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Spoilers Station Eleven - HBO Max Miniseries, and Novel

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Station Eleven is a HBO Max miniseries set before, during, and after a massive flu pandemic brings about the collapse of our modern society. Here's the description on HBOMax:
Based on the bestselling novel, this post-apocalyptic saga follows the survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.
Cast:
Mackenzie Davis as Kirsten
Matilda Lawler as Young Kirsten​
Himesh Patel as Jeevan Chaudhary
Nabhaan Rizwan as Frank Chaudhary
Daniel Zovatto as The Prophet (warning: Do not look at the cast list if you do not want his identity spoiled, I made that mistake)
Julian Obradors as Young ***** (The Prophet)​
Phillipine Velge as Alexandra
Lori Petty as Sarah

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I'm only up to episode 4 so far, but I am loving it.

Who is the person they keep showing Kirsten waking up in bed with? At least two or three times now they've shown her wake up with a person next to her bed, but they've been focused on Kirsten, and the shots have gone by so fast, I haven't been able to tell who it is. The only people we've really seen her with a lot are Alex and Sarah, so it seems kind of weird that they keep showing her waking up in bed with looks like someone else.
Damn, the end of episode 4 was a shock, in three different ways. I'm really sad to see Gil apparently killed off already, I really liked him. You pretty much can't go wrong with a character played by David Cross.
I love the random items in the costumes for the Traveling Symphony's plays, like Kirsten's coat or cloak of gloves she wore when she was playing Ophelia.
I loved the way they intercut adult Kirsten's fight with Alex and young Kirsten's fight with Jeevan, that was some pretty great writing and editing.
I'm a little annoyed that I accidently stumbled across the Prophet's identity while I was looking through the cast list on Wikipedia. I really wish people wouldn't just put big spoilers like that out in the open, or would at least put up a warning so you know to stop reading if you don't want to know.
 
Been watching it and up to Episode 5 as of today, but... I'm not sure what to make of it just yet. One thing I'll say is that I really wish they'd elaborate on the whole pandemic they're facing/were facing as it would go a long way to understanding what the characters have gone through. It kind of frustrates me that they've done so little with it as a setting.
 
I'm fine with them not going into that much detail about it. The story really isn't about the pandemic, it's just about how the characters deal with how it affected them.
 
Yeah, but it would help with getting into the characters and how it affects them, if I knew a bit more about it, you know? Just enough to give the viewers a feel for what they went through.
 
The show follows the lead of the book, switching back and forth between different points of the story's timeline. You get more of a feel for the time of the plague as the show goes on. Considering it's mainly about year 1 and year 20 and not the full story of how the characters got through all those years in between, and since it's also about the connections between characters through Arthur, Miranda, and Station Eleven, switching between year 1 and year 20 allows for readers and viewers to get right into the main story while going back to see what led to that. Worked for me, not least because I read the book first, but if you're expecting something more linear it might be a little frustrating.
 
Yeah, but it would help with getting into the characters and how it affects them, if I knew a bit more about it, you know? Just enough to give the viewers a feel for what they went through.
Not sure how much more you need to know. It's s deadly flu. You have people cut off from family and friends because of it.
 
Worked for me, not least because I read the book first, but if you're expecting something more linear it might be a little frustrating.


Yeah, I haven't read the book. Just out of curiosity, does the book get into the details about it more? I can deal with non-linear. I just wish there'd be a bit more backstory. Feels a bit sparse as it is.
 
There's plenty of backstories for the individual characters, and that's really all that matters.
Watched episode five this morning, and I don't feel quite so bad that I stumbled across the Prophet's identity now, since they already revealed it at the end of the episode.
I'm curious if Clark setting up the "museum" in the tower of the airport is the beginning of The Museum of Civilization.
Elizabeth started out as kind of horrible, but was pretty cool by the end.
 
Watched episode 6 today. One thing I've learned is that Michigan has Curling! :D I guess some northern States take up some Canadian things.

As for the museum, interestingly, we had a Museum of Civilization in Canada (and a beautifully architectural building built for it too) before it got renamed to the Canadian Museum of History, and I don't find the new name has the same ring to it.
 
Fun fact: the TV producers switched the location for the early part of the show from Toronto to Chicago. Then Covid hit, and filming restarted in Toronto.
 
Huh, had no idea. It's hard to tell where they filmed it exactly, but given they filmed a lot on open fields, it could be just about anywhere.
 
I've been taking a short break from this while I finish up The Witcher and Cowboy Bebop, but I'm down to one episode of The Witcher and 2 of Cowboy Bebop, so I should be back to it pretty soon.
 
Have the descriptions for episodes 8 and 9 been reversed for anyone? On my DVR's on-demand service, Episode 8 was listed as Jeevan and Kirsten being separated and Jeevan reluctantly being thrust into the role of Doctor, while Episode 9 was listed as Tyler bringing Kirsten to the Museum of Civilization.
 
I’m at the last episode… About halfway through… I’ve really liked this so far, as it pertains to support for the arts. Being a theater person, I’ve been able to relate. But the whole Tyler storyline just isn’t working for me at some level.
 
Have the descriptions for episodes 8 and 9 been reversed for anyone? On my DVR's on-demand service, Episode 8 was listed as Jeevan and Kirsten being separated and Jeevan reluctantly being thrust into the role of Doctor, while Episode 9 was listed as Tyler bringing Kirsten to the Museum of Civilization.

Hmm. I streamed it on Crave. Checking....

S1 E8 Who's There?: Jeevan and Kirsten survive, a family of two in the post-apocalyptic wilderness.
S1 E9 Dr. Chaudhary: Tyler leads Kirsten to the Museum of Civilization -- which is also the airport he escaped twenty years ago

Right episode titles, reversed capsule descriptions.
 
Yeah, that's what I meant. Don't know why that'd be the case.

Anyhow, I finished it up today, it was absolutely beautiful. Loved seeing Kirsten and Jeevan reunite.
 
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