EXO Theory Pt. 14 - Let Me In
Hello, it’s been a while. Not sure if anyone will read this, but I am in the mood to write down some more EXO theory so… here we are.
To Let Me In - I love this song. It’s so wonderful, and I am eagerly anticipating the full album and the next two MVs - hopefully they will also be chockful of lore because that’s what makes EXO MVs so fun.
The main theme of this MV seems to be time reversal. At the beginning of the MV we watch a boy throw a stone into the water, somehow setting off a chain of events that become the music video.
By the end though we are watching the stone fly back up out of the lake and everything in the music video become undone.
This idea of a time loop, or an erasure of time in a singular event is not new to EXO. Back in the days of Pathcode teasers, we were told Beginning=End, then in Tempo promotions it became End=Beginning.
If we take the beginning literally to mean the beginning of the story, and the beginning of EXO, we have to look at MAMA, and there is a significant line in the opening narration:
“To tend and embrace the Heart of the Tree of Life, the legends hereby divide the Tree in half and hide each side, hence time is overturned and space turns askew.”
Since the beginning time has been overturned and non-linear. This has been reflected time and time again in the MVs. A theory I’ve long since held is that the members could somewhat control this disturbance to time and space through their powers - ultimately you had two members at the beginning who could control time (Tao) and space (Kai). Since Tao is no longer in the group and his power is gone, the members have much less control of time and so that is why in Miracles in December when Tao is present, he can make time go backwards himself and he can determine the outcome to keep the members safe but now there is nobody to control it and so the members are almost bystanders to its effects.
If you’ve read other parts of my theory you would know that I had suggested that Kai’s power had been somewhat sacrificed early on in the timeline so that the Guardians could keep the Heart safe - if that’s true then the EXO members now have little control over space either, or at least a drastically decreased control, which is why we are now seeing space become disturbed in the new MV.
I personally think that this entire era, but specifically Let Me In is the time that was described at the beginning of Power, when the narrator says:
“The universe has transformed. Distorted space has been reassambled. Warped time has been reset and the unpurified Red Force imbrued two suns with darkness.”
That seems to be talking about the events of Let Me In. Especially if you consider Let Me In to be directly after Don’t Fight the Feeling and/or Obsession where we see meteors fall and planets set alight. We watch in real time as time resets itself and space reassembles. I’m cautiously predicting we will see more of this, and perhaps the two imbrued suns, in the following MVs for this comeback. I hope so.