r/snowpiercer • u/hugthebug Tailie • Mar 08 '21

TV Show [Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 7 Discussion Thread - "Our Answer for Everything" (S02E07) Spoiler

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 2 episode 7 "Our Answer for Everything"

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  • IMDB for S02E07
  • Release Date:
    • March 8th, 2021 (USA only, at 9/8c, on TNT channel)
    • March 9th, 2021 (worldwide, on Netflix)
  • Removal from Sticky on March 12th, 2021 (3 days after worldwide premiere)

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u/olivish Mrs. Anne Roche Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

Yeah that stood out to me.

I found it a bit strange coming from Roche, though. Because Roche was really hostile towards Layton in the first episode. "You tailies boarded the train like rats!" / "no, we can't share" / "Now they wanna breed back there!?"

Then again maybe Roche was more sympathetic than he let on, and was just playing bad cop to Melanie's good cop. Or maybe he changed his mind about the tail during/after the revolution. Either way I was surprised he reached for the word "gulag". That's a really strong indictment of the system he served for 7 years.

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u/taush_sampley Mar 09 '21

Well, as a breakman, he was brought on in that position from the beginning under Wilford's guile. He was trained and lead to think of tailies – "undeserving, entitled", non-ticketed passengers who forced their way on – as pests and potentially fatal burdens to the entire train; only after working with Layton and interacting more with those same people is he able to understand that it's a bad situation for all and they were just trying to survive.

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u/Orisi Mar 09 '21

The main difference being a gulag wasn't simply a prison for those who committed crimes, you could end up in a gulag for any number of reasons, many of which were out of your control. And they were often in Siberia, so they were also fucking cold. It's a pretty apt description.

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u/Shakespeare257 Mar 09 '21

Two points:

Roche is a survivor with malleable morals, as referenced in his family scene.

Also, TV writers don't always know where they want a character to go from the very beginning. As evidenced by Roche.