I still want to know how Tove escaped third class to confront Ángel on the upper deck about giving Krester the cigarette case. My best guess is that later in the episode we see that Daniel has opened the gate to lure Ada out. Maybe he had done that in time for Tove to go find Ángel?
Eyk. I don't really think that he's gotta be Maura's endgame. Nothing against the ship, no. But he's much more simple than her in everything. He's clearly out of his depth and probably not on his own accord. I think he is being used.
For what? Maybe, to drive a wedge between Maura and Daniel. Maura and Eyk are connected, but he also seems to have another outlook on that connection. He doesn't tell Maura about him being the captain of Prometheus, but still blames her for lying. To me it looks like ''You were the only one I trusted, how could you?'' while overlooking his own involment. He does unravel more rapidly than overs. But what if this is the nature of their relationship? Eyk thinks that Maura is something she is not. Or she's the only one who seems to understand him and he builds his assumptions on that.
Eyk is a simple man, maybe an actual sailor, but it's not a bad thing. He's clearly loving and caring, but he was also absent as a father and a husband. Unfortunately, he must have turned away from some things, like his wife's mental state, for example. He's seen enough to turn a blind eye on things like condtions the third class of the ship might be. He also seems to me like an actual loner. He can have friends, family, colleages. But he still floats alone in the world.
This is probably one of the reasons why he calls for and sees only one of his daughters. Nina. She has his hair and she probably was his confidant in the family. She understood his side of the struggle (being away, but not being able to stay away from the sea) and she saw her mother's struggle, tried to explain everything to her. Also, a an intresting thing - Eyk had a wife and three daughters, Maura has a father, brother and a son. They are both outnumbered in their families.
I think the core of characters' pain is true. Lost family, wasn't accepted by one, killed someone in self-defence, wasn't loved enough and so on. I also got an impression that Eyk and Ramiro might have been friends. They manage to communicate quite enough, and Ramiro being the more caring one in his situation, I think Eyk's influence and overall ''tortured dad'' vibe could help him a lot. Imagine Eyk teaching Ramiro about the sea.
Can't say I like Angel that much, which was probably purposeful. I'm thinking he got severely punished for his antics + being guy in a seemingly rich family. He was whipped (is that a right word?) probably for choosing to run around with a servant and not some girl with appropriate status. We haven't seen his painful memory though. We have seen the glimpse of Ramiro's, which seems to imply that the man he has killed was a priest. Was it to save Angel?
Which would, for sure, make things intresting. The journey on the Kerberos looks like the only time where Ramiro leans on Angel and not the opposite. Angel doesn't try to stay safe and silent, partly because he still might get away with everything, really. If Ramiro was a servant, being a runaway who pretended to be a priest would do him so much bad. Angel probably arranged for everything, but didn't do anything to make Ramiro feel safe, because he might not know how to. Angel was always the one reassured in the darkness of a bedroom, probably. There is more pent up fear within him, of course, and we see it when he's about to die. Fear of being not good enough for love, for example.
Context for Olek's memory is absolutely beyond me. I might be completely wrong here and everywhere, but either he killed someone and hid their body in that oil bank (it sure looks like that) for an opportunity of escaping. Or he killed someone who was sent that Lady Liberty postcard, hid their body and used the invitation for a chance of a better life. This is might be the reason why he is the kindest out of everyone and the quietest one as crew member. He's remorsefull or is feeling guilty because he isn't really remorsefull for what he did.
Clemence doesn't have a memory also. But the symbol of the whole thing (apparently it's alchemic symbol for Earth) is the most prominent on her clothing. She seems to have the shattering of reality, but maybe she was meant to have a more vivid expierence in the next seasons. I got a feeling that her, Jerome and Lucien had a love triange that came out of friendship. Jerome ultimately won, but Lucien came down with something, which made everyone feel guilty. Jerome and Clemence for being in love, Lucien for striving for the better life, even though life seems to show him that he doesn't deserve it. He seems to resent Clemence for her privilege and love her at the same time. The complexity of it all.
This every so slight resemblence between Maura and Iben makes me so curious and so concerned. In the 5th episode Tove says that Iben has ''created her own reality and we followed her''. Anker begs his wife to wake up. But the whole way Iben is adamant that she's the only one who is right. Even when she's got only one daughter, she still believes in her God. It cost her at least Krester. Also, Ada isn't in one of the capsules, even though Anker, Iben, Krester and Tove are. There is a possibility that they are all not at all related, but there is also a possibility that loosing their young children might have been the cause for Maura and Iben to relate to each other. Daniel and Anker contribute a lot to enable their wives, don't they?
A bit to add about Ada. Initially, I thought she would be friends with Elliot. She's smart, quick, she wants a different life from the one she has. She also, somehow, knows more than her family. She tells Tove about a signal from the lost ship. Who could have told her? Did she pick it up from the crew, meaning her and Tove both know a little bit of German? If she was recreated in the simulation, then what happened to her?
Was Krester betrayed? He and Tove probably share that painful expierence from different sides. He's also so ruthless towards her. It breakes my heart that Tove would shoot anyone to protect her family, but it isn't mutual all the way. I'm not saying much about him because his struggle is quite apparent. And also very painful.
Mrs Wilson is arguably the least shown character. But she's still got the letter. She is ultimately suffering for her greed and poor choices that might have followed her throughout her life. She thinks her experience makes her untouchable but each time she learns how wrong she was. Virginia (feels so weird to call her by her name) could be linked to Ling-Yi and her mom. It is also intresting that she's the most multi-lingual out of everyone, but she makes no effort to make a connection or to uncover that she understands a lot more than everyone else.
The entirety of all their struggle feels the most real. Maybe, because it is still quite prominent in the media. If I am right about Olek (which probably a no), it puts him in almost exact shoes as Ling-Yi. An imposter, who killed for their place. The probabilty of Mrs Wilson being somekind of a high figure in a brothel (god forbid) chain that stretches across the world scares me a lot. But in the real world, she (I hope) clawed her way to the top of a different, possibly criminal, food chain. If we are taking nearly everything for what it is, the whole experiment might be as much of a punishment as it might be a way to defeat guilt.
