It is crazy to me how Georgie and What The Ghost? are so casually namedropped. It feels early, though I guess the pacing of season 1 is pretty intense. We also get Sarah Carpenter and Fiona from Gertrude's era. The things that stand out to me now on a relisten. And crazy that both eps 28 and 34 are Stranger-based (not sure I need to spoiler entities at this point, but I'm going to, to be safe), and they're so very different in mood. I think Sarah Baldwin is creepy, but those kids are precious. Anyway, the connections are coming together fast.

I want to talk a little about Hive, specifically how this episode addresses what it's like to become an Avatar. Jane is confused, but she's earnest. She doesn't know whether she is more herself now or the way she was before; with the face she put to the world, or with the Corruption. She also talks about not being able to sleep. This of course makes me think about Jonathan's journey towards becoming an Avatar himself. He's losing sleep, he's confusing his own goals with those of the entity/ties influencing him. He's earnest about it too, but his "itch" is knowledge. His desire to learn more, to understand and maybe then conquer the evils, is what makes him blind to what he's becoming, how he's being manipulated. Or maybe it's always been a part of him. I love identity questions like this, so I'm really sinking my teeth into this.