ALRIGHT WITHIN THE WIRES FANDOM, HOW WE DOING?
Itās been a long year, but weāre back baby!
New season, new intro, new narrator! Iām not sure Iām feeling about this years format, itās a bit straightforward compared to other seasons?? But I also super wasnāt into Michael and now heās my favorite character in the whole thing so uh. Things change.
Speaking of characters! It seems like weāll be focusing on Sigri(d?) and Freya this season, which is real neat cause in a story so about parenthood weāve never had a parent child relationship at the center of the narrative. As for returning characters, there seems to be a nod to Nell in the first episode as a member of the cradle. It could be a different Nell, but that seems unlikely.
So, the Cradle. Our favorite anarcho-primitivists. J and J may have just trained me to be in an eternal state of paranoia, but in sensing a big olā Yikes. I got excited reading the description for this season (ANTI GIVERNMENT COMMUNE?? HELL YEA!!) but the cradle seems on some levels.... everything the society actually kind of had a point about?? Donāt get me wrong, whatever the hell is going on here is worlds better than The Society. But the dogma that Freya was repeating about family and protecting our own kinda really freaked me out. Itās interesting to think that the world has become far enough removed from post-Society life that it could become idealized in the way Freya seems to see it. We havenāt actually seen the Cradle except through her eyes, so I could be wrong. But Freya gives me major āsomething is wrong hereā vibes. Still, this podcast always manages to surprise me. Who knows whatāll happen!!
