

Whether there are more like him and just how deep the show’s supernatural mythology goes are both questions for an eventual second season. He’s the Watcher to Syd’s Slayer, the Yoda to her Luke, the Professor X to her Jean Grey. That, we can assume, is the role of Black Cloud Man. He asks her if she’s had any recent contact with “…an unknown visitor, a professor, a wise old sage, some form of a mentor figure.” Their role in all this, Stan explains, would be to “visit the hero, explain their abilities, the mythology behind them, and how they can harness those powers for good.” In episode four, Stan attempts to pinpoint the nature of Syd’s superpowers using his comic book collection. It isn’t her dead father, because Syd didn’t clearly didn’t recognize him and asked who he was. When she ran to the forest tower after accidentally killing Brad at the dance, Black Cloud Man revealed himself. And then in episode six, she felt it following her home from school.Ĭonvinced by her counsellor that she was only experiencing grief hallucinations of her father, Syd told herself and Stan that the stalker was all in her head. An episode later, Syd encountered the mysterious black cloud in detention when the lights started to flicker before she destroyed the library. As Syd stormed home, a dark figure in a long coat appeared behind her before dissipating into a moving black cloud. Her mysterious stalker first made an appearance at the end of episode four, when Syd was walking next to the railway line after her and Stan’s bowling ball-related argument. “It felt like I was supposed to follow it, or maybe it was following me.”

When Brad said that Homecoming was going to be “fucking mind-blowing”, he can’t have expected such a literal interpretation.ĭazed and covered in blood, Syd ran from the scene and was contemplating a life in hiding when she was approached by a mysterious, similarly supernatural figure. Seconds before Brad also outed her superpowers, Syd silenced him in the bloodiest way. In front of their classmates, he humiliated her, outed her and homophobically abused her. In seconds, her girl’s ex had hijacked the stage to read aloud from Syd’s diary. Dancing together at the school dance, the girl she loved leaned in for a kiss. After a decidedly testing week (losing her virginity, failing a quiz in Bio, burying a family pet, manifesting uncontrollable telekinetic powers, getting detention), it all came this close to working out. Sydney Novak almost had the perfect high school moment. I was so fucking close.This I Am Not Okay with This article contains spoilers. I went out for a drive and have never contemplated driving off the road as much as I did then. I believed him so many times and I know I shouldn’t have. Took everything of his, and blocked me on everything. Left for work this morning without saying goodbye. He promised me he wasn’t leaving and everything was fine, he was just tired. I told him I knew what was coming so could he please tell me what’s going on. He came home last night after his kids game and was completely checked out. He promised me he would block her and never talk to her again, and that he was disgusted that he cheated and lied to me. I just found out last week he cheated on me with the woman he cheated on his wife with years ago. This effected a lot of things in our relationship, obviously. The only problem is he is a huge alcoholic and does a lot of drugs.

We have such a good time and enjoy each other’s company. I’ve been with this guy for almost a year.
