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Backing away from WWDitS household and focus on Marwa story:

1. Marwa got away from Nandor. Good. Get her to start healing. Figuring out the modern world.

2. She goes to the one person she now knows best: Freddie. Hopefully over time (and distance from Nandor) she can tell Freddie what happened. "I've been cursed by a vampire-villain-asshole-of-a-husband and need to go on a quest to find a djinn or at least kill the guy. Freddie somehow is able to break from the Nandor hypnosis (We know Nandor is the weakest with this ability) and agrees to help Marwa. Break the Freddie image over her. They are able to create a system to help define what Marwa actually likes versus what Nandor has forced her to like. The beginning of Best -Friends and sibling energy. (This is based on the scene we get at the end of 4.09)

3. New Mosquito Squad (NMS) formed. Along the way Marwa and Freddie make friends with others who have been wronged by the Staten Island Vampires. Marwa learns about the power she has now as a woman and how woman have been fighting for rights for a while. Some playing around and vampire hunting lessons.

4. Get the Djinn. After breaking into the house the first time, the NMS almost doesn't make it out because Guillermo. He's still defending and hasn't moved on. Freddie tries to get him to leave with them but it doesn't work. Nandor sees Marwa and tries to get her to stay. Luckily she's able to stand herself with the knowledge of "Oh crap this is going bad" (Lazlo and Nadja are off doing Story A this episode). Marwa is able to get to the Djinn but he tells her he's still bound to Nandor because he has two wishes left. The gift that keeps the Djinn trapped. Nandor and Guillermo are close to hurting NMS and the Djinn is able to get them away.

5. Marwa has to trick Nandor to use the last two wishes. Then can she finally get away. But how? Someone suggests using her connection to what Nandor likes. Marwa refuses, she already gave enough of herself to someone who wouldn't care. Making her realize there is someone that Nandor does care about: Guillermo. Freddie knows about Guillermo's weaknesses. Freddie sends a message to Guillermo for help and hoping Nandor will follow.

6. Marwa and Freddie are able to get Guillermo to meet at the planetarium (Give Marwa the advantage, specifically The Hayden Planetarium in NYC). Asking him to help with getting Nandor to wish for other items. Guillermo got Nandor to wish for stuff before and can do it again. Good news, Nandor did follow Guillermo and believes Guillermo betrayed him. Final fight. Guillermo will prove he is the better fighter. Marwa and Freddie will use Nandor's self-esteem and the planetarium to out do him. The final blow will come from Guillermo saving Freddie from a deadly attack. Nandor will wish for Guillermo to come back as a human and be protected from all harm (Djinn trickery allowed here).

7. Marwa gets the Djinn. Nandor is defeated. Marwa wishes to reverse all of Nandor's wishes that have been placed on her. Then turns to Nandor for his punishment. Justice must come with a lesson. She wishes Nandor to be human again. Marwa will tell Guillermo that he can keep being responsible for Nandor, move on or learn to rediscover humanity together. Marwa and Freddie leave back to London.

8. End credits. Marwa is traveling and face timing Freddie. Turns out Freddie found someone part of the NMS and they're in love. Djinn is with Marwa traveling together and having a good time. Plus once in a while Marwa might take down a vampire. It's nice that she was able to wish for Van Helsing powers.

Note: This is not to the genre or mood of the show but a side story idea to help with how Marwa can take back her identity and set herself up in the modern world she is now in. As Harvey has said on the podcast, a lot is not defined on the show but pieced together based on stuff that happens off camera. If you will, this is off-camera show belief

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Everyone watch this Shadows-verse fan film some people made during quarantine last year. (All original characters, but check the in-film social media stuff for an Easter egg.) Hilarious, super well-made.

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So this is the shot we are all waiting for for...

"It's him for me, me for him in life

He told me, swore it for life

My heart beating

And as soon as I see him

So I feel Inside me

Nights of endless love"

- La vie en rose by Édith Piaf

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Season Four is going to be about...

Guillermo and Nadja taking down the London Council that is a metaphor for the Volturi.

Nandor is going on a prey, eat and figure out where Guillermo is (Bella pov but in WWDITS twist)

And Lazlo and Robinson (if that is their name because let's be real who knows what emotion they'll feed off next) are exploring child/parent dynamics with the classic neighbors coming to help. Lazlo will get love letter from Nadja asking him to join her and he still won't say why.

(Harvey had a tour of a castle on insta and I think Nandor deserves a magical masquerade night to find Guillermo again)

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Rahul Kohli for Mario

“When you send me for a role and it says ‘South Asian, his name is Raj’ … I say ‘I don’t fucking want it.’ And then the next one comes in and it says it doesn’t have a race. ‘This is John. 30s. Handsome.’ … When it says that, I want that fucking role. So I want to take from the majority. That’s the only time I think about race.” —Rahul Kohli on Blackman Beyond podcast

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Also to add for evidence. The scene where Nandor is scooping his soil into the coffin and he tells Guillermo "don't think I'll get in the habit of scooping my own ancestral soil". Maybe hint that it won't just be Nandor's soil?

I’ve been thinking about the river tigris line and I have a theory as to an ever deeper explanation to it. If you allow me to extrapolate from little information, it is possible that the "ancestral" in “ancestral soil"  refers not to your heritage by blood but to your place of origin as a vampire (where you were turned). If this is so, the reason Nandor wanted to turn Guillermo in Al Quolindar was so they could share their soil and, perhaps (this is the big one), a coffin. guys. guys what if-

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Nandor has the dolls right? They didn’t stay in the bag right? Please tell me he has the dolls. That’s all I need to get through the Hiatus.

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Nandor and Lazlo’s relationship: there are concerns.

After watch 3.09, all the interactions after the cage where Nandor describes Lazlo “..The laziest vampire I have ever had the misfortune of meeting.”

How does Lazlo reply? “Thank you.” and with a bow. Lazlo is use to this remark. Be it from Nandor or even his human life. Lazlo continues to show this ‘lazy’ behavior in his farewell speech or word. ‘Nan’. Not even Nandor’s full name because Lazlo is ‘the laziest vampire’ Nandor had the misfortune of meeting.

Meanwhile, Lazlo puts effort and time into Colin because the energy vampire’s time is almost up. Even before knowing that there was a timer, Lazlo willing went to help Colin find information in a large library with decades if not centuries of books.

Lazlo can and does put effort into making those he cares about. So why is Nandor not getting this attention?

This is something that was shown all the way back in 1.07 ‘The Trial’. Nandor starts a small speech about how he wishes he was kinder to Jon (a hint for 2.02 ‘Ghosts’)

Then Lazlo says, “That’s very kind of you, Nandor, to say that, and, um, I know we haven't got on over the years, but uh.... Nope that’s it.”

What is the tension between these two? Does Lazlo see Nandor as remind of his aristocrat life style where he was so full of himself that he doesn’t notice other’s feelings? Did they get into a big fight in the past and Lazlo can’t forgive Nandor after all this time/Nandor hasn’t apologized?

Personal theory how the show is going to bring their relationship up next season: This tension will come to a head. Nandor is losing the house’s favor and Lazlo might be the one to snap him out of it and back on his feet. 

Every show needs a Heart. Guillermo was a red herring and after 2.06 ‘On the Run’ Lazlo has been set up to be the true silent care giver until he’s pushed to the edge.

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Should have seen it coming based off of this scene

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People: Lol Collin Robinson comes back as a baby that the house has to raise.

Me: Yeah, kind of reminds me of the scene where Nadja said she’d like imagine her child being like an armadillo... oh.

After thought Note: Lazlo’s already doing well at parenting. He took Collin fish, help him study for a project, showed him automobile care, and threw a great birthday.  

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Random WWDITS thoughts at night:

Are all the bat drawings in the intro from Guillermo?

(I know they're done professionally by someone, thank you for the drawings artist)

I noticed the raven image in Guillermo's room/closet space. It has the same line art style as the intro line art bats.

So that connected a random line of thought:

Are the images in the intro from Guillermo?

Are some going to be replaced after episode 3.09 to have more Guillermo images?

Is that one bat image on the mantle at the end of the credits just a place holder for an image to be taken in the future (cough Nandermo cough)?

You know. Thoughts.

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A thought on: Lazlo Cravensworth

Kind of hope it turns out that he's not clueless about Nandor and Guillermo.

That he doesn't think they're in a familiar-master 'They must be doing each other already' line of thought.

BUT

Is the wingman for both Nandor to Guillermo and Guillermo to Nandor.

Lazlo is a romantic. He sees factors that can balance out his housemates if only they could see it themselves. Lazlo can't say it right out (again a romantic feature) but he can help them see what they might have been blind to without *some* influence.

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Isn't funny how a Vampire can get their name changed through the Vampiric Council?

Isn't it funny how Nandor doesn't want to be so Relentless anymore but be part of a community and build instead of destroy?

Just some thoughts...

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WWDITS season 4 prediction:

Let the cliche crush tropes begin

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Super Smash Oaks

a Dungeons and Daddies fan animation

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If environmental activists, both soft and hard line, had any courage, they would promote an effort to discourage any tourism to Idaho. This action is insane.

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

The Idaho Senate approved a bill this week that would permit the state to hire contractors to kill up to 90 percent of Idaho’s wolves with the goal, supporters said, of protecting cattle and other agricultural interests.

“These wolves, there’s too many in the state of Idaho,” State Senator Mark Harris, a Republican, said on the Senate floor before the vote on Wednesday, after telling a story about a “gentleman rancher” whose livelihood was jeopardized when a pack of wolves scared off his cattle.

Idaho’s Wolf Conservation and Management plan calls for the state to maintain a wolf population of at least 150 wolves. At last count, Mr. Harris said, 1,556 wolves were roaming the state.

“They’re destroying ranchers; they’re destroying wildlife,” he said.

The bill would give the state’s Wolf Control Fund an additional $190,000 to hire contractors to kill wolves — on top of $400,000 previously allocated toward killing wolves in Idaho. The bill also would remove a limit on the number of wolves a hunter is permitted to kill.

The Senate approved the bill in a 26-7 vote on Wednesday. The measure now goes to the State House of Representatives. The office of Governor Brad Little, a Republican, declined to say whether he planned to sign the bill. Last year Mr. Little signed another bill boosting funds for the killing of wolves.

Backers of the bill said that wolves also reduce the numbers of deer and elk available to hunters, taking an additional economic toll on the state. Some lawmakers disputed that hiring contractors would drive the wolf population down to just 150, while others referenced the 150 figure as if were the goal.

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I'm Pearl, Leader of the People, Head Cabbage Farmer