7 Groovy and/or Gruesome Things We’d Like to See inAsh vs Evil DeadSeason Two

It ’s no secret that we ’re huge fans of Ash vs Evil Dead here at io9 . It ’s one of the funniest , goriest shows ever to grace the airwaves , and after all , it ’s found on one of the greatest revulsion trilogies of all prison term . With season two kick off this weekend , we ’ve been thinking about what we ’d like to see in the new episodes .

Note : We ’ve seen the first two episode of the 2d season . This tilt does n’t contain any major spoilers about what bechance , but it does include a few nonaged details , so just in caseful :

1) More Bad Ash

Ash ’s evil Twin Falls — a callback to Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness — popped up in time of year one when he regenerated himself from Ash ’s severed hand . There ’s a tinge of some menacing shadowplay in the season two premiere , which hopefully means good sure-enough Bad Ash will be returning once again to torment his mirror picture . Bruce Campbell may be a little less gristly than he used to be , but he ’s still a wonderfully talented physical histrion , and see him agitate himself is one of the Evil Dead serial ’ swell pleasures .

2) Time travel

At San Diego Comic - Con this twelvemonth , serial administrator producer Rob Tapert said thatAsh vs Evil Dead ’s 2nd season would “ properly reference ” Army of Darkness :

I read somebody ’s online thing , ‘ Oh bet , they ’re only pulling from these two [ Evil Dead ] motion-picture show . ’ This time of year , we do convey up Ash ’s events in Army of Darkness , and cite it . It was more that there was n’t a billet for it in our storytelling that we require to spill about that . If he started blabbing to these workshop clerks about , ‘ Yeah , I endure back to the Middle Ages and did all these thing , ’ [ it would just be expo ] . But that is in his retentivity bank , and he ’s going to perpetrate it out at the appropriate time .

References are one thing , and we ’ll be exhilarate to hear Ash reminisce about fighting Deadites in the year 1300 . But why not go one step further and introduce clock time travel into Ash vs Evil Dead ? We know , thanks to the films , that the Necronomicon is capable of opening vena portae into different earned run average . Why not zap Ash , Kelly , Pablo , and whoever else forward or back in clock time ? Or even well , merge fourth dimension - travel with Bad Ash ’s next appearance , and have a parallel - attribute Ash suddenly appear in Elk Grove ?

3) Lee Majors kicking ass as Ash’s dad

Ash vs Evil Dead seduce a major cast coup by getting the Six Million Dollar Man to play Ash ’s father . Already , you fuck that Brock Williams is not to be have a go at it with . He and Ash do n’t get along — for one thing , Brock does n’t think Ash ’s violent disorder in the cabin 30 age ago was due to anything supernatural . But these two are too much alike not to finally link forces , and Ash is go to need all the help he can get to save the world . Dad ’s already cause the blue shirt and the shotgun ; the next logical step is reconciling with Ash and joining the fight . At Comic - Con , Majors talk about getting doused with gallons of stage stemma — a ritual of transit for all role player on Ash vs Evil Dead , and one we go for happens as a result of Brock mowing down legion of Deadites .

4) Ash’s mother revealed

When Ash , Pablo , and Kelly roll into Elk Grove , Ash says his parent give-up the ghost a farsighted meter ago . But just moments after , we meet Brock . So might Ash ’s female parent still be recoil around out there somewhere ? If Ash vs Evil Dead is going to introduce her , there ’d be no better opportunity than while Ash is back in his hometown , grappling with the ghosts of his yesteryear , including his surly father and his numb - since - vicious - deadened sister , Cheryl . And come on : are n’t you curious about the adult female that gave birth to Ashley J. Williams ?

5) An explanation of Ruby’s mysterious origins

We know Ruby ’s last name is Knowby , which draw her to characters in the first two Evil Dead film . We bonk she ’s mostly immortal — unless the Kandarian sticker is around . We know the Deadites are well cognizant of her existence and even refer to her as “ traitor . ” And we have sex she wrote the Necronomicon , though she ’s not always capable of control its powers . Those are a lot of weird facts for one graphic symbol , especially with no solid origin level to back them up . This season , Lucy Lawless will have a much bigger part in the show , so there will be way more way to dig into Ruby ’s history . The big bad this season , a demon name Bael , has been name as someone who wasonce “ intimately connect ” to Ruby , so it seems likely we ’ll be getting some answers about where ( and when ) she came from .

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6) The return of Henrietta

Submitted for your consideration : Ted Raimi played Evil Dead II ’s kindly - old - lady - turn - possess - cellar - dweller Henrietta . Ted Raimi is on this time of year of Ash vs Evil Dead , playing Ash ’s suitably unearthly childhood best friend . Might not Ted Raimi also be coaxed into Henrietta drag one more fourth dimension , to have another crack at swallowing Ash ’s person ?

7) References to the comic books, and maybe the remake, too

Before Ash vs Evil Dead , when we were all still hoping that Evil Dead 4 might encounter , the Army of Darkness funnies sent the post - movie Ash on a serial publication of wild adventures including into some crossovers with other repulsion films . It might be too much to postulate that Freddy vs Jason vs Ash ever transpires in live - action mechanism , due to rights issuing and all that , but we ’re dreaming big here — and even just a consultation to any events draw in the amusing account book would be very fun .

But there was also an Ash cameo at the very end of the 2013 Evil Dead remake . An appearance by that film ’s hero sandwich , Mia , might be too riotous for Ash vs Evil Dead ’s continuity , not to mention its very Ash - centric focal point , though there have been old discussion ofmerging the Ash and Mia storyline . Still , a cameo from Jane Levy , even if she does n’t appear as Mia , could be delightfully sly .

Ash vs Evil Dead retort to Starz on October 2 .

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