#1.4.1

[tamapalace]

✅ have you updated to 1.4.1 yet?

[bossuet-lesgle]

We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure

Hate him hate him hate him

Just absolutely fucking infuriating that this man can so thoroughly abandon Fantine and Cosette and come out on top for it, and that functionally this has not changed at all in society to this day. Terrible, wealthy men can get away with anything, and everyone else suffers for it.

[anagramofbrat]

I finally realized today that I’d misread an important detail on previous attempts at reading The Brick, and that baby Cosette had been in existence long before the double quartet’s day out. I had always been puzzled by Hugo’s note that “Fantine had a child” at the end of 1.3.9, and then in the next chapter, “Ten months had elapsed since the ‘pretty farce.’” wherein as far as my brain was parsing it, was apparently enough time for Fantine to have a whole pregnancy and for her baby to grow to toddler sized, which did not make any kind of sense. I wonder if that’s a translation issue? I don’t remember enough French to be able to tell you if there are different words for “had a child” meaning giving birth to a child (past tense), and “had a child” meaning being in possession of a child. 

It’s bad enough thinking that Tholomyes abandoned Fantine while pregnant, but abandoning her and little Cosette together is somehow so much worse, especially since he gets to have a succesful life and career afterward, the bald toothless rat bastard.

Anyway, we meet Cosette and all of the Thenardiers except for Gavroche today... yay?

[lesmiscollageproject]

This newcomer was very cheerful; the goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child; she had taken a small piece of wood, which she used as a spade, and was energetically digging a hole fit for a fly. The gravedigger’s work is fun when done by a child.

[jelepermets]

"This woman's child was the loveliest creature imaginable: a girl of two or three. She could have competed with the other little ones for the most appealing attire; there were ribbons at her shoulders and Valenciennes lace above the fine linen wings on her cap."

"[Fantine] found herself absolutely isolated, with the habit of labor lost, and the taste for pleasure acquired. Led by her liaison with Tholomyes to disdain the simple work she knew how to do, she had neglected her opportunities; now they were all gone. No resources."

"Then she thought of Tholomyes, who shrugged his shoulders at his child, and who did not take this innocent creature seriously, and her heart turned dark at the place that had been his."

Once more reading to punch Tholomyes and once more tearing up at the care and love Fantine gives her child even when she herself has nothing (which again is Tholomyes' fault) and is slipping closer and closer to destitution.

Also I'd love to draw Cosette in her little cap, the description of wings make me think of angels (which may have been the point).

[gabygirl1243]

Villainous teoría. Los frames ocultos en el intro del episodio 5 y la bestia que forma.

Como en todos los episodios, el capítulo 5 muestra unas imágenes ocultas después del intro. Imágenes de monstruos, lo que parece verse como colmillos, ramas de árbol, tentáculos y unos endemoniados ojos brillantes.

Al principio no sabía qué era esto. ¿Era acaso Black Hat? Se parecía a él, pero no podía encontrar una forma...

Hasta que me di cuenta que en el último frame, cuando intercambiamos las mitades de la imagen, de forma que la mitad de abajo esté arriba, se une perfectamente. De esa forma aparece una figura.

Una sombra deforme y grotesca. Ésta nos servirá de guía para colocar cada pieza del rompecabezas.

Y al pegar parte por parte, el resultado se obtiene. No eran varios monstruos, sino una única criatura. Un ser al que me gusta apodar:

La bestia

Un ser repugnante, grotesco, sin forma, inaudito, infernal, sacado de los relatos más turbios. Es por mucho el ser más espantoso visualmente visto en la serie.

Pero, en mi opinión, también es bastante lindo. Ya lo conocemos. Al menos eso es lo que creo, eso es lo que teorizo.

Su nombre oficial es Experimento 141:

Puede que a simple vista se vea un tanto diferente. 141 es más pequeño y con una apariencia más humanoide, pero debe deberse a que está contenido, lo tienen encerrado y debilitado.

Pero no se pueden negar las similitudes de 141 con el monstruo oculto en el episodio 5.

Mismos ojos brillantes:

Mismos tentáculos:

Mismas largos brazos:

Incluso esas horrorosas protuberancias que sobresalían de su cuerpo siguen ahí pero fueron desprendidas de él y las mantienen en capsulas separadas. Seguramente porque son muy peligrosas.

Sobre 141 en sí mismo no sabemos mucho. Pero sabemos de él desde años antes de que saliera la primera temporada.

Poco antes de que el piloto saliera a mediados del 2019, Podemos Bailar subió esta imagen:

El la lista de la Rutina Matutina de Flug.

En el capítulo no se ve completa, pero en la imagen de Podemos Bailar vemos con claridad el nombre de 1.4.1.

Una cosa más. Hay una razón por la que me gusta apodarlo “La bestia”. Se debe a la siguiente imagen que apareció en Podemos Bailar al mismo tiempo que la anterior que mencioné:

Aquí se habla de 5.0.5, se menciona que él fue un intento de crear una “bestia” para el amo Black Hat. 

He teorizado en el pasado que antes de 5.0.5 han habido más experimentos como él. No es coincidencia que 1.4.1 tenga un nombre en números como 5.0.5. Ambos forman parte de la misma serie. Son hermanos. Creados con el propósito de ser una bestia que Black Hat solicita. 

5.0.5 fue un fracaso, es probable 1.4.1 también lo sea. Pero algo es seguro, la apariencia de 1.4.1 realmente recuerda a Black Hat.

Esto, yo diría, apoya mi teoría de que estos experimentos son creados con el ADN de Black Hat, que surgió en base a una respuesta que dio Black Hat en su, ya hace años inactivo, Ask oficial:

Entonces … ¿Cuáles fueron tus intenciones originales para el adorable 505?

¡Se suponía que sería gloriosamente malvado! La criatura más temible y horrible diseñada con… ¡¡¡AAAAGH!!! Solo recordar me llena de disgusto. ¡SIGUIENTE PREGUNTA!

Tanto 5.0.5 como 1.4.1 estarían creados, en teoría, con la esencia de Black Hat.

De ser así, 1.4.1 parece más perfecto a lo que, supongo, quiere Black Hat. Pero quizá su defecto sea que, al igual que 5.0.5, es de buen corazón. Después de todo, se le vio muy triste cuando fue dejado solo por Flug.

Es sólo una teoría.

[hineria-n]

The Black Spot 1.4.1 be like : Speedn't

[centrifuge-politics]

Brick Club 1.4.1, 1.4.2

Two angelic children frolic in play amongst the horrifying remnants of a war wagon, symbolizing...the world? A brighter future among the ruin of the past? Help.

I love you Fantine, and I understand, but bébé Cosette does not need lace caps and silk dresses, please save your money. 

Anyways, I’m still furious at the thought of Tholomyes living the good life, a man of pleasure, working for royalty, while Fantine dies in the street and Cosette is abused and traumatized. Speaking of which, I don’t know how common such a situation would be, but it does seem like a big ask to ask a complete stranger to watch your child while you live and work elsewhere apropos of nothing. I still wonder if taking Cosette to Montreuil-sur-Mer and simply trying to keep her secret wouldn’t have been a better choice. We know Jeanne Valjean was in a similar situation and while it certainly wasn’t a good place to be anything beats the Thenadiers. Of course, I don’t direct an ounce of blame toward Fantine, she couldn’t possibly have known and her circumstances are absolutely not her fault even a bit. It just sucks.

The illustration of Mme. Thenardier looks uncannily like Helena Bonham Carter from the movie...hmm

“They belonged to that bastard class formed of low people who have risen, and intelligent people who have fallen.” It’s funny how Hugo spends so much time explicitly telling us that the Thenardiers are evil and unredeemable, but did no such thing for the four bourgeoise men that exploited and ultimately abandoned the four grisettes of book 3. In fact, he never offers an explanation in any detail for why these wealthy men acting so cruelly. Yet, he spends an entire chapter expounding on the Thenardiers’ inherent moral failures when we have only just met them.

Final nerd out, Hugo dismisses Mme. Thenardier’s naming choices as stupid and silly, but there is actually extensive sociological research on the connection between class and naming conventions. The reason so many common folks have names that, Hugo observes, would better suit viscounts is because names have a tendency to trickle down through social class. Names that are popular in upper classes take a decade or so to catch on in lower classes while the upper class moves on to newer trends. The result is alternating periods of time where lower class families would be picking up on traditionally upper class names while upper class families turn up their noses at those same names for being outdated, probably turning to traditionally lower class names as a fresh, new trend.