The Ending of Raised by Wolves Season 2 ACTUALLY Explained 

Sol & Mithraism Explained: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ZznOjd760k.html

This show is criminally underrated so I appreciate seeing SOME coverage on it

I like how he doesn't have an army of Funko Pops and toys in the background, so innovative.

My theory: Humans originally started on Kepler 22b, and they started fucking around with Dark Photons, and it created AI. From here the AI is programmed to protect human life, but it has two opposing ideas on how to do it. One side thought to preserve humanity by protecting them with technology, the other thought it best to just assimilate all humanity into the planet itself. Former: Shepards. Latter: Sol (this is a clever play on Sol, most connect it to Sun, but what if it’s really “Sole”, as in One). This also split the human populous, into Believers and Technocrats (it’s portrayed that Sol was Manipulating his previous followers, but I think they genuinely “Believed” in the concept). This is the key behind the devolving, it’s not actually devolving, it’s just separating the human “soul” (Sol, hehe, see) from the organism, leaving whatever left to be an animal with only basic instincts, with the remaining data being assimilated. The first idea the technocrats had was to build a shield that would stop Sol (Tropical Zone). It worked for a time, but Sol and his followers found a method to break into the Zone by implanting the Sol mind in Giant Snake Weapons (More thematic WMD shit) This worked, and The Shepards only solution was to leave Kepler for a more suitable planet, which would be Earth. By the skin of there teeth, the last remaining technocrats escape and settle on Earth. However, in the midst of the technocrats, there are two followers of Sol (reference to Romulus and Remus) that bring with them the instructions and schematics on how to harness Dark Photons, in an effort to recreate Sol on Earth. However these two are lost to time somehow and are buried with all the plans. 10s of thousands of years later, humanity progresses on Earth normally, until humanity reaches a tipping point due to the lack of resources. This is when the Sol Believers and there plans are discovered, and Dark Photons save humanities energy crisis. However, an extremely religious ruling class emerges (The Mithraic, basically capitalizing off of a world in shambles and giving them a belief system that ACTUALLY worked). From one extremist group to another, the Atheists are founded to fight against this oppressive regime. The Atheist/Mithraic war happens, and because they misunderstood the Believers plans, Kepler 22b was chosen as a holy destination, instead of our origin point. From there the events of the show progress until Grandma is brought back to life. As soon as she figures out what time, and where she is (the scene where father is talking to her, and she appears to shut down), she goes “Oh shit, these idiots came back, AND destroyed Earth. Fuck, let’s try the fish man plan again. A different form of de-evolution that would maintain the basics of humanity, but with an eroded enough Soul that Sol considers it useless. Not only does this explain things. It’s thematically resonant. RBW loves playing with duality/two halves of the same whole, and blind faith leading to destruction. It’s also a special kind of ironic, the whole thing. How both the Athiests/Mithraic overtime, completely switched ideologies (Believers in a collective turning humanist, and vice versa), and the entire goal being to ESCAPE Kepler instead of going there. Either that or time travel.

There are a couple things that I think you missed. The half way devolved human gave mother the cards not following Sol's orders but as a warning not to birth the serpent. This is why Sol ordered Paul to destroy the cards. Remember the half-way devolved human attempted to push mother into the hole as a last resort but mother killed him. The show-runner stated he was from a group of half devolved humans that now live underground after escaping the surface that remember what happened in the planets past.

Shepherds and Necromancers are two different kinds of androids. Grandmother makes a point of calling Mother "the weapon." I don't think she would mention this if she were a weapon too. It's pointed out that Grandmother has something unknown in place of Mother's weapons system.

🤔 At first I thought the “Number 7” tree was new, but isn’t it just the “Sue” tree in a zombified form? Number 7 didn’t really digest the tree, so when it died, the Sue tree broke out of the dead serpent body. Super creepy scene!

Season 3 needs to be made. Period.

It blows my mind how underrated this show is, not talked about enough.

The term "raised by wolves" is a metaphore for when humans are raised by another creature (Like the wolves in the Romulus and Remus story or even the Jungle book). Here in the begining of the story children are raised by beings who once hunted and killed humans like them. Hence the metaphore of "wolves". What's more when Mowgli was raised by wolves he was a wild child, not knowing the ways of human social behaviour.

My guess is the fruit from the tree prevents humans from devolving. That’s why Campion shows signs of devolving because he didn’t eat the fruit. I think that sol’s true purpose might be more complicated and morally ambiguous.

My dude. This was the best breakdown, recap and theory video of this entire series on RU-vid right now. I watch most all of everyone making RBW content from OneTake, Think Story, AsArt, AltSchwiftX.. and your nearly 23 minute video flew by way too fast as it was just so well executed. If you don't mind putting in more 4 day chunks of your life into these videos, you have got yourself a subscriber my friend! Great stuff, keep up the good work!

The opening song and visuals are what first drew me to the show. It really sets the tone.

To rectify the explanation of Lamia that you gave, Hera cursed Lamia to be unable to sleep after finding out she slept with her husband, and Zeus offered Lamia the ability to remove and reinsert her eyes, so that she could sleep.

I absolutely love how bat shit mental this show is. Its not for everyone, hell, not every episode is for me, but it is never boring, feels totally fresh and original and you absolutely have no idea what is going to turn into what and how unpleasant a characters fate is going to be one minute to the next. I love it. Excellent breakdown, there were things I'd missed and I've watched it intently!

This season 2 of Raised by wolves drives me so crazy the best SF series ever seen. More intense than the first season Aaron Guzikowski announced 5 season he is the creator the screenwriters and the collaboration with Ridley Scott gives this series a unique universe.

Tempest’s baby began changing after touching Grandmother. Not long after, her pregnancy accelerated and had the baby early. Grandmother also showed Father the same creature that would take her baby. Therefore, I believe Grandmother altered the baby’s DNA and allowed it to survive the acid. Also great call out on the creatures being interested in the babies.

This is easily one of THE BEST, currently available, sci-fi series! And everyday I pray to Sol that it doesn't get cancelled! Great vid man, thx for the upload.

1. Grandmother mutated Tempest’s baby when it was still in the womb. You see an “ultrasound” of the baby on Grandmother’s veil when she does it, and we see Tempest feel it when this is happening. The baby starts to develop much faster after this happens, which might mean that Grandmother also did something to Tempest at the same time to accelerate gestation. That moment when Tempest goes into Father’s workshop is why the baby was acid resistant. 2. Romulus’ tooth doesn’t devolve humans. It is a relic from an android, possibly cyborg, individual. What Marcus found was a cyborg, a devolved human that was encapsulated inside what might be called an android exosuit. The android exosuit was mostly powered down, just acting as a sort of stasis pod for the devolved human inside. The tooth provided a jolt, sort of like fuel blood, to allow it to power up but it wasn’t enough for it to maintain its integrity, so it fell apart, revealing the just-awakened devolved human. This points to a kind of symbiosis that was occurring on the planet between devolved humans and mechanical life such as the androids. This may have been a way to try to counter the devolution, by mechanically compensating for the physical and mental deficiencies with an android exterior that made the devolved human more like a regular human.

I will never forgive HBOMAX's cancellation of the unique series RAISED BY WOLVES created by Aaron Guzikowski and produced by Ridley Scott. Lamia interpreted by Amanda Collin father I will miss the children.

NecroMarcus 😂 What a great explanation. I definitely would love to hear more

I’ve really enjoyed this show and hope it returns for another few season. After watching each episode I’d listen to a couple podcast about it to try to understand it better. I should have just watched this 20m and saved a couple dozen hours, because I have learned vastly more from this video. Super well done. Thank you. 🤙🏽

What a show! Can't wait for season 3.

I’m in awe of the way you deeply understand all the shows you cover on this channel 👏🏽

And then HBO cancelled it.

You did a great job on this video. Your commentary on it was one of the best I've seen. This is one of the best shows that no one is talking about so I appreciate your coverage on it.

Great show. Binge watched 2 seasons in 24 hours. Was really disappointed to learn after finishing season 2 that they didnt continue for a 3rd season.

Go for it! We need these videos to go all the way to part 90. Best breakdown I’ve seen yet!

I haven't watched season 2 yet. But the first few minutes of this video is the encouragement I needed to finally make my way though it. 😎👍 I'll come back and watch the rest of this video when I'm done.

I follow a good amount of channels that are covering this show and you have connected more dots than all the other ones.

The data contained in this audio/video feed has fully satisfied my care-giving protocol. Very well put indeed.

Hands down the best explainer I've seen. Would love to hear any theories/predictions for next season too and any additional analysis

Interesting the trust had the same idea as grandmother to alter the genes of humans for their survival. The problem is that she isn't realizing that humans aren't humans anymore so her mission objective failed this is only possible cause she had no emotional contact to humans to realize what is their defining essence if this essence is destroyed they aren't humans anymore.

One of the best shows I’ve binged since Breaking Bad. So many truly memorable characters and all the plausible back-stories the show LOST totally failed to explain or even bother with. Def need a season three!

Just wanted to say thank you so much for this! I can’t believe how much effort you put into your video. I watched the ThinkStory ending explained video first and thought it was just ok. This is way more in depth. I really appreciate you.

so well put together bc i’m going to have an aneurysm trying to explain this show to someone in a concise way

Bryce, well done. Thanks for providing the explanation. I said you would love it. Please do part 2,3,4. Remember There is a possible time loop over thousands or millions of years.

Yes! More of this. Thanks so much

Loved some of the stuff you pointed out. Totally onboard for watching a part 2-90 :)

This was a great analysis and I feel like you only scratched the surface. I would love to see more from you on this series.

Yes! Please do more! You helped me understand so much in this video.

Oh my lord what a detective work you have done just to break down this season! My favorite sci-fi show in a long time beside the Expanse.

I hope Amazon does another "Expanse" and picks this one up for S3 and further.

Best review of the entire series, not just season 2. Great work brother! If you see the show and need explanations (as we all should, it being so complex) this is my recommendation! Cheers from Romania, man 😎

Yes!! Please more RBW, it was such an insightful explanation and I would love to hear more.

It's a shame it got cancelled - although not unexpected, since it was smart, original scifi. BUT I would have loved to have heard what you would make of season 3 - had there been one - bcs this synopsis and explanation were fantastic - very satisfying!

This was phenomenal!!! So insightful! I wanna rewatch season 1 and 2 now

Please do more. This was an amazing explanation!

Loved this video; I appreciate other fans of the show bc it, as others have pointed out, is absolutely underrated. I’m really hoping you do more videos in the interim bc it honestly didn’t even occur to me that Marcus may have been turned into a human-necromancer.

Your voice is even more magical when we can see it come out of your mouth. You should do VO work man.

Great breakdown Bryce! Would love to hear season 3 speculations and predictions. Love the "NecroMarcus" and how this upside down sword is going to confront grandma! Great video, thanks for having it ~20min and not 2 hours of rambling!

It's amazing ! with the donations from the petition they were able to put this screen " RAISED BY WOLVES WE NEED A SEASON 3 " on TIME SQUARE 🗽

Best show in years

I think sol is the light (the sun of Kepler) and is in a quantum chess match with the core of the planet and they are both quantum computers (religion and no religion) that transcend our perception of time

Brilliant review of this amazing series!

I love Raised by Wolves! Your breakdown and explanation is not only hilarious, but easy to follow. You've connected some dots where I didn't even know dots existed! Please Sir, may I have some more? Review go BOOM! God left the chat.

I can't believe I found out about this wonderful show the day it was cancelled. What a drag

Awesome job! So much great information!

Flawless explanation! Thank you!

Top notch review. I appreciate your comprehensive breakdown. I’m really hoping it gets picked up for season 3 (5 total planned seasons per the creator) Any guesses on where they’re going with some of the characters and/or story based on the symbolism and allusions?

Really great recap! I will add that so far the children who have begun devolving are Campion and Tempest's baby. We get the explanation for the baby (mermom milk), but if Campion is being affected by the game, then everyone else should be seeing symptoms too. What is actually causing his changes is the fungus I think. He's eaten a lot more fungus than everyone else, if you include the type he found in the pits in season one. Granny also made a point of directing them to eat the plentiful sea fungus, so that likely isn't just to keep them from eating human meat. So what's the starfish game about? My guess is either that it 'reprograms' the colonists (brainwashing, like with Cleaver), and/or it simply helps keep them occupied so that they are too busy to notice what's happening or to be influenced by the entity.

The best breakdown I have watched yet!

Happy I came over this one. I found out about RbW recently but don't have the time or patients to watch a drama series. Your breakdown was very welcome to getting me up to speed so I can keep an eye on this gem!

I have a question that is bothering me. If the "entity" couldn't penetrate the EMF field in the tropical zone, how did Sue have the vision that saved Paul?

I'm not sure when exactly the Entity came out of it's hibernation but I believe it had already reached out to Ortho before Campion accidentally caused that smaller craft to crash down into that hole. But definitely, the creatures didn't show themselves till a pregnant Tempest showed up.

That was a great recap. Loved the history of Keppler-22 with the technocrats. This is one of the best TV shows I've seen in a while.

Sad this got canned after season 2 because of the acquisition between companies. Be really nice if Netflix or someone else picked it up to keep it going. Thank you for this.

Excellent explanation of this brilliant show!

Need more of this

Hands down the best explanation of the show ...much respect my guy

I love this series and I think the way you presented both a explanation and a recap without to many spoilers it will make people who’ve heard of the title but weren’t sure whether it was a series worth investing their time into; after seeing your video will give it a chance and like the rest of us, fall in love with it. I hope you can do more Raised By Wolves Explained videos after the 3rd season comes out.

Thank you for your explination, I am sorry the series wasn't renewed so we could see how your interpretations panned out. I really enjoyed it.

Great Breakdown! This show is criminally underrated. Theory for start of Season 3 - The Entity (Sol) will contact mother through the Simulation and offer to free her. In return she must destroy Grandmother for him which is in both their interests, as they both don't want humanity devolving into Sea Creatures. I think Marcus is some how possessed by Sol and he will release mother.

Great review! I would like to add my idea of what the Entity's ultimate goal is. As you explained wonderfully what grandmother's goals with humans is, devolution, I believe the Entity's goal is the same just in a different direction. Instead devolution, grandmother's idea, the Entity is working to Evolve humanity into the next, more advanced species. The Entity induced vision of Campion to mother in the SIM tells mother that humans will always destroy themselves and that what she will give birth to is the real reason she is there on Kepplar. I believe the entity uses the idea of God/spirituality to manipulate humans into engaging in the ceremonies depicted in those cards in able to create that more advanced hybrid bio/tech species. The Entity's original goal was most likely to serve humanity but ultimately, like grandmother, tired of the continual destructional loops of self destruction. So, like grandmother, the Entity also "Altered the Equation" to make it's directives fit. "IT EQUATES!!!!".

Just finished the show. And found your channel. Nice video, will most definitely be looking for more videos on your channel 👍🏼.

Dope Review. Dope Series. I hope there will be a Season 2.

I fckin love Raised by Wolves.

Amazing video. Keep making these. It helped a lot to understand what’s going on

The greatest Sci Fi TV series ever created ❤ But we need an ending, at least end it with season 3

The show feels like LOST. They make up stuff as they go and there are a lot of plot lines that will not lead to anywhere. S2 CGI was terrible, absolutely laughable BUT i feel like the story is interesting and bizzare enough as to keep me hooked. I believe S3 will either make or break the show. If they add more questions than answers i feel people will just gradually stop watching out of frustration and boredome.

I think the Trust and Sol are the wolves doing the raising, not Mother and Father. Adding Grandmother changes everything, since the androids are being raised themselves, as shown with mother "evolving" new types of processing. It's Machines vs Organisms at the bare minimum. Necromancers are both, so they are the battle ground

Superbly compiled. Thank you!

Excellent review on quite frankly, a mind fuck of a show. I’ve watched a couple other reviews from established RU-vid channels, but your review was by far the best. Your breakdown was epic. You sir got yourself another subscriber.

#RenewRaisedByWolves

I don't think Sol is evil, I think he is misunderstood 🤔 I think the real enemy are the technocrats and GM because she is de-evolving the humans.

Excellent video! You gave a very concise and thorough review of 2 seasons of an excellent show. Hopefully we will see a third season soon!

More parts please! Also, the reflection of the lights on the veil are different between Mother and Grandmother, with Mother having a circle disconnected at the top in an almost ouroboros-like fashion while Grandmother has a starburst similar to the Mithraic.

Best analysis by far! Keep going! Thanks.

Thanks you for the summary! Very great ideas!

Very good video ! Thank u ! u explain some thing i missed

best explanation. You got everything spot on 💯

Very Entertaining. I hope there are more seasons to come (please). Love your recap. It's clever and makes all the pieces...understood or not...come together. I'm a huge fan of Travis Fimmel and Abubakar Salim so I had to watch this series. Travis from the Vikings series and Abubakar as the voice of Bayak of Siwa from the Assassin's Creed Origins game. Strangeness in a series in not new to me as I've also watched American Gods. Thanks Bryce!!!

Thanks for the breakdowns

If you could go all the way up to making 90 parts, I would watch it!! I love this show and have so many thoughts on it, but I have no one to talk about it with. So it’s really cool to watch videos with other people talking about my favorite shows.

Wowwwwwww! I was so confused when I was watching this show so this explains it super well! Thank you!!!!

Good job. I’ve been following a metric shit ton of theories and breakdowns. And from what I’ve learned, Guzakowski got a plan for a grand total of 5 seasons. I’m hoping viewership numbers stay up enough to have more seasons filmed. It’s very interesting and I’d love to have all these questions answered.

Fantastic job! Very insightful and entertaining!

amazing break down, thank u

Def one of the best breakdowns so far, would love for you to more & thnx

This was brilliant! Thank yooouuuuu 🖤 🐺