守望尘世第二季

“It all makes sense now. Virgil (the older Black man in the trailer), was actually Erika's father, and not John's. Virgil sexually assaulted Evie when she was around 10 years old, and her mother Erica did not want to believe it was happening (perhaps she was also abused by him as a child, and so she was in denial about his predatory nature). Still in denial about the abuse, Erika did not do anything to protect Evie, and this is why Evie felt detached from her family and resentful towards her mother... and eventually why she decided to join Meg and the Guilty Remant, because she bonded with Meg for having a similar hatred for their mothers. This is also why Evie wrote on the bridge that her mother understood why she was doing all this (because of Erika's apathy and denial during Evie's childhood abuse). 6 years ago, John found out about Erika's father abusing Evie and then shot him, and so then John went to prison for the attempted murder of his father-in-law. John had been filled with rage ever since... not just towards Virgil (his father-in-law) for the abuse... but also towards Erika (his wife) for not doing enough to protect their daughter from Virgil. Erika was so detached and disallusioned from that tragedy, that she was going to leave her family and take off because she just couldn't deal with everthing (she told Nora about this during her departure interview). Meg initially joined the Guilty Remnant last year because she was disallusioned with her life and just totally lost... but during her time there, she saw the truth, in that the Guilty Remnant was actually a bullshit cult and wrong about everything, and that the loving bond of family was the ONLY thing that truly mattered. Laurie, indirectly, helped Meg see this by the strong feelings she couldn't hide that she still had for her daughter Jill (the G.R. was teaching everyone the opposite, in that they said nothing mattered, as the world had ended on 10/14). Meg figured out that the G.R. was a fraud and decided to take control of her branch of the group and do things her own way, and it was then that she planned this grand gesture in Jarden Texas to get people to wake up and see what really mattered to them... and she did this thru the bomb scare on the bridge...and by doing so, she also enabled all the lost people trapped in the campgrounds to have the freedom to move into the town as they had been so desperate to do for as long as they had been there (she hated the hypocrisy of the privileged town's people). She made a similar gesture towards Tom earlier in the season, as she tried to scare him back into caring about what really mattered to him (his family), when she raped him (to get him "pregnant", by planting the seed of realization of the truth), and by scaring him to death, by pretending to douse him with gasoline. She did all these thngs to scare people out of their tortured misery and apathy, and back into the reality of what really mattered - the love for the people most close to them in their lives (their family). If the series is renewed for a 3rd season, then I fully expect it will focus primarily on the Murphys (John, Erika, Michael, and Evie), and less on Kevin and his family, as his demons have been vanquished. He literally went to Hell and back again (twice) to find his way back home to his family, and so his story is finally resolved. Kevin finally feels grounded and at peace with what happened on 4 years earlier on October 14th, and so he is no longer suicidal or afraid... and finally able to allow himself to love, and be loved in return. He has been reborn.”

第一季的结尾，几张饱经风霜的脸上终于都露出了笑容，已经碎成无数片的生活，终于又一点一点被粘合了起来，新的一季，新的故事，就将在这个被称为miracle的小镇开始。从这个小镇的名字，以及种种细节，我们不难推测出，“十月四日消失事件”对它没有影响，所有居民都留了下来，这也让它成为了又一个精神上的符号——就如同黑先知、GR等等。外界的人们一批批地进入，只为一个纪念品、一个护身符，甚至连水也可以成为商品。一个个被消失事件深深伤害的人，都渴望从这个圣地抓住一丝一毫的安全感。然而，这个小镇并没有表面看上去那样和善光明。John只因认为别人咒他倒霉，就直接烧了他的房子（而且他没有什么朋友来参加他的生日聚会，他还能直接地，若无其事地对一个陌生人说自己蹲过监狱），从他们对level的分级上看，这样的事情他们已经干过很多次，很熟练了，而且Issac并没有报警之类的意图，居然就这样让这件事过去了。小镇里还有其他许多的奇怪之处：一个一直住在塔上的老人；一个人很不礼貌地打断Matt神父的讲话，好像不想听他讲他的经历；路上的裂缝（可能是频繁的地震的结果）；穿着婚纱浇花的人；以及最诡异的，一夜之间干掉的池塘和Evie的神秘失踪。还有两个细节，一是John听到的蟋蟀或蛐蛐之类昆虫的叫声，可能类似于第一季Kevin一直看到的鹿。二是Evie和她的朋友裸体在林间奔跑以及她的癫痫，可能与她失踪的原因有关。至于开头那很长的一段史前人类的情景，每当鹰击长空之时，就有转折发生：第一次，山崩，母亲与她的族人分离；第二次，母亲因蛇毒而死，孩子在她怀中无助地哭泣，另一个人走过来，抱走了孩子......不管有什么艰难险阻，生命就这样延续，人类，就这样，代代相传。最后一点，也许是为了呼应第一季结尾那看似团圆的结局，这一季的BGM，除了那首忧伤的钢琴曲，风格总体还是偏向欢快类型的，然而，更欢快的音乐，企图掩盖的，是不是更深、更痛的悲伤呢？