9/14/2023 0 Comments 1883 tv series episodes![]() Elsa has never before given us such specific insight into future events. We also learn that both Colton and Wade will die somewhere along the Oregon trail. Both these events occur before the episode end.Īs the Duttons cross into Montana, we learn through Elsa’s narration that the remainder of the wagon train will soon die at the hands of bandits. Risa is dying and Josef requires amputation. The rest of the wagon train ill-advisedly continues west. Shea, Thomas, Noemi, Josef, Risa, and the Duttons (so: the main characters) head north. He will ride north to Montana instead of continuing west. There is no point in going to the fort for help. He is told what he already expects: Elsa will not live much longer. It is fitting that both Elsa’s journey (and also Shea’s) should end with a restored vision, of sorts.īefore all that, James takes Elsa into a military camp, seeking a doctor. Writer Taylor Sheridan has been peppering the series with discussion about eyes and sight. She goes from clarity to fear and back to clarity. The episode in many ways tracks Elsa’s acceptance of her fate within a landscape she has spent the journey contemplating, hating, admiring. Despite this clarity, Elsa will soon spiral into fear, realizing she doesn’t understand death. She notices a hawk circling (the last thing she will ever see at the end of the episode is also a bird). She says the world has become clearer as she nears death. We have yet to learn from where the narration originates-if Elsa wrote it down, or tells it later, if Elsa survived. The episode opens as each one before it: with Elsa’s narration. (A flashback to 1893 also shows James parleying with a tribal leader, so we know they were on somewhat good terms a decade after settling.)Īnyway, enough speculating. Something must have happened between the Duttons and the native tribes during that time. ![]() (But we can’t go having our protagonist go stealing this land, now can we? So, James is gifted the land.) What’s interesting to note is that over a hundred years from this moment, James' descendant, John Dutton III, will go to great lengths to prevent the Broken Rock Reservation from taking back any of this territory (like, not even a small part). It’s a strange interaction, given what the tribe must know about settlers and the violence and land theft in their wake. James says by that time they can take it. (We’re guessing the hunting patterns shift, and the tribe no longer sees that land as desirable in the short term.) He also tells James to remember that his people will one day want the land back-seven generations from now. He has James promise to allow his people to return and hunt that land when they see fit. When James and the remaining wagon train come across a native tribe in Montana, one of the tribal leaders shows James the land that will later become the Yellowstone. One interesting conversation did occur, however. If his family sacrificed so much to settle the land, perhaps he owes them some effort in preserving it. This lack of further continuity may have served the series best, allowing it to stand alone as its own story, while also providing some justification for John’s future actions. Nothing in 1883 gave us any insight or foreshadowing into season 5 of Yellowstone (unless Beth dies in John’s arms under a tree). The connection to Yellowstone, however, seems to include only this fact of discovery. ![]() Somehow, we blame Beth for Elsa’s death, too.) (At least she wasn’t crushed to death by a horse on that land like her great granddaughter-in-law will be. Still, we wondered up until the end, whether John’s grandaunt would survive the rest of the journey, if Sam would come to rescue her one final time, and if maybe her children and her children’s children would somehow factor into the upcoming season of Yellowstone, or 1932. To paraphrase real-life cowgirl Hannah Montana: it’s all about the journey.Īfter the events of episode 9, where Elsa was shot through with an arrow and given the exacting 19 th century prognosis of “eh, probably dead in a week or so,” we knew we were in for a heavy final episode. But for many other characters, including Shea, Thomas, and the migrants, the journey ended, well, we guess it also ended kind of how we expected. The first season of 1883 concluded where we expected it might, at least for the Dutton clan, who we knew would stop in Montana and settle the ranch, the Yellowstone, inherited by John Dutton III (Kevin Costner) decades later. We’ve reached the end of the road-Oregon, the coast, the Yellowstone, and, for many, the grave. Read more: Everything We Know About 1883 Season 2. The following contains spoilers for season 1 of 1883. ![]()
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