Four pages of notes this time! This is a great episode! So much going on! Soooo many great character beats and plot developments!
Poor Morgan. Passengers only hang out with her when they're fucked up people and on the train to fix their issues. Then as soon as they heal their shit and become better people, they get their exit and Morgan never ever sees them again. 😭 That would for sure fuck someone up and make them into the clingy unhinged mess that Morgan is!
Wanna highlight this other insight I had in particular:
Kez is a call bell. She exists to call attention to herself. But the function of a call bell is never to get people to pay attention to the bell itself; the bell is just a conduit for attention. What a lonely life to lead.
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Ryan 'Egg On My Face' Akagi: Lying to people to get them to do what you want is still wrong even if you do it for good reasons.
Min-Gi: You're basically good. You just need to, like, get better at it.
Hell yeah for the boys indirectly talking out their differences via Kez, the conduit for attention!
Here's the doodling of Morgan's name I copied down:
Transcript below the cut!
"act cool" - Min-Gi least comfortable he's ever been in his life + Ryan hamming it up
Morgan being the castle is so on-brand for Kez. Love this disaster of a bell-girl.
Kez, gurl, this isn't how you start a polycule!
Jeremy's clothes being mostly hats & scarves is so funny.
"You do [know what you're doing wrong]. It's that you don't think about how things will affect other people. And then when people get mad, you act like "Oh, no! What happened? So weird!" And then you just float away, like " Well, it's their problem now! La-la-la! I'm a bell!"
- Then Ryan immediately realises he's describing himself...
Kez is a call bell. She exists to call attention to herself. But the function of a call bell is never to get people to pay attention to the bell itself; the bell is just a conduit for attention. What a lonely life to lead. The only people she calls friends were the bullying assholes back in The Party Car, who were only her friends to laugh at her. Poor Kez. No idea how to make & keep friends, no idea how to do reciprocal socialising. Only knows how to perform Happy Go-Lucky carefree persona, when she actually Super Cares.
Kez = autistic?
Min-Gi reading the journal while Ryan yanks on the locked door. Ryan is such a man of action. Can never be still.
Jeremy's journal doodles are so cute. Man really fell in love with a sentient talking castle lol.
Journal talks about his love for hats + all the different hats he wants to collect.
Morgan always knows which room Jeremy is in & be wonders if she has a nose to smell out his location with. Kilroy-style doodle of him farting.
Man, this man really loves his hats!
Ryan so irritable & wound up. So full of shame & self-loathing rn!
Five years is a pretty good stretch for a polycule comprised of a castle, a call bell, and a human man.
Poor Morgan though. So lonely + everyone leaves her. AND THEY LEAVE WHEN THEY'RE WELL ENOUGH TO GET THEIR NUMBER TO ZERO!
Jeremy the last name in the visitors book... =(
"Even though you live here, you never really left that fog."
"I messed up so bad" - By being such a good friend that you fixed that guy's fucking trauma!
ouuargh, so heartwrenching
Yay for Min-Gi being so reasonable & kind & reassuring!
He's right, it IS unreasonable for Morgan to get so mad about this & to lash out at Kez.
Ryan 'Egg On My Face' Akagi: Lying to people to get them to do what you want is still wrong even if you do it for good reasons.
Min-Gi: You're basically good. You just need to, like, get better at it.
Hell yeah for the boys indirectly talking out their differences via Kez, the conduit for attention!
UH-OH SPAGHETTIOS! AMELIA'S COUP HAS BEGUN!
Hello. N-New announcement. You're all on your own now, so, uh... Sorry. We're - We're all on our own.
YEP! YEP, THAT'LL DO IT! Hijacking an infinitely long train to jettison its caretaking of umpteen other passengers so that you can fully redirect its resources toward catering exclusively to shielding your delusions & inability to let go of the past, heal, move on, grow, & become healthier.
For sure that will give you the biggest number on the train!
Billionaire behaviour!! >:(
She steals their boots... I wonder why...
Also, the Steward being right there seems to imply that Ryan + Min-Gi were being actively monitored because they were so fascinating as the first ever twinned passengers.
Monitored by the train? By One-One? By Amelia?
Were the boots how the train tracked its passengers?
The Steward lept [sic] out the window with their boots & immediately exploded. Did the shoes have a self-destruct built in?? Did Amelia trigger the Steward's self destruct to destroy the boots??
While Amelia was speaking through the Steward, its eye-flames weren't steadily coming from both eyes. Kept going out of one & appearing from its mouth instead! Alternating back & forth from one eye to the other.
Then the flames were huge & coming from both eyes + mouth as the eyes flashed red + the warning tone beeped...
