TV Tuesday: Who'd Have Thunk It?

[yourlibrarian]

There are shows whose twists and turns kept us on our toes so much that we developed our own theories. How have those theories compared to canon reveals or developments? When were we super wrong about something? Or when were we the person who called it first (at the kitchen table or in an internet discussion)?

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[tribble_of_tarth]

The wildest theory I came up with was for the final season of Game of Thrones. Based on certain prophecies, I managed to convince myself that Jon would get Daenerys pregnant with a literal dragon that would defeat the Night King. I wasn't convinced it would happen, but I really thought it was a viable possibility.

With the ending being what it was, I'm not sure this would have been worse lol.

[yourlibrarian]

The one I remember most recently involved speculation about Doctor Odyssey being a ship of the dead. It would go a long way to explaining the amount of crazy circumstances they kept encountering!

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I classify Doom Patrol as dadaist science fiction. The reason I watch it is because I have no fucking clue what will happen next. I imagine this is how normal people feel about most television. For me, I can usually see what's coming far ahead.

Notably, Blood of Zeus is good for going places I didn't really expect it to go, even if I saw the possibility.

Conversely, Star Trek is useful for going right up to a great idea and then stopping short. Are you gonna eat that? No? Fine, then I'm having it. And it's not plagiarism because canon didn't actually do the thing.

[starfleetbrat]

There's a theory going around that Doctor Odyssey is a covid dream and/or that the ship is the ship of the dead ferrying passengers to heaven. I fully support it, because its the only way that show makes sense. Theres so many weird things that defy explanation if it was a real ship, but also, they make way too many references to heaven for it not to be the ship of the dead. Even in the last ep they literally said that the Odyssey wasn't heaven and it wasn't hell, it was somewhere in between. I mean REALLY.

I need that show to either be renewed so it can be revealed, or for the showrunner to confirm if it gets cancelled.

Another one I heard recently is that in 911 the character that recently died isn't actually dead, that its all a dream another character is having. I don't buy that its a dream, but if the character isn't dead my theory is the character was unconscious not dead when the people in hazmat suits removed the "body" and they've taken the character back to a government lab somewhere to work on a cure/experiment. I'm not convinced the character isn't dead like a lot of people, its more likely the death will stick, but if somehow it is revealed the character is alive? then thats my theory.

[executrix]

Sounds like the Doctor Odyssey/Good Place crossover practically writes itself.

[tellshannon815]

I remember I correctly guessed the twist at the end of the old show Dead of Summer back in 2016. After it aired, there was an interview with the producers where they said no one had guessed that, and I wished that I'd shared my guess at the time (I didn't want to be That Person who's always wise after the event. Having dated That Person at university, where he'd always say "I always thought there was something off about So and so" when he hadn't at all, I knew how irritating That Person is.)

To this day, I wish my guess for the ending of The Flash Season 5 had been what we got - I was convinced that Eobard was going to manipulate Nora into giving Barry the metahuman cure, and the finale was going to be Nora having to try and fix the timeline which she'd broken by doing that. Who cares about Cicada anyway?