Farewell
Episode 8 of Locke and Key Season 3 is a dramatic turnaround as Godie is flatlining in the ambulance and it seems all hope is lost. However, he’s brought back from the brink with enough time for Kinsey, Ellie and Tyler to bust through to the other side with the Creation Key. ..
Gideon takes down both cops, but not before taking a whole bunch of bullets to the chest. Unfortunately, Sam is lost to Godie’s memories as, despite restarting his heart momentarily, Godie eventually passes away.
Ellie hurriedly explains to Kinsey how the Creation Key works and encourages them to run. As for her and Rufus, they intend to go the other way. Gideon follows Kinsey and Tyler through town where they use the Creation key and basically show every single person in a bar how it works, drawing a lock that suddenly comes to life. They scramble through the other side, draw a lock and hurry on.
Kinsey uses a Deus ex machina device to get out of trouble. Gideon arrives from the hospital and runs down Josh who’s catching up fast, knocking him out and buying the kids precious moments to escape. Unfortunately, Gideon takes Josh’s car and narrowly misses Josh’s head. as he drives off.
Gideon loses control of the car and it eventually goes up in flames. Gideon survives the ensuing crash and pursues them on foot instead. By the time he stumbles to Key House, it’s late at night and he follows Tyler to the Well, where he and the other Locke’s have concocted a plan to use the Creation key to conjure forth an excavator. With Bode driving it because… reasons I guess?
Gideon is too strong for the excavator arm and it breaks. Gideon jumps onto the excavator and rips it apart, freeing himself from the well.
Kinsey uses the Creation Key to make a door at the top of the Harlequin unbreakable chest to break in and snatch up the Alpha Key. Even though we were told nothing would break into it, I guess this is a good enough loophole to exploit.
Nina pushes Gideon into the swirling portal in the living room. The keys are the ahem key to all this, so Tyler decides to toss all of them inside so they can be rid of them forever.
Everyone in the room except for Bode agrees that Bode should keep the keys to their dad’s house. Except for Bode, who wants to keep them for a final purpose.
The Rendell family show up to meet him and embrace him. Kinsey, Tyler, and Bode all mention key moments in their lives as Rendell eventually tells them he’s proud of the kids. He implores them to go on and live their lives.
According to Rendell, he won’t remember anything when he goes back, so when the time runs out, he eventually heads back to Key house and throws each of the keys in the portal.
Kinsey is conflicted about leaving the family for study abroad. She’s excited to see the Splattering 2 release in theatres, but her parents are worried about her safety. Kinsey decides to stay with the family and enjoy their meal at Locke house.
Josh and Bode come around to the idea of Josh dating his mother, while the body floating down the river is never found. Tyler also starts dating Carly, while Kinsey is on talking terms and texting her too. So it’s a happy ending all round guys… if you exclude the whispering coming from the house when the gang shut the doors! ..
The Episode Review
Locke and Key ended its third season with a rather anticlimactic fight with Gideon and hastily wrapping up a lot of its plotlines. The character arcs have been pretty poor this season too, typified by the simple but underdeveloped issues between characters.
The showrunners decided to give us very little development time for Tyler and Carly, and then move on to best buds Bode and Josh. We barely had any screen time with them, and even when we did it was very limited. This lack of development time was a huge letdown, as we were left with very little to work with.
Bode is the main cause of all the bad things that happen this season, minus Nina locking him outside in the snow globe. Well, I guess he learned that from his mother! ..
The showrunners have tried to push the story forward by making it seem like these characters are idiots and that they should have known better. The length of time it took anyone to realize Bode wasn’t himself is another example and a clear blemish on this season.
The whole Timeshift Key meddling has caused problems throughout the continuity of how time travel works in this show. Although we learn that everyone forgets by the time they re-enter the original time period, we don’t really see much resolution when it comes to Dodge.
It’s been assumed that the timeline goes back to how it was but the rules were pretty hazy up to this point and I genuinely thought at one point that Gideon would get his portal, destroy the world and then we’d jump back in time and stop that happening using the key. And just to add fuel to the fire, couldn’t the gang have used the Timeshift Key and stopped Gideon in the past and killed him to prevent any of this happening?
This third season ends with a whimper rather than a roar, and you can understand why they’ve saved the Creation key (aka. the deus ex machina device) until last. This Key could have literally saved everyone but instead they show off the magic to a whole bar full of people!
Despite the problems, hardcore fans of “The Walking Dead” should enjoy this season. However, there are many issues that are difficult to ignore. Unfortunately, this third season does not come close to the first in terms of quality. Still, at least we get an ending and not another cliffhanger doomed to cancellation hell!
