FORTITUDE

[the_great_she_elephant]

Is anyone else watching this and if so, are you as confused and frustrated as I am after last nights episode?

What the hell was the "Rachel" thing all about.

First someone smashes a window to get onto a house and wanders round looking for someone called Rachel.

Then it seems Rachel has disappeared and a search party, led by the sheriff sets out to look for her.

Then, while everyone is away, the guy to whom  the sheriff lent a rifle (after confiscating the keys to his snow mobile comes to retrurn the rifle and wanders round looking for him. 

Then, next minute (unless I dozed off and missed a crucial scene) everyone is back and carrying on as normal, with no further mention of either the search or the missing girl,  except for  one brief scene where the sheriff is in the bar (I think) talking to a girl, whom I can only presume to be Rachel, and asking her where she went and whether she saw anyone. Her only response is to ask him if he wants a drink and after a loooooooooong, meaningful (?) silence he gets up and walks out.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Excuse typos - should have spellchecked.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

well, a bit disappointing.

Killed off all the wasps in the hospital ward.  When they went to the cold store - I think I saw a couple of wasps rise out of the mammoth before the Sherrif douced it in petrol, so tthere still may be some around?

The hole that the russian drilled? He fell down and survived? Only to find that HUGE cavern containing the hundreds of mammoth skeletons. The hole is still open so wasps have a free go at escaping - would they freeze to death out in the cold?

Sherrif shot his 'girlfriend' who had turned? I must have missed where she got infected.

I suppose they had to leave a whole bunch of stuff to warrant a second season. Don't know whether I'll watch it though.

ele what you think?

[the_great_she_elephant]

I think it just got sillier and sillier. We still don't know where the dad of the little girl Elena attcked is - or who clobbered him and locked him up.  I thought he was behind a locked door in the house that nobdy ever thought to open, but since the authorities  burned the house down to decontiminate it, I guess he may have gone up in flames.

Also why do the wasps need a secondary host. If they lay their eggs in the first host why don't the larvai simply eat that one after they hatch instead of having to be tranferred to a second one? And the chance of that second hosts surviving long enough to support the larvae to maturity after having had their chests ripped open and vomited into would be pretty miniml I reckon.

Plus the Russian guy who stole the drill is now wandering about in a mamoth graveyard under the ice and presumably being infected in preparation for next season.

About the only thing that was resolved was the governor and her husband reconciled.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

as I said before, watching weekly episodes of something with as many threads as fortitude, for me anyway, it's hard to keep up. The old grey cells got a lot of cobwebs these days. I'll have to buy it if / when it comes out on DVD and watch it all again over a couple of sessions. 

[rabbitearbandicoot]

A question: are they saying that the mammoth graveyard was originally on top of the ice and gradually got covered or was it originally a cavern and then the entrance was covered?

Either way, it appears that it is a cavern now - or is there something melting it's way to form that cavern?

Also, is it unusual that all those mammoths (one presumes over an extended number of years) chose to cross to that small island to die? Or maybe it was originally part of the mainland? 

[***super_nova***]

I did end up watching it.  I was so busy all weekend, Sunday night I just collapsed in front of TV and could not move, and watched it.  Well, I know one thing; insects do not survive at these temperatures.  The flies or wasps would be dead in seconds in temperatures bellow zero. 

There are just so many inconsistencies; why would Elena not call somebody when she was aware what is happening to her?  And why would the little girl not call for help?  And why was that house not searched?  I mean, when Elena went there to spend the 1st night there, they found the film running, and thought they can hear somebody in the house, but went happily to sleep?  I am sure the father is still there in his house somewhere. 

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

I did end up watching it.  I was so busy all weekend, Sunday night I just collapsed in front of TV and could not move, and watched it.  Well, I know one thing; insects do not survive at these temperatures.  The flies or wasps would be dead in seconds in temperatures bellow zero. 

There are just so many inconsistencies; why would Elena not call somebody when she was aware what is happening to her?  And why would the little girl not call for help?  And why was that house not searched?  I mean, when Elena went there to spend the 1st night there, they found the film running, and thought they can hear somebody in the house, but went happily to sleep?  I am sure the father is still there in his house somewhere. 

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Yes, I think the writers must have forgotten about that part - the father in the locked room. He's probably toast now though or, stranger things have happened in fortitude, he may have survived the burning house. It does seem very disjointed that's why I think I must have missed something.

[***super_nova***]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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Yes, I think the writers must have forgotten about that part - the father in the locked room. He's probably toast now though or, stranger things have happened in fortitude, he may have survived the burning house. It does seem very disjointed that's why I think I must have missed something.

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I do not think it was his house that burned?  It was the cold store that was set on fire.  The house was still there when Elena got sick, attacked the girl, and ended up shot.  Is the girl dead?  Or did that happen in another house?  They all look the same to me.  The houses.  🙂

[the_great_she_elephant]

I thought they burned the house after the little girl - and presumably Elena, since we saw her in the hospttal - had been carried out. they did show the flames licking under that door, but whether the room caught fire we don't know.

We still don't know who owned the boat and stole the mammoth tusks either.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

but the tusks wouldn't have fleshy bits for the grubs to hide in, would they? I think he sawed them off.