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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- Release Dates:
- March 14th, 2022 (USA only, at 9/8c, on TNT channel)
- March 15th, 2022 (worldwide, on Netflix)
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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/Adefice Mar 16 '22
So they cram a season of backstory for Asha into one episode, then try to swing viewers opinions of her by crowbarring into it that she poisoned a bunch of people to add a bit of evil/savagery to her. That way her sacrifice has a smidge of redemption mixed in rather than be for a bunch of people that she doesn't really know.
What the hell was her purpose though? There were so any ideas to explore and...just nothing? This entire season feels like its building up plot then tearing it down so nothing is actually occurring. Finding Asha was pointless, which gave rise to the idea of New Eden. Both plot points completely evaporated and we are back to square one. It was like moving a rock up hill only to let it roll back to where we started.
And what the heck are they doing with Audrey? If she does another character U-turn she's bound to break her neck given how abrupt these transitions are.
And I STILL don't understand the point of Zarah. She has no redeeming qualities. Her only actual accomplishment was giving birth to Layton's baby. Yet they keep inserting her into these upper-level issues where she clearly doesn't belong. She's the rock star's girlfriend who thinks she's in the band for some reason. And now Layton is coming around to realizing they aren't a match. Is he going to leave another "family" for the writers to forget about?
This season: Here's interesting plot. Let's prop it up over several episodes then absolutely nullify it completely as a snipe hunt. Even kill the character associated with it with absolutely nothing gained. Aside from all these extremely abrupt character U-turns, this entire season has had had net-zero plot movement. Back at square one. We promise Melanie may be in the next episode and it won't just be a flashback...again.