Manifest Season 3 Updates: Given NBC’s cancellation of Manifest following its season 3 finale, several questions will remain unanswered unless the show is renewed.
The season 3 finale of Manifest raises questions that are unlikely to be answered now that the show has been canceled. Manifest appears to be ending midway through creator Jeff Rake’s six-year plan for the show, without a full explanation of what happened to the passengers of Flight 828 during the five and a half years they were missing.
Ironically, the cancellation announcement came almost at the same time that Manifest’s first two seasons were released on Netflix, rocketing to the top of the platform’s viewing list and remaining there for several days.
When the cancellation was announced, Rake and the cast members began tweeting their support for the #SaveManifest campaign, which was started by the series’ fan base who wanted closure to the story. And, given the series’ popularity on the streaming service, the obvious call has been for Netflix to pick up Manifest.
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The cancellation also comes as the story of Manifest has become more intense and fast-paced in its final episodes. Momentum was building as a glimmer of what had happened to 828 began to emerge. Fans may never know what happened, as there are more questions than answers following what appears to be the series finale of Manifest.
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Flight 828’s Captain Bill Daly (Frank Deal) mysteriously reappeared at the controls of the reconstructed plane in the Eureka hangar for a brief moment at the end of Manifest’s season 3 finale, “Mayday, Part 2.”
By the end of season one of Manifest, Daly had come to believe that flying the plane through a mysterious lightning storm filled with “black lightning” allowed the plane to time travel into the future.
He was convinced that he had stolen a plane and flown it into another electrical storm. His final words before disappearing were, “See you in 2024,” the projected “death date” for the 828 passengers.
Several explanations emerge as to why Daly suddenly returns. The first was that after the tail fin was correctly returned to its watery resting place, the timeline that had been disrupted was repaired, returning Daly to where he was supposed to be.
Ben, Saanvi, and Vance defying Eureka by returning the tailfin to the ocean and resetting the timeline could also explain why Cal Stone reappears, especially at the age he would have been if Flight 828 had never disappeared.
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Cal Stone (Jack Messina) has always been the key to unlocking the mystery of Flight 828. He was one among the first to have a calling, and his paintings were always explanatory or predictive.
He has always appeared wise beyond his years, so it was no surprise that, in order to persuade the Eureka scientists of the importance of listening to the callings and discontinuing testing on the tailfin, he sacrificed himself and used the tailfin as a time transportation device, disappearing before their eyes.
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ScreenRantWhen the tailfin comes back to the sea, the Cal Stone (Ty Doran) was five-and-a-half years old, and again the same age as his twin, Olive. And he went back wherever he was, knowing what to do to rescue 828 travelers. Any knowledge of the future he obtained prevented his mother from trying to save him.
What Are The Fates Of Grace And Baby Eden
When Baby Eden was last seen in Season III of the Manifest, she was taken in the arms of Angelina (Holly Taylor) from the Stone House when her mother lay upstairs in a blood pool after she got stuck with the illusory eighty eight-passenger.
Eden cannot be in immediate physical danger on the surface as Angelina thinks that the baby is her guardian angel and wants to protect her safely and close. The deeper Angelina is, though, the more dangerous it is for the kidnapped baby. The quest for Baby Eden was certainly a major component in the history of Manifesto Season 4.
Grace’s fate continues to be mysterious, since it appears, following the attacks on Angelina, she died in the arms of her son Cal. She’s really deceased, however? Or has it been timed to rescue Cal’s return? By saying “I know what to do now,” does Cal mean he knows what to do to save his mother?
If the hypothesis of Ben that a more heavenly presence is re-energized in 828, may Cal or Ben use this manifestation to restore grace? Why would Grace’s destiny play a major role in the mystery if she wasn’t on Flight 828?
Is the disappearance of the plan a sign of parallel universes or colliding timelines?
ScreenRantOne of the biggest surprises of the Manifest season 3 finale was Captain Daly‘s unexpected reappearance, as well as his equally unexpected disappearance with the repaired Flight 828. It’s also worth noting that this flash in time happened just in front of Doctor Gupta (Mahira Kakkar); she had previously suggested that Eureka’s experiments with black lights could produce a temporal impact, and perhaps that’s what she had observed personally.
The questions remain: Did this happen as a result of Eureka’s tail fin studies, or did it happen because Ben (Josh Dallas) and Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) released the tail fin to the ocean? Could the Captain’s rapid presence and disappearance be due to Eureka’s experiments disturbing the timeline and triggering random collapses?
Have they harmed the timelines so badly that the barriers between parallel universes are deteriorating and the two are merging?
The season 3 finale of Manifest exploited the show’s current mysteries and contained shocking events that would have undoubtedly led to an adrenaline-pumping season 4.
The difficulty is that the mystery kept extending rather than providing final answers to specific narrative aspects, which means that unless the series gets picked up by another network, viewers are unlikely to receive adequate answers to all of their queries from the show’s authors and producers. There was simply too much story remaining to tell over the course of three more seasons for it all to be neatly wrapped up so quickly.
