There are so many things that I loved about episode 9 of The Way Home and so many things that I didn’t know how to take. There were so many things that hurt and so many things that just left me sitting there, wondering if they weren’t sure that they’d be able to get a third season, so there was a rush to wrap things up. And unfortunately, though the ending left me going OMG, the rest of the way through, I felt that things were rushed.
And yes, writing this, I know that inevitably I am going to be proven wrong because that is what happens to me. I am quite frequently proven wrong with this show. But I don’t even care about that, because I love this show so much and am so invested in all of the characters. But that means that I want more.
Unfortunately, I think that means that what I am going to have to wish for is that time is going to have to change for me (and a lot of fans) to get what we want. But that also being said, is what we may want, what is needed? Because there is a big chance that it’s not.
LINGERMORE
Where we left off the last episode was the incident at Lingermore, with Kat face down in the pool. Brady jumps in and grabs Kat, telling Elliot to do something. He needs to do something, but he freezes. He freezes, I believe, shocked at what has transpired.
I believe he’s also hurt because he loves Kat. That also being said though, Elliot needs to take a level of responsibility for himself. I think that he tries, truly, but I do believe that in the same breath, he doesn’t know what to do with that. It’s definitely something different for him to be open with his feelings.
But he still doesn’t know how to deal with them.
Elliot’s spent so much time closed off that he’s not allowed himself to really understand what feelings are. The thing is though, I think that’s part of what has kept him safe. While some would argue with me that he let Kat get to know him, I would say he didn’t. I would say that the only person that has ever truly known him is Nick.
And even then secrets were kept.
But Nick gets Elliot out of Lingermore, before he can get in any issues. Elliot isn’t thrilled with it and starts talking about time travel in a way, saying that things weren’t supposed to happen and how they are all changing. Nick may not get it, but hey, just wait like 15/20 years, Nick. You’re going to not want to know what Elliot is talking about.
ERASED
One thing that broke my heart this entire episode was the fact that Alice thought that she was being erased. She was terrified of what was happening to Kat, because she didn’t know if what/was/could possibly be happening to her was the way that it was supposed to be. That little bit of time where Alice didn’t know, it was all of us wanting to know what would happen. It was a lot.
I think that a lot of us breathed a sigh of relief when we found that Kat was pregnant and Alice wasn’t erased. It was nice to see Kat breathe a sigh of relief because she knew what she wanted. It was nice to see her want Alice. I think that for Alice it was a sigh of relief also.
Yet, this is just the beginning for Alice, because she wants to know why Kat and Del had their falling out. That falling out was because Del wished that Jacob was there instead of Kat.
JAW ON THE DAMN FLOOR! I could not understand why it was that they didn’t get along, but I will be honest, I woulda been like hell nope, too.
Kat and her Mom needed each other, but they left each other at the point when they should have stayed.
And it broke my heart.
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Jacob isn’t coming back. He doesn’t want to return. I can’t with that.
That doesn’t sit well with me. I just had to start there because I really don’t want that to stick. I feel like when it comes to this show, part of the thing that we’re all waiting for is for Jacob to return. I think that Jacob coming back to his time – his original time was necessary.
But he doesn’t want to go back. He wants to stay where it’s a life that he’s known vs. the life that people tell him that he’s supposed to have. Everyone has an opinion, but I just feel for the person here who is never going to have answers.
Del.
While I have long assumed that Del was from the past, I am wrong there. Well, I think. Jacob loves his Mom – he does. But he doesn’t even know where to go forward at the point where he hears all about how he came to be and how Elijah and Rebekah had known where he came from, but never told him.
While Jacob becomes quite angry and tears his story out of the almanac. But he does come back to leave her a note in the almanac.
While I can’t even begin to understand what Jacob is going through and what is in his head, it’s just gotta be a lot. His whole life has been turned upside down.
When he tries to tell Kat that she can come back and visit anytime, I wondered if that would always be the way it was. Would the pond always take her there? What if it was where she didn’t need to go?
SELLING THE FARM
Del, selling the Goodwins the farm, rather than just taking an investor for her dream… well, that’s a lot. I don’t like that she’s sold the land out of pride and I wonder if would she have sold it had she known that Jacob farmed the land and he’s the reason that the Landry’s exist in Port Haven.
I can’t imagine what it’s like for her to give up the farmland, but I don’t think she would have even sold it to the Goodwins had she not felt like she still owed them. But she doesn’t.
And had she known what they did to Jacob, would she even have ever sold it?
THE ALICE AND NICK OF IT ALL
If I was Nick, I woulda been pissed finding out who Alice was/is, so I mean, I can’t even blame him for being mad. I woulda punched my friends in the face. And knowing that Elliot knew and didn’t tell me… I woulda been like best friend no more.
Nick dealt with it like a champ though.
Young Alice and Nick, I loved them together. I loved the way that they made each other better. I loved that they both could escape. But I hated seeing their awkward conversation and the way it ended.
WHAT I WISH WAS FLESHED OUT MORE
- Jacob’s time with Kat. I know that there was a lot of saving him this season, but I really would have loved time with them together before it was all just like na, i’m gucci here.
- The night that Jacob was found – because there’s something missing. Because there’s that whole scene from a previous episode where he was told it wasn’t his time to go yet. Something missing
- Thomas and Kat. I don’t even wanna discuss the ending here, because it felt weird.
- Lingermore night.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- I really wanna understand Del but I don’t get her
- Nick basically being like move forward Alice, you deserve someone. I agree with it, but I also am sad we’ll never have them grow up together and it’s just too complicated
- Don’t blame Nick for bolting
- Kat and Elliot’s relationship is weird.
- Alice telling Elliot he tried to erase her. No lies detected.
- The ending. OMFG but also is this the point where we realize that time travel can change time?
- WHO THE HELL PAINTING THE PAINTING
The Way Home airs Sunday nights on The Hallmark Channel.