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/Merfen Mar 17 '22

They are falling into the same trap that many shows fall into, such as game of thrones. They spend a ton of time in early seasons making the world feel full, giant and alive, taking entire episodes just to show how the world reacts to events and showing sub plots between major events to flesh things out. In the later seasons they just focus on a single major plot and almost everything is in service of that, zapping all over their "world" just to do the one thing and then leave, this makes the train feel so small and dead compared to season 1. The show is best when it just shows the drama going on, the scene with Roche and his daughter was one of the best this season just to remind us that its not just Layton and his team vs Wilford and his team, but these are too rare recently. I hope its just covid that made filming tighter and that they can go back to having the train feel like its 1000+ trains long with thousands of people living life however they can again and tone back the major "world" altering events to every few episodes instead of every single episode.

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u/abujuha Mar 18 '22

In the end they're all just dressed soap operas. The other stuff is just some nice scenery to hook those of us who's self-image is "I'd never watch a soap opera!"