The 11-Day Window

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Hi guys,

Big-D(short for Delos?), Gene “Sweet Water” Lyons, and Roger “Revery” Roper:

Man am I excited to have the Shat on TV crew back in my podcast feed. It’s been much too long. I’m a loyal listener from Taboo, GOT, and of course WW season 1.

Loved the instacast and loved S2E1. I have two points.

1) Totally agree that I wish the show would have opened truly in media-res with gun slinging Dolores and Delos execs running around in their formal wear, right where we left off at the end of season 1. They built up to such a crescendo at the end of the season and I can’t help feel as though it was somewhat underutilized. Bringing us back into that scene in WW right away would have been a rude awakening, a splash of cold water to the face, for the 18-month removed viewers to truly get us all back into chaos (and not just carnage) mode as the episode actually does. The showing of scene after scene of (albeit dead) bodies everywhere rotting away I think did show that something truly horrid had happened, but it just cheapened it a bit to me.

2) How much do we believe that this season will have us as an audience looking at that roughly 11 day window of time between D-Day (see what I did there?) and the arrival of Delos reinforcements? Will it be the bulk of the season, and if so, I can’t help but think it’ll be shown to us through the eyes of the very unreliable Bernard. Does that undermine this method of storytelling? Not sure. We know at some point we will see Dolores out in the real world in a time which I can only imagine was pre park opening, on a type of roadshow. But how much will we be flipping back and forth between D-Day and D-Day plus (x) amount of days to fill in the gaps of what the literal fuck what wrong?

Thank you for everything you all do. The slate of shows are all top notch is their own right! Keep up the great work.

Mitch in Pittsburgh.

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