Arthur Hollinghead could now be still alive in 1941, and maybe Charlie could meet him at Polly's concert that gets announced in the last episode. (Since she uses the name Polly Hollinghead and became a professional pianist, she clearly avoided going dark side as well.) Conversely, Charlie could be still alive during Shahara's life time.
Nice! (Fic writers start your engines! Did it make it in for Yuletide this year?)
Charlie and Esther will definitely see each other again - with or without shared borscht - and he will adopt her.
YES, he totally will. Their scene with her playing the innocent while saying "If you fuck with me, I'll gut you like a dog" was hilarious. And then when he said it would be okay and they'd go to Iverness together -- MY HEART. And I got the impression they had both lost their families in Germany and Poland, or was that just me?
Since after Elias/Julian did what he did, not only the bomb but the ensueing state AND the resistance group never happened. So Gabriel Defoe might still do similar research, but without the urgency which was due to the state his world was in, and as I understood it, the Throat at least in the form we saw it was an artificial creation brought about by his research.
Ooh good point. Hell, he might even have gotten written off as a crank, lol.
I don't think the show ever specified what exactly caused the physical state of Iris and her brother, just that Iris got the SPYNE by becoming part of the system and Abie remained in a wheelchair because he refused to. But I don't recall a clear mention as to whether they were both born this way or whether this happened as a result of the bomb. And that would make an obvious difference to her life in the new timeline.
I don't remember either -- I think she might have said it was a genetic condition? But I'd have to check. But it makes more sense if the fallout damaged both her and her brother. The director basically admitted in a Radio Times interview that it was a "foot in the door" just in case they got a second season, plus they'd just left her in 1890 anyway, and he thought it was great that Iris had the ambiguous ending specifically, &c &c. I would have just been happy to see her and Defoe have a little encounter. Or she could have run into Shahara again in her future! Since they had met already, in the time that got erased.
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Date: 2023-11-11 06:22 pm (UTC)Nice! (Fic writers start your engines! Did it make it in for Yuletide this year?)
Charlie and Esther will definitely see each other again - with or without shared borscht - and he will adopt her.
YES, he totally will. Their scene with her playing the innocent while saying "If you fuck with me, I'll gut you like a dog" was hilarious. And then when he said it would be okay and they'd go to Iverness together -- MY HEART. And I got the impression they had both lost their families in Germany and Poland, or was that just me?
Since after Elias/Julian did what he did, not only the bomb but the ensueing state AND the resistance group never happened. So Gabriel Defoe might still do similar research, but without the urgency which was due to the state his world was in, and as I understood it, the Throat at least in the form we saw it was an artificial creation brought about by his research.
Ooh good point. Hell, he might even have gotten written off as a crank, lol.
I don't think the show ever specified what exactly caused the physical state of Iris and her brother, just that Iris got the SPYNE by becoming part of the system and Abie remained in a wheelchair because he refused to. But I don't recall a clear mention as to whether they were both born this way or whether this happened as a result of the bomb. And that would make an obvious difference to her life in the new timeline.
I don't remember either -- I think she might have said it was a genetic condition? But I'd have to check. But it makes more sense if the fallout damaged both her and her brother. The director basically admitted in a Radio Times interview that it was a "foot in the door" just in case they got a second season, plus they'd just left her in 1890 anyway, and he thought it was great that Iris had the ambiguous ending specifically, &c &c. I would have just been happy to see her and Defoe have a little encounter. Or she could have run into Shahara again in her future! Since they had met already, in the time that got erased.