After not getting affirmation in regards to the Dutton household tree in 1923, I’ve been pondering lots about why. This has led to an entire bunch of theorizing on my finish, and I’ve come to the conclusion that this lack of verification comes right down to the position Michelle Randolph’s Elizabeth may play within the upcoming Yellowstone present, 1944.
Now, earlier than we get into this idea, let’s get the details straight first. Within the penultimate episode of 1923’s second season, Jack Dutton died, making Elizabeth a widow. She, so far as we all know, can be pregnant. So, when she left the Dutton ranch within the Season 2 finale, she was single and with baby. Due to this fact, the door is open on the subject of the position she and her child will play within the Dutton lineage and the continued thriller about which couple from this present are the grandparents of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton.
I Suppose Elizabeth May Identify Her Child John And Return To The Yellowstone With Him
So, I – just like the naive viewer I used to be – had assumed that Alex naming her child John proper earlier than her loss of life was affirmation that she and Spencer had been the grandparents of Yellowstone’s John Dutton. Nonetheless, three of the 4 1923 solid members concerned on this thriller mainly instructed me, “Not so quick.”
Michelle Randolph particularly instructed me “confidently” that this delivery didn’t affirm something. In an interview with CinemaBlend, she stated:
Is the door remains to be open? I do not know. And so, like, you’ll be able to’t affirm then, like, it may go both approach. I really feel like everybody has their very own idea, however I can confidently say that it is not confirmed.
This assertion led me to assume two issues:
- Elizabeth may additionally title her child John, after Jack’s dad.
- Elizabeth may return to the Yellowstone together with her child in 1944.
Whereas it feels a bit foolish for 2 infants who’re born across the similar time in the identical household to be named John, it’s not illogical. Spencer and Elizabeth have deep connections to John (he was Spencer’s brother and Elizabeth’s father-in-law), so it’d make sense for them to each wish to use his title.
Additionally, Elizabeth didn’t have her child in Montana (so far as we all know); she left earlier than that might occur. Due to this fact, it’s believable that she by no means thought she’d come again after which determined to call her son John, seeing because the chance of her child assembly Spencer and Alex’s child could be low.
Now, with this door about lineage nonetheless huge open, I feel Elizabeth may return to the ranch together with her baby, that means there could possibly be two Johns. Possibly she is obsessed with them studying the place their father got here from. Possibly she needs them to be related to the Duttons. Possibly she needs them to combat for his or her proper to the ranch.
All or none of that might occur. Nonetheless, I do assume it’s doable that Randolph’s character may return in 1944 together with her child named John to play a pivotal position within the Yellowstone’s future.
What If Elizabeth Is Spencer’s Widow Talked about At The Finish Of 1923’s Season 2 Finale?
So, we have now the wrinkle that Elizabeth may return to the ranch together with her John. Nonetheless, I feel it may get extra advanced than that. On the finish of 1923 (which you’ll be able to stream with a Paramount+ subscription), Elsa’s voiceover tells us precisely how Spencer lived out the remainder of his life after Alex died.
Particularly, she talked about that he by no means remarried, however he had one other baby with a fellow widow, explaining:
Spencer by no means remarried. Took the consolation of a widow, made one other boy, refused to marry her. Then, at some point, the widow was gone.
Now, once more, Elizabeth having a child with Spencer feels unlikely.
Nonetheless, give it some thought for a second. Elizabeth is absolutely the one one that may presumably perceive what Spencer went via, they usually each confronted insurmountable loss on the finish of Season 2. It’s doable they merely determined to be collectively out of consolation and comfort, not love. Possibly they make a selection to lift their children collectively, nevertheless it finally doesn’t work out.
That will additionally put one other Dutton within the subsequent era who has a declare to the land, and it provides an fascinating stage of complexity to the household tree. And that, my mates, is what leads me to the wildest a part of this idea about Elizabeth.
If Elizabeth Returns, And One Or Each Of These Issues Occur, I May See A Dutton Civil Warfare Occurring
I’m of the opinion that it’d be epic if 1944 centered on a battle inside the household as a substitute of the Duttons coping with an out of doors adversary. Whereas I notice that Jamie made this type of civil war-like battle current in Yellowstone, there was all the time additionally an out of doors supply working even tougher to take the household down. On this new present, I need it to be absolutely Dutton vs. Dutton, and I feel Elizabeth is the important thing to creating this occur.
I feel it’s completely doable she’ll come again together with her son (who would seemingly be in his 20s in 1944), they usually’ll need the land that Jack died defending. If her baby is certainly named John, I feel this type of battle would turn out to be much more seemingly, seeing as one among them must turn out to be the only patriarch who finally passes down the land to Kevin Costner’s John.
Additionally, if there are three children within the combine, all of whom have a declare to the land, it’d be fascinating to see how they decide who will get it. If my idea in regards to the widow being Elizabeth is true, that provides much more purpose for rigidity, as a result of she’s going to disappear in some unspecified time in the future.
On prime of all that, there was a line stated by Jacob proper earlier than Spencer killed Whitfield within the Season 2 finale that appeared to indicate that tourism or exterior enterprise wouldn’t be a difficulty for the Duttons for no less than a era. He stated:
I plan on making such an instance of you that will probably be 50 years earlier than one among your variety dares to enter this valley once more.
So, if that’s true, what sort of enemy may they presumably face? Somebody inside the household looks as if an amazing reply.
Total, I feel Elizabeth coming again and both her or her child/children attempting to stake declare on the land towards Spencer and Alex’s son could be an amazing idea for a TV present. It’d even be a captivating continuation of 1923 that bridges the hole between that era of Duttons and Yellowstone’s.