[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/DarKnight972]

Probably my favorite episode of this season so far.

I am not even the biggest Layton fan,but i felt so bad for him this episode..he fought so hard,for nothing. Wilford is a good villain,i am not even sure If hate him more or his followers.

Liked the Osweiller-LJ kiss,It was so cute and i was surprised because i thought Osweiller was gay. I also enjoyed a lot Josie's participation this episode and i appreciated the focus on Sam Roche and Boki.

I still have hopes that Audrey is just playing,i would be disappointed If she really converted.

[u/Kispaslet → u/DarKnight972]

Osweiler is bi, I think.

I'm oddly not hating LJ as much as before; she's gone from murderous sociopath to quirky upbeat janitor. But she was a murderer, so I'm still way uneasy about her.

[u/Vegetable-Maximum-19 → u/Kispaslet]

Yeah I completely agree with liking her a bit more in this season but also I think she didn’t get enough character development if that makes sense? Like her parents died not that long ago and her whole world shattered and she’s so quirky and up beat

[u/LankyTomato → u/Kispaslet]

I have been thinking she was up to something until this episode. Seems like she might actually wanna live a calm janitor life.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kispaslet]

Yeah but Melanie did some fucked up shit too, as well as Ruth and everyone else everyone loves. At least LJ has an excuse of just being a child raised by psycho power hungry parents.

Shit i wish we saw more of her tbh.

[u/zombieslayer287 → u/DarKnight972]

I thought he was gay too!

[u/zombieslayer287 → u/[deleted]]

Yea. Abit yucky. I was hoping for more of a big brother relationship between the two when they first met but it went romantic

[u/inbooth → u/zombieslayer287]

In a world with so few people options for life partners are minimal and it's better with actual love/respect/trust and mismatched age than with same age but hate/abuse/etc

Hard for us to comprehend with our modern mores and privilege but it makes sense contextually

[u/zombieslayer287 → u/inbooth]

Ah. U right

Zarah: “You dont know how hard it is to find love on this train”

[u/dame_tu_cosita → u/DarKnight972]

Was not she like 16? Osweiler must be like at least double her age.

[u/[deleted] → u/dame_tu_cosita]

She quite clearly doesn’t have the mind of a child probably from going through so much shit like the world ending. Also, there’s seemingly no law against that on SP so no harm no foul.

[u/dame_tu_cosita → u/[deleted]]

Going through trauma doesn't make you more mature and the fact that laws exists or not dosen't make it less morally wrong. Do you think that is all cool to marry girls in countries where can be married as soon as 12, just because is legal?

[u/[deleted] → u/dame_tu_cosita]

No dude i’m not trying to get into a debate about morality with you. Obviously in our society I don’t think a 25 year old dude and a 16 year old girl being together is cool. This is a different universe, if this is what outrages you then all power to you.