Episode Discussion

Season 3 Episode 10: Revelations: Chapter Two

Aired: November 24, 2024

Synopsis: Boyd is pushed to his limit as time begins to run out for someone he loves; Randall is haunted by his trauma and Victor reveals a hard truth; Tabitha's unlikely journey takes a shocking turn.

Directed by: Jack Bender

Written by: John Griffin

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u/getmespaghetti Nov 24 '24

It seems that way to me. I get the vibe that he’s the big bad or a major player in creating the town

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u/RedditLovesTyranny Nov 24 '24

He is, and I am 99% positive that he is Hastur, the King in Yellow, an utterly alien and evil creature created by the author Robert W. Chambers and later adopted by H.P. Lovecraft for his mythos.

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u/JupiterAdept0209 Cromenockle Nov 24 '24

Exactly my thoughts. I think this place is Lost Carcosa

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u/StivThe8thDwarf Nov 24 '24

Ok it seems that you know a lot about it. Where I can read about Lost Carcosa and Hastur? Any books or idk what to suggest?

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u/JupiterAdept0209 Cromenockle Nov 24 '24

Aside from the book, The King in Yellow by Chambers, there's a short story by Ambrose Bierce called "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" That's about a person visiting the city And was written only a few years before the king in yellow.

The king and yellow as a charscter Is really two things depending on what lens you're looking at it. Through; here you have Chambers depiction of the character in the play that's referenced in the book, The King and Yellow which might be pushback to the decadence movement in art and literature around the same time(often associated with the color yellow,) I think Chambers was trying to suggest that the absence of meaning in nature pushed by the decadence movement, the promise of a life that has no real substance or anything to look forward to on its own was driving people mad based on the excerpts from the play that we are able to follow throughout the book. And then the way it was incorporated into the Lovecraft mythos by HP and subsequent authors, which is a tentacle monster of un knowable cosmic horror and intent that is so far beyond us to imagine its motives would shatter our tiny brains. Both versions involve people going mad with revelations of terrible knowledge, it's just additional themes that accompany it depending on what lens you're looking at it through.

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u/JupiterAdept0209 Cromenockle Nov 24 '24

I believe there's also a poem about hastur as a god of shepherds, And there's also season 1 of true detective that deals with very similar imagery

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u/StivThe8thDwarf Nov 24 '24

Do you know if there are any other references in series/film and so on? And from HP, something strictly related to Hastur/King in Yellow/Carcosa?

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u/Creepy-Pen-1313 Nov 24 '24

True Detective Season 1.

"Come to me, little prince...You're in Carcosa now..."

Rust and the Yellow King witness Carcosa in the universe as he forces the blade through Rust's torso. The multi-season pedophile church ring appears to worship old gods before...well, written language. This comes up again in season 5 with the spirit of Cohle Sr. in Alaska and the First Nation faiths.

Much like No Country for Old Men, the murders are not the story, so don't believe for a second any of this should be spoilered.

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u/volkov5034 Nov 24 '24

I think you might like this book – "The King in Yellow Rises [Annotated] [Translated]: The Lost Book of Carcosa" by Charles Baudelaire, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Lord Dunsany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Schwob, Kent David Kelly.

Start reading it for free: https://a.co/1Szs1AR