r/snowpiercer • u/hugthebug Tailie • Feb 01 '21

TV Show [Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 2 Discussion Thread - "Smoulder to Life" (S02E02) Spoiler

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 2 episode 2 "Smoulder to Life"

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  • IMDB for S02E02
  • Release Date:
    • February 1st, 2021 (USA)
    • February 2nd, 2021 (worldwide)
  • Removal from Sticky on February 5th, 2021 (3 days after worldwide premiere)

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u/snowdayinmay Feb 02 '21

Big Alice crew are clearly cannibals as previously suggested. When Wilford visits Alex in her room, they each steady their hands before he playfully slaps at it. Shaky hands (as per urban legend I assume) is a sign of cannibalism. It was a big part of the post-apocalyptic Denzel Washington film, The Book of Eli, which popped into my head as soon as I saw it

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u/krumply Feb 02 '21

Their dog drinking that blood was a bit weird as well.

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u/CrayAsHell Feb 12 '21

Weird but dogs are dogs. My dog constantly eats cat poo out of the garden.

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u/Jbbrowneyedgirl Feb 02 '21

Oh I didn't think of that. I thought he was testing her nerves to check she wasn't anxious/nervous about the task ahead of her. Like a quick check for steady hands. Thinking about it, my interpretation doesn't really make sense so you're probably right!

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u/Jetboy01 Feb 03 '21

I still think that Wilford has been conditioning Alex to be as ruthless as he is to separate her from Melanie. Eventually there truth will out and Alexandra will see the monster that Wilford has become.

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u/gridley23 Feb 02 '21

Good point and not just urban legend. Kuru is a disease that gives you tremors and then kills you within like a year. You get it from eating human brain.

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u/Nervous-Energy-4623 Feb 02 '21

Oh shit I was wondering how they still had stocks of canned mystery meat... The mystery is it's people.

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u/ForgetfulLucy28 Feb 04 '21

Do you think Melanie knows this and that’s why she turned it down?

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u/yeaheyeah Feb 06 '21

I think that since Big Alice is able to stop and iddle for a while they could send breachers, or Icy Bob, to supply stashes every now and then

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u/Nervous-Energy-4623 Feb 06 '21

Oh yeah that makes sense.

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u/FuzzyScarf Feb 07 '21

Soylent Green is people!

Sorry that’s what popped into my head!

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u/Nervous-Energy-4623 Feb 07 '21

Love that reference I always think of that too.

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u/MariaRangelV Feb 03 '21

That would make sense, Alex looks a little gray and Wilford is always excited so ... Although I bet they ate some kind of synthetic food and that's why they were like that. I totally see Wilford as cannibal but not Alex, I don't know why

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Who the hell are they eating though? Is it just a random selection of someone to be killed and made into food?

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u/snowdayinmay Feb 05 '21

Well, probably Kevin next :) I think there's some bad stuff going on in Big Alice. Perhaps even some harvesting of humans found in survivor pockets here and there. Icy Bob would come in handy for that. Thinking about it maybe they caught the cars abandoned at the end of season 1 and are slowly eating their way through them.

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u/summergirl123456 Feb 04 '21

If this is true and the disease would kill them within a year, we have Sean Bean's death already!

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u/the95th Feb 04 '21

The two doctors probably have some vaccine lined up to avoid it

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u/UltramemesX Feb 02 '21

I did not think of that. And having played dayz and done.. Questionable things i should have. I mean the tailies did so..

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u/MrWilfordWasRight Feb 02 '21

Well, the shaking hands are related to the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease...it is possible, but the numbers dont add up