Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20151214072011

Let's figure out exactly who's thoughts the song comes from, who words are directed at, and if this foreshadowing for this season or for the entire story at large.

The game, the intro to this season, keeps coming up off and on in lots of threads. But I'd like to make at least one thread to siff thru all the ideas and fully understand the plan of the villains. It seems at times the baddies are even smarter than the adult goodies. Sad thing is, it's true they'll even fooled Oz, Glyn, and Iron.

"Maybe red's like roses? Maybe it's the pool of blood,  The innocents will lay in,  When in the end, you've failed to save them?"

"Their dying eyes, Are wide and white like snow,  And now they know the cost of trusting you's obliteration."

"Mirrors will shatter, Crushed by the weight of the world.  The pillars collapse in shame."

"There'll be no rest, There'll be no love,  There'll be no hero in the end,  Who will rise above."

"And when it ends, The good will crawl,  The shining light will sink in darkness,  Victory for hate incarnate,  Misery and pain for all.

When it falls.."

The song seems to be the polar opposite of most songs in the series. The first line alone gave me the impression that it'd be something Cinder would muse aloud it she heard Ruby's theme in her intro teaser trailer when the series first debuted. Almost like say "Red like roses? Scoffs. More like its a pool of blood."

The verse after seems to be her contempt for heroes and how she predicts they downfall. How they'll fail the people and ultimately be a victim to their own hubris. As if they had no hope of winning to begin with. I can't tell if Cinder is arrogant because she is secretly much more experienced than the rest of the teens or because she knows some precious info that no one else knows. Her "I know something you don't know" smile seems to be implying both.

The "mirrors will shatter" part I still am convince is directed at Ironwood though. As if she knows all the guns and ships in the world won't stop what's coming and it only give false sense of security. They even show Ironwood thru a good part of the intro when this is said. The "shame" I think implies he's lose his standing with his friends, soldier and even other politicians around the world due to a huge blunder at crunch time.

Skipping to the ending lines of "the good" crawling and "shinning light" sinking into darkness and "victory for hate incarnate".... hmmm... wow. Lots of pure rage in that. And in the intro the same black wavy sphere from season 1's intro is seen. What is that? Does the just represent evil? The Grimm? Or could that be the real boss behind Cinder. Maybe the real mouth behind the more dire aggressive words said by the narrarator in ep 001. 