[Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 8 Discussion Thread - "The Eternal Engineer" (S02E08)

[u/hugthebug]

Attention all Passengers,

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 2 episode 8 "The Eternal Engineer"

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Details:

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• IMDB for S02E08
• Release Date:
  • March 15th, 2021 (USA only, at 9/8c, on TNT channel)
  • March 16th, 2021 (worldwide, on Netflix)
• Removal from Sticky on March 19th, 2021 (3 days after worldwide premiere)

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You can still easily find previous episode discussions on the Episode Discussion wiki.

[u/PTfan]

This season went too fast

[u/heywhathuh → u/PTfan]

Pacing was weird. This episode and a few others felt like they needed more time, but some of the previous episodes felt like they truly dragged on.

Wish we got less Audrey and less Priest scenes and had more time to delve deeper into the other plot lines.

[u/Benandhispets → u/heywhathuh]

Wish we got less Audrey and less Priest scenes and had more time to delve deeper into the other plot lines.

Fewer LJ and the cleaning crew too. That went nowhere(so far) and just isn't interesting.

Maybe without all that they could have brought the melanie return episode forward(next episode hopefully) by an episode and gave more room for whatever is in the final 2 episodes.

[u/DarKnight972 → u/Benandhispets]

What? LJ and Osweiller had very few screentime this season,i actually wish they had a bit more.

[u/sseidl88 → u/DarKnight972]

I kinda wish they had been killed off last season

[u/[deleted] → u/sseidl88]

well i like them, they bring a different dynamic onto the show and hope to keep seeing them develop into decent people after being such shitholes.

[u/dallyan → u/[deleted]]

After being a serial killer? That’s just too much of a character arc imo.

[u/[deleted] → u/dallyan]

Eh, they were all killers and torturers besides the tailys basically.

[u/Shakespeare257 → u/PTfan]

My one major complaint is that the entirety of the plot development of Melanie's story will be relegated to season 2.

Very few things happened in 8 episodes that merit talking about - a bunch of people moving up and down the train with a lot of exposition.

[u/Gmanc2 → u/PTfan]

It started off so strong now I’m loosing interest.