History Headscratchers / AreYouAfraidOfTheDark

* In the 2019 revival, what is meant when they say that they will never contact Rachel if they do not like her story? Are they saying that the group itself will never contact her or are they saying that the individual members of the group will never speak to her even in school or on the street?

* In "The Tale of the Water Demons", why didn't Captain Westchester simply move away years beforehand? The titular Water Demons seem to always appear out of the lake/ocean their ship sank in, and don't seem to move faster than a brisk walk. If you move inland, you could get a full night's rest without ever letting them get anywhere near you.

* At the end of "Tale of the Bookish Babysitter," after Ricky slays the witch, the ghost enters and turns into a king. It then says "And he was no longer doomed to wander the earth." Most people say that means no longer condemned to wander the earth as a restless spirit, going to Heaven, and other similar responses. If the king didn't come back to life (which is what I thought happened for the longest time), but was free to cross over, why did his appearance change?

*** Actually, at the end of the episode, once he's an old man, he bids farewell to Danny (he also calls her that for the first time) and says he's "going out back now to join [his] family. It's been far too long." He then tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, and then leaves the scene. So, yes, it's possible that ''he'' used ''them'', but not vice versa. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been the episode's antagonist, as he would no longer have existed. Then again, perhaps he did age because of them, but later retaliated and eventually gained the upper hand, which would explain why he ended up all alone. Perhaps he and his family got so greedy in stealing people's souls that, before they knew it, they were trying to steal ''each other's'' souls too, and it became a "contest" over who could steal the most souls and end up being the sole survivor.

** She really DidNotThinkThisThrough, true. She wanted to he the star of the theater, when it's ''Orpheo's'' Theater, therefore the spell turns her into Orpheo and the real Orpheo into a wax statue (killing him in the process). So she's now the star, but as Orpheo -- a magician -- and thus cursed by her own spell to always fail the trick.

*** In winter where this troper lives, it can be dark at 6 freaking pm.

*** Actually, at the end of the episode, once he's an old man, he bids farewell to Danny (he also calls her that for the first time) and says he's "going out back now to join [his] family. It's been far too long." He then tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, and then leaves the scene. So, yes, it's possible that ''he'' used ''them'', but not vice versa. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been the episode's antagonist, as he would no longer have existed. Then again, perhaps he did age because of them, but later retaliated and eventually gained the upper hand, which would explain why he ended up all alone. Perhaps he and his family got so greedy in stealing people's souls that, before they knew it, they were trying to steal ''each other's'' souls too, and it became a "contest" over who could steal the most souls and end up being the sole survivor.

* "''The Tale of the Phantom Cab''" doesn't make any sense and isn't really scary, but what's worse is that this story lets the new kid, Frank, in. Essentially, 2 brothers are lost in the woods, find a cabin where some weirdo demands a riddle answer, but they don't so he calls them a Cab, only for the Cab to be driven by a Ghost '''''in the woods''''' who is going to crash and kill the brothers until one of them solves the riddle and the Cab just vanishes. If I was a member of the Midnight Society, I would not allow Frank in with this ridiculous, not scary story. But they unanimously vote him in. Why? Those Kids really found the stupid story scary enough for their club?

*** Actually, at the end of the episode, once he's an old man, he bids farewell to Danny (he also calls her that for the first time) and says he's "going out back now to join [his] family. It's been far too long." He then tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, and then leaves the scene. So, yes, it's possible that ''he'' used ''them'', but not vice versa. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been the episode's antagonist, as he would no longer have existed. Then again, perhaps he did age because of them, but later retaliated and eventually gained the upper hand, which would explain why he ended up all alone. Perhaps he and his family got so greedy in stealing people's souls that, before they knew it, they were trying to steal ''each other's'' souls too, and it became a "contest" over who could steal the most souls and end up being the sole survivor.

*** Actually, at the end of the episode, once he's an old man, he bids farewell to Danny (he also calls her that for the first time) and says he's "going out back now to join [his] family. It's been far too long." He then tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, and then leaves the scene. So, yes, it's possible that ''he'' used ''them'', but not vice versa. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been the episode's antagonist, as he would no longer have existed. Then again, perhaps he did age because of them, but later retaliated and eventually gained the upper hand, which would explain why he ended up all alone. Perhaps he and his family got so greedy in stealing people's souls that, before they knew it, they were trying to steal ''each other's'' souls too, and it became a "contest" over who would steal the most souls and end up being the sole survivor.

*** Actually, at the end of the episode, once he's an old man, he bids farewell to Danny (he also calls her that for the first time) and says he's "going out back now to join [his] family. It's been far too long." He then tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, and then leaves the scene. So, yes, it's possible that ''he'' used ''them'', but not vice versa. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been the episode's antagonist, as he would no longer have existed. Then again, perhaps he did age because of them, but later retaliated and eventually gained the upper hand, which would explain why he ended up all alone. Perhaps he and his family got so greedy in stealing people's souls that, before they knew it, they were trying to steal each other's souls, and it became a "contest" over who would steal the most souls and end up being the sole survivor.

*** Actually, at the end of the episode, once he's an old man, he bids farewell to Danny (he also calls her that for the first time) and says he's "going out back now to join [his] family. It's been far too long." He then tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, and then leaves the scene.

** Thinks about Peter's family. He looks annoyed when finding out that Danielle found out "our" plan (which could mean his family) meaning the whole stealing people's life essence to stay young is implied to have been a thing his family's been doing for generations. One also wonders what happened to Peter's family: Did Peter use them to stay young as well or did they use him?

* In the video game: Mary laid a curse on the theater that magic would never again work onstage, and that she'd become the star of the theater. Did she not realize that she just cursed ''herself'' to perpetual failure?

** It's a television show.

* How did the members of the Midnight Society meet? In the first episode, they mention that they go to different schools and have different friends, and that they frankly have no connections to each other outside of the Midnight Society. Aside from the brothers Gary and Tucker, how did they meet to form the Society in the first place.

** They murdered their parents.

* The teleportation boxes never work when performed onstage. So why can you use the ones scattered around the building?

** Because the "8:30 Society" just doesn't have that same ring.

** Why would the "Midnight" Society meet at 8:30?

** Or they don't meet that late. It can be dark and be 8:30 in some places.

** Either the kids lied and said they were having "Sleep-overs" at another friend's house, or there's always the chance that the woods weren't as scary and isolated as they looked. They could have been in a wooded area about 100 yards away from their houses.

* It has always bugged me that these kids are out at night in the dark alone. Where are their parents?!