7 questions Raised By Wolves season 3 needed to answer

Will Campion become humanity’s leader?

Season 2 of Raised By Wolves introduced us to the Atheist Collective on Kepler-22b, a sect of humans who followed the strict orders of a sentient quantum computer known as the Trust. Despite the fact that the Trust was seemingly programmed to lead humanity with an iron fist, it always insisted that it would one day “pass the baton” once a human with the suitable traits to lead had been identified. After Mother (Amanda Collin) deactivated the Trust in retaliation for it nearly killing Paul (Felix Jamieson), she assumed de facto control of the Atheist colony but insisted that she too would pass the baton when the time was right.

But unlike the Trust, Mother knew exactly who she wanted to pass the baton to: Campion (Winta McGrath), the sole surviving child who was artificially birthed by her and Father on Kepler-22b. On the one hand, Mother has always seemed a little biased in her belief that Campion should lead humanity. On the other, Campion has demonstrated time and again that he’s the only one who truly empathizes with both humans and androids equally. Because he never knew Earth and grew up raised by androids, he has a unique worldview that does feel particularly well-suited to bringing everyone together. And technically, he’s the only human aside from Tempest’s baby that’s actually native to Kepler-22b.

Season 2 spent a decent amount of time exploring how Campion might react to leadership, with Mother pushing him to gradually assume the role. Whether Campion would one day bring the inhabitants of Kepler-22b together is a lingering question that Raised By Wolves surely would have addressed in future seasons.

Are there any more snake-babies out there?

Another huge element of Raised by Wolves season 2 was Number Seven, the colossal flying serpent that I very affectionately took to calling snake-baby. During season 1, Mother found out that she had been somehow impregnated by Sol, but was horrified when the thing she gave birth to turned out not to be human, but a flying snake. Despite her best efforts to destroy it, Number Seven survived and went on to grow to a massive size in season 2.

Snake-baby had a pretty huge arc throughout the season, beginning as a scary but seemingly harmless herbivore. However, once the Tree of Knowledge was planted (aka, botanitech gruesomely transformed Sue into the living tree), Number Seven lost it and flew off. We found out that the true nature of the Tree and its disgusting fleshy Sue-fruits was that they existed for the serpent to devour. In doing so, it gained a hardwire to Sol’s power that worked even in the tropical zone. As a result it grew eldritch tentacles and became much more powerful and aggressive.

After killing a bunch of people and chasing after Campion out of brotherly jealousy, Mother finally put an end to Number Seven once she donned a sensory dampening veil that would let her harm the serpent in spite of her caregiving protocols. Their showdown in space was the most breathtaking moment in the season 2 finale.

However, after snake-baby died, another small tree popped out of its corpse. Marcus would later be nailed to it and seemingly transformed, so we can presume it had the same hardwire connection to Sol.

What is the connection between this serpent and Sol? Were these ancient creatures of Kepler-22b? And most importantly, would we have seen more of them if the show had gone on?

Even though snake-baby was killed, it definitely felt like there were still more layers of its mystery to be unraveled.