Yes, I saw Episode 9. Watched it twice in fact. Permission to speak freely, so if anyone out there doesn't want spoiler talk stop reading now...
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I presume you're referring to the aliens? Or are you talking about Hanzee? He is a fascinating character in so many ways. I love his part in the show. Tell me more about your thoughts on the show.
I just read this review. Does this resonate with what you're saying?
. . . Which isn’t to say that the season has been confusing or sloppy, but rather that Hawley has, beneath all the artifice he delights in putting on (and which makes the show such a pleasure to watch), a good grasp on the vagaries of human behavior. Everything here makes sense, more or less, but it’s also bizarre and loopy and easily preventably, and it cost people their lives.
Which is why the UFO is entirely fitting. It’s the nonsense given a physical presence, like some cold, unknowable god observing us from afar. There’s certainly stuff to unpack symbolically, but what struck me most powerfully in the moment is how inevitable it felt, how of a piece with everything that came before. The ship has no impact on events, beyond distracting Bear long enough to save Lou’s life. It offers no information, no explanation for itself or anything around it; it spares no one, and gives nothing but light, confusion, and mystery. It is, in short, just another part of the whole damn mess, and while it’s possible aliens could show up in the season finale and muck all this up, as of right now, I think Hawley has earned the device.
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