So having watched the scene a 5th time, I think Isabelle intentionally caught Harry’s eye to get him to come back to the painting because she knew he was one of the bidders, not just because she thought he was attractive. I think she was possibly trying to track down all the bidders and get their opinion - maybe she wanted to know whether they were bidding purely because of the charity aspect and didn’t give a damn about the painting, or if they truly liked it? Maybe she was going to try to encourage bidders to outbid each other. But her “Oh, you’re Harry Vander - what’s it?” was a little too forced - I think she knew exactly who he was. She certainly knew that Harry Vanderspiegle was the 2nd highest bidder - she told him “Some bastard outbid you” without even looking at the bid sheet again.
She gives me a stalkery vibe.
Yeah, her immediate reaction to finding the locked door in the cabin was to take the door off the hinges, not wait for Harry to get home (or go into town) and ask for the key. Same with the freezer.
That is more than a little creepy.
This is fork in the neck.
So great.
Of course Alan Tudyk’s performance is getting a lot of attention, as well it should.
But the writing is also frequently very, very delightful. “Scotland needs mayors!”
So at least now we know what the “agents” and the general are. And I don’t know if it’s significant but the actor who plays Ethan Stone, the new doctor, played an alien disguised as a human in the TBS series People of Earth.
New Doc is Michael Cassidy
Right. Ethan Stone is the name of the character. Michael Cassidy is the name of the actor. Did you notice I said, “the actor who plays Ethan Stone”?
No, I didn’t. My bad. Apologies.
I’m going to try Harry’s seductive talk on my wife this weekend. Though I’ll leave out the sedatives. And maybe “haunches”.
Some of knew 2 weeks ago…
Well, it was still ambiguous two weeks ago. Right now it’s looking like “Harry” is the only non-human character, though that may change. Perhaps at the end of the last episode “Harry” meets another of his species, perhaps sent to check on why the humans aren’t all dead yet?
I’m just kidding around with you (since I was right) but honestly I never thought it was particularly ambiguous.
They seemed awfully blasé about finding a corpse floating in air like that. Most humans aren’t used to such things.
I liked the self-repairing ship parts.
Except humans specifically searching for a crashed UFO and associated aliens.
I’m assuming something bad happened to the general’s father back in the opening. She seems too obsessed and vengeful for someone who merely had a close encounter 50 years ago. Did I miss dad falling off the lighthouse or an abduction or something?
I don’t think so. IIRC, we saw Young General out on the widow’s walk taking Polaroids, the father go out to grab her, and then the viewpoint going back inside the lighthouse to focus on a Polaroid on the floor showing the spacecraft, with Young General and her father out of focus in the background. Which is common cinematic framing for something gruesome going on in the out of focus background, but I don’t think we actually saw or heard any indicators of what if anything was going on.
I think we were meant to focus on the Polaroid on the floor so that when the general pulled one out of her pocket at the end, we connected the two. I don’t think anything regarding the father’s fate was suggested. I think the general is just obsessed with proving that she really did see an alien craft as a child.
Harry did say that the greys have an ass fetish, so maybe her father got probed.