12/4/2023 0 Comments Station 11 episode 3 recap“Is this Before?” Alex asks of the wondrous greenhouse and monstrous PA system. In Year 20, the Traveling Symphony is finally admitted to the airport. Miranda was on a path that changed the day she met Arthur in a Chicago diner Clark was on a path toward imminent, unavoidable death until Miranda answered his call. Miranda has explained her job in logistics as “the path things take,” but really, her job was to shape that path, to control it, to protect it from the world’s entropy. On the phone, he tells Miranda that Arthur’s son is at the airport, too, and Miranda spends the last hours of her life saving theirs. When Clark hears about that in the days following his old friend’s death, he smiles. She went to meet Arthur with copies in hand. They were the push she needed to complete the final panels of Station Eleven, the graphic novel she started drawing as a child without knowing it - her magnum opus. His reunion with Arthur ended in aspersions, but he said kind things about Miranda, and Arthur repeated them. Clark and Miranda, who both saw Arthur one last time after long estrangements, are fortunate to have eked out some closure with the recently dead.Ĭlark went first. Everyone who survives the plague will be in mourning, and all that mourning will be private. There will be no funerals, no ritualized goodbyes, no memorials, no reckonings. Miranda is duct-taped into a Malaysia hotel room, and Clark has just deplaned in Severn City en route to Arthur’s funeral, which no one will attend. He’ll outlive her by at least twenty years, but still, there’s a haunting symmetry to their situations: Each has arrived in the last place they’ll ever know. Eleven has kept her company through all the times her world has ended.Ĭlark talks to Miranda on the day she dies. She should have died, too, but instead, Miranda moves through life with a spectral reluctance to show herself. A live wire fell into her family’s flooded home, electrocuting everyone except the little girl perched on the countertop with her crayons. Miranda Carroll was once a little girl drawing the swirling eye of Hurricane Hugo in her coloring book, just how it looked on the TV weatherman’s map - a stormy circle going round and round a void that could one day be reimagined as a galaxy in outer space, or even a dirt road that rings Lake Michigan.
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