The Peripheral

Well that escalated quickly.

I take it next week is the last episode this season?

great episode. loved the old hitman. too bad about him.

with andor and this, probably combine for the best few weeks of tv in long while for me

I have no idea what happened there at the end. What a cock tease ending also.

I was trying to figure out what I saw at the end.

I thought she created a duplicate stub of her "real" world so that there would be 2 versions of her with the bacteria....one of which the bald lady wouldn't know how to locate. Then they'd kill the one in the "original" stub. Which sounds fine, but Chloe's character and the amputee in both stubs would think their stub is the real one and she'd be killed in both. So either there's a plothole, a mechanism involved that I missed on how she'd be able to self-identify which stub she's in, or I'm totally wrong and have absolutely no idea what happened.

I am going to have to watch this again. I feel like I missed a few things which would not surprise me.

Djay said:

I thought she created a duplicate stub of her "real" world so that there would be 2 versions of her with the bacteria....one of which the bald lady wouldn't know how to locate. Then they'd kill the one in the "original" stub. Which sounds fine, but Chloe's character and the amputee in both stubs would think their stub is the real one and she'd be killed in both. So either there's a plothole, a mechanism involved that I missed on how she'd be able to self-identify which stub she's in, or I'm totally wrong and have absolutely no idea what happened.

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That was pretty much what I got from it yeah - the plot hole isn't really there though. Even if the new stub is created such that the date/time is exactly the same as the old one, the future peripheral can only be connected to one of them - she's effectively on the phone from the old stub, so the Flynne in the new one would be immediately disconnected. A weirder question would be whether the other people in both stubs can connect to the future peripherals. Coz that could get really weird, really fast.

I have to agree with an earlier post that the ending was a total dick move to Burton though, he didn't deserve that. It's pretty shit to Connor as well, making him live with that.

Overall I liked this series a lot, and would look forward to any S2 - definitely one of the better ones Prime has done. Gives me a bit of hope for the Fallout series as well, following on from this one is a lot more promising than following from later seasons of Westworld.

Yeah, I also found the logic and general explanation of what she was doing to be super unclear. The show never explained the rules. And it certainly never explained them to her. So its really confusing. Where did she come up with this plan? Its a problem. how much of how any of this works does she know? we need to know that. It informs us of planning, and control. one episode ago, she didn't know what she was seeing was a video overlay. now, suddenly she understands how the stub systems work enough to come up with this complex plan?

easily the weakest episode of an overall good season. My hopes for season 2 are not as high after that finale.

Really needed at least 1 more episode to set up the finale. With most shows it's the opposite, but this one really rushed through the ending.

Maybe the beginning of season 2 provides the missing answers. Hopefully it's not so far out that I forget all the fucking questions.

General audiences were just left confused.

It'll put a major dent in Season 2 viewership.

Unlike the average Chukker I watch shows and actually WATCH them. They're not background or anything and even paying attention 100% of the time, I wasn't sure what the fuck happened at the end. I had an idea what happened, that she basically teleported her consciousness to 2099 into the bot, but I didn't think that was even possible? Like, what's stopping rich people from doing that with their loved ones from other stubs since the current world is so underpopulated. It was just very convoluted. I'm sure episode one of season 2 will explain it immediately, but it was very poorly explained the exact what of the events that occurred.

Very weird since everything else was pretty well explained, often several times. Not sure if they had to rush the finale or something, but it was very weird for it to end up as a ???? to the average viewer.

The pacing of the finale felt like they gunned it.

It wasn't just the ending of the finale that was rushed. You could feel it in the beginning of the episode. They were trying to jam a bunch of shit in fast to create a full episode of a "finale" and it showed.

So she saves the town and that makes sense. The town going up would rapidly increase the blackjack, so on the surface her sacrifice all adds up so far.

She also prevents the secret plans from being captured by the socs and the preps, or whatever the 2 factions are, which still makes sense bc she thinks like a gamer and wants to win and is against both teams now.

The problem is obviously unpacking the rest, but if I’m going to fill in the blanks, then I do it with the butch cop.

She asks Captain Butch if she can make a stub and transfer them to it, plan A.

Butch can’t bc opening it would be too aggressive of a step; however, she didn’t say she couldn’t transfer the stubby.

How the fuck could she do that? Well if you go back remember she tells the pals that it’s interesting butch cop knows about them already. Butch has access to their stubs data - so Blamo, Flynn opens a new timeline which includes a new Flynn, captain Butch transfers the data, collected through the peripheral tech, to the new Flynn in the new timeline.

it’s almost too easy!

jk man no idea, just my best guess