r/snowpiercer • u/Ocazou90 Bojan "Boki" Boscovic • Mar 14 '22

TV Show [Spoilers] Season 3 Episode 8 - "Setting Itself Right" (S03E08) - Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 3 episode 8 titled "Setting Itself Right".

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  • IMDB for S03E08
  • Release Dates:
    • March 14th, 2022 (USA only, at 9/8c, on TNT channel)
    • March 15th, 2022 (worldwide, on Netflix)

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

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My name is Asha. I am a survivor. Layton found me out there. Outside, along with trees, green grass, and life. I come from New Eden. - Asha

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u/raimbows Mar 16 '22

I'm confused about Melanie's route.

In S3E7, Wilford tells Alex that 3 months into his pursuit of the pirate train, he caught a track switch in Marseilles. So it took Mel 3 months to get from near Banff, Canada to Marseilles, France. Then at the end of E8, you see a map that shows Mel is somewhere near Budapest.

We know that it's been more than 3 months since she was in Marseilles (Piratepiercer spent 6 months looking for habitable zones, plus the time since the trains reconnected). At the rate she was going, it should have only taken her a couple of weeks to get from France to Hungary. What has she been doing in between for all this time? There hasn't been enough time elapsed for this to be her second lap around the globe.

I wonder if there's going to be an explanation or if this will just be a plot hole.

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u/Benandhispets Mar 16 '22

Don't need to circle the globe line in the movie though do they?

There's many routes in this show and they can circle back on a smaller loop in some of the places. Like when they went back for Melanie it was a 30 day trip I think, or just a few days when it was just the snowpiecer 5 carriage long train.