Main spoilers for the Season 2 finale of 1923 are forward! If you wish to keep away from these, watch the episode with a Paramount+ subscription earlier than you proceed studying.
All through 1923’s complete run, a looming query has been: Who’re the direct ancestors of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton in Yellowstone? Season 2 made that thriller much more advanced as each Jack’s spouse, Elizabeth, and Spencer’s spouse, Alex, had been pregnant. Nevertheless, within the finale, one child was born, and he was named John, which I assumed meant we knew who Costner’s grandfather was. Nevertheless, once I requested the forged about it, they gave me solutions that shook me to my core and received me theorizing in regards to the upcoming Yellowstone present, 1944.
The 1923 Forged Informed Me That The Season 2 Finale Didn’t Affirm Something About The Dutton Lineage
When Alex gave beginning to her child after which tragically died, I (naively) took that as household tree affirmation. Spencer, John, Cara and Jacob returned to the ranch with little John, and the epliloge implied that Brandon Sklenar’s character spent his life working the ranch and elevating his little one (and later youngsters). I assumed that meant this child John would develop as much as be Dabney Coleman’s John in Yellowstone.
Nevertheless, that’s not the case, as a result of once I requested Sklenar and Julia Schlaepfer about it, they each stated that door remains to be open. The Alex actress particularly stated:
The door’s open till Taylor Sheridan shuts it…Brandon and I’ve talked quite a bit about who’s the lineage, and naturally, I believe we’d like to think about that our John is the John, however time will inform.
Reiterating that time, the Spencer Dutton actor instructed me we’ll simply have to attend and see if this John is the John, saying:
Time will inform if there’s one other John.
After they confirmed that nothing was confirmed, I joked that there have been already 4 Johns, so they may have 5 of them. The Drop actor performed alongside, kidding that there could possibly be “six or seven” as a result of “why not?”
And he’s proper, why not? It’s attainable that after Jack’s dying, Elizabeth had the newborn she was pregnant with and named them John. In reality, in numerous methods – aside from the truth that they’d have two Johns in principally one technology – it’d make numerous sense. Spencer and Alex named their child after his brother, John. Nevertheless, Spencer’s brother was Jack’s dad, and I might get it if Elizabeth wished to call her child after her late husband’s father, too.
To that time, once I requested Michelle Randolph in regards to the child being named John, she was fast to inform me it 100% doesn’t verify the Dutton household lineage. She defined:
Is the door remains to be open? I do not know. And so, like, you may’t verify then, like, it might go both method. I really feel like everybody has their very own principle, however I can confidently say that it is not confirmed.
Nicely, the boldness was startling. Nevertheless, it’s additionally thrilling as a result of with the prequel 1944 presumably coming down the road, I’m pondering quite a bit about how this lack of affirmation might affect the story of the subsequent generations of Duttons.
I Have A Idea About How This Lack Of Affirmation Might Influence 1944
General, this absence of affirmation received me pondering quite a bit in regards to the line of succession and who the ranch might doubtlessly be handed right down to in 1944.
My principle is that the present will observe Spencer’s youngsters (John, whom he had with Alex, and the unnamed little one he had with a widow later in life) of their mid-20s. Then, between 1883’s Tim McGraw saying Costner’s character is his great-great grandson (which might possible imply Jack is Costner’s John’s grandfather) and Randolph’s response to my query, I’m hypothesizing that Elizabeth and Jack’s child could possibly be named John and likewise be a part of 1944.
This might make for a captivating battle over which Dutton named John will get the ranch. Jack and Spencer’s youngsters are direct descendants, have a proper to their household’s land, and they might be round the suitable age to have a toddler who lives to be Kevin Costner’s rancher. I might be mendacity if I stated that did not sound like an awesome concept for a TV present about household strife.
So, perhaps John is Spencer and Alex’s son, and that can be that. Or perhaps there are two Johns, they each wish to run the Yellowstone, and the brand new present will concentrate on them determining who would be the subsequent patriarch of this household.