S04.E05: The Engineer

[AnimeMania]

Layton hears the deal: Liana for Big Alice; he agrees and the trains dock at the silo; while Layton, Ben, Till, Ruth, and Alex stew in a holding room, Josie is taken to Headwood; Milius introduces his partner in crime: Wilford.

Premiere Date: Sunday, August 18, 2024    AMC     9pm 

[Dowel Jones]

Nice return of Mr. Evil.  I think Wilford is playing Milius like a cheap violin, and has some tyrannical end game in mind.  Not that Milius & Co. don't deserve it.  You can't convince people that cruelty and despotism is necessary to save the world.

Layton has proven himself to be the weak link in the entire ensemble.  He courageously leads a large group of volunteers off to form New Eden, but at the mere mention of Liana, he turns into a flopping fish, willing to sell everyone else out for the unlikely possibility that he and Liana will live through all this.  

I knew the Engineer was dead as soon as he said that the trains could be disconnected from Snowpiercer.  Who builds such a complex train and then puts a manual disconnect outside the cars, knowing what the environment would be like?

I'm glad SOMEbody finally took it to those guards and overpowered one or two.  I want to know why the Spaceballs are outfitted the way they are.  Mutations?

Josie is "giving" blood to Milius?

[Mr. Sparkle]

5 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:

Josie is "giving" blood to Milius?

I think it said Wilford, Joseph, but maybe I'm wrong. 

[tv echo]

I hate it when a show kills off one of my favorite characters.

Edited August 19, 2024 by tv echo

[Dowel Jones]

6 hours ago, Mr. Sparkle said:

I think it said Wilford, Joseph, but maybe I'm wrong. 

Yep, correct.  I got a bit mixed up.

[rmontro]

On 8/19/2024 at 1:52 AM, Dowel Jones said:

Layton has proven himself to be the weak link in the entire ensemble.  He courageously leads a large group of volunteers off to form New Eden, but at the mere mention of Liana, he turns into a flopping fish, willing to sell everyone else out for the unlikely possibility that he and Liana will live through all this.  

I'm glad you said it, because I've been thinking this ever since the Liana plot started.  What's even more bizarre is everyone around seems to be completely willing to enable him in that direction.  For instance, Ruth connects the trains and the plan is to hope some miracle happens to give them Big Alice back, because that's just the way the show works.

Nice to see Wilford again, and the interesting relationship he and Alex share.

I would say the Engineer could still be alive, we've seen people survive worse than that and somehow turn up later.  But I think he's dead.

[Daltrey]

I don't know what's more stupid, putting the manual disconnect outside or standing up in the open doorway in the literal freezing cold and looking at Till while the trains separate. Seemed to me he could have managed to get back inside and close the door before suffering too much physical damage.

[Hanahope]

Gotta bring a good villain back for one last hurrah.  Mel is going to be pissed.  
 

maybe the baby is just bait, but I don’t trust dr mengele to do experiments anyway.  Not dr Nima who is too much a Stockholm victim.