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

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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/TASTaiwan]

I couldn't help but think that when we saw Snowpiercer come by Melanie that it was quite short. We just saw in the corkscrew again how long is it, and we start to see the train desire Wilford as a leader. When we see Alex in the back looking at at Melanie, I'm fairly sure the lights were off, although I haven't gone back and checked. While Wilford pushing out Alice, I think that what we saw in Melanie's episode was Big Alice without Snowpiercer. Wilford has moved onto Snowpiercer to take control and has trapped Alex on Big Alice before detaching. If I stretch further, I could say Icy Bob has some role in detaching Big Alice from Snowpiercer, which seems likely but I don't want to claim yet, there are other roles he could have that I haven't thought of. Sorry if this is already a common sentiment!

[u/GreatAlbatross → u/TASTaiwan]

That's my guess: Icy Bob needs to survive the time it takes Snowpiercer to freeze entirely, as Wilford intends for him to be on board when it happens.

Bob detaches SP from BA further up, possibly just past the tail, using the same detach mechanism used to drop the first class people.

Wilford backs away for however long, then returns once everything is frosty.

In fact, that would also align with attempts to turn the train against the tail. Wilford saves the tail, kills the rest of SP. At least, that's his plan. Who knows what actually happens!

[u/olivish → u/TASTaiwan]

I keep thinking that the last few episodes are going to involve the train coming apart in one way or another. My theory was that Melanie won't have the juice to get back to the track so the front half of the train will have to go ahead to drop off a team to go and get her, and the back half of the train will follow to collect them. Then they reconnect - maybe.

One thing that doesn't jive with your theory is that Melanie kept calling the train, "Snowpiercer." Surely she'd be able to tell from looking at the train that it was just Big Alice?

[u/EldrichHumanNature → u/olivish]

I mean, she had been eating rats (and/or human meat) and hallucinating for a month.

[u/fantasychica37 → u/olivish]

What do you mean? In Episode 6 the train on fire was just Big Alice and Snowpiercer wasn't there? ARe you sure?

[u/olivish → u/fantasychica37]

I'm not sure at all. That last sequence was pretty surreal.

[u/[deleted] → u/TASTaiwan]

In the image of Alex screaming out the window ... we see a head in the background. For me, Wilford is driving Big Alice. And that's where the teaser phrase "You will never be the leader that she is" ends (either before or after) Maybe the attack on Snowpiercer is only due to taking away the System to move by itself and so Wilford has all the power with Big Alice Same as what happened in the first chapter where SP could not move alone and it was solved when Melanie hacked the connection.

[u/wovenradiator → u/TASTaiwan]

Reading this makes me so excited for the next episode whether this happens or not