802 - The Morning After
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Writer: James Wong
Unfortunately, we won't be able to release an Instant Take for #ahs tonight, because our cable is fooked! AHHH! We'll get it out ASAP, likely tomorrow evening. Feedback will be Friday as planned! Sorry!
Writer: James Wong
Unfortunately, we won't be able to release an Instant Take for #ahs tonight, because our cable is fooked! AHHH! We'll get it out ASAP, likely tomorrow evening. Feedback will be Friday as planned! Sorry!
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I gotta say though - robots are one thing I did NOT want in this season.
The Preferred Title of the Episode Should Be: Fuckception.
Fact: Ryan Murphy is an out gay man.
Fact: Ryan Murphy was raised Roman Catholic
Murphy's Attempt at an Allegory: The two teenagers are an Apocalypse-style Adam and Eve. (Come on, notice how Emily has to convince TImothy to bone. She wants to leave the bunker and leave Outpost 3/ The Garden of Eden. She's curious and she's constantly provoking him to explore, be curious, etc.
Prediction: Michael Langdon/ The Devil is going to force her (Emily) to give in to a temptation that damns Timothy (as Adam).
Reproductive Prediction: Emily just got knocked up. You KNOW we're obligated to have another pregnancy.
Genuine Question for All Straight People : If you didn't know Ryan Murphy wrote this ,would you smell homophobia from tonight's episode?
Rubber Man Observation: He has only ever appeared to people who are attracted to men i. e. Vivien, Chad and Patrick (the gay couple from Season 1) and now Mr. Gallant.
Overall Thoughts: I liked it a whole lot ,and I'm totally onboard. But my God, this episode was a Fuckception.
How long till the weekly Westworld 'everyone is a robot' speculation?
In a show that tends occasionally to fly off the rails in spectacular fashion this certainly can't help.
Next week's guest star is Anthony Hopkins as the head of the Cooperative.
To what end? No idea. The antichrist wants to reign over hell on earth, not immediately kill every living human.
Of course this version of Rubberman could just be some demon following Michael around.
I can't recall exactly, but didn't he morph into some monster in season 1 when he was scaring the shit out of Violets friend in the basement?
I think they are about to launch into crazy town. They did release a scene photo of Jessica Lange this week, and she's definitely not in the outpost bunker. I'm hoping it's not just a flashback from Michael Langdon's POV.
@cdrive said in the thread for episode 1:
"Also there were a total of 10 outposts. The 2 kids were told this by the male cooperation agent in the tank when they were being driven to the outpost."
Okay so even if we started with 10, 3 have been overrun. That leaves 7. Langdon says that three more won't last through the year. That leaves 4. Surely the last 3 will be overrun before our outpost is, so that would mean that of those remaining 4, our outpost would be the 4th breached/'seal broken'. Bring on the apocalypse and Death on the Pale Horse (the artwork that is in the vignette in the opening sequence). Taste it, @cdrive! lol
I refuse to give up on this theory! I'll die on this hill, just as @Cecily will die on hers trying to make Asylum happen.
Also, I've been thinking about something else. How did Coco's father (who was in Hong Kong at the time) know that Los Angeles would be hit by the nuclear blast within an hour (his words while he was Facetiming with her). He also had time to arrange a private jet to take her *somewhere*. How did he know when LA would be hit, and where was he intending the plane to take them? Was the plane programmed to arrive at the outpost the entire time? Aside from this, there is also some talk from Venable (I think, or maybe Langdon) about the Cooperative's benefactor(s). There are people who are funding this whole operation. Coco's father was a billionaire. Is it possible he was one of the benefactors, and that's how he knew when LA would be hit and it's also why he got ahold of Coco to tell her to get to the private jet? He said he had reserved 4 spots, but that he, his wife, and their son (Coco's brother) couldn't make it. I think he planned to 'miss' the plane all along, maybe out of guilt for aiding the funding of the eradication of most of the world's population? If he did truly intend to make the plane, he still would have been a major player in this worldwide disaster.