metaphor December 16, 2018 Share December 16, 2018 Quote Imprisoned on the Other Side, Howard's loyalties are tested. Emily Prime gets a promotion. Airdate: December 16, 2018 1 Link to comment
mxc90 December 16, 2018 Share December 16, 2018 (edited) Mira is more diabolical/cut throat/devious than Clare. She looked the same when shown in young Clare's flashbacks from season 1. I guess she's too evil to age. If Juma/the old man was member of "management", he didn't live in luxury. Also, he believed there was some good in Mira? I hope by her slicing him, he finally changed his mind. Each side has their own management. Why was the 5th floor in ruins? Did she travel to another "counter" place? Management seems to be all knowing and in control, I wonder how they missed not assassinating Mira years ago? Is Howard released or is he going to ECHO? Edited December 16, 2018 by mxc90 2 Link to comment
wanderingstar December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 Emily Alpha contains multitudes. Was she working for Indigo when she was on The Other Side? Howard Alpha has seen better days. And yes, he's being sent to ECHO where German-accented James Cromwell will no doubt torture him some more. 11 hours ago, mxc90 said: Mira is more diabolical/cut throat/devious than Clare I guess we see where Clare gets her ruthless streak from. 3 Link to comment
mxc90 December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Gillian Rosh said: And yes, he's being sent to ECHO where German-accented James Cromwell will no doubt torture him some more. I was confused, I thought management released him as part of Emily's acceptance to finding Mira. Edited December 17, 2018 by mxc90 Link to comment
shapeshifter December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 12 hours ago, mxc90 said: Mira is more diabolical/cut throat/devious than Clare. I was thinking Mira was a tremendous improvement over the blank personality of last season's assasin, the Slit Mouth Girl. 4 Link to comment
mxc90 December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 10 minutes ago, shapeshifter said: I was thinking Mira was a tremendous improvement over the blank personality of last season's assasin, the Slit Mouth Girl. A big improvement. Sadly for Baldwin, her only advantage is she can impress folks at a party by blowing smoke from the side and her mouth at the same time. 1 Link to comment
scrb December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 Did Mira have crotchless pants or something? There are always true believers strewn all over the prime world it seems. So Mira will be able to evade capture for awhile if not the whole season. I thought the Alpha offer was to open the border if the Primes turn Mira over to him? But the request to Emily Prime was to terminate Mira without delay. She was also not to tell anyone so of course she gets Ian in on it, only one of his guys is eager beaver and botches the capture. She also hides a photo of herself from the documents recovered at the apt. Or was it of Emily Prime, in which case why did she hide it from Ian? Meanwhile, I forget what each world wanted from each other in season 1. Alpha wanted to know the death toll. Alpha had better digital technology like smart phones while Prime was suppose to be ahead in certain medical knowledge, which was one of the chits Alpha wanted. So what is the incentive for Prime to get Alpha to reopen the borders? Link to comment
Quilt Fairy December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 50 minutes ago, scrb said: So what is the incentive for Prime to get Alpha to reopen the borders? That's a really interesting question. Difficulties of the last 20 years aside, they're each a self-sustaining world that seems to have no particular need of the other. When the split first happened I could understand almost any response simply because the situation was beyond comprehension. But now the spy vs. spy stuff that each side is maintaining seems a bit ridiculous. 4 Link to comment
shapeshifter December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 5 HOURS AGO, SCRB SAID: I thought the Alpha offer was to open the border if the Primes turn Mira over to him? But the request to Emily Prime was to terminate Mira without delay . . . So what is the incentive for Prime to get Alpha to reopen the borders? "Wanted: Dead or Alive"? 5 hours ago, scrb said: She was also not to tell anyone so of course she gets Ian in on it, only one of his guys is eager beaver and botches the capture. Hmmm. Now that you mention it, the eager beaver guy is likely an Indigo/Mira loyalist. 5 hours ago, scrb said: She also hides a photo of herself from the documents recovered at the apt. Or was it of Emily Prime, in which case why did she hide it from Ian? I think I got this one: The photo is of Emily Alpha in Prime world; if you are either of the Emilys, TRUST NO ONE with this info—except your ex-lover (because you two work so well together). 5 HOURS AGO, SCRB SAID: Did Mira have crotchless pants or something? Well, they don't call it "going commando" for nothin'. 2 Link to comment
meira.hand December 17, 2018 Share December 17, 2018 15 hours ago, Gillian Rosh said: Emily Alpha contains multitudes. Was she working for Indigo when she was on The Other Side? I don't think so, In season 1 Howard prime said (don't remember to who in what circumstances) that Emily Alpha warned him about the infiltration from Prime to Alpha and they were working together to figure this out. This was his reason for crossing over in the first place. 1 Link to comment
Noneofyourbusiness December 18, 2018 Share December 18, 2018 (edited) 20 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said: That's a really interesting question. Difficulties of the last 20 years aside, they're each a self-sustaining world that seems to have no particular need of the other. When the split first happened I could understand almost any response simply because the situation was beyond comprehension. But now the spy vs. spy stuff that each side is maintaining seems a bit ridiculous. Fancher told Quayle last season that Alpha got a number of medical advancements from the Prime world, such as the mapping of the human genome and treatments for AIDS; he said his job in Diplomacy was so much more crucial than the spycraft going on in Strategy because of the importance of the information they've gotten from Prime over the years. They're still trading for more like that, and better agricultural technology, etc. One of the things Fancher wanted to bargain for in that same episode was the location of a petroluem deposits that had been found near the Mariana Trench in the Prime world and not yet in the Alpha one Edited December 18, 2018 by Noneofyourbusiness 1 3 Link to comment
spottedreptile December 29, 2018 Share December 29, 2018 On 17/12/2018 at 5:09 PM, Quilt Fairy said: That's a really interesting question. Difficulties of the last 20 years aside, they're each a self-sustaining world that seems to have no particular need of the other. When the split first happened I could understand almost any response simply because the situation was beyond comprehension. But now the spy vs. spy stuff that each side is maintaining seems a bit ridiculous. Human nature being what it is, both sides will have people after power and wealth for themselves, so knowing what is available over there gives them an edge over their contemporaries here. This is one of the themes I find most interesting about the premise of the show. 2 Link to comment
tennisgurl January 3, 2019 Share January 3, 2019 My wild theory is that Management is actually an unknown third universe, who is playing both sides down the middle. Maybe the true people who started the plague? Probably not true, but I like to guess. Emily Prime really is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Poor Howard Prime is having a REALLY shitty day. The wife in Berlin was seriously cold, but she probably should have figured that getting involved with a fanatical terrorist cell, and calling their scary as shit leader in to report your own husband, might lead to a bullet in the head. Mira is one cold customer. 2 Link to comment
Haleth January 3, 2019 Share January 3, 2019 7 hours ago, tennisgurl said: My wild theory is that Management is actually an unknown third universe, who is playing both sides down the middle. Maybe the true people who started the plague? Probably not true, but I like to guess. That has crossed my mind too. 1 Link to comment
AudienceofOne March 16, 2019 Share March 16, 2019 On 1/3/2019 at 5:12 PM, tennisgurl said: My wild theory is that Management is actually an unknown third universe, who is playing both sides down the middle. That's what I think too. It's possible they were the original universe and it's not that Alpha and Prime are copies of each other but that they're BOTH copies of... Omega. I have to admit this show has finally lost me. I got really confused as to several parts of this episode, up to and including Emily Prime wanting Howard Alpha to believe that Emily Alpha was part of Indigo - why? And why think she was part of the plot when she was trying to stop it and Indigo went to such great lengths to try to stop her? I also got confused at the deal Emily Prime made with management. I thought it included Howard's freedom but instead he got transferred to ECHO. Link to comment
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