that's great. i need to rewatch this episode

So theoretically when 2% got raptured, wouldn't there be millions of preggo women who'd be taken leaving behind a fetus? Someone lost a fetus in the show so I assume it can work both ways, right?

That's a good point. According to this site, there were more than 130 Million new births in 2011, or 360k births per day. A pregnancy normally takes 40 weeks, so there are 40x7x360k = 100,800,000 ~ 100 million pregnant women on earth every day.

That means that on October 14th about 2 million pregnant women should have departed, as well as 2 million fetuses, where about 40000 women should have departed together with their fetuses.

Of course some fetuses will have departed without their mothers being already aware of their pregnancy. And some pregnant women would depart so early in their pregnancy that they would just leave small chunks of cells behind. And maybe separate departures were only possible after the first month or so.

Still there should be well over a million known cases of departed fetuses worldwide, and departed pregnant women leaving their fetuses behind, respectively. In the US alone the number should be more than 50k. Definitely big enough numbers that they would make a larger deal about it, but in the show we only learned about the departure of Laurie's fetus.

I think this is also relevant because if that happened according to the numbers it kinda debunks the radiation theory imo, especially if women departed without their fetuses.

Was this mentioned in the book?

edit: Just googled a bit and apparently a seminar on fetus departure was advertised on the conference Nora attended.

last week, the brutal Kevin/Nora fight, saying the thing they mostly avoided saying to each other, reminded me of this (s4 Sopranos spoilers)

this week, Matt & Laurie chatting out on the deck reminded me of this (s6 Sopranos spoilers), not to mention the Matt/David scene after, just seemed like Matt was on the verge of snapping


and this David Burton fella is from Tasmania, huh?

Loved this show but cant quite get into this season as much as the first two. Not sure why

http://deadline.com/2017/05/the-left...eo-1202095980/

Putting this in spoiler tags in case you're a true purist, but it's just DL talking in broad strokes about mysteries going forward:

"That's the guy I was telling you about!"

EDIT: Missed Morphismus' question. Absolutely double meaning IMO.

Show does such an amazing job of being kind of bizarre but at the same time fascinating, believable, and thought provoking. Last episode was ridiculous and I'm still processing everything that happened.

I'm legit having a problem deciding how to handle leftovers and twin peaks watching tonight

+1. But I'm taking tomorrow (eps arrive at like 9am for us euros) off so I can spend 5 hours watching this and Twin Peaks. What a time to be alive

Twin Peaks is back and it's not even the best weird show on TV tonight. Bless up, assuming you don't have any pressing business in Melbourne.

Thought that episode was worthless

Well, gg Lauri.

This ep was significantly better than last week's total waste of time.

If last week's episode didn't happen it would not have impacted the story at all

Thought it was tremendous - Carrie **** is just so good in every single scene she's in. The Kevin Sr. episode is probably the only episode from the season that I haven't loved.

I was wondering what happened to Jill.

Yeah, that was phenomenal. One of the best of the series. And hits a little harder considering this last week...

Laurie Garvey's decision to commit suicide (assuming no twist) didn't seem consistent with her current state of mind. Laurie seemed reasonably stable since she left the Guilty Remnant cult. If she wasn't willing to go through with her suicide attempt sometime after the Departure but before season 1, I don't see why she would do it now.


Nora's clear desire to use the machine and her proximity to it opens up the possibility that her flash-forward takes place after she goes through the machine.


And now with her IUD confirmed removed, I'm more confident of this.

However, if she learns of her pregnancy, that could dissuade her from using the machine.

seems to me like you guys liked last nights ep a lot more than I did.

I just felt it lacked imagination (compared to the last few eps). The story moved along but nothing really grabbed me. Also felt some of the character's actions came out of left field.

Well, with only 2 eps left, something big has got to happen soon.

or nothing happens

Loved it, loved it, loved it. Slow at the start but the second half was fantastic. No show has ever grabbed my emotions like this one.

Loved the juxtaposition of Laurie being the 'sane' one versus all the crazies. The scene between her and Kevin had me in tears it was so well done.

And Carrie **** needs to win all the awards. All her focused episodes have been grade a, the few scenes she was in here were, as ever, perfect. I was in tears with her. Loved how she said "ok then" to Matt when he said he would stay with her.

This show can do no wrong... Apart from ending in two weeks

Thought Carrie Co.on was overacting in this ep honestly. Laurie actress was far better.

seemed probably the key word there.
(also, i don't really agree with that assessment)

the show didn't really get into Laurie's mindset much, as she mostly kept herself busy with other things (GR, her book, anti-GR, Tommy's cult, John's readings, trying to save the crazies, etc) to avoid addressing how she really felt about everything, and probably that nothing really changed for her from 5 years ago. the show seemed to lay out the fact that she had no answers or way to help people who were troubled by The Departure, including herself.

i can't pinpoint the exact moment when Laurie flipped the switch, but she was more laissez-faire about everything going back to the previous episode when they were traveling. seemed like she decided that being the security guard taking away the beach ball wasn't helping either.

and yeah, Brenneman has been great in this series. shame they couldn't find a way to use her more the last couple seasons.

and of course Carrie Raccoon has been outstanding yet again. curious whether they filmed in order or not, because she's inhabited the character perfectly as the story has progressed, almost a different person as required. how manically passive-aggressive she was after the fight with Kevin was perfect, and something we haven't really seen of her before. and then totally vulnerable and devastated by the end of the ep.

loved it wanna rewatch it aswell