#asalah

[downfalldestiny]

Wrecked Ship 🚢🌊!.

[bluemoonbabes]

The best quintet

[mantra4ia]

Debris 1x11 "Asalah" live reaction'd, aired 5/10/21

First impressions:

It was only a matter of time before Bryan spilled a mint chocolate frap on Finola. Honestly just surprised it didn't happen sooner.

Ohh, shimmering debris field. That was in the credit roll. A couple weeks ago. Where are my other Easter eggs?

Bryan's tours of duty, finally...but oh my god what is that facial hair?!?! Take it off, have mercy.

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They call Bryan...Benny? He's not a mascot. That is so strange. No thank you. (Also, why does every tv show lately need to write in some guy named Frenchie?)

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It would not be an episode of Debris without Bryan's random trivia night. Today's special: music. First the King, now Elton. Bryan's got a lot of nerve to say that his sunglasses are weird though.

Dang, Asalah has the intel. That doesn't forbode well for her character.

Ah yes, interacting debris, exactly a concept I was hoping they'd get to.

Maddox "what did you suggest" sounded all sorts of skeptical. Also, what even are they giving Bryan? Uppers, suppressants, what?

And at the risk of sounding punny, that was shocking [not really, but ouch].

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So here's my question: you're trying a shot in the dark theory with ECT — or whatever the heck that bit of script theatrics is — on Bryan, like 5 times and it's clearly not working very well. So no one thinks to shock Mariel? Or sedate her? Or...

Near or far or neurological hallucination, Maddox is always creepy.

"Why would you make me go through this again?" Hits hard.

"[Asalah] was so worried that I would think she betrayed us, she came back to warn us [about the ambush]" Well hell, why you gotta crush me with collateral damage, you crazy show?

"I don't carry [the picture] to remember her. I carry this to remember what it was like to invest in something I can lose." It's the damn penguins again!!!

"Debris is experiencing us like we're experiencing it" That's got a very "Arrival" type vibe, and kinda scary prospect. I feel like that's setting us up for the human race has been observed and found wanting.

"As far I know, you're the only one debris has reached out to." I call bullshit. That'll be debunked in a hot minute.

Overall, I think it's a weaker episode than last week (C+), but maybe it'll get better on rewatch.

Edit: additionally, 1x11 definitely gets better after you rewatch it, B+, it poses some interesting questions.

[bluemoonbabes]

Asalah because she deserved better

[mantra4ia]

Debris 1x11: Continued questions and observations at random

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.

"I think the debris experiencing us in the same way we're experiencing it." THIS IS A GREAT QUOTE to ruminate on. If we as people are experiencing debris in fragments and collect it for what Maddox described early on as an ‘arms race,’ then the debris is experiencing humanity in fragments and doesn’t know what to make of us yet. AND, if a true mirror to us, this implies that Finola had an accurate point: debris is here for a reason. But if Influx is making it into an arms race like in Earthshine, and Orbital is experimenting on it as their reasoning, then what purpose is it using us for / doing to us? Example 1x04 - Was terraforming a conscious effort at experimentation with us?

[wannabesewcrafty]

“Asalah” rewatch comments

One of the soldiers in Bryan’s group is “LeBlanc” and they call him “Frenchie.”

During his time in Afghanistan, Bryan is addressed as “Beneventi” and more commonly by the nickname “Benny.” Puts a hole in my theory that he had maybe assumed another identity when he went to work for the CIA/Orbital.

Finola saying “Come on” while waiting for Bryan to wake up. She’s holding on to the hope that he has lost. 🥲

Episode 1, the pilot, and this episode 11, have some connections and I’m wondering if the episode number arrangement was planned at all.

I thought someone said that the blanket that Bryan gets wrapped in is from IKEA. Give me a link if you find a match.

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