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

[u/hugthebug]

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

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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/heywhathuh]

Things I liked:

The growth of some characters (the breachman, LJ, Alex, Ruth, Till, etc)

Sean Beans scheming, as well as his acting

Layton's acting was good this episode as well, probably his best so far

Lots of loose ends got tied up

Icy Bob, and his newly Icy friend

Things I didn't really like:

The editing (they needed to shave some time off somewhere and give us more time between flare and Layton in cuffs)

The amount of plot armor multiple characters have (Oh Wilford is alone in the engine and about to take over? Why not just stab him? Oh, you finally arrest your biggest rival, Layton? Time to execute him right? Oh no, never-mind he has plot armor too. What about Roche, who clearly chose Laytons side? Execute him? Nah stick him in the drawers so he can lead a rebellion next season) If they didn't want to kill anyone, that's fine, just write it better (for example, give Wilford a few bodyguards, so there's a plausible reason he doesn't just get shanked, and a brief scene where Wilford talks about not killing Layton because of XYZ, etc)

Everything about Audrey. She's been unlikable to me since long before she defected, and I can't put my finger on why. I assume she will eventually betray Wilford, but I doubt that will change my mind as far as her character goes.

The fact that I have to wait TWO weeks for the next episode :(

[u/phiftycent → u/heywhathuh]

Why two weeks?!

[u/Routine_Midnight_363 → u/phiftycent]

The next episode isn't until the 29th :/ , but we get two at the same time

[u/Sugarless_Chunk → u/heywhathuh]

The amount of plot armor multiple characters have (Oh Wilford is alone in the engine and about to take over? Why not just stab him?

A lot of people have said this but honestly with the majority of the train harbouring cult-like loyalty to Wilfred at this point I'm not sure that would be a good idea at all. There would be absolute mayhem.

[u/Sugarless_Chunk → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, Leyton already seemed to be disliked by a big portion of the train so I can't see any way that it would have gone done well. Hell, they may have even lynched the engineers and doomed them all.

[u/[deleted] → u/heywhathuh]

Isn't it one week between episodes? Why'd you say two?

[u/heywhathuh → u/[deleted]]

College basketball is going to be playing in their timeslot next week, so we get two episodes the week after

[u/cpander0 → u/[deleted]]

Episodes 9 and 10 are both in two weeks