RUSF18 said:
Was that really the full origin story they presented? It kind of felt glossed over quickly to me and we weren’t sure if that was “it”.
I interpreted the origin story to be the story that Holly tells the group at their meeting and after she did some research and talked to the woman in the prison - that basically this creature is just esssentiall a boogeyman creature that has existed over the course of time (ala the spider/Pennywise in It) and feeds off of suffering. That story actually made sense to me and I was good with it (probably because It is one of my favorite novels and the parallels were about the same).
What completely loses me about this how are the following:
1. Why is he weakest
after he feeds? My take from the prior cases is that he kills children because it creates the best chance for more suffering and death and that he feeds off that too. I would assume then he gets weakest over the next couple of weeks and then strengthens again as he turns into his new "host" person.
2. If he feeds off of suffering, why eat animals? How does that possibly help? I mean, I suppose he could eat somebody's pet or something but eating a random deer makes no sense after we learned that it feeds off of suffering.
3. Why did the protagonist tell Holly to stop asking it questions in the cave?? C'mon, the whole show is basically about this character's mystery and you have the main character say it doesn't matter?
4. What a ####### dumb plan to take the real strip-club employee out of jail and keep him at a house where ones can only "vouch" for him. Why not actually keep him in jail and on camera where the evidence wouldn't rely on human credibility?
5. As pointed out a few posts above, what was the significance of the cave story? We know that a bunch of people died. We know that they didn't die by El Cuco because he couldn't get to them. Nonetheless, he had to sense their suffering. Had he killed the kids? If so, that should have satiated and he could have basked in the suffering of the 50 mens just a few feet away. All this story did was explain to me why El Cuco stayed in the cave (to re-live the suffering) but the rest just made no sense or was incomplete.
6. When the #### did he scratch Holly? Also, why El Cuco clearly has some powers to appear in people's minds, the show presented it as a real, actual organism/creature. As such, even if it scratched Holly, how could it have survived the rock smashed on its face?