Sigh, I suppose the show had to run out of track at some stage. I’ve just finished the forth and last season of Snowpiercer and while I enjoyed it, like the first few seasons it did leave me with some burning questions.
Yes indeed passengers, there will be some Snowpiercer spoilers on the journey ahead (if you haven’t seen the last season yet), but if you have watched it all, maybe you could shed some light on things for me?
But first things first, a thank you to the boss.
Wilfred? No, I’m thanking my boss Mal. Because he’s right across all show science fiction related and when I asked ‘Hey when’s the next season of Snowpiercer starting?’ he just laughed and revealed it’s been run and done.
After discovering it and watching the first three seasons, I just wasn’t aware that Snowpiercer Season 4 didn’t actually stop at Netflix station – picture me sitting there waiting for a train that was never going to show. And that’s been for quite a few months of wondering now..
It looks like I missed this memo (thanks IMDB)
So I’m almost two years late to the Snowpiercer break up party really. But better late than never, I tracked down the episodes, made myself comfy on the couch and cheered on the rag tag bunch of survivors as they took on new enemies, a literal mad scientist and the bitter cold and not necessarily in that order.
But as stated earlier, towards the end last last time I penned about the train, I started to have questions. And undoubtedly I’m not the only one given that:
Still if you have an answer (or even a half baked theory at this stage) for my Snowpiercer questions, please let me know in a comment below!
Snowpiercer Season 4 – the burning unanswered questions (warning: spoilers)
So I was wondering about..
-Up on the hills Os gives the guy with the missing hand ‘the night car treatment‘ (ooh er!) but then literally tickles information out of him before running off to investigate some holes in the cliff. What happens to the tied up one handed bloke from then? Did he just leave the bloke up there tied up with oiled feet to starve???
-Badass dad Roche disappears in the snow but saves the day later on turning up in a cold combat suit with a stolen snow vehicle. He tries to tell his story a couple of times but is interrupted and when he finally explains things to a captivated audience, it’s a tall tale of five to one odds and something about a baseball bat. Anyone know what really happened and how to managed to steal a suit given the monstrosities seen wearing them seem to be two steps from zombiehood and never take more than their helmets off?
-Actually on that, do we know a) what the plan was turning them into zombies and b) if there was any significance to their helmet markings? What about the smoke that comes out of one when it takes a random spike to the gut? They’re horribly scared but if this is from mishaps with Gemini, why seal off an entire floor of failures and let these ones still roam around? They certainly don’t seem contagious.
-What did happen the entire floor of mishaps that have been trapped down there for three years now that Layton removed a door with a grenade and made his own escape?
-When did peace keeping missions involve kidnapping babies and working people to death on a train?
-How long is the distance between New Eden and the admiral’s research base? It seems like an easy journey in snow cats for the soldiers to sneak in and steal a baby but when the New Eden crew take Big Alice back home, they’re at risk of starvation. And why is everyone on that rescue train getting just a tiny sip of water? Is there not ice EVERYWHERE full of the stuff??
-Towards the end of things, Dr Headwood shows the mad scientist ‘something that will help him’ only all we get is a glimpse of a cold soldier from the neck down. But what was it she showed him? (Best guess she fixed the scarring or brought a dead soldier back to life or dare I say, somehow resurrected Wilfred or Admiral Millus.)
-Speaking of Dr Mad (Dr Nima), he admits to working on Gemini for 15 years, even though the big freeze well after he started. We also found it that he’s the mad man that froze the place to begin with but what was the point of that exactly? Every true bad guy doesn’t think he’s the bad guy but what exactly did he think would happen to the globe if he turned the temp right down?
-When Leyton and crew set off to get his daughter back, I swear a group of tailees join him. Yet when he boards Snowpiercer again and ends up at the science base, where does everyone else disappear to? Suddenly it’s just Ruth and Alex in Big Alice.
-Yes the New Eden forces slay quite a few soldiers in the fourth season of Snowpiercer but in the last episode in the bar, the only one invited over for a drink is Buffalo. Surely they didn’t murder everyone else including the prisoners they took before the boarding party got on the train one last time?
-The last we see of Dr Headwood, she’s hugging a pair of her husbands boots. Was she then buried with said boots? Is she back at the admirals base working on restoring the mutants or raising the dead?
-If king of Snowpiercer Wilfred now has cold immunity, why does he start to freeze and then somehow immediately warm back up again? Is his power on seven second delay?
-Finally, is this (above) some kind of Easter Egg? And why is the big one walking like an Egyptian ala The Bangles?
Any ideas? Let me know below!