The telling of the story will end with the eighth episode. How much resolution there will be remains to be seen.blackcoffee wrote:From what I've read the next season will be different actors, different story, different geography. This story will be resolved in some way in episode 8.
Here's a small prediction. The person who is either the Yellow King or the high priest (or whatever) of the cult will be covered with black stars. We probably hear this person's voice in the episode 8 preview. If you haven't watched that, I wouldn't say that you should, because all of the previews have been spoilery, and I don't like that (but I get over-excited and watch most of them). One of the reasons I say the person will be covered with black stars is because so many people have had tattoos, and several have black stars. Dora Lange's friend had black stars all over her neck. The blonde prostitute who sells downers to Rust seemed to have some small ones on her arm. Of course we've heard Reggie Ledoux blathering about black stars, and we've seen them in Dora Lange's diary and on broken windows of the abandoned Tuttle school (when Rust sneaks in there in 2002). Finally, in Audrey's painting which is glimpsed ever-so-briefly in 2012 in Maggie's house, we see what appears to be a figure covered with black stars, wearing a yellow hood-like thing. You can see the painting (partially) in the giant collage I posted a few posts back. I think you need to click on it and look at the enlarged version on photobucket for any of it to be legible. Interestingly, in that collage you also see Maggie is wearing a top made up of 6-point stars...white ones, not black ones. Probably meaningless, but interesting for a show that thrives on little details.
The probable source of black stars (though not the original source of Carcosa:
Twin suns...Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake, (see below)
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
—"Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2
Robert W. Chambers (1895)