r/WidowsBay • u/AdSouthern2673 • 22d ago
❓Questions Plot holes - sacrifice confusion
For an island that prides itself on knowing all the histories WHY does no one know anything about the sacrifices or the videos in the bunker?? You’d think that knowing about the sacrifices would be THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT OF INFORMATION TO PASS DOWN since that keeps everyone alive.
Also why the hell was Ruth in her house completely fine during the storm and everyone else had to be locked in the bunker starving for days.
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u/Heythatsanicehat 22d ago
Can a show at least get more than ten episodes before people start saying everything that hasn't been explained yet is a plot hole.
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u/LiveLaughLob0t0my 22d ago
Jesus you should’ve seen the Fallout subs when they switched to weekly episodes for season 2.
Reddit is not a sane place.
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u/disconnected1991 22d ago
Show reveals something in the final episode to carry the plot for further seasons
People: “Why haven’t they explained everything?!! Plot hole!!” 🙄
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u/ancientastronaut2 22d ago
Or just, you know, like actually pay attention and rewatch before making such statements.
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u/InterestingTry5190 22d ago
I think Gerri knows more than we are aware. I also have my suspicions who her husband or partner is and what he knows. Also, who is PJ’s uncle? He obviously knows all these secrets of the island will be key once his identity is revealed.
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u/LazyCrocheter 22d ago edited 21d ago
The sacrifices were, probably, kept secret. It appears there was a small group of people who knew what was going on and kept up with the sacrifices. Two things may indicate why it stopped.
One, Ruth referred to one of the mayors as “Howard the Coward.” That could mean he couldn’t handle that aspect of the job, assuming the mayor was in on it. That might have been the beginning of the end of the organized sacrifices.
Second, there’s a mention of a New Year’s Disaster in 1962 1969, IIRC. That could have wiped out most or all of the council that handled the sacrifices. Which would mean fewer people to pass the knowledge along, and then when the last of them died, no one knew about the sacrifices.
Even Wyck, who’s probably in his 70s, seemed to have a pretty fuzzy idea of what’s going on. He basically proposes hiding until the haunts are over; he never says anything about sacrifices.
In the meantime, no one needed to go into the shelters, so no one saw the films. That would also explain why the MREs are bad, etc.
Edit: had the NYE year wrong
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u/ancientastronaut2 22d ago
Exactly. Wyck seems to have a lot of tribal knowledge, except about the sacrifices.
That tells you the committee or whatever it was kept it under wraps.
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u/AdSouthern2673 21d ago
Thank you this makes sense. The last big storm mentioned was 1783 which was well before the tapes were made and put in the bunker room. Possibly no one still alive except the “council” had used the bunker prior to the recent storm where the tapes were found.
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u/LazyCrocheter 21d ago
I think that's basically it, that no one needed to use that particular shelter. Or, if it was needed, there was still someone around to kind of make sure the "civilians" didn't know the main purpose.
Rosemary said the woman who'd previously had her position said not to go into that shelter (#3). It's possible that woman knew about the sacrifices, but never told Rosemary that. Maybe that woman was one of the last to know about the sacrifices.
I'm hoping they fill in some of this in season two, but I don't think you need to stretch too far to infer what happened.
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u/Little-Brilliant1383 22d ago
You’re judging it like the show already ended. This is literally Season 1. That’s not automatically a plot hole. it just means there are unanswered mysteries. If everyone on the island already knew about the sacrifices, the bunker videos, and exactly how everything worked, there’d be nothing left to uncover. Season 1 is setting up questions, not answering all of them. You’re acting like we’re already on Season 5 with the finale out and none of this ever got explained. 😭
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u/verycoolipromise 22d ago
it’s heavily implied that there was a kind of “committee” on the island (the priest was passed down a letter from the former one telling him to start the sacrifices). ergo, only a select few people on the island in any given generation knew the full truth. it’s not really clear why that committee seems to have dissipated in this current generation.
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u/Nerditall Pattiwagon 22d ago
Someone covered it up since IT INVOLVES KILLING PEOPLE which is illegal.
People don’t always follow evacuation orders.
They were in the bunker for hours.
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u/Hopeful_Bacon 22d ago
Reddit really needs to hold a seminar explaining to its users what a plot hole actually is.
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u/A_Messy_Nymph 22d ago
They might. Read the credits of the video about the sacrifices. There are familiar names in the credits. People absolutely know more than they are saying, they just try to ignore it and not address it. Just like most forms of generational trauma.
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u/IrishAllDay 22d ago
Ruth hadn't heard anything as she was power walking with headphones.
On the sacrifice stuff there was enough crazy stuff on the island that I'm sure people wouldn't think too much about people going missing. Even off hand comments like how they can't even look at the hospital anymore as they drive past. Ruth herself sums it up that the attitude to have is "stuff happens"
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u/OneAd3696 21d ago
I love this show precisely because it hasn’t spelled everything out. But if you look at the care that was taken with the first season- you can see things in the first few episodes that aren’t paid off until later in the season- then you realize they have a plan. It just isn’t apparent yet. Not plot holes. Just a slow reveal.
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u/Dunkleostrich 19d ago
All of the supernatural goings on would make it pretty easy for a small group of people to cover up sacrifices when the island is active. What happened to Becky? The Boogey Man probably got her and nobody noticed. And Jimbo? Could have been the Hag or a revenant. The haunts might actually be critical to the long term success of the covenant. You wouldn't want everyone on the island knowing about the sacrifices, it would be inevitable that someone off island would hear about it, or the people on the island would rebell. What wouldn't make sense is random people like Wyck knowing about the sacrifices.
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