7 questions Raised By Wolves season 3 needed to answer

Marcus Drusus and his destiny

Marcus Drusus (Travis Fimmel), or Caleb, as he was known back before he murdered the real Marcus and stole his face and identity, was a fascinating character whose delusions about his own grand destiny often led him to commit horrible acts. Back when Earth was on the verge of destruction, Marcus and his wife Sue (Niamh Algar) murdered two Mithraic and then had an android perform plastic surgery on them so that they could take the fallen zealots’ place on the last convoy leaving the planet.

When last we saw Marcus, his former Mithraic comrade Lucius (Matias Varela) had just crucified him upside down on the tree which sprouted from snake-baby Number Seven’s corpse. This was done at the instruction of Sol, who was speaking directly to Lucius in his mind, so we knew there was some kind of crazy ulterior motive to the whole thing.

The final shot of the Raised By Wolves season 2 finale is Marcus, who mysteriously escaped his crucifixion and was floating in the air above the tree in an upside-down facsimile of the Necromancer flight pose. Season 2 spent a lot of time exploring the idea of “botanitech,” or biologically grown technology, from the Tree of Knowledge to Grandmother being “regrown.”

So did Sol transform Marcus into some kind of android using this botanitech? Of all Raised By Wolves season 2’s cliffhangers, this might be the biggest.

The true nature of Sol

Speaking of Sol, the alien signal which was masquerading as a deity, there are still an awful lot of questions we have about it. Season 2 established that its signal seems to be coming from the center of the planet. From a few previous sequences, like Marcus’ descent into the Mithraic temple in season 2 and Mother and Father’s journey through the planet’s core in season 1, we know that there’s a vast network of tunnels and unknown mysteries beneath the surface of Kepler-22b.

How did Sol get down there? Has it always been down there? What exactly is its true nature, and what does it want? Grandmother explained during the season finale that Sol was trying to destroy Kepler-22b back in the ancient days, which is why the human population was devolved into sea creatures; apparently, without humans to control and manipulate, Sol fell back into slumber.

But clearly that didn’t take, since Sol found ways to manipulate the human population of Earth to seek out Kepler-22b.

Really, Sol is the mystery of Raised By Wolves, the one that all other mysteries revolve around. To end the show without explaining it more thoroughly is the hardest pill to swallow.