Nice of the Empire to provide plenty of windows in those prisoner transfer corridors for some reason.
To answer someone above, there was no transfer mistake. Level two discovered that no one ever leaves and prisoners are just moved around so the entire level was eliminated.
I will reiterate something I said earlier, I would love a Mon Mothma spin off of this after this story ends.
Didn’t the doctor/ euthanasia dude says “there was a mistake, someone was released and then returned to level 2”
Yeah:
He also reveals that a floor of inmates rioted after a prisoner who’d seemingly been released after finishing his sentence was accidentally dropped back in instead of being sent to another detention center. The Empire fried them all to keep it quiet, but that clearly didn’t work.
But I still don’t quite understand the point. Wouldn’t they face riots at the other facility if it was a dumping ground for people that were expecting to be released?
I agree we don’t see a lot of sith like stuff here , it is straight up corporate backstabbing without the sith magic element. Obviously there are parallels between corporate everyone for themselves backstabbing stuff and the sith betrayals, but I think that is more of a statement on how people who desire power operate rather than the specific religion that drives them. In Star Wars we know other than deference to the empire the force and all that is derisively looked upon , notably Admiral chokey mcchoke
I think this show is awesome , burn VII through IX and replace it with stuff this team is making.
That’s where I am with him, he is true believer who will do anything for the cause. We see most of the empire people doing bad stuff because it really benefits themselves so we know they are shallow and in it for themselves, or they are presented as psychopaths and people who just like being bad to others .
There are rebel true believers who are prepared to do all kinds of things and will get a slightly favorable ‘ well they are honest believers so sort of ok ‘ treatment.
This dude isnt for his own gain or likes torturing bugs, he is a true believer in security and the empire. There are pointers to him being somewhat childlike and lacking capability and being protected by others and never facing the real world so it’s not surprising he supports anything that keeps things in order . Anyway yeah there will bad stuff true believers on both sides will do and people on the same side will be thinking “ is this what we created!?!? “
Yes I was confused as to what the mistake was, anyone being returned to any level or room or even any of the other factories we saw when they arrived would say ‘ dudes WTF I was just in this same facility and had finished my sentence , there is no way out”
Also didn’t one of the other prisoners being delivered say ‘ take a deep breath that’s the last fresh air you will have” so clearly a returning offender. Maybe he just got picked up on other charges and sent back to jail again.
My internal hand wavy guess so I don’t have to break disbelief suspension is that the empire obviously needs labor , so they have been making more arrests with longer sentences and lengthening sentences for those incarcerated, but with the new laws and increased need for more workers they just recently started moving people straight back to jail, but intended to send somewhere more forceful and unpleasant where quality of work wasn’t important and they wouldn’t be heard of again . But they accidentally got rerouted back to where they came from where the gamification of work and the hope of early releases helped them maintain production rates of something that needed some level of quality. Finding out there was no release now , where as there may have been in the past would have destroyed productivity of something that whips and starvation couldn’t have gotten made
Yeah, I guess that makes sense. This facility produces relatively high-end products and depends on the prisoners not getting too unruly. But maybe the other facility puts them to work in a mine or scrapyard or something where the standards aren’t as high. They’re still worth more alive than dead, but not by as much. So just zap 'em until they get back to work or they die.
This is the way
I will now bask in the afterglow of a satisfying fanwank.
I guess there was a mistake in that they normally dump the people who are “released” somewhere together but somehow someone ended up back in the general population and the secret was out so they eliminated that entire section.
Yeah, this is the only way it would work.
It’s a fairly horrible thought that the “dumped” prisoners may come to look back at their time in the current prison with some fondness.
The prison seems both diabolical and lazy at the same time. Why have all those windows in the tubes so the different sections can see each other? Why not have doors on the cells so the prisoners can’t talk freely? And if the prisoners put something insulating on their feet wouldn’t that protect them from the electric floors?
But riots require some kind of critical mass of outrage to happen. We know the prisoners here are “released” one by one, as they all seem to have different countdown clocks. So, they get taken out of this facility, and dropped in another type of facility, which is the second stage prison. Any complaints about, “Hey, I was supposed to be getting out today!!” will be met by the other prisoners saying, “Yeah, buddy, get in line, we’ve all been screwed like that.” The outrage of the new guy gets watered down in the despair of the old guard.
The mistake caused a riot, because it caused a whole block of prisoners to realize they’re all screwed, all at the same time.
At that point, they might as well kill them all, as their productivity is going to drop like a stone. Better to fill their module with new prisoners, since there’s no shortage of new prisoners right now, rather than deal with the hassle of trying to motivate them purely by force.
The question is why? Doors need maintenance and cost money. And as Andor said, nobody cares. They’re under control and replaceable.
That came up in this episode, they make a big deal out of the fact that the guard on the lift thing is not wearing the orange-soled ski boots which means that section won’t electrify. I don’t think a pair of socks is going to help.
Because it was designed as the cushy “keep your head down, do your time, and we won’t give you any trouble” white collar prison. Same reason that the foreman is a fellow prisoner, not another guard - they’ve set up a pretty good self-regulation system that hasn’t had any issues. Until now.
More than that though, sandals made of bricks of plastic or something, some thick insulating material not just socks.
I’ve been racking my brain, trying to picture where I knew the actress playing Dedra Meero from. There was just something so familiar about her voice.
Turns out she voiced the character of Yennifer, one of the main allies and love interests for Geralt in the game Witcher 3.
Holy shit. Well, I guess that explains I’m so attracted to her against my will.
I am in awe at how good this is.