Predictions for From Season 4: Change is coming!

"We may even get a new cork board!"

As Season 3 of the Paramount Plus TV show From ends, the town is engulfed by winter, after 50 years of stable, consistent warm weather. This cannot portend 50 years of winter... as all the inhabitants of Fromville would die of starvation, being unable to grow anything. We did cycle through fall pretty quick, so I imagine spring will arrive early in Season 4... along with a lot more. 

I believe the seasons are now changing because the system is about to update its roughly 50 year cycle. 

Remember the changing of the weather comes shortly after the arrival of the two cars on the same day (50 years since this last occurred), as well as the explorations of Tabitha, Jim and Jade. They've pushed the limits of the web laid by the emotion vampire-spider that created it. This could also cause the emo-spider (or Man in Yellow) to update the trap's dressing to something more contemporary.

When this happens, I suspect that some new modern buildings will appear, that the overall geography may alter in some way (not the core area which is built on a real site in Nova Scotia, but perhaps areas around it). There was once a river in the area (as shown in the cave drawings), which is now gone, presumably replaced by the road. The lighthouse was there even then, which assumes a sea or ocean nearby, but that's long gone. So the land itself changes over time. Think about Victor measuring the movement of the trees.

The new buildings may even get modern appliances... flat screen TVs and perhaps even WIFI! Actually, no, that would be too useful, and the phones there already don't work, unless it is to be leveraged by the web's evil entities. But there will be more modern stuff... perhaps only there to torment.

The changes will extend to the monsters, too, which will upgrade to modern attire, as they are not really from the 1950s. The cave drawings don't fit that at all: these beings are ancient. The drawings suggest the tragedy of the sacrifice of the children occurred centuries ago. As such, the monsters are 'updated' to reflect the images in the minds of the trapped humans, whether they present as pioneers, civil war soldiers, or 1950's archetypes. 

In Season 4, they'll present as modern people, but be just as creepy. And if they do update, that will explain the disconnect between how ancient the drawings in the cave are, and the much more recent attire of the monsters. It's just a replaceable facade... or more accurately, camouflage. Their dated garb right now is a dead giveaway to survivors: it signals stay away! But if the vampies are in modern dress, will survivors know to run, before it's too late?

More importantly, this will give the Man In Yellow a chance to update his god awful, tattered wardrobe, and return in a slick billionaire's suit, the better to exploit and torment ordinary citizens.

Papa needs a new suit!

The faces the monsters wear may also change, becoming the loved ones of the surviving trapped humans, the better to deceive and demoralize them. They are lures and deceivers, used by the vampire-spider to trick survivors. It used Tabitha to lure in Victor's dad. That's why she wound up in Maine... that's where the vampire-spider wanted her to go, it knew she'd contact Victor's dad, and that allowed it to bring him into the nightmare, too. This was it's plan all along; the gravy on top is that her return caused even greater despair amongst the Fromvillians. The Entity (spider-vampire, Man in Yellow, whatever) also brought in the significant other of paramedic Kristi Miller (Chloe Van Landschoot), presumably to cause her emotional turmoil and crush Kenny's spirits. The vampires get great pleasure tormenting Boyd and trying to break his spirit... that's far more important to them than just torturing and eating him. Jade is going mad thanks to how senseless the whole place is... so the next iteration of the town may make even less sense than it does now.

It's all a great big deliberate mind f_ck... which could be a fun meta commentary on Lost.

The Man in Yellow / vampire-spider, if they are in fact the same entity and not a group (the Boy In White certainly seems autonomous, but also linked to this hell bubble... yet he was the only entity Tabitha saw in the real world), seems to feed on suffering. It doesn't want to eat everyone, not physcially; rather, it feeds on their fear, despair and emotional turmoil. 

When it updates its web/trap, it will offer a mix of positive and negative. The buildings are like decorations in a fish tank (which is why they have no functional wiring, it's all a front, a Potemkin Village; this is also why there is a motel sign and pool and no motel). It wants the inhabitants to remain in the box, feeding it delicious fear, and to keep that fear feast going, it has to give them enough tools and resources to survive.

When the two cars arrive, bringing back Christopher / Jade and Marina / Tabitha, it marks the beginning of a new cycle. When that happens, the reincarnated pair are coming back once more to save the children. As such, they are a threat to The Entity, and might end the Hell Bubble (Don't let Ellis hear you calling it a pocket universe), so it upgrades things to make it all more difficult.

That's my guess, at any rate.

What do you think will happen in Season 4 of From? Plunk your theories in the comments!

"I'm out."