Buffy Normal Again Fan Theory Smile
It'southward been a disappointing Yellowstone season thus far. Season 4 promised lots of rolling heads, and while we've gotten a number of fist fights and shootouts, their consequences haven't been fully felt: the assault on the Duttons remains generally unaddressed, and the reservation's interest in that menace as well seems to have waned. In place of the larger threats to the Yellowstone and the Dutton family unit, nosotros've mostly seen interpersonal drama and melodramatic tensions between minor characters. The characters nosotros've come to love have as well soured, over-performing their roles in a drama series that—so far—is heading nowhere.
Fans, however, are theorizing that we're but setting the table for futurity showdowns. In episode 6 (recap hither), the showdown betwixt Lloyd and Walker finally went off. Only it was in the backwash of the fight that had fans reeling: after Rip stepped in to terminate the fight, he walked off upward the hill, trailed by this comment from Carter—"I know what I want to be when I abound upwardly. Him."
Carter had become more friendly with Lloyd over the last two episodes, when Lloyd compared the two of them to outcasts and showed Carter how to rope. Carter, however, seemed to lose respect for Lloyd, who he felt was mischaracterizing his own state of affairs. Later on Rip trounce down Lloyd, Carter seemed to have a revelation: if the selection is betwixt the blastoff and the beta, Carter wants to be alpha. Carter wants to be like Rip, not like Lloyd.
Why the series is spending time on this human relationship, fans are theorizing, is to gear up up another generational clash, this ane between the series' young sons, Carter and Tate.
We're not sure how likely this matchup volition be, only we take to respect the theory. Here'south how it might play out.
Will Carter vs. Tate Be a Thing?
Start, nosotros take to remember the "rivalry" between Rip and Kayce. Both men accept silently competed for John's fatherly approval. While Rip worked hard and remained loyal, Kayce has had a more dissipated son arc, disobeying John, marrying a woman from the reservation, moving out, shirking ranch life, etc. Still, Kayce volition always be John's son, a fact that it seems has irked Rip. The tension exploded in a performative fistfight for alpha status in season 2, when Kayce was asked to have Rip'south chore.
That storyline more than or less fizzled out and Kayce and Rip have become closer to strong-headed brothers than enemies. Even so, there seems to exist some alpha tension there.
That man's world—with all its prideful violence—has too trickled down to the next generation. Both Tate and Carter have flirted with becoming a cowboy, both looking upward to their respective father figures as the exemplar. Sartorially, they share the aforementioned colors as their male parent figures—Tate often in lighter colors (wearing a beige cowboy chapeau) and Carter in black. Any fan of wild west cinema understands the imagery: the lighter cowboy hat usually corresponds to the heroic, the pure; the dark cowboy hat implies the anti-hero, and, sometimes, the villain.
Even if Tate and Carter don't square off, both their rites of passage will likely coincide, if only thematically. Their coming-of-age stories will occur simultaneously and perhaps pb them into opposite directions—and opposite loyalties.
These loyalties highlight what has been the basic tension of the serial—and one found entirely in the character of Kayce—since the very get-go episode.
For years, the series has awfully ready a showdown betwixt Rainwater and John, the two largest power players in the Montana land game—at least, before Market Equities became the enemy of each's enemy, making Rainwater and John awkward friends. (We've yet to come across the friction in that partnership, or even that partnership at all. We thought that conflict would include Beth and Angela Bluish Thunder. That rivalry besides hasn't materialized.)
The absenteeism of this antagonism has been a real issue this season, with only Garrett Randall continuing against John. His opposition, withal, has been less agricultural than existential: he wants John dead; he doesn't seem to care much about the country.
Anticipating a matchup betwixt Carter and Tate appropriately transfers some of the previous generation'south battles into a more than complex space. Neither Carter (only adopted into the Dutton family) nor Tate (whose loyalties are dissever betwixt the reservation and the ranch) has a specific dog in the fight. All the same, they lean the manner of their father figures: Carter is all in with Rip and John, while Tate walks the same narrow line as Kayce—both a rancher and an inhabitant of the reservation. (Tate, notwithstanding, has tribal blood, making his loyalties more complicated.)
However likely this future antagonism, its possibility underscores a lot of what we've been missing—namely the tension of the showtime seasons between the politics of the reservation (controlled past Rainwater) and the politics of the state (controlled past the Duttons). Kayce has always been the character defenseless in between. That Kayce seems to be over this dilemma has e'er felt strange to us. Perhaps it is a production of wanting to prolong the series, and so extend Kayce's character.
Whatever it is, it'south left the series in a less interesting place than where it was in seasons 1 and two. Perchance Tate and Carter tin can add something deeper back into the mix. It can't be less interesting than whatever the hell is happening in the bunkhouse—or in Texas.
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