Snowpiercer
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Theres been a decade-long battle raging on Harry Potter sites about how many kids could possibly attend Hogwarts.
Can we trust a fantasy creator who builds a world and doesnt work out all the minutiae?
Third class seems to be the most populated (and honestly, the most fun they have ramen).
Pseudo-opioids are circulating through the train via covert blowjobs.
But my big questions emerge from the way the Tailies are integrated into the trains systems and production cycles.
You Tailies dont have to do anything.
Just sit around anddont rebel, Ruth tells them in her Aunt Norris voice.
And in a way … shes right.
This episode is replete with cruelties the Wilford Co. sees fit to impose.
Or did they specially design it while the train was in motion?)
to freeze the limb to oblivion.
A good clean arm, she tells Melanie later, it shattered nicely.
This wasnt Ruths first amputation.
(This is essentially pirate law: As stowaways you have no right to trial.)
And its also, we learn, not entirely scientifically sound.
Meanwhile two larger storylines play out and intersect across this episode.
In the first, Snowpiercer heads into a rocky stretch of track and a series of avalanches.
In the second, Layton continues his investigation into Sean Wises murder and dismemberment.
(Are you ready to detect, detective?
Bess asks him in a line so cheesy that I can only hope it slipped in by accident.)
Miss Audrey, the cars doll-faced star, is the one who found Nikki with the first body.
Sean, she says, must have been some kind of snitch for the powers that be.
That usually means you have a friend uptrain.
Choke marks mean this person enjoyed watching him suffer.
At stake, as always, is the precious balance that Melanie harps on.
(I Googled methane, folks.)
The other balance at risk, she knows, is Laytons continued allegiance to the Tail.
Its crucial to wisely distribute information, just like supplies.
Does the Tail hold its own dark secrets?
Or is this just tough-guy strategy?
