Anyone have any ideas for the new season? If you've discovered clues include them too!
Anyone have any ideas for the new season? If you've discovered clues include them too!
Interesting articles:
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/lady-gaga-joins-american-horror-163044833.html
Apparently, it's a hotel setting.
I could see a hotel setting being very intriguing. You could have several radically different characters staying at a hotel because they are there for different reasons that we slowly learn are more connected than first conveyed. If the horror theme is going to be government testing (lots of signs but still no confirmation) we could see some people working with/for the government, people who are there to be experimented on and/or people with a hidden agenda for revenge from past experimentation. Guest stars would be easy to handle as they would just come in as guests to the hotel, with varying levels of knowledge about what's really going on. I would love to see a story with government supernatural/paranormal experimentation personally.
Having said all that, there is just something about the whole article and Lady Gaga being the star of the show that gives me the feeling the source might be flimsy. I have nothing personal against Lady Gaga but I just don't see why they would choose to go with her when there are so many actresses with much more experience that they could go with. Quite a big risk to take with such a big show. Also, I don't ever remember the story setting being leaked so early before.
Edit: Just saw it on HLNews this morning so I guess it is true. I'll definitely have to see how this season is going to go. Maybe Lady Gaga will the manager of the hotel? Hotel setting will be quite fun, so many ideas they can run with :-)
Just give me Gaga as a Hotel Heiress with an H.H.Homles complex and I will be happy.
Throw in some secret socities and demonic worship and that will be even better...human/government testing would be an added bonus.
In all honestly they could go A LOT of places with a Hotel.
(For the sake of my own ego I would like to say I suggested the idea for a Hotel back in the season three theme theroies forum lol)
What is the time setting anyways? Is it modern day or in the past? I am hoping Jessica Lange at least makes a cameo as one of her previous characters. If it's in the past, we can have Judy Martin performing. If it's in the present, maybe Constance brings her anti-Christ grandson for a vacation.
Lots of people are suggesting it will be a modern setting, though I can't find a ligeitmate source, so, perhaps people are just assuming the franchise will follow the pattern we're used to.
I really really hope they bring Constance and the Anti-Christ back into the story, even if it is just for a few scenes!
I really really hope they bring Constance and the Anti-Christ back into the story, even if it is just for a few scenes!
There is a source, an FX executive, though I don't remember exactly where I saw it. However, while it's likely that Michael Langdon will be back in the story around now, there are ways to do that without Constance and / or Jessica Lange. We also may see the after-effects of a re-opened Miss Robichaux's Academy and a glimpse of a post-interview Lana Winters, or even Kit Walker's children Thomas Bertrand and Julia Walker.
I really really hope they bring Constance and the Anti-Christ back into the story, even if it is just for a few scenes!
I will be happy with any of those events occuring. As I said before, a Hotel is the perfect way to connect everything. The writers have a big chance to weave these stories together, and though I was (and am) against the idea of the universes all being the same, I really hope they embrace this chance to do so.
Michael Langdon could eventually kill off Constance so that he would end up adopted by more power families kinda like in the Omen films. I remember in the Murder house finale, Constance supposedly had DeLompre relatives.
Thomas Bertrand can actually be played by Evan Peters himself because of paternal resemblance :p
The hotel would be a perfect setting for a sort of "crossroads" between some of the seasons. If we see Constance and Michael again, I would love to see the toll that raising the devil-baby has taken on her. I could see her pretending to be happy but privately being more tortured than anyone (by her grandson and her guilt). The Walker kids would be interesting to see in the mix as well. They seem to be the opposite of the anti-christ with their seeminly benevolent abilities and intelligence. The scenario would probably be a blind fight at this point for us since we don't know how much power or how well developed any of them are in the future.
The witches just lead to even more questions. We know that witches are now "out of the closet" in the present-day AHS universe. What we don't know is which side would they take in a real good vs. evil battle? Though, in my opinion, I don't believe the witches to be truly evil in nature, they have done some very dark crimes of their own. Plus, it is undeniable in some of the spells that they had used that their powers might have some very infernal roots.
The witches just lead to even more questions. We know that witches are now "out of the closet" in the present-day AHS universe. What we don't know is which side would they take in a real good vs. evil battle? Though, in my opinion, I don't believe the witches to be truly evil in nature, they have done some very dark crimes of their own. Plus, it is undeniable in some of the spells that they had used that their powers might have some very infernal roots.
I've been wondering how they're going to handle this aspect in terms of tying seasons together as well. I think the "coming out" of the Coven will be one the things that hurts the idea of tying plots together the most since it would have had such a large impact on the nation and potentially the world. At first I thought it might hurt the writers in terms of not being able to write a story that takes place after 2014 but it seems like Hotel is gearing up to take place in present day.
I also feel like the ending to Coven was sort of a last minute change and wasn't initially where they intended the season to end up. I don't have a source to back that up but they seem to be doing that with the past few seasons. Recently Sarah Paulson was quoted saying that the twins weren't always supposed to survive so we know they're starting to write things open-ended whereas, with Asylum, you can see how events from the first few episodes were tied into events going on in the finale.