It is kind of funny that they now say in the narrative that the other train is 40 cars long and the Snowpiercer 994 cars. Yet the smaller engine managed to stop the bigger one.
I get that Wilford might be a clever engineer, but it's all that mass that needs to be slowed down and made to stop. The interesting fact is that since the engine stopped, so did the perpetual engine. All while everything was freezing. But that's the thing, the wind chill will make everything colder.
Also when you think about it, since everything is freezing, so is the water that the train wheels had been melting when they were turning. If it's super cold outside, in those twelve minutes, the ice could have made the wheels stuck. That didn't turned out to be true. And another thing is that if Layton would have stuck to his guns, the both trains would have been in trouble and therefore an interesting situation would have certainly developed.
Even though Layton didn't declare himself as the leader of the Snowpiercer, he somehow ended in that role and he declared the tail as a now border between the trains. What happened to all that attitude to give freedom to all passengers?
I didn't like that Layton chairmanned the Council meeting in the Nightcar. In the previous season he was a detective, a fugitive and a revolutionary. But at the end he gave it all the power back to people instead of declaring himself as their dictator.
The fact is that one of Layton's boys voiced it out loud, by claiming: "All this personal sh1t, it ain't making your democracy any easier to believe in!" And he is so right, because so much has changed, and yet, remained the same with Layton taking over Melanies role in the train.
Therefore Alex was right. Layton is in charge, want it or not.
Ruth went on and said, "You are working for all passengers," almost as if she wanted to move Layton to King's position. Is she a kingmaker?
I was expecting Sean Penn in his Mr Wilford role to repeat Eddard Stark thing and chop Melanies head off for leaving them behind. But no, instead he gave her look and talk. While they (the Snowpiercer) was in the move, Big Alice was sitting in the shelter, getting outfitted.
That is the thing that many of us talked about in the last season. Why do the trainaction, when the old and tested method is to sit in a shelter? All in all it's like that the Chicago Terminal is still there and most probably stocked full of spares and other things that they could get on board.
Then again maybe that is last winters snow and we cannot get any of it back. Especially as Alex remarked that "they were out of morphine" and "the Hospitality is in their uniforms." For a daughter and as a woman she is really scorned.
"Take Melanie to brig," she said. Not "Take Mum to brig," almost as if mum had stopped being a thing. Maybe Mr Wilford managed to turn her love to hatred as it seems to be the case with all people in Big Alice.
Essentially the whole situation makes Mr Wilford a robber baron.
Thing is he think himself as a god who created everything in the world. Yet, personally he didn't nothing more singed the checks and enjoyed the life in luxury, while it was the engineers and the scientists who the majority of everything.
I'm confused. In one hand Alex is playing on Mr Wilford side, on the other she is still feeling for her mum and she knew that Melanie's story was true. There was men who came to get the family but the grandparents refused to leave.
I get that everyone knows Melanie is manipulative and it comes naturally. Yet, despite being a prisoner she has awful big amount of friends in the Big Alice. People who worship her, but they fear Mr Wilford.
Whose side Alexander is at the end? Mum's or Wilford's or her own?
