The Nevers 1x06 Thoughts
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Excellent episode.
+ Ha, it's both aliens and dystopic future time travel! Yay. I love the reveal that the Galanthi came to a broken war torn Earth to help humanity.
+ From what we learn I got that there was possibly an environmental collapse (+ maybe wars) which lead to 5 billion deaths. Then the Galanthi arrived to help save the world/humanity. As part of this they released spores to give select humans better empathy/understanding. This led to war as humans divided into two groups - Free Life think the Galanthi are a danger/evil/against God and want to destroy them and everything they're trying to do, and PDC who are working with the Galanthi.
+ I was surprised that Amalia wasn't any part of the plan to come back in time but that makes sense. Biner thought the portal was to return the Galanthi home but now it seems clear that it was a portal to send the Galanthi and it's human team into the past to save the future. (A thing Zephyr specifically complained about them not doing.)
+ Another interesting new fact - the spores were also given out in the future but then they gave understanding and empathy not super powers. Were the super-powers a mistake, the plan all along or a traumatized Galanthi's last minute choice?
+ The Galanthi is great. I loved the short glimpse we got of it on video. I loved how playful it was with the head scientist. I loved that it and the humans working with it were bonded. The design is great. I really want it to come out of it's chrysalis and bond with Amalia, Penance and the others.
+ I'm guessing the Galanthi chose Zephyr as it's point person in the mission because of her final moments with Knitter and her trying to convince her that there was hope?
+ I loved that Zephyr had flashbacks as part of her PTSD (to the point that sometimes she didn't know what was real) and the Turn she ends up with in the past is glimpses of the future.
+ Zephyr was great. I loved everything we learned about her during 'Stripe'. I loved this exchange:
Zephyr: Twenty Free Life Marauders dropped in an hour before you did.
Boots: Twenty? Our scanners read eight.
Zephyr: I had an hour.
+ I liked Knitter a lot. She was so lovely. I loved her and Zephyr. Their final exchange was a gut punch. I loved how Zephyr tried so hard to convince her as she died that she'd been right to hope. Amalia being full of guilt that "she died in despair, my despair" made me sad for both of them. Fingers crossed that Knitter somehow was one of the ones brought back.
+ Of course I can't help but compare how similar Knitter and Penance are with their shared desire to see hope and do good, and then connect that to their relationship with Zephyr/Amalia. They are a light that draws Amalia to them. They give her hope. Actually Sarah also fits into this character type. She was also filled with hope. Hmm. It feels a little like Amalia's protectiveness of Penance and the way she tries to support her hope (while not always believing in it) is a way of making up for what she did to Knitter and Sarah (and her crushing of their hope.)
+ Not a lot of Amalia/Penance but Amalia angrily yelling at the Galanthi "I left Penance because you said find me. I left my heart to come talk to you!" was excellent. I also love that at the end Amalia shared her biggest and closest kept secret - her name (Zephyr Alexis Levine) and that Penance understood the gravity of it.
+ I really liked what we saw of Amalia and Horatio. I love that his Turn came out for the first time with her. I love that she just straight up told him everything and that in response he believed her and helped her. That he was her first ally and confidant.
+ Wow, Amalia straight up threw poor Sarah under the bus. Horatio defended Amalia's actions a couple episode back but nope, sorry Maladie's feelings of betrayal and rage are completely understandable since she was straight up betrayed so Amalia could protect herself. And after leaving the asylum she apparently never thought about trying to help/save Sarah. And she might also have been simply humouring/playing Sarah before the betrayal too. Yikes all around. Poor Sarah.
That said based on what we saw of Zephyr and her life I also find it an understandable, though not admirable, action on her part. The Doctor said he was going to take one of them, Amalia didn't trust him, she did what she needed to survive and continue her mission.
+ Maladie thought she and Molly were best friends. But what we see is that Horatio is Amalia's confidant and co-conspirator, the one she trusts. After their initial scenes when Amalia is still figuring out what's happening we only see the two of them interact when Amalia betrays her. Based on what we see it doesn't feel like Sarah was a part of Amalia's plans or in her confidence. Did she even know the truth about Zephyr and her mission? I don't think so. I'm a little disappointed. I wanted them to have been actual friends alas.
+ Zephyr didn't come back alone. So is there just one person or did the Galanthi bring back the whole team? Myrtle was so prominent in the vision that I wonder if she has someone in her or if that was part of her power. Does Sarah/Maladie? Molly was chosen for Zephyr because she was dead. But we know Sarah wasn't and it seems strange that Myrtle died/was near death at that time and we don't know that. I feel like her parents would have mentioned. Oh dear, could the major from the Free Life have been brought back too? You wouldn't think so since the Galanthi has only reason to hate the Free Life but maybe it couldn't choose who came? Dr. Hague's creations seem a bit advanced and the way he looked at the Galanthi makes me wonder. I could see the major being in him. I think Massen as an enemy is too obvious and he's who he seems to be. Hmm. There is of course the question of why none of them have tried to contact Amalia.
+ It's interesting that Amalia was looking for orders and for someone to tell her what to do. She thought she was alone, we know now she wasn't. What's interesting is that the first person she really met was Sarah - who talked about a mission, who saw the Galanthi and remembered, and yet Amalia never seemed to consider that as important or Sarah as worth listening to. It seems pretty important to me that Sarah was the only person who saw the Galanthi. Was she the person Amalia was suppose to find only for her to ignore and then throw her away? That would be a painful twist.
+ I wish we'd seen more of Amalia in the asylum. It could have given us more insight into her relationship with Sarah and just how much she knew as well as letting us see Amalia taking her first steps into leadership and her interactions with the Touched in the asylum. She such a distant figure in her leadership at the asylum that it would have been nice to see more of her being hands on at the start.
+ Maladie saving Harriet in the previous episode is thus revealed to be her simply acting out of compassion. Compassion that is true to who she is. Her comforting Amalia when she started freaking out and generally demeanour was of someone who is kind.
+ I appreciated how the episode showcased how terrible both Amalia and Molly's lives were and that they came from very different situations but both were trapped. Of the similarities in how they perceive the world and how both lacked hope. How they both gave in to despair and killed themselves.
+ I am really sad about Molly's life. It was so tragic in a sadly realistic way and the whole sequence was really affecting.
+ The flashes Amalia has at the end included parts from Molly's life so perhaps she isn't really entirely gone. Not sure where that's going. The two personalities merging into one? I think I'd rather it's revealed that Amalia has always been a mix of Molly and Zephyr.
+ "Aliens from the future gave us magic powers. It was staring me in the face." - Horatio. Hee.
+ The little bit about names being sacred was a neat bit of world-building.
+ I liked that in her escape Amalia was was helped first by the shop girl Elisabeta and then by Augie using his crows. How it emphasised that relying on others and working as a team rather than an individual was important. It led nicely to Amalia's revelation at the end that they needed to tell the others the truth about everything. (We better get to see that scene!)
+ Along with using the birds to help Amalia I liked how Augie was right in the middle of battle with everyone else. This felt like a big moment for him.
+ I really hope they manage to save Elisabeta and the other Touched taken by the doctor.
+ I was expecting George's accidental pushing of the lever to come to some serious affect but the zeppelin just flying off to Penance's disgusted "fucking prototype' was a very fun amusing note to end the episode on.
+ I loved the first shot of the episode.
+ I loved how the episode was divided into Chapters - Stripe, Molly, Madwoman, True.
+ The Pride trying to shoot the Galanthi when it reached out to them plus some of what we hear them saying gave an interesting view of how even some of those allied with the Galanthi don't trust them and are scared of them.
Excellent episode.
+ Ha, it's both aliens and dystopic future time travel! Yay. I love the reveal that the Galanthi came to a broken war torn Earth to help humanity.
+ From what we learn I got that there was possibly an environmental collapse (+ maybe wars) which lead to 5 billion deaths. Then the Galanthi arrived to help save the world/humanity. As part of this they released spores to give select humans better empathy/understanding. This led to war as humans divided into two groups - Free Life think the Galanthi are a danger/evil/against God and want to destroy them and everything they're trying to do, and PDC who are working with the Galanthi.
+ I was surprised that Amalia wasn't any part of the plan to come back in time but that makes sense. Biner thought the portal was to return the Galanthi home but now it seems clear that it was a portal to send the Galanthi and it's human team into the past to save the future. (A thing Zephyr specifically complained about them not doing.)
+ Another interesting new fact - the spores were also given out in the future but then they gave understanding and empathy not super powers. Were the super-powers a mistake, the plan all along or a traumatized Galanthi's last minute choice?
+ The Galanthi is great. I loved the short glimpse we got of it on video. I loved how playful it was with the head scientist. I loved that it and the humans working with it were bonded. The design is great. I really want it to come out of it's chrysalis and bond with Amalia, Penance and the others.
+ I'm guessing the Galanthi chose Zephyr as it's point person in the mission because of her final moments with Knitter and her trying to convince her that there was hope?
+ I loved that Zephyr had flashbacks as part of her PTSD (to the point that sometimes she didn't know what was real) and the Turn she ends up with in the past is glimpses of the future.
+ Zephyr was great. I loved everything we learned about her during 'Stripe'. I loved this exchange:
Zephyr: Twenty Free Life Marauders dropped in an hour before you did.
Boots: Twenty? Our scanners read eight.
Zephyr: I had an hour.
+ I liked Knitter a lot. She was so lovely. I loved her and Zephyr. Their final exchange was a gut punch. I loved how Zephyr tried so hard to convince her as she died that she'd been right to hope. Amalia being full of guilt that "she died in despair, my despair" made me sad for both of them. Fingers crossed that Knitter somehow was one of the ones brought back.
+ Of course I can't help but compare how similar Knitter and Penance are with their shared desire to see hope and do good, and then connect that to their relationship with Zephyr/Amalia. They are a light that draws Amalia to them. They give her hope. Actually Sarah also fits into this character type. She was also filled with hope. Hmm. It feels a little like Amalia's protectiveness of Penance and the way she tries to support her hope (while not always believing in it) is a way of making up for what she did to Knitter and Sarah (and her crushing of their hope.)
+ Not a lot of Amalia/Penance but Amalia angrily yelling at the Galanthi "I left Penance because you said find me. I left my heart to come talk to you!" was excellent. I also love that at the end Amalia shared her biggest and closest kept secret - her name (Zephyr Alexis Levine) and that Penance understood the gravity of it.
+ I really liked what we saw of Amalia and Horatio. I love that his Turn came out for the first time with her. I love that she just straight up told him everything and that in response he believed her and helped her. That he was her first ally and confidant.
+ Wow, Amalia straight up threw poor Sarah under the bus. Horatio defended Amalia's actions a couple episode back but nope, sorry Maladie's feelings of betrayal and rage are completely understandable since she was straight up betrayed so Amalia could protect herself. And after leaving the asylum she apparently never thought about trying to help/save Sarah. And she might also have been simply humouring/playing Sarah before the betrayal too. Yikes all around. Poor Sarah.
That said based on what we saw of Zephyr and her life I also find it an understandable, though not admirable, action on her part. The Doctor said he was going to take one of them, Amalia didn't trust him, she did what she needed to survive and continue her mission.
+ Maladie thought she and Molly were best friends. But what we see is that Horatio is Amalia's confidant and co-conspirator, the one she trusts. After their initial scenes when Amalia is still figuring out what's happening we only see the two of them interact when Amalia betrays her. Based on what we see it doesn't feel like Sarah was a part of Amalia's plans or in her confidence. Did she even know the truth about Zephyr and her mission? I don't think so. I'm a little disappointed. I wanted them to have been actual friends alas.
+ Zephyr didn't come back alone. So is there just one person or did the Galanthi bring back the whole team? Myrtle was so prominent in the vision that I wonder if she has someone in her or if that was part of her power. Does Sarah/Maladie? Molly was chosen for Zephyr because she was dead. But we know Sarah wasn't and it seems strange that Myrtle died/was near death at that time and we don't know that. I feel like her parents would have mentioned. Oh dear, could the major from the Free Life have been brought back too? You wouldn't think so since the Galanthi has only reason to hate the Free Life but maybe it couldn't choose who came? Dr. Hague's creations seem a bit advanced and the way he looked at the Galanthi makes me wonder. I could see the major being in him. I think Massen as an enemy is too obvious and he's who he seems to be. Hmm. There is of course the question of why none of them have tried to contact Amalia.
+ It's interesting that Amalia was looking for orders and for someone to tell her what to do. She thought she was alone, we know now she wasn't. What's interesting is that the first person she really met was Sarah - who talked about a mission, who saw the Galanthi and remembered, and yet Amalia never seemed to consider that as important or Sarah as worth listening to. It seems pretty important to me that Sarah was the only person who saw the Galanthi. Was she the person Amalia was suppose to find only for her to ignore and then throw her away? That would be a painful twist.
+ I wish we'd seen more of Amalia in the asylum. It could have given us more insight into her relationship with Sarah and just how much she knew as well as letting us see Amalia taking her first steps into leadership and her interactions with the Touched in the asylum. She such a distant figure in her leadership at the asylum that it would have been nice to see more of her being hands on at the start.
+ Maladie saving Harriet in the previous episode is thus revealed to be her simply acting out of compassion. Compassion that is true to who she is. Her comforting Amalia when she started freaking out and generally demeanour was of someone who is kind.
+ I appreciated how the episode showcased how terrible both Amalia and Molly's lives were and that they came from very different situations but both were trapped. Of the similarities in how they perceive the world and how both lacked hope. How they both gave in to despair and killed themselves.
+ I am really sad about Molly's life. It was so tragic in a sadly realistic way and the whole sequence was really affecting.
+ The flashes Amalia has at the end included parts from Molly's life so perhaps she isn't really entirely gone. Not sure where that's going. The two personalities merging into one? I think I'd rather it's revealed that Amalia has always been a mix of Molly and Zephyr.
+ "Aliens from the future gave us magic powers. It was staring me in the face." - Horatio. Hee.
+ The little bit about names being sacred was a neat bit of world-building.
+ I liked that in her escape Amalia was was helped first by the shop girl Elisabeta and then by Augie using his crows. How it emphasised that relying on others and working as a team rather than an individual was important. It led nicely to Amalia's revelation at the end that they needed to tell the others the truth about everything. (We better get to see that scene!)
+ Along with using the birds to help Amalia I liked how Augie was right in the middle of battle with everyone else. This felt like a big moment for him.
+ I really hope they manage to save Elisabeta and the other Touched taken by the doctor.
+ I was expecting George's accidental pushing of the lever to come to some serious affect but the zeppelin just flying off to Penance's disgusted "fucking prototype' was a very fun amusing note to end the episode on.
+ I loved the first shot of the episode.
+ I loved how the episode was divided into Chapters - Stripe, Molly, Madwoman, True.
+ The Pride trying to shoot the Galanthi when it reached out to them plus some of what we hear them saying gave an interesting view of how even some of those allied with the Galanthi don't trust them and are scared of them.
