Why do not talk about what Sarah Alder maens with "The Hauge"??

Would it be good to go into detail on the organisation of the military i.e., ranks, insignia, conscription, training, etc.

How do we petition for more seasons?? I love this show and hate that is coming to an end. How do we fight for more seasons?

Heads up - the second season of Motherland: Fort Salem is going to be featured in the upcoming virtual Comic Con. The panel is going to be on Friday the 23rd at 2 P.M. PST and is described as follows: "Creator Eliot Laurence and the cast of “Motherland: Fort Salem” gather to discuss Freeform’s addictive series set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country. The cast and creator discuss the empowering series and what’s to come in Season 2."

Im going to keep it simple and short, will this show ever bring in more supernatural beings or is it just going to always be witches?

Who else is excited to see what kind of new abilities raelle and Abigail has ?

What's the first thing which makes all shows so weak?

A polarized moral where good is only good and bad is only bad.

This leads to caricature villains and pussy heroes.

I have started watching this show because I had read that the "good" ones (the military) were depicted as deeply flawed, and the "bad" ones (the Spree) were nowhere as bad as people thought them to be.

Already in the first few episodes I see the Spree threatening Scylla. Their own member.

This is such a show of low level villainy, such a stereotype of evilness.

The Spree is killing lot of innocent people. This is enough to make most spectators hate them.

The only way to balance things out is by depicting the Spree as better than the "good" guys in other things.

But if they can't even be loyal and understanding with their own members, they are nothing else than superficial 007 villains.

And as soon as the villain lose depth, the whole show loses depth.

Being a devourer of shows (movies, series, anime), I see a few things ruining all series. One of them is the "no kill" rule.

Be it a villain talking too much and giving time to the cavalry to come saving the hero, or being a hero not having the balls to kill the enemy therefore giving the villain other opportunities to create havoc.

I am a fan of "kill them all". No survivors.

So, I am already in love for the Spree. With such an amazing beginning, people falling like flies. What a determination!

I hope it continues like this.

And may the heroes be merciless too. May the heroes be strong and kill all enemies with no mercy, may the Spree be strong and destroy all and everybody with no mercy.

As a retired U.S. Army Soldier who served from 1996 to 2016, I love this show. Anyone who has served in the real military could make a long list of inaccuracies and implausibilities, but it gets something more important right -- values. The Army Values are a real thing: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. Raelle is my hero because she embodies so many of these values, especially her willingness to sacrifice herself to heal others (selfless service).

I think there are some pretty cool things going on with the names in this series, which as far as I can see no-one has picked up on yet! If Eliot and/or Freeform read this I'd love to see whether my guesses are right...

Sarah Alder

Alder, sounds like old/elder. Don't think I need to say any more... May also be related to words like alderman, 'councillor', which comes from Old English 'Ealdorman' - a title literally meaning 'elder man' and the title of the chief nobles ruling over the different shires in Anglo-Saxon times.

Also a type of tree which, while not necessarily as directly associated with magic as some, still has a lot of symbolism in Celtic mythology - associations with divination, resurrection, and the legendary leader Bran the Blessed. This last also has connotations of a Fisher King, a king so linked to the land that his injuries are reflected in the land and vice versa - see what happens to Salem as Alder is aged by a biddie's death in season 1 episode 3.

Sarah, the biblical wife of Abraham who lived for a fairly long time and was famously childless (until the age of 90-ish...).

Anacostia Quartermaine

No direct meaning that I'm aware of (mainly because I can't see connections to (a) classical mythology, (b) the Bible or (c) older British terms/legends), but somehow feels an exemplarily military name; has echoes of Annapolis and Quartermaster

Abigail Bellweather

Abigail "my father's joy" - definitely something to do with familial lines/strength/importance.

Bellweather is very close to bellwether, the leading sheep of a flock, given a bell round its neck to help indicate where the flock are going - a leader or indicator of trends

Tally Craven

the bravest, arguably, of them - the exact opposite of craven - who stood up and was counted (tallied)

Raelle Collar

Arguably the one who feels that conscription is slavery (? Collaring).

The name Raelle is either cognate with Israel "Struggles with God", or means "the Soldier of the Lord" - either is pretty appropriate, given her struggles and soldiery, and particularly given her use of scripture in her healing work

Scylla Ramshorn

Scylla, one of the paired dangers to mariners Scylla and Charybdis from Homer's Odyssey. Associated with the concept of choosing the lesser of two evils. Has also later been associated with being part of a dangerous relationship.

Ramshorn: various mythological connotations to ram (male sheep)'s horns, mainly to do with strength and endurance. Not sure of the significance of that, to be fair, but there's also an interesting symmetry between Ramshorn and Bellweather, in terms of how Raelle is pulled between Scylla and the Unit...

Isadora

"Gift of Isis", one of the principal Egyptian goddesses - who just happens to be associated with death...

Petra Bellweather

Bellweather I've listed, and applies to the entire line just as much as to Abigail,

Petra is from Greek for rock and that's definitely how she sees herself; famously used by Jesus as a pun (in the male form, and he would have done so in Aramaic, but the Gospel writers kept the pun when they wrote them in Greek) when he renamed the disciple who would perhaps be the chief from Simon to Peter. Peter was also rather hot-headed and militaristic at times...

Byron

Possibly named after the famously bisexual English Lord and poet?

Libba Swythe

Libba I'm unsure of meaning or origin, but I think it may have been chosen as a pseudo-anagram of Abigail.

Swythe, to my English ears, sounds as if it may be self-aggrandised: Strongly similar to Smythe, which is a variant of Smith, but now seen as somehow 'posher'

(note that I stuck this on the series page as a comment, which may not have been the right place in retrospect (new user error), so I'm reposting it here...)

Anyone know the date of when the first episode airs?

Is there any news on season 2??

If so it really sucks that it is

Is this your favorite show of all time? It is for me!