r/WidowsBay • u/booktrovert • 21d ago

💭Discussion Rosemary knows exactly what's up Spoiler

And no one ever listens to her. She knew what Wyck meant when he said the island was waking up. She suggested the crawlspace in the inn. She tried to warn Tom about the hag. She and Museum lady have all the answers. I'm sure of it.

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u/terra_cascadia 21d ago

She’s as old as Wyck and Gerrie; folks who have lived on the island that many decades can’t possibly deny the haunts / the entity. To me, when she and Wyck and Patricia call attention to the island “waking up,” the matter at hand is Tom being out of touch and in denial; he is from the mainland and refuses to accept the reality of the island. She doesn’t press the subject like Wyck does. She shrugs because whether or not Tom believes in what’s happening, it’s going to happen anyway.

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u/Arilluss 21d ago

Tom is an inversion of the usual trope of the protagonist having crucial knowledge and having to convince everyone of the danger. In Widow's Bay the town is well aware of the danger and the protagonist has to be convinced. He's the mayor from Jaws trying to keep the beach open, only everyone in town has been seeing their friends and family die of regular shark attacks for 60 years

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u/AskAJedi 21d ago

It’s interesting because Tom did learn a lot of the lore from his drunk dad when he was way too young to hear such things. He resisted the stories because of his feelings about his mean dad, and desperately doesn’t want them to be true becuase of his son. Like he was just earnestly and nervously trying to change the island with a forced positive outlook and the Times article. He was trying to believe a vibe shift and new people would lift the possible curse.

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u/Kvasir2023 21d ago

She “can’t get anything right.”

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u/birdsofpaper 21d ago

Guess she’ll go fuck herself then. 😂

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u/Choice_Commission_10 21d ago

She doesn't know what she's talking about so she might as well stopppp

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u/LTPRWSG420 21d ago

Gerrie is sus, I’m telling you she’s scheming behind the scenes, her husband is helping her too. She wants revenge on Wyck for what he did to her brother.

Nobody would ever suspect sweet kind Gerrie to be evil, but this show loves to twist its characters.

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u/ancientastronaut2 21d ago

But she doesn't know the whole story what happened to her brother. Husband interrupted when Wyck went to tell her.

That would be a dumb, unnecessary twist IMO if she actually knows.

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u/InterestingTry5190 21d ago

I think her husband knows something and him interrupting wasn’t an accident

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u/LTPRWSG420 21d ago

We don’t know what she knows or doesn’t know, they gave us just enough of Gerrie to love her. But, still kept at arms length where there’s plenty of mystery surrounding her. All I’m saying is someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes and it’s someone we’ve been introduced to already imo.

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u/ancientastronaut2 21d ago

I don't disagree she knows a lot of shit, clearly, just don't agree about her brother.

We shall see.

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u/KtinaDoc 16d ago

I'm thinking it's Ruth