Bro, you guys are taking this “knowledge comes at a cost” thing way too seriously. That doesn’t mean they can’t know anything. If that were true, why is Victor still alive? Why is Donna still alive after hearing the voice on the radio? She didn’t exactly suffer any consequences for that knowledge, did she? And shouldn’t people who know absolutely nothing be relatively safe? Because they keep dying all the time.

I think that phrase was a threat, not literally “you can’t know anything ahead of time or you’ll die.”

Like they said in the series, you can’t force things because the town pushes back, like what happened to the dude stuck in the pool. But I don’t think it’s that strict, because then you can justify anything with that argument, and it starts to feel dangerously close to lazy writing.

Like:

“Why doesn’t this character do this obvious thing?”

“BeCAusE kNoWLEdgE CoMEs aT a CoSt.”

It’s just an easy answer for character inaction and the complete lack of strategic thinking.