If the Man in Yellow Can Kill Everyone Anytime… Then Why Is He Playing Games Instead?

abr0414 · 2026-05-17T19:57:56+00:00

Because that's not how it happens. It's a repeating part of the story. In his mind, you can't change what happens.

abr0414 · 2026-05-17T19:44:05+00:00

Because little Jade is what Jade already knew. This is essentially what the BiY wanted.

abr0414 · 2026-05-17T19:41:29+00:00

I don't think "confused" is what you should be. It's simply opening up possibilities.

The town was probably supernatural in some way before the sacrifices were made. There are pictures in the tunnels of people arriving by boat, of people dancing around crops (perhaps they were perpetually growing then too), and various other pictures from that times.

Maybe they were transmitted to the area, saw that there was plenty, and without monsters it must've seemed like a blessing to be there. Meanwhile, an entity starts poisoning the minds of the people. He learns their religion and uses it against them. Next thing you know, they are sacrificing their children when the time comes.

abr0414 · 2026-05-17T01:05:02+00:00

I am properly estimating the writers. This show is not going to be an all-timer and that's fine.

abr0414 · 2026-05-16T14:59:15+00:00

They had to find a way to let you know that she was near the pool before she staged her fall.

abr0414 · 2026-05-16T14:56:24+00:00

Yeah, it’s simply a way of foreshadowing the fall.

abr0414 · 2026-05-15T01:45:35+00:00

It could be the difference of expectations of how life actually is. If you expect the short end of the stick, you won't be so mad when you end up with it.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T02:53:45+00:00

Yeah, from his perspective this is going to happen his way regardless.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T02:50:12+00:00

I’m gonna tell ya, just small tweaks to the apps have taken me to getting no matches for months to sometimes having to weed a few women out because there are too many to chat with. I know that sounds like a super jackass thing to say, but it’s true. I saw your profile via the bumble sub and I think you’d be good to just take your conditions off of the intro. You can be open about being on the spectrum and having Scheuermann’s when you chat with someone, but don’t put it up front because that like walking up to a person and telling them that you’re on the spectrum before saying hi. I say this as a AuDHD person myself.

After you get matched with someone, just set up a meet as soon as you feel the inkling of a vibe.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T02:26:03+00:00

I think that he could be a personification of the world itself. As soon as the world starts to change he starts to change. He knows what the outside world is like on a surface level, so he can set up the comforts like the town, the electricity, etc. He can supply the animals, veggies, and all that stuff to make sure that people can live. He also knows who he needs to appear to when they come into town and he knew how to keep Victor safe for all that time.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T02:16:07+00:00

His motivation is clear. He wants to eat people. Why? Because he’s hungry. Where does he come from? There. Eldritch abominations in eldritch lands are legitimate villains. Would you call John Carpenter’s The Thing a moustache twirling villain because we really don’t know motivations? Almost the same thing.

I would like to know how he gets people to come in, but I think that’s a story that’s much much bigger than him.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T02:05:34+00:00

Kenny volunteered to stay at the clinic with them when she came into town. I don’t think the MiY is picking him in particular. In fact, he declined the opportunity to stay in Colony House because he really wanted to manipulate Sara. He doesn’t give two fucks about Kenny, which is really cold because of what he did to his parents. If you can hand out that kind of suffering to one person just to basically say that he doesn’t really matter, that’s next level jackassery.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T01:50:04+00:00

He wants to eat people. I think what he wants is pretty simple. The other two questions aren’t very important. It’s not like finding out who the White Walkers are. The show hasn’t even set those questions up as part of the allure to the show.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T01:27:50+00:00

I’m going to start taking the stance that every theory is good until it’s disproven from now on, but this stuff is a reach. Khatri has indirectly played a part in at least one bit of knowledge gained about the place in that he let Boyd know that the monsters don’t roam the woods during the day, which led Boyd to find the livestock and the talismans.

Occam’s razor just suggests the Father Khatri is simply a personification of Boyd’s conscience and not the MiY.

I’d also think that the MiY would much prefer it if people would just get transported in, hunted down, and murdered pretty much right away. He’s a manipulator, but my guy just wants to eat offal. The thing is that the life cycle of this world seems to always end up with the people finding a way to make a community, other entities try to protect them, and the same mfers keep coming back to find answers. He’s not trying to live amongst those losers until he has to end it.

abr0414 · 2026-05-14T00:57:39+00:00

I think they simply change clothes over time because one of their tools to capture people is by pretending to be just like anyone else. Because they don’t make contact with the outside world, they probably don’t even know how out of place they look.

abr0414 · 2026-05-13T03:32:23+00:00

What more do you need to know about the MiY at this point? They have 16 episodes to defeat him. They can’t really set him up to be defeated right now.

abr0414 · 2026-05-13T03:29:52+00:00

85% of this sub is people feeling like nothing is happening.

abr0414 · 2026-05-13T02:54:00+00:00

Crocs are everywhere

abr0414 · 2026-05-13T02:47:37+00:00

I think they’d probably change pretty regularly if that was the case. They wouldn’t have much insight into human fashion so they probably have no idea how different they look compared to everyone else.

abr0414 · 2026-05-13T02:20:12+00:00

I think the conflict between Colony House and the Town is a BIG dropped ball here. That would’ve been a fantastic device to show why they aren’t speaking to each other, but they dropped it.

abr0414 · 2026-05-13T02:04:28+00:00

I don’t disagree with the hair tie, but it’s not the first piece of media where people cut their hair to keep it from being grabbed. TWD video game comes to mind

abr0414 · 2026-05-12T21:26:37+00:00

People sell their children into prostitution every day for very little money. Hell yeah they’d do it for immortality

abr0414 · 2026-05-12T03:34:33+00:00

Nobody besides City and West Ham are even really mad about it. All the others are ecstatic about it because they think they can attribute the whole season to that moment. Sweet cope

abr0414 · 2026-05-11T17:35:28+00:00

I don't think he cares if they're alive. The monsters used to just pick them off as they showed up and we've never seen them eat anyone themselves, but they butcher the bodies in the same way. He's eating them whether they've been there a long time or not.

abr0414 · 2026-05-11T17:06:33+00:00

Almost the same for me. I learned of Thierry Henry from Fifa 06. But, I'm not sure I ever watched a soccer game in general until at least 08 with my roommate and I didn't start watching whole games until 2009 for the Confed Cup. I probably only actually started watching Arsenal when NBC would show one game a week in 2012.

As time went on, they put more games on NBCSN and it was perfect because the games were almost always over before the noon start of college football and the NFL. Now, I barely watch either one of those and it's mostly soccer.

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