Grandmas are special. They are the keepers of family lore, family secrets, family complications, and sometimes they offer clues to the things that no one wants anyone to know. You see, sometimes family is complicated. Well, almost all the time, family is complicated. No family seems to be more complicated than the Landry’s and we see that in The Way Home, Season 3, Episode 3.
Live and Let Die is an eerie title and it doesn’t mean just what any of us would think.
1974 is a different world. Then again, so were the 1800’s. But for me, 1974 is a look into Del and Colton and there are some things about my grandparents that I would never want to find out. Current time Del is making me think that 1974 holds the world’s worst secrets and for that, I would stay far away from that pond.
But Alice and Kat are not afraid to face what any period brings to them. Instead, they are facing whatever it may be, and figuring out the right questions to ask. The pond may take you where you are needed, but you’ll never know those reasons unless you ask the right questions.
WHY THE POND?
Alice running into Colton gave us all a lot to think about. Does Colton know about time travel? I mean we know that he does (at a later age) but does that mean that he does then? Short answer – yes.
Alice may want to focus on being present but the pond needs her in 1974. She needs to understand what has happened, but also she needs to help her family. She may not know her grandfather, but he’s had a bigger impact than she ever knew.
This time, going back was to help her friends say goodbye to Rick.
The Landry and the Augustine families weren’t always enemies. They were friends. But Vic definitely blames Colton for his brother’s death and that is very hard to see. Colton’s life was saved by walking with Evelyn and Alice, and yes, that needed to happen.
But those friends – they all needed each other. They all needed to be able to be there for each other in a way that they all could understand and relate to each other.
For Colton – it was music. It was honoring his friend however he could. He was breaking. He wanted to go back and fix it, but he couldn’t. The pond wouldn’t let him and I think for him that will always be hard.
For Evelyn, it meant that she needed to be honest with her feelings before her feelings for Colton – that she wouldn’t be able to say those feelings. What Evelyn didn’t know is that sometimes it was too little too late. She and Colton weren’t meant to be.
Seeing everything was too hard and too much for Alice. I can’t even blame her for that. Going back to her time, finding a way to escape – she had a way to do that. But the thing is, time doesn’t make the pain fade. It sticks with you.
WAIT, YOU ARE WHAT?
Del has a family dinner because she wants to talk to everyone and let them know that she’s seeing Sam. I think it’s great that she’s decided to stop running behind peoples back’s. She’s grown. She doesn’t owe anyone answers.
What I did find a little hypocritical was that Del got upset when Kat announced that she and Elliott were moving in together.
I said what I said.
Now, I don’t like Kat and Elliott together. I have said that a million times over. I think both of them don’t know how to be honest with each other and I think that Elliott won’t ever be happy. He’s a runner and I am sure that he has potential – but he expects too much from Kat.
Yes, I said that.
Kat is not perfect. Kat isn’t even close to perfect. But Elliott acts as though there is something that is owed because he’s loved her forever. I just don’t think that it’s fair that he doesn’t see life beyond his own messes. But that’s a whole different thing.
I get the want to live with someone you love. I do. But Kat and Elliott aren’t endgame. I said what I said.
MAKING UP
Jacob. Dear Jacob is having a really hard time with everything and I don’t really doubt that will continue. But the good thing about this episode is that Jacob is really trying to learn to live in a world that just wants to stare at him.
His going to the Farmer’s Market was a big step. But I think that him going out for drinks with Danny was even more important.
Danny has felt guilty since he was a child over Jacob’s disappearance. I think that his spending time with Jacob is of the utmost importance because he needs to know he’s not at fault. In the same breath, I also think it makes it harder for Jacob. He can’t completely put his best friend at ease.
Jacob can’t be put at ease either. It’s heartbreaking to see his pain and the way he’s fighting to just live. Jacob is struggling and he’s screaming for help. But, I don’t think that he can find help at this time.
In a perfect world, Jacob would be able to go back and forth. It’s just not something that he can do.
I think that the one person that he really feels like he has is Kat and yet she doesn’t even understand. When she goes to get him and bring him home, you see how important it is for them to have each other.
Jacob needs to be able to make peace with what is. But how is it that you’re supposed to make peace with things that you can’t and don’t understand? Not to even mention, that you can’t talk about it.
THE JERSEY
One thing about Alice going back to 1974 is that she’s able to offer some solace to Elliott. Though I don’t think that he’ll listen to everything all the time, I do think that he wants to hear what he can learn about his Dad. He wants to relate to and understand his Dad.
He wants to be loved by his father.
Alice going back and seeing what happened with Rick and how it affected Vic is important. Seeing Vic in the jersey on the way to Rick’s funeral – that hurt. But her being able to tell Elliott that is very important.
Because it allows him to soften for a second. Elliott, that is.
Granted, being at the Farmer’s Market and seeing Del go off on Vic, well that was another thing Elliott needed. I feel like as much as we’re chasing after the Landry’s secrets, the Augustines have theirs too. But Vic and Elliott are the ones to have to convey those secrets.
The Augustines are screwed.
I loved the moments between Elliott and his Dad and them talking about Rick – I thought we had a breakthrough. I was wrong. Vic played his own son and that is too much.
Elliott has trust issues and they really come from his Dad.
DAD IS A LIAR
There are times that I feel bad for Elliott. I know that Elliott is a good guy, but I do believe that Elliott is filled with so many secrets that he doesn’t know the truth. I know, I know… bold statement. But I think sometimes he tries to just put the past in a box and not face it.
Only when he’s not facing it, he’s creating a life that is a lie. He’s hanging onto dreams and fantasies that were from when he was a child. He has wanted to be a Landry forever.
I do believe he loves Kat. I do. Don’t get me wrong. But like the Landry’s have secrets so do the Augustines. I don’t think so much that Elliott knows all of the secrets, but I think that they are all in that house. He’s just gotta read them. Maybe then he’d know what that clock means.
Or why did Daddy Horrible (yes Vic Augustine, I am talking to you) steal that ring? I don’t care what anyone says – he stole that ring. He told Elliott that it was his to keep and he took it. So what does that ring mean? What is it? There has to be something to it.
I am gonna have to run back to last season and see if I see it on Susannah’s fingers.
Vic Augustine has been through a lot, but it doesn’t give him a pass.
65 AND ALIVE
What happened in 65? Well, to be honest, I would have never thought that Grandma Fern would be the person leading all the answers. Or at least the road to knowing that they need to ask better questions.
Kat and Alice that is.
Grandma Fern – Colton’s Grandma – runs into Kat at the pond. She’s in her nightgown and it freaks me out a little how fast she moves. But she knows the pond and she knows what it holds. Grandma Fern knows her part in it.
Now, my thing is what is Evelyn and Colton’s part? We know that something happened. We know that those two went into the water – but what happened? What is that pond hiding? How is a Goodwin time traveling? Crap – can Cyrus travel?
I am hung up on the beginning of the first episode of the season – where we see a baby left and then two people jump. Why do I feel like that baby is Casey? Why do I feel like Colton and Evelyn have something to do with that?
Kat going to sit and talk with Grandma Fern was important. It was a moment that they needed – that Kat needed – to set her on the right track. I think that it is important for us all to know we’re not asking the right questions. Yes, I took Ferns’s message to heart.
What are we missing?
DON’T MISS THE MAGIC
I have to admit that I am surprised that Alice is willing to forgive so easily because she doesn’t seem like she ever is.
But seeing Noah at the Farmer’s Market and then diving right in to help him? I am shocked. I mean – yes, I liked them together and he was good for Alice. But nothing is simple in Port Haven.
I am glad to see Noah thriving. His truck and all and finding its way. Seeing him and Alice working together to solve all of the chaos – love it. Seeing the way that they flirt and they really get along – I loved that for them.
I also loved it at the end when these two made the commitment and were going to date. I love that for both of them because they deserve to be happy.
Everyone deserves happiness.
And I don’t think that it is going to come easily to for any of them.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Rita and Del making up – loved that for them
- Elliott and Kat trying to mess around in the clubhouse and realizing that Del was there. HA
- Jacob saying “barmaid” or whatever it was, I fell off my bed laughing. Oh no, Jacob. Don’t let your 1800’s sho.
- The books – the secret message. I don’t think that Cole wrote that message when he gave the books to Evelyn. I think he wrote that at a later time.
- Del getting so mad over the pond. She knows something
- May we all have a Grandma Fern.
- Alice realizing that 65 is a year – and then finding the article – that was quick
- I really need to know who Casey is
- What are the right questions to ask?
