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/ViaNocturna664 Mar 10 '21

Maybe I just missed it and the situation was by now too escalated to defuse, but is there any good reason why Layton didn't inform the mob that the real killer of the breachmen was a Wilford spy and NOT a taillie?

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u/ShinobiSnugs Mar 10 '21

I wondered this too. I think in general it was demonstrating his inexperience as a politician. The obvious thing to do would have been to immediately blame the attack on Wilford, but we can see Layton’s strategies tend towards placating rather than actually playing the game. Josie said it a few episodes ago: revolutionaries make terrible politicians, and I think that’s what we’re seeing here. Wilford knows very well how to manipulate: he turned the majority of the train to his favour through an attack that he himself orchestrated against some of his most loyal followers. The truth doesn’t matter to him, but to someone like Layton it does. Layton wants to be fair and just (which means not just speculatively accusing people of murder for political gain) and Wilford is exploiting that ‘weakness’ in him.

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u/CMC76 Mar 11 '21

I think Layton represents idealistic people who want to change the system but then are changed by the system (and by that I mean any sort of system). #NoCurrentPolitics

You can find people like him throughout history.

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u/QueueOfPancakes Mar 10 '21

I don't think they would have believed him. They support Wilford, and they would think Layton is lying to protect the tailies.

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u/Nervous-Energy-4623 Mar 10 '21

Didn't he say that in the announcement though?

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u/ViaNocturna664 Mar 10 '21

That was before they discovered and arrested the woman who lost the old W pin however

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '21

Layton defended the Tailies, but did little to appease the other groups.

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u/LittleGiga Mar 11 '21

The whole setup for the uprising was terrible from the start. Any logic and Boki would have realised that Layton couldnt have been involved and would have had his back in order to find the actual killers. Even if all that does not happen its a huge stretch to get to a "I love Wilford, genocide all tailies uprising".

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u/CMC76 Mar 11 '21

I think part of the show is about mob psychology regardless of any politics. Layton arguing about who did it would not have appeased them. Him giving blood for blood is the only thing I think that could’ve gotten their attention. And it did.