Also easy to gloss over in first viewings, the romantic subplot between Ziggy and Nick in 1978 happens while they are a Camper and Camp Counselor, respectively.And he framed Martin for the graffiti just for the fun of it. So why does our supposedly good cop character arrest a black man on some phony charges and taunt him about it, in a movie series produced in the 2020s? Because as it turns out, he's just a power-tripping villain. Nick is initially introduced as the good and sympathetic cop character who wants to help and support Deena.However, this makes sense in-universe after it's revealed that the killers were deliberately chosen by the Goode family heirs and then possessed and made to kill against their actual nature, so it's likely that at least some of the Goode heirs would deliberately target people who were already othered in some way. The fact that several of the past killers (like the Milkman and Billy Barker, or even Ruby Lane with her facial scars) were deformed could easily be chalked up to simply following in the footsteps of a genre with a history of equating deformity with monstrousness.Nick's Hidden Depths in 1978 are actually Foreshadowing to the twist in 1666 - his prank idea for Shelia shows that he's a lot meaner than he acts, and willing to break the rules to his own ends.Cindy and Alice are both said by Word of Gay to be gay and to have romantic feelings for each other- so the polo shirt can be seen as a representation of Cindy’s desire to repress her sexuality and feelings for Alice, with the red moss being her inability and deep down unwillingness to fully do so. The red moss that stains the polo shirt Cindy bought specifically to fit in to society’s expectations of “perfect,” the polo shirt that gets more and more stained with red moss and generally ruined as Cindy reconciles with Alice. The red moss is also a metaphor for the love between Sarah and Hannah, and later Deena and Sam: essentially a metaphor for lesbian love in general.Her spirit has been clinging to it for 300 years for the chance to stop it. The moss is Sarah's doing, but Sarah isn't causing the curse. The red moss, something scary and clearly linked to the curse ultimately helping Alice and Cindy escape the underground tunnels is this rather than a case of Nice Job Fixing It, Villain.Which verse in particular plays when Ziggy is revived and she and Nick look at each other? ‘You’re face to face with the man who sold the world,’ very apt lyrics considering Ziggy was literally ‘face to face’ with the man who sold out her town to the Devil for prosperity! In the same scene, David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World” serves as the soundtrack.Furthermore, the fact that Ziggy avoided getting cursed again even after getting her blood on Sarah's body, dying, and being revived via CPR like Sam did makes perfect sense when you find out that Goode, who still holds affections towards Ziggy, is the one cursing people.And since the deal would break down if he died, he was spared the effects of his injuries. Nick was able to do these things because he was the current heir to the Goode family's Deal with the Devil. He also takes a pretty nasty injury trying to protect Ziggy from Tommy, only to walk around later like nothing's wrong. In 1978, Nick administers CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable to Ziggy, which works on her despite the fact that she has suffered multiple stab wounds.
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