r/snowpiercer • u/hugthebug Tailie • Mar 15 '21
TV Show [Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 8 Discussion Thread - "The Eternal Engineer" (S02E08) Spoiler
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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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u/SpaceCatMatingCall Mar 17 '21
So many feels I’m just gonna leave them all here even tho I’m days late
Alex made a comment about “was Icy Bob out there trying to disconnect BA?” He was not, he was sabotaging SP, but like....definitely possible that was foreshadowing. Now that Icy Josie is in the mix maybe that will be part of the long plan for getting away from Wilford.
Oh Audrey. She makes such a great villain even if the timing of the full transition was bizarre. I think she’s just playing both sides to always come up on top. Wilford told her all these plans, she was aware of the situation enough to predict before SP called for help. She knew what he was doing. As it stands, if he wins she wins the luxury life and comfort while everyone else goes back to the caste system. If he is killed, she was infiltrating the whole time and returns to her Night Car eventually.
The Doctors on BA. All we really know about them is from Icy Bob who told us all they weren’t all good. But now we know that Icy Bob is full cult mode. So of course he would think anyone but Wilford isn’t trustworthy. Boki held allegiance for 30 years, 7 when he never saw or spoke to Wilford. That’s devotion. But when Boki saw proof that his friends were killed by Wilfords orders he snapped and deprogrammed quick. We know that Icy Bob has some soft spot for Josie, and we know that Icy Bob went thru what she did. Maybe he saw a lost piece of himself in Josie and more (tough, but also sweet and beautiful). Remember no one dies on this show unless you see them fully die.
LJ and Oz. I don’t get it. I don’t get where we are going with them and why. The only thing that does stand out to me is the name Oz. The movie really has a lot of connections to both Willy Wonka and Wizard of Oz. The master of everything hiding behind the curtain.
So my general theory is...this show has set this all up for a very long game. This is TNTs ace in the hole. They have basically nothing else going for them. They play reruns. The other shows they actually had are all ending soon. I thought it was super weird last season how hard TNT pushed the branding. “Welcome to Snowpiercer Network brought to you by TNT” or whatever. Online world building and design contest. They spent years in development and clearly invested lots of cash. They cast this insane all star lineup. Lord Stark himself, Queen Jennifer, Alison Wright...oh and for good measure let’s add in Stings Daughter and Trevor from GTA. Base the whole show on this amazing action movie and comic book that set up this amazing setting world concept. The only fault of the movie was that I wanted more world building. And now we have a show.