The final of the third season of The White Lotus Was broadcast on Sunday evening and finally answered the question that retired through the entire season: who dies to the hell in the end? The fans believed from the first episode that at least one figure would die in a shootout. And as in the seasons one and two, each episode slowly (this time much slower) headed towards the expected climax. Both real and sometimes intentionally misleading information.
Well, we finally got our answer. But only on this one specific point of action: who dies? Despite the 90-minute term of the final, many fans stayed with many fans (that is, many here Rolling Stone) More questions openly than answered. For example, was a “Luke, I am your father” nonsense really necessary? Especially without the unveiling “I’m your father”?
If you wonder if the creator Mike White is annoyed about complaints about the final. He doesn’t. “If you don’t want to go to bed with me, then get out of bed. I am an erotoman! Enjoy the challenge! If you don’t want to be challenged, then disappear from my bed,” said White im White Lotus Aftershow podcast after seeing some first reactions to the end of the season.
Regardless of this, some of our open questions from the third season are:
What was going on between Kate and Victoria Ratliff?
At the beginning of the season, Kate Victoria interrupts at breakfast and tries to find a common basis by reminding her that you have a girlfriend. Apparently the two women even took part in this friend’s one -week baby party (yes, that seems to be one thing). The moment is incredibly uncomfortable when Victoria refuses to share Kate’s enthusiasm for the encounter. Or even admit that you have ever met.
Even when Lochlan asks his mother about her “distant” attitude, Victoria does not give a big explanation. It is such a strange encounter that raises a flood of questions. What hid Victoria? What happened to this three -day baby shower? Who is the friend Claire Popovich really? None of these questions were answered. Some fans on the Internet want to argue that the scene for “character development” has been inserted. But the interaction certainly does not match the pale polite Lorazepam queen, who is known for her “good values” and her southern charm.
Does anyone have so much Lorazepam?
Tim Ratliff transforms into a frenzied benzosis addict within about six days. After taking a (1) pill, it is immediately addicted and then swallows several pills of his wife several times a day at once. Everything apparently from the same pill bottle. Does Victoria’s doctor offer refill without end, as with a Dave & Buster’s for psychotropic drugs?
In addition, Victoria, who itself is known as Lorazepam, deals with the disappearance of a lot of her pills that corresponds to a drug raid in Scarface by inquiring exactly about it … once. Then she seems to be doing well again, while Tim crashes, murmurs and desperately crushed suicide fruits with bare hands in the seventh circle of hell. (Side remark: Lorazepam manufacturers should probably deal with the fact that all of this indicates that the medication does not work very well?) Hey buddy, do you touch the bottle to get a few more calm pills? There are definitely any.
How could Lochlan survive the consumption of a deadly poison without medical help?
We here at Rolling Stone Do not claim to be doctors. Nevertheless, we assume that if you have to see a doctor after a mere allergic reaction. Certainly you have to see a doctor after you have actually taken poison. The pong pong tree is not just a very real tree with toxic fruits. But according to the trustworthy internet, a small amount of these fruits can already be fatal.
The severity of the reaction can vary. But when you consider that Lochlan drank a whole glass of the stuff and had to throw up on the pool and passed out while he was hallucinated that his family and then a group of monks watched him drowned, his reaction seemed damn violent. But a few scenes later Lochlan was awake in his father’s arms and explains that he had just seen God. Tim, who is obviously happy that he did not accidentally murder his son, cries at Lochlan’s recovery. But at no time he seems to call a doctor. (In addition, nobody seems to have heard how he called “help” several times.)
Just a few hours later, Lochlan sits on a boat on his way home with the rest of his family and looks a little sweaty and tired. But otherwise he is fine. It’s a miracle! It is also unclear whether the rest of the Ratliffs found out about the incident. Or whether Lochlan ever thought of asking why the protein powder that his brother had used all week would have almost killed him. Perhaps the family should have thought twice about why Tim behaved so strangely because of this Piña Coladas. And that could have helped them find out why Lochlan almost died of something he had drunk out of this mixer the next morning. Well, what the heck!
Why did Lochlan willingly use a dirty mixer at all?
We understand that two things are possible here. Either he really wanted, really, really a Piña Colada, so much that he agreed with the 12 hours old remains in the jug from the previous evening. Or he thought Saxon used to have made a protein shake and really only gave protein on protein. So who cares. However, we stay with one important point: igitt.
Do banks really work that way?
We have never been lucky that someone transferred us $ 5 million. Or only $ 5. But we passed on our account number and bank code to companies that have money from us take. With such transactions, there are usually some safety precautions so that you don’t easily, you already know, you can take all of your money.
Of course, Greg/Gary is an honorable guy who would never ruin Belinda to give her a lesson over greed and blackmail. So he pays her five million mice on her … checking account? … suddenly. Their credit increases from around $ 12,000 to $ 5,012,000.
We don’t know exactly which bank has her account with. But with our might call us and ask: “Hey, did you just win in the lottery? Did you have a stingy, but secretly rich old aunt who just died and left her fortune, like in a Dickens novel? Are you lubricated by a psychopath that hired the order murderer to murder your friend?” Finally they call us for little things, such as B. if you have to pay more than $ 400 at Target. But not Belindas Bank. More money, no problem.
Did Rick spent a lot of time on the shooting range?
Oh, Rick, we hardly knew you. After we spent eight episodes with Walton Goggins’ abandoned and taciturn heroes, we are sure of some things: a) He has father complexes; b) he seems to be quite annoyed by his astrology -loving girlfriend; c) He is for snakes. What we don’t know is everything else about his background. Especially why he can handle a handgun so cleverly that he can shoot two trained security forces up close.
Was he in the military? Has he tried to fill the emptiness of the male influence that his “dead” father left behind by handling weapons? Did he play a lot of Nintendo Duck Hunt in his time? Maybe he was just a natural talent, just like some people in the darts or pickleball.
Are Mook and Gaitok only together because he killed someone?
Shortly before the fatal shootout, it didn’t look good for Mook and Gaitok. After a season of “Are you, don’t you?” Mook continued to frown openly over Gaitok’s strong moral compass, legitimate concerns and vulnerabilities. Let us not forget that she only decided to have a relationship with him because she (wrongly) thought that he would be promoted after the robbery.
And when he admitted that the job as a security guard may not be for him (which the audience could have told him in episode 1), she rejected a date with an obvious lie. But then, after killing a man and getting the job as a personal security officer from Sritala, it seems as if they were together again. Was that all that Gaitok had to do to win Mook’s heart back? To violate his Buddhist beliefs and commit a murder? Well, this is one of the most extreme cases of “if he wanted, he would do it”.
Why was there no stronger response to mass shooting?
Become within a few minutes five people shot in the resort. Jim, Jim’s bodyguard, Chelsea and Rick. The first of these shootings occurs during the world-famous TV star Jaryn right next to him. Zion finds one of the corpses driving in the water. Lochlan almost dies of poisoning, and nobody comes to help him because everyone is busy with the active shooting situation.
And yet within a few hours all (surviving) guests are on boats that bring them back to the mainland to get back to America. And none of them behave as if he had been close to fatal violence near a shocking act. We don’t even hear that Jaryn’s group says a word after the shootout. The Ratliffs, Zion and Belinda do not mention it. And several lotus employees gather on the beach to say goodbye to Zion and Belinda with the traditional farewell gesture.
Nobody seems to be interested in this that this happened. From the guests to staff to the local police. (And all of this under the assumption that the scene with Gaitok/Mook/Sritala did not take place on the same day, because if Sritala was already calm alone, while Gaitok completely agreed to shoot an unarmed man in his back, then the final has even more problems.) Jim Hollinger was a wealthy and celebrated businessman and with a local famous. Why was this not a huge crime scene? Why was someone allowed to go? Why did everyone pretend that it wasn’t a big deal?
We will probably never find out! Until the next season, White Lotus.