[spoilers follow]
The big reveal is that Mother and I and everyone was wrong about how her baby came to be, and what it in fact was. The virtual sex she had with her creator apparently didn't inseminate her via triggering some kind of organic material she already had insider her. Whatever it was that got her pregnant presumably came from this extraterrestrial Kepler world. I say "apparently" and "presumably" because I suppose it's still possible that this hellish serpent she delivered was indeed something that her creator embedded in her back on Earth, and this "baby" is indeed the future of humanity. But at this point it looks as if that entire virtual, remembered conversation and activity with her builder was just a piece of masterful misdirection.
Other than all of that, which was game-changing, the season finale had a variety of good touches, ranging from Father's jealousy to whatever was going on with Paul. Again, presumably, I'd say that the voices he heard in his head came not from Sol (of course not) but that ship that we saw hovering in the atmosphere. No doubt that ship will have a major role in the second season (and great that Raised by Wolves has already been renewed.
Another provocative element is the devolution of the beings on Kepler-22B. I've been thinking ever since we first saw one of those beings early on that there was a human-like quality to its head. A Neanderthal skull was also revealed in the finale -- works for me, Neanderthals were the centerpiece of my first novel, The Silk Code -- and that skull also raises the possibility that there was a connection between Kepler-22 and Earth in the distant past, if parallel evolution isn't the explanation for Neanderthals appearing on these two worlds, so very distant from each other.
Lots of fascinating issues left hanging. Good set-up for the second season!
See also Raised by Wolves 1.1: Fast Action and Deep Philosophy ... Raised by Wolves 1.2-3: More than Meets the Eye ... Raised by Wolves 1.4-5: Halfway to Dune ...Raised by Wolves 1.6-7: The Look on Mother's Face ... Raised by Wolves 1.8-1.9: Frankenstein and Motherhood
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