#debris rewatch

Also, Bryan to Maddox: "She's falling in love with me but trying to remain professional." 😂😂😂

All the sarcasm (mostly Bryan's) and antagonism and distrust! And yet at the same time already have mostly truthful (except by omission) deep conversations about why they're doing what they are and what they think of the debris' purpose.

Uh, yep, the creepy corpse tornado.

Oh, Bryan saying the girl with the little brother who died reminded him of someone - it was Asalah! But he was really good with the girl.

And then he saved Finola's life.

1000% done with this kid trying to fly solo. # sit your *** down Icarus.

Arco, VA: I'm not sure what I expected the antenna fields to look like, but they live up to the name.

George gets more eccentric by the episode (laughing that he won't change his stale grandpa sweater). I'm not sure what to make of it, but his selective memory triggers a mistrust in my gut.

I think Bryan might have to give up his expository title to George for this episode. He's definitely talking trivia like it's going out of style. I wonder if the writers were like "yeah, we use Bryan too much to explain things, we better give him a break. After all we almost killed him last episode... let's have George narrate.

Techs are the red shirts in this episode, got it. Also, I'll write up a formal correction/apology from my first watch: this episode does go into a few more details set up in "Asalah": certain debris "harmonic" frequency emissions do appear to be lethal with prolonged exposure, akin to radiation. And the debris does seem to have conscious intent for humanity if it wants to understand Bryan's need to protect people (but is that because it has the desire to replicate or exploit that need? It does seem to effect him with a kind of intoxicating euphoria not entirely his own/ unnatural). I am still not exactly sure it's benevolent, it is racking up quite a body count with it's trial and error approach, and it's not above holding people hostage / weaponizing them to get what it wants. Are we talking Annihilation or Arrival?

Some science of harmonic frequencies: "Harmonics with orders that are odd multiples of the number three (3rd, 9th, 15th, and so on) are particularly troublesome, since they behave like zero-sequence currents. These harmonics, called triplen harmonics, are additive due to their zero-sequence-like behavior."

Yeah George, hit that mid-century antenna with some WD-40, that'll do it.

Orbital is weaponizing debris, bit of a duh moment. My reaction is like Bryan's: non-news.

Finola confronting Maddox is the most underwhelming scene. She comes in so hot and literally pointing fingers and he's so cool and calculated, it just doesn't play.

Still don't know what happened to Garcia...is he going to be a one hit wonder this season or are we actually going to see the accident that him and Bryan went through in next week's finale?

I'm sorry, the fact that they're still calling that tiny piece of debris from episode 1 a nacho cracks me up to no end. "We've recovered the Nacho / get me a Nacho." That and Anson Ash in a mom car with groceries.

So when they took Ash into custody, nobody at Orbital thought to run him through metal detector or something equivalent like a Laghari scanner? And in episode 1 when the black market dealer goes "here's a special case to get [the debris] through customs" how does that work when Ash goes through an airport for travel?

It is interesting to see Bryan and Finola think in opposite ways. Will it last? Has Bryan finally put faith in making a difference with alien tech?

Sooooo...how pissed is Dee Dee going to be when, 6+ episodes later, she realizes that Finola hasn't told her their father is alive? Awkward family, awkward moments.

I wanted to clear the air before ep 12.

How many different kinds/magnitudes of vector suits does Orbital have? We've seen the plain orange, the Vector Twos, the ones that actually look like space suits...do they have the equivalent to an explosive ordinance suit?

Also, was is maxed out on the Laghari spectrum (past 1000, are we going super Saiyan at some point?), and is it akin to radiation where above a certain level, prolonged exposure has a negative effect on physiology?

Anyone else find it suspicious that Garcia would just give George his phone and van for a cross country trip, and that George the savant says "I can't concentrate" just to get his daughter off the phone to stop questioning him? Did he knock Garcia out with a shovel and stick him in the back or something? Is that even George or Sebastian Roche in disguise?

Seriously what is with the aluminum foil at this point?!? Are you worried about microwaves or Laghari waves and/or debris' potential influence on thoughts and memory? Tangential question: if Influx revived George using debris, does that interaction means that a part of George's consciousness is backed up to the hive mind, or only those who the debris reciprocates a connection with get their consciousness accessed?

Which piece of debris did Maddox take out of inventory through paperless back channel so that it couldn’t be traced back to him? Is it for personal use, or is he sharing research with foreign powers?

So the more I hear this Laghari fellow's name dropped in this series, the more I get suspicious that he didn't have an ordinary "stroke." I feel like some very human foul play occured before he could expand on the theory that the debris pieces are connected, and they are attempting to use people in fragmented ways to find the "ball of light" — potentially a power source(?) or maybe a star meant as a navigational point of reference (?) for the debris while it was still a fully functional spacecraft.

Let’s talk about Mariel reciting Bryan’s memories of conversations — some of it’s kosher and some of it seems a little odd. Like when she references  “A01 highway, (mgrs) coordinates, Operation Falcon target Al-Malik, movie night after DFac (dining hall)... Jensen, Frenchie, I'm going to miss you when you're gone (send off words with his mom),” all that tracks. But there’s a few bits that are less clear: a) brown paper folder, b) moon dust everywhere, and c) Beneventi stand back, if you do that then we'll get along very well, very, very, very, well. I don’t think the folder or moondust is ever explained, and the last part is just weird syntax compared to the previous conversations. Seems like either the collective consciousness of the debris is communicating directly with Bryan OR someone with a powerful fragment (Influx?) is taking advantage of the collective communication attributes to reach out and perhaps manipulate Bryan.

In his memories of the tour, is Maddox bleeding through from another memory as Bryan gets shocked and that was really someone else watching Bryan in the bunker, or is that the debris communicating with him directly? aka "I've been watching you for a while Bryan."

There’s also a big of monologue that I didn’t catch when Bryan first goes unconscious. Mariel says something like “guess you've got a new goal/ guy with all the answers,” or maybe “I need answers”? Unclear if significant.