Dark Winds
ThoughDark Windshas been heavily telegraphing that the " monster " harass Joe all season long is actually a humanity , that verification does n’t diminish the more important content ofDark Windsseason 3 ’s account . Thanks to his crime of condemning B.J. Vines to die in the desert , Joe has been haunted bythe Ye’iitsoh inDark Windsseason 3 . to begin with in the time of year , Emma also designate that the entity stalk Joe may very well be B.J. Vines himself , hisch’į́įdiior malefic spirit bent on revenge for what Joe did to him .
WhileDark Windshas certainly incorporate Navajo folklore and supernatural elements in the yesteryear , Dark Windsseason 3 has leaned into horrorin a way the retiring two season have n’t . The Ye’iitsoh follow Joe is a ghoulish entity , appearing as a rotting corpse dressed in rags . As is fitting of the deep tone of the show , season 3 has kept it ambiguous whether the specter Joe keeps see is an actual supernatural ogre , a human being dressed up as one , or his own shamed conscience hallucinating it all . The most recent sequence answered that question while fill in crucially important lacuna about Joe ’s past .
Dark Winds Season 3 Episode 6 Confirms That The Ye’iitsoh Is A Man, Not A Monster
It’s Been Dancing Around The Confirmation All Season
Though the truth has been strongly hint at all season , Dark Windsseason 3 , episode 6finally confirmed that the Ye’iitsoh that Joe keeps seeing is n’t a supernatural entity stalk him , but a deadly man . At the end of the most late episode , as Joe saves George Bowlegs and dog the specter through the desert , he snip the entity with a bullet and keep up the track of blood line through the nighttime desert . When he run across a very tangible , very human fucking handprint on a boulder , he realizes that it ’s not a behemoth he trail , but a human who bleed and can be bruise .
The realisation seems to both relieve and break Joe in a style , and while it may be a chip of a letdown to learn it ’s simply a man after being frame in as such a terrifying monster , the reveal does n’t in any mode take off from Joe ’s conflict all season . Joe made a viciously hard decision atthe closing ofDark Windsseason 2when he leave B.J. Vines to pass away in the desert , and , fiend or man , it does n’t shift the fact that the Navajo tribal lieutenant has been psychologically break under the weight of his guilt .
Joe Leaphorn was finally open about the guiltiness he feels over BJ Vines ' dying in Dark Winds season 3 , but it turned out to be a disgraceful revelation .
Joe is also still wrestle with his grief over the loss of his son , J.J. Even though he seemed to find heartsease at the remnant of last season , it ’s clear he has n’t . Joe is n’t exactly forthcoming with his emotions , not in the way his married woman , Emma , is , and Joe had n’t even right dealt with J.J. ’s death a few years ago before the combat injury was pertly rip back open by the revelation that it was B.J. Vines behind his death . That ’s a batch of grief and guilt to process , and Joe has n’t total close to doing so . With the added exercising weight of this guilty conscience over passively murdering Vines , and the fact his wedlock to Emma is fall apart , it ’s no admiration his genial State Department is unraveling .
Why Joe Saw The Ye’iitsoh As A Supernatural Entity
He Needed To Mythologize The Things He Chases & That Chase Him
Dark Windsseason 3 , episode 6 helped shed some visible light on why Joe ’s fractured psyche insist upon seeing the wraith chasing him as a supernatural entity instead of realise it for the human he is . His own enormous guilt meant that he subconsciously felt he had to be penalize by something supernatural , mythical , a monster big enough to befit the monstrosity of his criminal offence .
It ’s not just that he charge a man to give way , but also that he violated foundational Navajo spiritual jurisprudence when he did so .
Emma ’s response to learning about B.J. Vines inDark Windsseason 3explained why Joe ’s decision was fraught with so many consequence . It ’s not just that he committed a world to die , but also that he violated foundational Navajo unearthly practice of law when he did so . Joe get it on it , so his subconscious is manifesting the supernatural payback he feel he ’s owed . But Joe ’s subconscious demonstrate the Ye’iitsoh may range even deeper than that , as the sequence revealed .
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The extended dreaming episode of Dark Winds season 3 , episode 6 discover a baddie from Joe ’s past and it explains so much about who is is today .
The things he saw happen and what his full cousin , Will , and mayhap Joe himself , endured as a child at the hands of the pedophilic Catholic priest were frightening . As children who felt like they had nowhere to turn , the non-Christian priest must have take on an almost fabulous timber in their minds and in Joe ’s retentiveness of the past , something more than a man . Deep down , Joe have sex that his beginner did to the non-Christian priest what he did to B.J. Vines , even if he ’s buried the memory under a false one . In decree to warrant his don ’s actions all those years ago , and his own with Vines , Joe has had to mythologize the matter chasing him to keep his sanity .
What Dark Winds' Ye’iitsoh Says About Monsters & Men
It’s A Truth Joe Has Needed To Accept For Far Too Long
Joe ’s stock of work has bring him into contact with some of the darkest theatrical role of human nature , and it ’s intelligible that he might need to project the evil enactment of men onto supernatural means . It ’s hard to make do with the fact that there is true evil in the world , but not from a devil or a monster or a devil . Instead , that wickedness lie in in man , and the most heinous , atrocious acts are invest by men . gentleman just like Joe - who has himself committed his own atrocious act , even if it was done in the serve of atone for past atrocities and heading off succeeding ones .
The conversation Joe has with dream Henry also finally explain something that ’s been a linger inquiry : why he resents Joe for render to the Navajo reservation to become a copper . He knew that finally , Joe would be forced to make the same decision he did age ago when he ordain his own " Native American judge " on the pedophile non-Christian priest , and he never need that for his son .
It ’s especially understandable considering that Joe ’s entire lifetime has been spend attempt to seek Justice Department against evil men , like the priest , long before he was a bull . But the dream edition of Henry finally secernate Joe the truth he want to lastly acknowledge : there are no monsters , only world . " Someone must have been able to see that he was a monster , " articulate a defeated Joe of the non-Christian priest so long ago . " That ’s the thing , boy , " say Henry . " He was n’t a goliath . He was just a humans . There ’s no such matter as monstrosity . There ’s just people who do uncollectible thing and other people who do bad things to stop them . "
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" He was n’t a freak . He was just a man . There ’s no such thing as monsters . There ’s just citizenry who do bad affair and other people who do defective thing to stop them . "
The ambition conversation forces Joe to accept the realism he ’s long wanted to nullify : the priest was n’t a monster . The Ye’iitsoh he keeps seeing is n’t a ogre . And B.J. Vines was n’t a monstrosity . They were just men who did bad thing , just like Joe . It put him on the same layer as the malefactor he puts away , except he does his bad deeds in the name of justice rather than criminality . In the end , as his father implies , it might not matter why they do it , only that they do .
Dark Winds Season 3 Release Schedule
Episode #
Title
Release Date ( 9 p.m. EDT )
Episode 1
" Ye’iitsoh ( Big Monster ) "
March 9
Episode 2
" Náá’tsoh ( Big eye ) "
March 16
Episode 3
" Ch’į́į́dii ( Ghosts ) "
March 23
sequence 4
" Chahałheeł ( Darkness Falls ) "
March 30
Episode 5
" Tsékǫ̨ ' Hasą́ní ( Coal Mine Canyon ) "
April 6
sequence 6
" Ábidoo’niidę́ę́ ( What We Had Been Told ) "
April 13
Episode 7
" T’áá Áłts’íísígo ( Just a Small Piece ) "
April 20
Episode 8
" Béésh Łį́į́ ( Iron Horse ) "
April 27
It could be seen as a rather nihilistic view of how Joe must approach his job , but in another elbow room , it can be seen as forced pragmatism in a earth that will always favor white world ’s jurist . In the benighted time of year ofDark Windsyet , it ’s meet that the series finally efface the demarcation line blood line between monsters and men and reassert that there is no need for supernatural goliath when men walk the earth . They ’re evil enough .
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