Wayward Pines: Friendliest Place on Earth
July 10, 2015 12:10 PM - Season 1, Episode 8 - Subscribe
Ethan looks into the explosion on Main Street. Harold gets cold feet. And we see a new side of Nurse Pam.
So, it turns out the creepy Nurse Pam is actually the good one in this fucked up story? It's not like the bar is high: there's the scientist and security guard that decided that abducting people (nah, at least abducted people have a chance of returning to their loved ones), the creepy high school teacher that tells 14-year olds to fuck...
I still think it's bullshit the kids survived. If I got that right, the trucker died with 90% 3rd degree burns. In that explosion, Ethan would be scraping his son from the road with a snow shovel on a 50 yard radius. And I'm not saying it because not seeing those two again would be a massive improvement for the final two episodes, and would actually be a good excuse for Theresa to climb up Megan's ass with said snow shovel.
Also, it all it took to escape was ram a truck through the gate, why bother making a bomb? Steal a truck, go full speed, escape, and all would be done right on time for dinner. Abby dinner.
Also, now we know why Kate is acting erratic, and doesn't even question why she's like 10 years older than Ethan.
posted by lmfsilva at 6:29 AM on July 11, 2015
I still think it's bullshit the kids survived. If I got that right, the trucker died with 90% 3rd degree burns. In that explosion, Ethan would be scraping his son from the road with a snow shovel on a 50 yard radius. And I'm not saying it because not seeing those two again would be a massive improvement for the final two episodes, and would actually be a good excuse for Theresa to climb up Megan's ass with said snow shovel.
Also, it all it took to escape was ram a truck through the gate, why bother making a bomb? Steal a truck, go full speed, escape, and all would be done right on time for dinner. Abby dinner.
Also, now we know why Kate is acting erratic, and doesn't even question why she's like 10 years older than Ethan.
posted by lmfsilva at 6:29 AM on July 11, 2015
The sequence with David tasking Pam to ferret out the mole in surveillance had me mightily confused because Pam acted so squirrely, it seemed like maybe she would be the mole? So I spent half the ep wondering what her motivation would be for collaborating with Kate's group of insurgents, given that just a few eps ago she seemed hot to take Ethan's place as sheriff.
posted by trunk muffins at 8:11 PM on July 11, 2015
posted by trunk muffins at 8:11 PM on July 11, 2015
I feel like I turn up here every week wanting to shout WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN rather than try to post rationally and calmly. It's kind of like when my cat tells me a story, you know: "i dun a go outside and den dere was a bombs and him go boom but i was ok because reasons and also i got a bumps mah hed so i go to hopsital an den a lady tell mah daddy is bad so i dun shout him an hav a cuddle wiv da nice girl from skool but a man he steelz a truk go smash! eat him up. yes."
posted by prismatic7 at 3:58 AM on July 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by prismatic7 at 3:58 AM on July 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
I still think it's bullshit the kids survived. If I got that right, the trucker died with 90% 3rd degree burns. In that explosion, Ethan would be scraping his son from the road with a snow shovel on a 50 yard radius
It was Ethan and another FBI agent in the accident with the truck.
Ethan's son and his mother came later in a different wreck.
posted by LizBoBiz at 7:16 AM on July 12, 2015
It was Ethan and another FBI agent in the accident with the truck.
Ethan's son and his mother came later in a different wreck.
posted by LizBoBiz at 7:16 AM on July 12, 2015
No, I mean the failed musicbox bomb attack, with the brat and what's-her-name riding the back of the truck on the previous episode.
If an explosion was big enough to burn the driver (that was in the front cabin, with the brats between him and the bomb that blew up in the back of the truck) to a crisp, not a chance the kids would survive with a few scrapes and a concussion. Even it was just powerful enough to knockout the driver and let him burn as the fuel tanks caught fire, the kids would suffer the same (probably worst).
I'm willing to suspend belief for a while, but the whole bomb thing was a complete fiasco plot-wise - and considering it seems to be what will lead the final episodes...
posted by lmfsilva at 7:59 AM on July 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
If an explosion was big enough to burn the driver (that was in the front cabin, with the brats between him and the bomb that blew up in the back of the truck) to a crisp, not a chance the kids would survive with a few scrapes and a concussion. Even it was just powerful enough to knockout the driver and let him burn as the fuel tanks caught fire, the kids would suffer the same (probably worst).
I'm willing to suspend belief for a while, but the whole bomb thing was a complete fiasco plot-wise - and considering it seems to be what will lead the final episodes...
posted by lmfsilva at 7:59 AM on July 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
The kids surviving the bomb is crazy implausible.
if anyone is interested in reading the Wayward Pines novels by Blake Crouch, Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial of Kindle Unlimited right now and they are among the titles on offer. They're fast reads, so if that's all you're in for, you could finish all three in a couple days and immediately cancel et voila, you get them all for free.
posted by trunk muffins at 10:34 AM on July 12, 2015
if anyone is interested in reading the Wayward Pines novels by Blake Crouch, Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial of Kindle Unlimited right now and they are among the titles on offer. They're fast reads, so if that's all you're in for, you could finish all three in a couple days and immediately cancel et voila, you get them all for free.
posted by trunk muffins at 10:34 AM on July 12, 2015
prismatic7, I want your cat to review the rest of the episodes.
posted by mon-ma-tron at 11:15 AM on July 12, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by mon-ma-tron at 11:15 AM on July 12, 2015 [6 favorites]
About the bomb, in the last episode they did show them going back behind some big bags of flour or whatever before the bomb went off, so my own credulity wasn't too strained by the kids surviving, personally.
posted by whir at 1:25 PM on July 12, 2015
posted by whir at 1:25 PM on July 12, 2015
...but having thought about it a little more, I do agree that the driver being dead while they are alive seems inconsistent.
posted by whir at 1:26 PM on July 12, 2015
posted by whir at 1:26 PM on July 12, 2015
The sequence with David tasking Pam to ferret out the mole in surveillance had me mightily confused because Pam acted so squirrely, it seemed like maybe she would be the mole?
That's cleared up later though, right? She draws a distinction between the behind-the-scenes folk, whose loyalty doesn't deserve to be questioned because they joined willingly, and the Wayward Pinesers, who don't understand the stakes and therefore need to be kept in line with reckonings and such.
She may also appreciate her brother's tendency towards paranoia.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:37 AM on July 13, 2015
That's cleared up later though, right? She draws a distinction between the behind-the-scenes folk, whose loyalty doesn't deserve to be questioned because they joined willingly, and the Wayward Pinesers, who don't understand the stakes and therefore need to be kept in line with reckonings and such.
She may also appreciate her brother's tendency towards paranoia.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:37 AM on July 13, 2015
I wanted the kids to die because I knew they wouldn't and I hate that kind of manipulative story telling.
That's cleared up later though, right? She draws a distinction between the behind-the-scenes folk, whose loyalty doesn't deserve to be questioned because they joined willingly, and the Wayward Pinesers, who don't understand the stakes and therefore need to be kept in line with reckonings and such.
I'm confused about something. There is one group of people -- the ones behind the scenes -- who are volunteers. Okay. There's a second group of people -- some of the "Pineys" -- who were abducted because of their skill set. Okay. But how did Ethan's wife and kid end up there? I know that the crash is how they stage the "re-entry" but were they also abducted? And then kept on ice until Ethan settled in? And why does it feel like a coincidence that Kate is there, when it clearly can't be just coincidence.
What did I miss?
posted by Room 641-A at 9:57 PM on July 13, 2015
That's cleared up later though, right? She draws a distinction between the behind-the-scenes folk, whose loyalty doesn't deserve to be questioned because they joined willingly, and the Wayward Pinesers, who don't understand the stakes and therefore need to be kept in line with reckonings and such.
I'm confused about something. There is one group of people -- the ones behind the scenes -- who are volunteers. Okay. There's a second group of people -- some of the "Pineys" -- who were abducted because of their skill set. Okay. But how did Ethan's wife and kid end up there? I know that the crash is how they stage the "re-entry" but were they also abducted? And then kept on ice until Ethan settled in? And why does it feel like a coincidence that Kate is there, when it clearly can't be just coincidence.
What did I miss?
posted by Room 641-A at 9:57 PM on July 13, 2015
Kate and her partner were investigating missing people and getting close to tracking them down to Wayward Pines. As a result, the Volunteer Pineys nabbed them. Similarly, Ethan and his partner went looking for Kate & co. and also got nabbed. Then, Ethan's family went looking for Ethan and got nabbed (by the old Sherriff/security guard).
posted by cardboard at 8:58 AM on July 14, 2015
posted by cardboard at 8:58 AM on July 14, 2015
Soon we'll find out the Abbies took over the world because the FBI sent all their agents trying to find out what happened to their predecessors in Wayward Pines.
posted by lmfsilva at 9:18 AM on July 14, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by lmfsilva at 9:18 AM on July 14, 2015 [4 favorites]
Thank you, cardboard! I think I was fuzzy on Kate and her partner tracking people to WP.
Soon we'll find out the Abbies took over the world
Ugh! The only thing about the show that makes me cranky is that name. Every time I hear it I just think of Young Frankenstein and it totally takes me out of the moment.
At first I wasn't thrilled about season two because I'd like to see Fox keep making these limited-run mysteries and thrillers, but unlike Gracepoint I think I'd miss WP.
posted by Room 641-A at 9:41 AM on July 14, 2015
Soon we'll find out the Abbies took over the world
Ugh! The only thing about the show that makes me cranky is that name. Every time I hear it I just think of Young Frankenstein and it totally takes me out of the moment.
At first I wasn't thrilled about season two because I'd like to see Fox keep making these limited-run mysteries and thrillers, but unlike Gracepoint I think I'd miss WP.
posted by Room 641-A at 9:41 AM on July 14, 2015
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